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Another GlassFish-related announcement from Sun (PR): the Open ESB collection of projects are being aligned under the GlassFish umbrella. An evolutionary rather than a revolutionary move as pieces of OpenESB were already included in GF v2, but will encourage further synergies between the groups and artifacts. |
Expect bundles of OpenESB components with GF, as well as community and architectural interactions. A good example of the latter is Project Fuji where the ESB components are delivered as OSGi modules running on GlassFish v3.
Check out GlassFish ESB, the earlier TA entry, and Prakah's Introduction to Fuji and GlassFishESB
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More teasers out there... check out Andi's note on Java CAPS and Fuji. Project Fuji will be specially interesting to GlassFish; from the Fuji WebSite: [A] lightweight micro-kernel based on JBI (JSR 208) and OSGi. Packaged as an OSGi bundle, the micro-kernel can be installed in any OSGi-compliant runtime. |
For full details, check out Andi and Keiths' session on Wednesday at 9:30 am: TS-6385 Integration Profile for GlassFish Project v3
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Nice Logo, BTW... :-) |
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A second (after Open eHealth) Open Source industry announcement today.
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Sun and the rSmart Group announced Kuali-based learning solutions leveraging Solaris(TM), MySQL, GlassFish(TM), OpenSSO and OpenESB. Details in the Press Release and at rSmart.COM |
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Afga, ICW and Sun have launched the Open eHealth initiative to leverage Open Source in the Health industry. Open eHealth's goal is to create a community-driven software development platform to speed up the digitization of the healthcare industry, with emphasis on delivering interoperable, standards-based solutions. |
The service components will extend existing open source projects such as OpenESB, Glassfish, OpenSSO and Mural. More details in the Press Release and at the Open eHealth WebSite.
The big shift in the IT industry created by Open Source is accelerating. I have a biased perspective, but I strongly believe that Sun's strengths, size, and position will allow it to capitalize on and speed up the transition to this brave new world. I've a feeling we are not in Kansas anymore....
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OpenESB is included in the GlassFish App Server, but it is also available separately. OpenESB runs on plain Java SE (see Wiki page) and Mark just announced that it Also Works on JBoss (Wiki page). All OpenESB downloads are Available here. Also see this List of Screencasts related to OpenESB. |
Kohsuke just created a Cafe Press Store for Hudson and I just did a quick pass to collect those for other GlassFish friends; check them out:
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• OpenPortal
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There is also a
Grizzly
t-shirt
(I know because I'm the lucky owner of one)
but not (yet?) as a Cafe Press store,
and I'm chasing down shirts for
OpenESB,
OpenSSO
and
SailFin.
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I had missed the latest report by Forrester on Application Server Platforms (Q3 2007) but somebody pointed it out earlier today. Arun already wrote about the punchline but I wanted to add some quotes and pointers ... |
Below are links to some excerpts with some selected quotes; for more details, you can buy the complete report from Forrester. Also check out the related SearchWebServices.COM interview with Rob.
• BEA - ... Provides a Solid Platform with Good Features
• IBM - ... Except For Its High Costs
• Oracle - ... A Strong, Competitive Alternative to the Traditional Leaders
• Red Hat/JBoss - ...Has To Catch Up
&bull SAP - ... Lags Behind The Pack
• Sun
- What a Difference 18 Months Makes!
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Membership: #2 (GlassFish), #6 (OpenESB);
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All these metrics are just approximations: for example, developer traffic will increase mail stats while forums are not counted at all, and Java.Net reports per-project statistics without accounting for any logical groupings. Still the stats are useful in tracking adoption, interest and participation.
Earlier rankings are here: (2005) [Dec]; (2006) [Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct]
