Do you want your favorite package to be one-click away from millions of desktops Around the World? If so, help us add these packages to the GlassFish community repositories. To help this Alexis has been writing a series of blog entries; the last entry explains Different Strategies for Different Types of Components, covering Frameworks and Libraries, Applications Running in GlassFish, Applications Independent of GlassFish and GlassFish Extensions (HK2/OSGi Components).

Previous posts covered: Overview of Concepts and Hibernate as a Sample; more posts will follow soon.

Coopetition is alive and well in Open Source. Take for instance JBoss. JBoss is clearly Sun's competidor in the AppServer area but they use JAXB and JSF. Similar case with Portal: JBoss, Sun and Portlet Swap are working in the PRP Project to enlarge the market of portable portlets. See the PRP home page, the Invitation, and JBoss' blog

The Portlet Repository Protocol (PRP) project seeks to define a common Web Service API used to communicate with portlet repositories. It will also establish the format and meta-data to be included when defining a specific portlet within a repository.

This is a free and open standards project, that any portlet repository may implement, and any portal vendor may leverage, as well. Input from those respective parties is welcomed and encouraged.

Thanks to the work of Carlos, the GlassFish JARs at the Java.Net Maven Repository repositories are now synched periodically to the ibiblio maven/maven2 repositories. See, for example, the JAXB RI jars and JAXB API jars. Thanks to Kohsuke for working with Carlos and for the tip

GlassFish components in the repository include: StAX, JAX-RPC, JAXP 1.4, Java Persistence and EJB 3.0, JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.0 and JSP 2.1, XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ. More components will be added in the future.

Santiago reports the Addition of StAX to the Java.Net Maven Repository.

GlassFish components in the repository include: StAX, JAX-RPC, JAXP 1.4, Java Persistence and EJB 3.0, JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.0 and JSP 2.1, XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ. More components will be added in the future.

One more GlassFish addition to the Java.Net Maven Repository: Jitu reports that JAX-RPC 1.1 is the latest Addition to the Maven Repository.

Earlier additions to the repository include: JAXP 1.4, Java Persistence and EJB 3.0, JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.0 and JSP 2.1, XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ.

We continue to add GlassFish components to the Java.Net Maven Repository: Santiago reports that JAXP 1.4 (part of Java SE 6 (Mustang)) is the latest Addition to the Maven Repository.

Earlier additions to the repository include: Java Persistence and EJB 3.0, JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.0 and JSP 2.1, XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ.

Just before JavaOne the JavaPersistence team posted three new components to the Java.Net Maven Repository: 1 for persistence-api persistence-api.jar, and 2 for toplink toplink-essentials.jar and toplink-essentials-agent.jar.

The intention is to update these, and other GlassFish components at regular intervals, we hope to stabilize that in the next few weeks as part of clarifying the GF v2 processes.

Earlier additions include: JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.5 and JSP 2.0 and JSP 2.1, XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ.

Note: I updated the entry with the correct Servlet/JSP releases.

In keeping with making GlassFish components easily available for developers, there are more JARs added to our Maven Repository: JSTL 1.2, Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0

Earlier additions include: XML Stream, Fast Infoset, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ.

The latest addition to our Maven Repository is Japex. Earlier additions include: Fast Infoset and XML Stream Buffer, JSFs, JavaMail and Activation, JAXB, JAX-WS and SAAJ.