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Milestone 6 of SailFin is now available for download!. This release includes a number of bug fixes including JSR 289 TCK related issues. Prasad's blog gives more details and the list of 141 bugs fixed after MS5.
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JSR 289 TCK provides much more coverage than its earlier version (~500 tests) and we had numerous questions on the tests. Mihir (spec lead from Oracle) answered all of them very quickly and SailFin passed all tests last week. Thanks Mihir. Here is the link to the test results and here is the latest TCK errata SailFin is using. |
Also take a look at the details about session invalidation in Bhavani's blog, a key new feature introduced in Sip Servlet 1.1. This feature replaces the original session expiration model in Sip Servlets 1.0 and is expected to make the applications more scalable.
Milestone 5 of SailFin is now available for download! The product is feature complete with this milestone and all the features have already crossed beta stage. The implementation team (from Sun and Ericsson) is now busy in fixing bugs and the final release is expected by end of this calendar year.
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Prasad's blog explains the following key aspects of this milestone.
More SailFin coverage on this blog can be found here.
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Project SailFin, built on top of GlassFish, provides a platform for developing and deploying converged Java EE and SIP Servlets applications. SailFin V1 Alpha is now available for download.
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Prasad has written a detailed description about the features in this release. Check it out. Check previous entries on SailFin at TheAquarium also. SailFin is already the basis for the projects like Presence Support in Web Synergy, DFC Application Router in ECharts, Sun Labs Conference Manager etc. The project team is now working on completing the implementation of the recently approved JSR 289 Final Release. Final release of SailFin V1 is expected by end of this calendar year. |
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An interesting mini talk on Dynamic Networks with JBI is now available in the JavaOne community corner podcasts. Travis Chase from Accenture's National Security Services division details how GlassFish and OpenESB helped them develop a solution that decreases the network set-up time to run an exercise from weeks to minutes. |
The team developed and contributed several components to the community to achieve this, including the XMPP, SIP and RSS binding components; plus they leveraged several others of the 30+ components available in the OpenESB community. The strong web service capabilities of GlassFish were used to define the business logic on the ESB.
If these components look familiar, we used the same RSS and XMPP components in the Project Fuji screencasts to show how quick and easy it is to route and filter messages between these systems.
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The SE/EE Executive Comittee of the JCP has approved (results) JSR 289, the SIP Servlet 1.1 Specification that is the core for SailFin. The final specification is not yet available but the PFD 2 should be very close. The first public release of SailFin will be aligned with GlassFish v2.1 and will happen around the end of the year; updated roadmaps are due in a few weeks. |
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Ericsson Mobility World has posted more information about Service Development Studio (SDS) integration with SailFin (Sun GlassFish Communications Server). A new release of SDS supports SailFin and an extensive tutorial explaining the integration is available here.
On the netbeans front, Vince reports the availability of SIP Application Development Module Suite from the netbeans update center. Newest bits are available in the |
b37 of SailFin is available now and it contains a number of fixes for performance and longevity. Check previous entries on Sailfin at TheAquarium also.
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We now have a name for Sun's commercial distribution of Sailfin: Sun GlassFish Communications Server. Sailfin will support SIP Servlet 1.1 and can be used to develop applications using IM, VoIP and shared multimedia. The initial release is expected in the fall of this year and will be aligned with GF v2.1. |
Check the Press Release for more details. Also, Ericsson and Sun are holding a Contest for Sailfin Applications. And previous entries on Sailfin at TheAquarium are here.
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The previous SailFin post covered a fair bit of ground but somehow managed to forget about Jan's "Converged Http Sessions in SailFin" post. Using the Click-to-dial sample application, Jan starts off introducing us to the In an equally well-documented post, Bhavani shares his SIMPLE SipServlet implementation of a presence and chatting feature powered by Sailfin and based on SIMPLE, the SIP-based protocol for instant messaging (IM) and presence. A screencast and full source code (developed with NetBeans' SIPServlet capabilities) are also available. As a reminder, Sailfin's Milestone 4 is available to download here. |
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Quite a bit of SailFin activity in the past few days. First of all, we now have Milestone 4, a "feature complete" build which includes call-flow support for SIP calls, session failover and recovery of various SIP artifacts, and more. Next, Ericsson has posted a "Service Development Studio (SDS) 4.0 Sailfin Installation Instructions" document on their Ericsson Mobility World website (free registration required). The document explains how to Sailfin-enable their Eclipse-based SDS end-to-end IMS developer tool. |
There's also a new blogger - Ivo Boger, adding to the list of others Sailfin-related blogs: Sailfin's main blog, Yamini's blog, and Bhavani Shankar's Blog.
Finally, Prasad Subramanian has a fairly detailed "Adding Voice to Java EE With SIP Servlets" article going into the basics of SIP, SIPServlet, JSR 289 annotations, sailfin, all including code and Binod blogs about Locating SIP servers using DNS in SailFin.
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Kshitiz has a note on the new Java-based Converged Load Balancer that will be part of SailFin and GlassFish v2.1. The CLB handles both HTTP and SIP traffic and can be used with and without a hardware IP sprayer. Check Kshitiz's Detailed Writeup for details on load balancing algorithms and configuration options. |
We are getting closer to the next GF releases (see my Previous Overview), we are seeing more features from the GFv2.1/SailFin release. Recent entries include:
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The last two are more specific to the SIP case, but the general facility of multi-group membership should be useful to many Shoal applications, and a Java-based CLB should simplify at the least the simple LB situations. I'll get more details on the the CLB and will report back.
Correction - CLB is only available in SailFin, not in the corresponding core GFv2.1. GlassFish v3 will include a java LoadBalancer. Thanks to Kshitiz for the correction.
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DZone has an interview up with two of the Sailfin developers. Sailfin in the project developed in commun with Ericsson to provide a SIP-enabled application server. The interview goes into the value of writing "converged applications" which lets the developer access the contents of both This is not (only) telco software for the telco world! |
Vince gets into how much work has gone into enhancing NetBeans 6.1 to ease development (previous coverage on TheAquarium here), including the testing side of things (a SIP injector really). Sailfin is built to provide SIPServlet support as an extension to GlassFish, leveraging its existing administration, performance, and clustering technologies. Of course, being an open source project is another key value of the projects.
More Sailfin coverage on this blog can be found here.
Get started with Sailfin at http://sailfin.dev.java.net.
SailFin (and GlassFish v2.1) is making good progress towards the features and schedule described in the Current Plan - also see these older TA Entries. The core driver for SailFin is SIP-support; on the infrastructure side, some good recent writeups cover the Load Balancer and the Grizzly-based Stack.
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On Tools and Apps - key for the adoption of SIP, see the recent ECharts announcement on Sailfin Support and Klein Peter's 3-part series on SIP Apps with Sailfin: [1], [2] and [3]. Also note that the the GlassFish Awards Program includes the Sailfin projects, so I'd encourage your submissions for that $175K pot! |
Added: Also see The Sailfin Blog and the list of NB Tools (thanks to Vince for that tip).
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NetBeans 6.1 Milestone 1 is feature-frozen. Vince reports on the improved integration with the sailfin project with :
If you feel brave-enough to test the latest nightly builds, follow this link. As it stands, NetBeans 6.1 is stalled for the end of April. Previous coverage of sailfin is HERE. |
Milestone 3 of Sailfin (the open source effort with Sun, Ericsson and others to provided a SIP-enable GlassFish) is now available ! Get the bits from HERE (full install, no GlassFish required). The keywords for this release are "Administration" & "Monitoring", the converged HTTP/SIP load-balancer is improved too but we're not yet at "Feature Freeze".
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The key features delivered in this Milestone are :
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Sailfin is expected to deliver its first release in June of 2008 (beta in March of 2008). More from Prasad in his entry.
