I've uploaded the multi-media recordings from the Jan 9th, 2009 presentation on OpenMQ 4.3 and the new Universal Messsaging System REST API. Video recordings are available as FLV, Quicktime, iPod/320x240 and Audio only, screencast as Quicktime/MP4, slides in PDF and SlideShare. Feedback always welcome.

PS. despite the fact that 6 of the last 9 entries are about webinars, we do carry other news too! :-)

Lots of exciting developments in the GlassFish ESB world; hot on the heels of the GlassFish ESB v2 release candidate with its enterprise features and commercial support we're also showing that we have more big plans for the evolution of this platform. With Milestone 3 of Project Fuji we give you the keys to test drive some of the platform enhancements we're working on for GlassFish ESB.next and allow you to be an active participant in driving the direction.

If you haven't been following Project Fuji closely you might be interested to know that there is both an "evolutionary" and "revolutionary" side; Adapters and Containers from v2 also are used in Fuji, and applications built in v2 deploy and run on Fuji. Where we're innovating is in looking at the productivity in every layer; ensuring we are tops in flexibility, agility and ease of use.

Milestone 3 of Project Fuji introduces a (dare I say very cool) web based tooling option for composing services.

Check out the Fuji Milestone 3 Screencast which shows how to use simple drag and drop in a browser to easily build the same scenario that was built in Milestone 2 via the domain specific language "IFL" for composing services.

It's worth noting that the web tooling builds on top of the domain specific language and hence round tripping is easy; you can for example check out the project built in the browser from subversion and edit it in your IDE of choice, just as shown in milestone 2.

This gets us one step closer to the mantra of Fuji: Productivity through flexibility, agility, and ease of use.

• In terms of flexibility this expands your tooling choices
• For agility you might notice the "automatically save and deploy" option which is one step towards our goal of making it very light weight to develop, test and correct your application as you go along
• For ease of use the simple way of visually modeling enterprise integration patterns and simple properties dialogs go a long way

Many of you may have seen the cool things Fuji Milestone 1 did, with its web based tooling option and the simple but powerful way of defining services and linking them together. For Milestone 1 we deliberately chose some contemporary technologies such as RSS and XMPP, which left some folks wondering: how does this apply to the more classic integration scenarios?

Fear not, for Milestone 2 we have chosen a classic scenario and show you how quick and easy it is to solve it with the powerful, but simple to use capabilities in Fuji.

Don't just take our word for it, watch the Fuji Milestone 2 Screencast with Keith driving it. Then Download Milestone 2 and take it for a spin by getting a simple jar file and give us feedback! There actually are more features that we couldn't fit in a single screencast, so watch this space.

For a highlight of the features such as added enterprise integration patterns and interceptors leveraging OSGi capabilities see the Milestone 2 page. Also have a look at Andi's entry on Fuji Milestone 2, which includes further background info.

We also re-vamped the landing page for Fuji, have a look at our fancy schmancy portal page for Fuji https://fuji.dev.java.net, it should have all the links to explore further information, screencasts etc.

Note that tomorrow (October 22, 2008, 9am PT) we'll have a live meeting and webcast to demo and discuss Fuji in the OpenESB Innovation Series meeting, come and participate.

Another screencast from Anissa. This one shows how to Install GFv3 TP2 including the optional auto-download and install of the Administration console. In addition to a smaller/faster download, this means we could improve the console after shipping the main release!

Note that the screencast shows the Windows experience using the EXE installer. This intaller is already available in the Promoted Folder and will soon be moved to the 'Official' TP2 Folder.

We have reported on the GlassFish UpdateCenter but the team has also been working on the next version, using IPS from OpenSolaris to gain technical advantages and also significantly align efforts. There is now a prototype of UC v2 that is capable of installing GF v2, Message Queue (OpenMQ), JavaDB (Apache Derby) and Ant packaged using IPS. For details check the Wiki page; don't miss the ScreenCast.

I'll keep you posted on developments and on the tentative schedule when we have one.

NetBeans 6 provides an integral support for Secure, Reliable and Transactional Web services using Metro. It also introduces a new Web Services Designer that enables you to design the Web service visually and switch between the Source and Design mode. In screencast #web7, I show how a Secure and Reliable Web service can be easily created, deployed and invoked using the NetBeans IDE.

A comprehensive list of GlassFish screencasts is available. Most of the screencasts are available so that you can download them for off-line viewing.

Want to learn about GlassFish within the comfort of your home ? I created a new page listing the screencasts related to GlassFish. Each screencast has an online version that requires you to be connected to the Internet. Most of the screencasts have an off-line version as well that you can download and view without any connection to the Internet. These screencasts range from Getting Started to Web services development, jMaki-enabled Mashups, JRuby, and Clustering feature.

Feel free to edit the page and add your GlassFish-related screencast.

The second part of jMaki screencast series shows how to embed and interact with map widgets in your web application. This series conveys the message: jMaki + NetBeans IDE + GlassFish provides a complete platform for creating and deploying powerful mashups, quickly and effectively!

This screencast can be easily recreated using jMaki Eclipse plugin as well. The different screencasts in this series can be viewed here.

The image shows Kumamoto, Japan - the birth place of jMaki.

I started a series of screencasts to show how jMaki enables creating mashups. Together with NetBeans tooling and deployment on GlassFish, it provides a complete platform to build and deploy cool and powerful mahsups.

The first screencast shows how to display an RSS feed in two different jMaki widgets. This is possible because of the standard data models defined by jMaki for the commonly used widgets. In a related blog, I explained how jMaki enable widgets on a page to access external services such as an RSS feed.

Let us know if you have used jMaki or created any mashup using it.

The NetBeans team is progressing steadily along their roadmap, with a 6.0 release scheduled in November. Among other improvements, this version will feature several new GlassFish integration capabilities. But you don't have to wait until November to learn about them. Milestone builds of 6.0 are available now, and Vince has been writing about the new GlassFish integration capabilities in his blog (including Shared Installation Registration, Automatic Deployment of JDBC Drivers, Resource Persistence, and more). And don't worry, Vince also has you "show me" types covered. As our latest aspiring movie-maker, Vince has created a screencast showing NetBeans' latest GlassFish-integration features in action. Also, be sure to read his accompanying blog entry for additional context.

It is still early in the cycle of GlassFish v3 but Jerome has a demo. All caveats apply, but if you are a hard-core geek you will want to check out the screencast and the blog. GlassFish v3 is the future of GlassFish, we want a server-side Java container that will scale from very small to fully-featured, that loads services on demand, and has low resource comsumption. Loading on demand yields fast startup: Jerome's demo starts in less than a second.

Jerome will talk more about this at GlassFish Day and during JavaOne. A preemptive comment: our approach to modularization is very pragmatic, as described by Jerome in some of the comments in EclipseZone and elsewhere. In particular, we expect to support some level of OSGi or other but the details will depend on the technical discussion in the GlassFish community.

Alexis has put together a nice video (7 minutes, includes audio) that shows how to Get Started with GFv2. The screencast starts at the GlassFish community page, continues with the download and installation and then moves to the New Administration Console, which looks really nice thanks to Woodstock and Ken. The screencast moves nicely and will get you started. We need to create similar ones for other pieces of GF; maybe one showing cluster deployment and in-memory replication?