Arun has added three new, JRuby-based entries to our Adoption Stories. The first story is about Kenai, and is a model story for GlassFish Portfolio: Apache HTTPD Server, Memcached, MySQL, JRuby and GlassFish Server (it is also a bit recursive, as JRuby lives on Kenai). The other two stories are about LinkedIn Polls and JotBot. JotBot is unusual in that JRuby is used on both client and server side.

Thanks to Arun, Alexis and Pat, we have now crossed 50 entries in our Adoption Stories:

• ADP - Payroll, Time Management and more on GlassFish. • Webzzle - GlassFish mixing WikiPedia and Google together. • Xerox Global Services - French group switching from Tomcat to GlassFish. • Verizon - A very large (more than 40M!) OpenSSO deployment.

We are always interested in your adoption stories; contact us at stories at sun dot com.

In recent sister website news, GroovyBlogs.org is the latest "story" about running a grails application on top of GlassFish v2. Glen Smith shares his thoughts on running his community web site for the past couple of years using GlassFish and how OpenMQ has recently increased the overall availability of the system.

asadmin, the GlassFish CLI (Command Line Interface) was recently featured on TheAquariumTV (archive) and is now available as episode #28 of the GlassFish Podcast. The original recording was edited down to make it more podcast friendly (shorter, less discussion, more presentation). Let us know how that works for you.

Two more adoption stories; they both use GFv2 and MySQL Server, but while one is a traditional Java EE story, the other is a Rails App ported from Mongrel.

MidwifeMate is a pretty traditional GlassFish adoption: they liked the JavaEE compliance, the ease of use of GlassFish and the multi-platform support.

The MidwifeMate application spans the web tier (JSF/Facelets), EJBs and JPA. They use Hibernate talking to a MySQL Server and develop on Eclipse using the GlassFish Eclipse Plugin. For more details check the adoption story and the Questionnaire

In contrast, Involver.com looks like a Rails app because it is, except that it is running on GlassFish through JRuby. The application can been developed originally for a pack of mongrels but the team felt this "deployment strategy wasn't an efficient use of resources, both human and machine." and explored using JRuby. GlassFish was chosen because of Sun's commitment to JRuby and the overlap between the two communities.

Involver.com uses OpenMQ via JMS in JRuby Rack, as well as MySQL via JDBC. They are currently using GFv2 but looking forward to GFv3. For more details, check the Adoption story and the Questionnaire.

We just pushed out four new GlassFish Adoption Stories. Three of the stories are from telcos (from the US, the Netherlands and France), the remaining one is a health care company from Canada:

• SFR - Developer APIs, GlassFish-powered - Telco in France.
• T-Mobile, High Availability and GlassFish - Telco in the USA.
• Medavie Blue Cross - Standards Eliminating Vendor Lock-In - Health Care in Canada.
• Pretium Telecom - GlassFish ESB in Telco - Telco in The Netherlands.

An outcome of the recent trip by Kohsuke to Japan was last week's Adoption Story with Ratuken (Home, Wikipedia) one of the largest internet companies in the world - their site is currently ranked by Alexa as #62 Worldwide and #5 in Japan.

The Adoption Story (english, japanese) and the detailed Questionnaire with Rakuten's Chief Engineer (Chihiro Miura) (english, japanese) provide more details, including their development OS (Debian), deployment OS (RHEL), database (MySQL 5), frameworks (iBatis, Struts, Spring), and IDE (NetBeans). Rakuten's use of GF is small but the first deployments are always the hardest and hopefully others will follow.

Japan has a great community of developers and I'm looking forward to our growth in that geography.

Our 36th Adoption Story comes from Vancouver thanks to Arun:

Clarity Accounting provides an SAAS online accounting service using GlassFish Server. The implementation uses multiple OSS components including Hibernate, PostreSQL and GWT and the service is deployed on 3Tera AppLogic Grid (3Tera is a GlassFish Technology Partner).

See Questionnaire for full details. Clarity Accounting went live in September 2008 and their site looks like a well-cared small business; it was created by one person over 12 months (6 part-time) - I love to see the way we are enabling these small business to appear. See Questionnaire for full details.

For more adoption stories, check our Informal Stories. We are always looking for stories showcasing production use as these are critical to the growth of our community. If you are a happy user please consider sharing your story by sending us mail to stories at sun dot com.

Our latest Adoption Story comes from Belgium thanks to SuperPat. Telenet (home, wikipedia) is the largest supplier of broadband cable services in Belgium. They needed fine-grained access control for internal applications and ACA-IT provided it through OpenSSO. See Questionnaire for full details.

For more adoption stories, check our Informal Stories. We are always looking for stories showcasing production use as these are critical to the growth of our community. If you are a happy user please consider sharing your story by sending us mail to stories at sun dot com.

Thanks to Arun for our latest Adoption Story: Deslatech is an SI located in Brazil that has built a fairly typical EAI application for Kitmed, a logistics operator in the hospital/warehousing space. The application uses OpenESB, OpenMQ and the GlassFish Server. Check out the details of the story at our Stories blog and at the Detailed Questionnaire.

Deslatech is our 34th entry in our (informal) Stories series. Some informal stories eventually "graduate" to Sun's Formal Customer Reference Site - like with Wotif.Com. If you are a happy user of GlassFish and want to contribute back to the community, please consider sharing your story. Contact us at stories at sun dot com.

According to Forrester Research, France Leads in OpenSource Adoption so it is appropriate that our two most recent Adoption Stories are from companies based there. Apologic (company, story, questionnaire) is ISV in the field of home care services and is part of Groupe Chèque Déjeuner. Apologic is using GlassFish to rearchitect their existing Windows-based applications to JavaEE 5. Ipso-Facto (company, story, questionnaire) delivers real estate software as a service for the French market. They moved from Windows to the Java platform; first using Tomcat and now moving to GlassFish.

Our Stories blog tracks informal adoption stories of our middleware Open Source projects. Most of the initial stories centered on the GlassFish Server, but over time we have been expanding from there with a few stories on OpenMQ and OpenSSO and in the last days we added two more.

SSOCircle is an open identity provider that uses OpenSSO to support SAML 2.0 and OpenID and others in federated single sign-on. SSOCircle went live in Feb 2007; check their full story with more details via the usual questionnaire. CDOVaR.Net is a service provided by CDO² to financial institutions to transparently harness grid computing to manage their portfolios. They needed an LDAP server and chose OpenDS. Check the story and questionnaire.

Another GlassFish Adoption Story, this time in Croatia. Selmet is using GFv2 on Ubuntu with PostgreSQL to provide the backend via Web Services (using Metro) to a ruggedized Windows-based handheld (Honeywell Dolphin 7600). The Story, Questionnaire and Case Study are full of great tidbits, including their request to become a GlassFish Partner. BTW, I'm rooting for Spain in tonight's game against Croatia :-). The results (powered by Sun!) should be available tomorrow Here.

Added - The video recap of the Croatia/Spain game is Now Available.

GlassFish seems to be in a transportation groove; we recently had adoption stories around: Traveling and Reservations (TravelMuse and Wotif.com), Air (FAA and OAKAir) and automobile (Parking Enforcement). The latest addition covers trains through France's SNCF (see TGV, TER Chemin de Fer).

Check out Alexis's Adoption Story and the Detailed Questionnaire. Special noteworthy to me is SNCF's use of OpenMQ, like TravelMuse, Wotif and others (we need to do a full inventory; our questionnaire didn't use to ask about that).

The web site for WorldxChange Communications NZ looks very good (they won the NZ Telecommunications Carrier of the Year 2007) and their Customer Bill View system is a JRuby Application running on GlassFish v2! The application came from an strategic emphasis in improving the customer experience and was developed very quickly, that influenced the choice of technologies. Check out Chris' Adoption Story and check the Questionnaire. The questionnaires for the Adoption Stories are always full of very interesting details; for example, WXC uses CentOS in production. Annecdotal data, but still, interesting.

One more Adoption Story: the FAA (website, Wikipedia) is now using GlassFish v2 for some of its projects. Some interesting tidbits: they develop and deploy on Solaris on Sun hardware and their exposure to GlassFish came from our NetBeans friends (thanks!). As usual, full details are available at the Questionnnaire. Note that FAA is in the process of purchasing GF v2 support - which reminds me I need to find the time to complete and push out a few more entries in GFB.