The OpenDS project just announced its first non-Sun contributor: Benjamin Damm from Brighton Consulting. The OpenDS guys are doing a very good job at community building: they have good documentation, simple build instructions, a list of Bite-Sized Bugs (Benjamin tackled one of them)... A good description of how to contribute can be fond in this blog and also at the OpenDS Developers Page.

Virtual hosts (or servers) are very popular and GlassFish supports them (see SJS AS 9.0 Doc Book). The support for virtual hosts has been improving in GF V2 and early in the cycle Jean-Francois explained how to Dynamically Add them. Now Jan explains the concept of a virtual server docroot and the new flexible mechanisms in the latest builds

Check Jan's blog for details. The SJS AS 9.0 docbook has a good chapter on this topic; just note that it uses the term "virtual server" instead of "virtual host" and "http-listener" instead of "connector".

The OpenDS team is quietly delivering. Their Initial Launch was met mostly with positive responses ([1], [2]) with some exceptions ([3], [4]). This week's addition are Weekly Builds, which is exactly in the right direction to encourage participation. The team's main blog is here; recent entries include the Introduction to OpenDS, an Overview of LDAP, Java and Performance, New Features in OpenDS.