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The first of a series: I'm pleased to announce that one of the GlassFish Day pods will be dedicated to showcasing the Spring Framework. Among others features, I expect demos of the new Spring support in GlassFish WebServices. Thanks to Rod Johnson for his willingness to join us. I hope this will be a good opportunity to improve further the integration between GlassFish and Spring. |
For an overview of GF Day check here; and, for a free registration, here. And stay tuned for more announcements.
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The GlassFish Web Services team has released a new version of Spring Support as part of the set of JAX-WS Extensions. This release includes support for Local (in-JVM) Transport, mostly useful for testing without a web container. Check Kohsuke's announcement, and enjoy! |
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What about this for a catchy title for a blog: Spring and GlassFish VS Seam and JBoss... The answer is that GlassFish is happy to work with both the Spring and the Hibernate and JBoss Seam communities. Sorry, no duels not to the Death, ... and neither to the Pain!. |
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Rod Johnson reports that GlassFish is gaining traction and that both his Interface 21 team and some users (such as Wotif) have found it to be a very good application server. He goes on to mention the JAX-WS Spring integration which is now provided as part of the newly released JAX-WS 2.1 (see also performance numbers). |
GlassFish is becoming more than just a Java EE 5 production-ready application server. It's also a suite of very capable libraries which you are welcome to use and reuse in various software architectures--with Spring or any other technology you'd like.
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The JAX-WS @ GlassFish team added Spring Support to the JAX-WS RI in early January and there were so many comments to the blog that the team started a mailing thread. The response so far has been quite positive, see for example this quote: We're now going from XFire to JAXWS (XFire had a big bug regarding soap headers)... Thanks Kohsuke!! |
The JAX-WS RI will be available in the GlassFish v2 beta later this month, but it can also be used in other containers. There is plenty of time to improve this support before GlassFish v2 final, so please check it out and provide feedback.
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Check out the first installment of the improved support for the Spring Framework in GlassFish that enables the use of Spring for wiring implementation and handler classes for JAX-WS Web Services. Kohsuke is soliciting feedback from people with Spring experience. The Spring support is an extension to the JAX-WS implementation and, like HTTP Session State it is described at the JAX-WS-Commons project, similar in spirit to JAXB2-Commons project. |
Just a few days ago Matt Raible said that GlassFish isn't as good as Geronimo or JBoss because it didn't support Spring or Hibernate. That was a challenge for Jerome and in his latest blog he gives detailed instructions on how to run Spring on GlassFish, and also dwells into Hibernate.
Inspired by Jerome, Mr. Vince then dug into the details for the special case of Equinox and GlassFish.
There has been some discussions on the forum about this too along with Sahoo's blog as to when Hibernate and GlassFish work together. Both Ludo and I have blogged that Hibernate works SJSAS 8.1, the code base from which GlassFish started. Currently, Jerome is working with Emanuel Bernard to get EJB 3.0 features working with GlassFish. Bottom line, it can be done but it's not easy, yet. The EJB 3.0 specification and therefore the implementations are still changing so there will be some bumps and challenges until the spec settles down.
