The latest episode (#12) of the GlassFish Podcast is out. This is an interview from last week with Jean-François "Grizzly" Arcand on Comet (aka AjaxPush).

This 20-minute podcast gets into the Comet paradigm, its availability in GlassFish v2 and v3, standardization in the forthcoming Servlet 3.0 specification, and more.

Note also that Jean-François will be delivering three presentations in Canada later this June (2008): Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto.

This week's GlassFish podcast is Greg Luck's Podcast. This was part of a set of presentations at GF Day @ Sydney and worth a check.

Some background/context: Wotif.COM was a very early adopter of GFv1 (story) and they stepped in some bugs long ago fixed. They remained a happy customer and they have recently started using Open MQ.

Also check Alexis' summary, Greg Luck's Adoption Overview and Dave Whitla's OpenMQ Presentation.

And here is the evolution of software, according to Dave's slides...

I think I never properly introduced Alexis's series of podcasts. You can get them directly from the GlassFish Podcast site, from the Apple iTunes Store or via Feedburner.

The podcasts are based around an interview of some technical lead in the extended GlassFish community and sometimes include slides and other material. A popular time to listen to them is during your commute :-)

The current list of Podcasts include:

• Vivek Pandey [1], [2]
• Shreedhar Ganapathi
• Snjezana Sevo-Zezerovic
• Kedhar Mashwade
• George Tarakan
• Kohsuke Kawaguchi
• Ludovic Champenois
• Jerome Dochez
• Paul Sandoz
• Greg Luck

The latest episode of the GlassFish Podcast was briefly pushed out last week but feedburner couldn't pick up the audio enclosure. All is now fixed and live. You can get the content here or from iTunes (search for "GlassFish"). This is good timing given the recent 0.5 release of Jersey (although the interview doesn't get into specifics of that interim release) and the associated NetBeans support. The GlassFish Update Center doesn't have the Jersey 0.5 bits available just yet, but I'm told this should happen in the next few days.

This podcast's mp3 files are now served by GlassFish and the application isn't (all) Java. Read all about it on Igor's blog.

A new episode for the GlassFish Podcast is available. This was recorded back on October but the content is still very much valid. The sound quality isn't perfect (still trying things out) but I think I've heard much worse quality... In this episode, GlassFish architect Jérôme Dochez gets into how GlassFish V3 is being built using the HK2 modules sub-system. He goes into what the nucleus is, the role of grizzly, how easy embedding GlassFish V3 will be but also into the challenges of building a Java EE 6 Application Server implementation on top of a micro-kernel. You can read more about GlassFish V3.

This interview with Ludo Champenois from the GlassFish team discusses the general developer experience with GlassFish as well as with IDEs such as NetBeans and Eclipse. We go into the save/reload paradigm for web and Ajax apps (using jMaki for instance), incremental deployment possibilities, value and role of IDEs for Java EE 5, best OS for developers, and more. You can subscribe to this podcast by searching for "glassfish" on the iTunes online store, by clicking here or using this feed for by any other podcatcher.

The most recent episode of the GlassFish Podcast is an interview about Hudson with Kohsuke. Listen to find out how Kohsuke's laziness is what made the project happen... If you're using or simply interested in Hudson, the next GlassFish v3 Brown Bag is focusing on Hudson (Tues, Dec 4th : 9am - 10:30am PST). These are conference calls open to the entire GlassFish community. Previous topics covered (Subversion & Maven2) have slides and audio available.

If you're interested in the picture, this is Kohsuke's real Orb described here.

In this third episode of the GlassFish Podcast, HA engineering lead Shreedhar Ganapathy discusses project Shoal and how it's applied to GlassFish clustering as a GMS (Group Management System) technology but also how it does in-memory replication to provide High Availability (depending on the profile used). If you're interested in the max number of nodes in a cluster, buddy replication, recovery failure notification, sticky load-balancing, availability level, or distributed state cache, this interview gets into all of these. It also tries to go from first steps to setup the cluster to tips on running and managing it effectively. Finally it touches on what's next for clustering in GlassFish in the next 18 months.

This is a longer podcast that the earlier two (40 minutes). Feedback is welcome about what you think is the optimal duration (although I suspect this varies depending on one's commute).

The first two episodes of the GlassFish Podcast are now up (part 1 and part 2 of a Metro interview with Vivek Pandey). Each part is around 20 minutes. By now you should be able to subscribe directly from iTunes by searching for "glassfish". The next episode is about GlassFish Clustering and the Shoal project (expect this early next week). Future episodes will include interviews on tooling, v3, deployment, update center, OpenMQ, Hudson, and more. These will go out in the coming weeks. Any preference as to which one you would like to see come out first? Any preference on the length of these episodes?

Suggestions on future topics? Be sure to comment here or send an email to glassfishpodcast@sun.com.REMOVE.

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As we've mentioned, GlassFish got a lot of attention at this year's JavaOne conference. So it shouldn't be surprising that it also got a lot of attention when the Java Posse guys shared their own JavaOne Restrospective [podcast, resources]. The GlassFish discussion goes from around 17:15 to 24:30 in the podcast. They start off by talking about the GlassFish v3 demo: "All you need to know ... is cycle time of less than a second to start the application server ... that is rule-changing." That's a nice endorsement of GlassFish's future, but they clearly think it has also plenty to offer right now. Not pulling any punches, one of the guys sums up his opinion of GlassFish as an application server: "It's the best one I've used of them all."

That's just a sampling of the discussion, though. They also touch on marketshare trends, the dynamics between closed-source and open-source implementations, the benefits of being a Reference Implementation, and more. It's definitely worth a listen.