The Feb '08 data has been added into our GF Admin Console GeoMap: • 303,673 - Pings in Feb '08 • 2,184,074 - Total cumulative pings (Since Feb '07) • 36,394 - Unique IPs in Feb '08 • 287,098 - Total Unique IPs (Since Feb '07)

We also have the download numbers and they are our best so far; even better than Last Month. I'm composing a longer note with more details that I'll push in a few days; stay tuned.

The latest GlassFish GeoMap based on Admin Console hits is out (Live Map). The graph at the top is the new hits for the month. There is a big jump that is partially due to increased adoption (see below) and partly due to new functionality in the admin console that generates more hits. The graph at the bottom shows the new IP addresses; the growth is directly attributable to more active users but the absolute numbers are not too meaningful (except for being a strong lower bound). January 2008 is the best month so far, even though the first days in January are still holidays in many countries. GlassFish v2 U1 has a new Update Center mechanism that gives us a better lower bound; unfortunately, we have not yet pushed the associated GeoMap outside the firewall and the internal server seems down. I'll consult the data and will update this entry tomorrow.

BTW, since several communities inside Sun are using this GeoMap software we are going to open source it so we can all more easily collaborate on it - and other groups can use it too. Stay tuned.

Arun is back from vacation with a screencast and detailed steps to build a map of the places he's been visiting in 2007. It uses jMaki to encapsulate the Google Map widget and Jersey (JAX-RS' Reference implementation) as the main technologies but also JPA for the database access, NetBeans 6 for the tooling, and GlassFish of course for the overall runtime.

This is a nice end-to-end demo with Ajax, RESTful Web Services, and a relational back-end. Check it out.