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A compilation of today's news of interest:
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From the Grizzly Community - much simpler mod_jk support in GlassFish v3 for improved Apache HTTPD as a front-end. And, an old story about the New Leadership on Grizzly 2.0 - Congrats, Alexey! From Brazil, several GlassFish-related events during September, The Java Month: first we will have representation at JustJava and several of the 14-city tour, including a Visit by Kohsuke, and then, later in the month, by Arun including Sun TechDays in Sao Paolo. Contact Arun and Kohsuke if you want to leverage their visit. And talking about Arun, a report on how to Run Typo on GlassFish/JRuby. From Dave, news of him joining his two babies in a Social Roller; I know he has been iching to work on this for a while, looking forward to the results! From the xVM Team, a new Home Page and White Paper. And, from the land of Online Stores, two new developements: news of a New Kindle and noises about an Android App Store. The Kindle seems a sure (continued) winner; I'm curious about how Android will fare - a lot of competition out there! |
A compilation of today's (yesterday's!) news of interest:
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From the OpenSSO team, there is now a free (just need an MySun Account) Self-Paced Downloadable Lab for learning how to use OpenSSO. The course is based on OpenSSO Express Build 5. This course uses OpenSSO Build 4.5, which provides identical functionality to OpenSSO Express Build 5 which supports Apache Tomcat, Sun WebServer and GlassFish v2. Check out SuperPat, Rajeev, or go direct to the source, David. From Dave, presentations at OpenSource Days 2008 on Apache Roller and SocialSite. Plus Dave's Commentary on a note by Matt Asay on SocialSite. From Kevin a report on Mural (the Master Data Management project at GlassFish) on its Support for MySQL. From Ron our security master, an entry showing how to Use JACC to Determine Caller Roles, with detailed code snippets. Finally, not our usual topic but the Engadget piece on the Google Phone got me in Gadgets mode: NYT report on Dream, Treo Pro, BlackBerry Black, HTC Touch and Xperia X1, WiFi PAN vs Bluetooth and Lenovo IdeaPad u8. I don't know how people can track all these! but then, I am not their target audience... check out my Cell Phone :-) |
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Dick Davis (Number 9) is a GlassFish Server fan and also a user of Roller (on GFv2 and on GFv3). He is now adding caching on a 2-node GlassFish cluster and his latest note shows how to set Memcached on Solaris to accomplish this.
Check out more posts by Dick on
Solaris Added - Also check out Dick's latest Roller Summary. |
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Apache Roller is a good candidate for GFv3 TP2: it is a portable WebApp that uses the Java standard tier plus JPA. Add a database and you are ready to go. Number 9 (aka Dick Davis) had previously shown how to do Roller 3 on GFv2 using PostgreSQL; this time he shows how to install Roller 4 on GFv3 with Derby. |
Check out the details in Dick's Writeup, including How to Pass JVM Options. And please keep posting your experiences with GlassFish v3 TP2.
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Memcached is the popular distributed cache system (often used with MySQL) that was developed for LiveJournal (Article, Wikipedia, Website). One of many sites using memcached is BSC and Dave has two recent writeups on the topic: The Roller Caching API, and Using Memcached with Roller. And, on this topic, there has been good progress in the Webstack optimizing memcached for Solaris. Check Trond's articles on Configuration, the Latest Release and more. Also don't miss Patrick's Latest release of the Memcached Functions for MySQL. |
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You know about Apache Roller (behind Blogs.Sun.Com) and you may remember Slynkr (used in SDN Share), but you may not know that Dave and Jamey are Sun employees and they have been working on an Open Stack for Social Software. The software was pushed to the GF Update Center in January and now Arun shows how to install it and get started. You can check Arun's Writeup or go directly to the screencast. |
Enjoy - and stay tuned for more announcements!
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The Update Center Repository includes Social Network Bundle with Apache Roller for blogging and Slynkr for content rating. You can download it very easily - check Manveen's reminder. And, over the holidays, Dave played around with jMaki and he can now show jMaki on Roller. Check it out and let us know how it works for you! |
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Dave Johnson had already reported previously that Roller was available from the GlassFish Update Center. This time there seems to be even more to it than just a blogging engine - see Dave's latest entry for some details about "Social Software for GlassFish".
Curious? Download GlassFish v2 ur1 and run the Update Center client ( |
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• Metro -
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Congratulations to Dave Johnson and the rest of the Apache Roller team for releasing this major version.of the blogging engine used by 4292 Sun Public bloggers (86691 entries and 87365 comments). BSC (blogs.sun.com) has been running Roller 4.0-dev since July and as heavy users we give it the thumbs up (as we do to the team running the infrastructure). |
Roller now lets you handle themes much easier (get some here), supports plugins, has a much improved install process (including using the GlassFish Update Center), and implementation-wise uses Java 5, Struts 2 and JPA.
Who said Social Software was seldom written in Java?
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Apache Roller is moving in very interesting directions and now Dave is describing the new PlugIn APIs in Roller 4, from the PageModel to the RepeatableTask Interfaces. A PlugIn interface is key for adoption, as proven in many areas, including Hudson, Metro, WordPress and Confluence. Check the full description at Dave's Writeup and recall that Roller on GlassFish v2; see related TA entries and Alexis' screencast. |
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Manveen has a new entry on how to write UpdateCenter modules, this time when they are Add-Ons. The series so far includes:
• Creating a Module
The UpdateCenter client is a convenient way to access repositories of Modules and AddOns for GlassFish. Here are several screenshots showing Roller: [1], [2] and [3]. |
By default, the UC checks for new content and will automatically prompt you but you can also launch it manually: just go to the installed GlassFish directory and invoke it as:
updatecenter/bin/updatetool.
Check it out!
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Alexis is reporting on
Several Additions
• Apache Roller
Check out the slide showing how easy it is to
Install Roller on GFv2 |
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Dave is reporting progress towards Roller 4.0 "final". Let's hope this time it happens; BSC has been running 4.0 for over a month now. The other good development is that Gene Strokine (see RollerThemes) is now a contributor to the Roller Support project at Java.Net which includes themes, plugins, editor plugins and other support artifacts for Roller. Now that Roller 4.0 has stabilized we should get some nice contributions. |
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Blogs.Sun.Com is rolling out a new front page that includes a tag cloud and gives additional visibility to new bloggers. The tag cloud is similar to the one we use at TheAquarium except that it covers all posts at Blogs.Sun.Com and the presentation is different; compare this to this. |
