I had not noticed that the Enterprise Tech Tips is now available as a Blog (with associated feeds - RSS and Atom). For example, here is the Japex entry we highlighted recently. And yesterday (Monday) Sun released its financial results via a News feed. The world has changed; our engineering team could not work without Feeds (and Roller!). BTW, Ed is soliciting your suggestions on Tech Tip topics.

The next "Ask the Experts" is on the Open Source Java Project. This will give the Java community an opportunity to ask questions about Sun's open source initiatives, including GlassFish. Got a question about Sun's open-sourcing of its Java platform implementations? Read the FAQ . Then post any follow-up questions during this Ask the Experts session, week of Jan. 16-19, and get answers from representatives of Sun's Java platform implementations.

The Java EE 5 Tutorial has been available online for a while, but on Nov 6th (2006) it also went on-print. It should be available for purchase at technical bookstores and online - see for example at Amazon.Com.

I had lost track of one of our earliest bloggers: Filippo (perhaps in part because he moved his blog to a new location?). Anyhow, he has New Java EE 5 book, has been in a J2EE to Java EE Tour (see the video) and most recently has been Using GlassFish "in the trenches". His report is positive:

...The overall impression by now is very positive. In less than four days I’ve been able to sketch a prototype of an integration project and, most important, to learn other interesting features of the platform...

He is promising more blogs on the topic, and we will report on them...

We have added more presentations to the Presentations Page at the GlassFish Wiki, including: • OpenSource Middleware Communities covered by TheAquarium (prezo) • FastInfoset Encoding-by-example (prezo) • JSF and AJAX (prezo) • Scripting JSF and Phobos (prezo) • Highlights from Eclipse prezo at JavaOne'06 (prezo) • Tubes (asynchrony in JAX-WS RI) (prezo)

Remember that training class you Helped Fine-Tune?, the real thing is now available as a 2-day, 6-module, Java EE 5 in-depth Web-based course. The list of courses and presenters is very complete: Overview (Bill), EJB 3 (Linda and Ken), JavaPersistence (Linda), Web Services (Roberto, Rajiv, and Dhiru), Web Tier (Ed and Jan) and Java Blueprints (Inderjeet and Greg).

Full content of the Sun's catalog is here. The Training Options are: Classroom, Live via the Web, Recorded, via the Web, CD-ROM, and Team Training. Classroom training requires on-site instructors and this is a global operation, so, if you are interested, check the Instructor Certification Process.

Check New and Upcoming courses; what other areas would you want to see covered? What about JAXB 2.0? What else?

Sang is doing another of his free online courses. This time is Java EE with Passion! The course covers quite a bit of material, with more emphasis on the Web Tier area, but some of the new Java EE 5 APIs are also covered. This course is conducted by email; check What is like to take this course. Coincidentally, the new, in-depth, course on Java EE 5 from Sun is also available; I'll describe it in an entry tomorrow morning.

Dennis shows graphically the Life of an OpenSSO Session including Creation, Validation, FailOver, Recovery and Termination. Previously he had shown SSO and Access Control and Authentication.

I have asked Dennis to consider posting all these slides as presentations under Creative Commons licenses at the Presentations Page.

Jean-Francois has uploaded a presentation on Comet and Grizzly to the GlassFish Presentation page; it is available under the Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa), like my GlassFish and Java EE 5 presentation, so feel free to use it to spread the word on this work. Also check JFA's blog, the presentation and more TA articles.

I've uploaded the presentation from Sun TechDay to the GlassFish Presentations Page. I've followed Simon's example and made it available under the Creative Commons [cc-by-nc-sa] license (Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike). The intention is that this slidedeck can be used as the basis for other presentations to encourage the use of the technologies in Project GlassFish.

If you are not familiar with Creative Commons, you may want to check them out. Their goal is to "Enable the legal sharing and reuse of cultural, educational, and scientific works." I will upload additional presentations with this license as soon as I have some time to do so.

This week is FOSS.in, the Free and Open Source Software event at Bangalore. The event is happening at Bangalore Palace Grounds. The event used to be called Linux-Bangalore and hosted by a local linux user group, the event has metamorphosed this year to include the larger FOSS community. From what bloggers say, the event is very succesful. Bloggers include fossdotinblog, Binod, Navaneeth, Stephen and Shalini. Project GlassFish is represented, as is its use with NetBeans 5 to write some Java EE 5 applications. Here is a Flash Demo which seems to be based on the example described in Pavel's recent blog. The NetBeans side has a more polished Demo, as well as several other demos.

Ludo is giving a presentation on GlassFish and NetBeans at the Developer Day at JavaPolis 2005, December 12th to 16th, in Antwerp. Some more details in Ludo's blog. Alexis also points out you can win an Ultra 20.