The latest sustaining (for-fee) release of the GlassFish Server is now available: GFv2.1p5 fixes 27 new bugs GFv2.1p5 is also a patch release (p11) for the earlier GFv2U2; collectively all the patch releases in that family addressed 211 bugs. Sustaining releases are available at the Basic level of Sun GlassFish Portfolio; higher subscription levels entitle different levels of customer support and access to the GlassFish Enterprise Manager

Recall that all our bug fixes also get incorporated into the next public release, in this case GFv2.1.1; patches give our customers the benefits of timely releases and isolated bug fixes; check Sun's GlassFish Support Model for more details.

For visual impact, below is the cumulative list of all the bugs fixed in this patch release since GFv2U2:

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The latest sustaining (for-fee) release of the GlassFish Server is now available: GFv2.1p4 fixes 14 new bugs. GFv2.1p4 is also a patch release (p10) for the earlier GFv2U2; collectively all the patch releases in that family addressed 184 bugs. Sustaining releases are available at the Basic level of Sun GlassFish Portfolio; higher subscription levels entitle different levels of customer support and access to the GlassFish Enterprise Manager

Recall that all our bug fixes also get incorporated into the next public release, in this case GFv2.1.1; patches give our customers the benefits of timely releases and isolated bug fixes; check Sun's GlassFish Support Model for more details.

Kohsuke and I have been hinting at this for a while (and we pre-announced it at JavaOne) and now it is official: reflecting the continued growth of Hudson Adoption, Sun now provides Commercial Support for Hudson. Formally speaking, the offer is part of the Recently Announced WebStack 1.5 and you buy it via the GlassFish Portfolio Offering. In a nutshell, we are providing sustaining support, with priority treatment for bug fixes filed by customers. We also can provide consultative support for people interested in, say, creating private plugins or improving their internal Agile processes. Kohsuke has collected all the key pointers into this Summary Page.

Additional links include the Features in the Offer, Terms of Support (bottom of main page) and Service-Level Agreement (bottom of main page). As always, we appreciate your feedback to help us continue to improve Hudson and Sun's offerings.

Added - Reports from the web:

• Our team in Hungary

Last month we made available the latest sustaining (for-fee) release of the GlassFish Server. GFv2.1p3 fixes 18 new bugs. GFv2.1p3 is also a patch release (p9) for the earlier GFv2U2; collectively all the patch releases in that family addressed 170 bugs. Sustaining releases are available at the Basic level of Sun GlassFish Portfolio; higher subscription levels entitle different levels of customer support and access to the GlassFish Enterprise Manager

Recall that all our bug fixes also get incorporated into the next public release, in this case GFv2.1.1; patches give our customers the benefits of timely releases and isolated bug fixes; check Sun's GlassFish Support Model for more details.

The Smoking Monkey has announced the release of OpenSSO Express Build 7, which includes key new features including: • Federation with Google Apps Premier • Additional Containers (like GlassFish v3 Prelude!) • Support for OpenDS Standard Edition OpenSSO Express is a very interesting product as it is an integral part of our official Roadmap and is fully supported. Sun will answer questions and will fix bugs on it but, unlike with OpenSSO Enterprise, customers are required to upgrade to a later Express or to the Enterprise binary to get the fixes.

The upgrade requirement means that the sustaining tail is much shorter, and manageable, which is why we can push the Express releases as often as we do. An Express release is not for all types of customers but it is ideal for those that want the latest features now and are willing to upgrade later; and those that do not want them just wait for the Enterprise releases. To simplify the sales story, the support plan for OpenSSO Enterprise includes OpenSSO Express.

Other related entries are tagged OpenSSO.

Looking back at last Thursday's launch of GlassFish v3 Prelude, we have had a great number of blog entries, a lot from the engineers, many from the community, all are diverse, informative and passionate. Clearly, OSGi, RESTful Web Services, support for Rails and Grails, and technology previews (JSF 2.0, JAX-RS 1.0, EJB 3.1) were the most noticed features.

One thing that could probably be emphasized here (the Prelude FAQ covers this) is the fact that this is a fully supported (use it in production) release, not just a "preview" of some later product. The differences between the community product and GlassFish Enterprise are outlined on this page. Subscriptions are available online.

Here are more blog posts and coverage since the launch :
• Extending GlassFish v3 Prelude, As Easy As 1-2-3 (Sreeni)
• EJB 3.1 in GlassFish v3 Prelude (Ken)
• GlassFish V3 Prelude (France's application-servers.com)
• GlassFish v3 Prelude and Portlet Container 2.0_01 (Deepak)
• jMaki 1.8.1 and GlassFish V3 released (Carla)
• Globalization team contributes to the Glassfish v3 Prelude Release (Ming)
• Sun Launches OGSI based Lightweight Web Application Server (Enterprise Software Blog)
• Sun Introduces OSGi based Server: Glassfish V3 (Techno Paper)
• New and improved GlassFish gem (Vivek)

There is a new patch release for GlassFish v2 (U2) available to commercial customers of GlassFish Enterprise Server (aka Sun Java System Application Server). This fourth patch addresses 11 new defects (cumulative of 58 since U2) plus provides updates to OpenMQ/JMQ and the Load Balancer.

For more details check: • GF Enterprise Support Model • GFv2 Family Overview • GFv2 U2 patch 4 Overview, Defect Lists, Links, etc • Subscriptions Site • GlassFish For Business blog

Sun has recently released two more patches as part of its Enterprise Support for the GlassFish Server. Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v1 patch 5 (aka SJS AS 9.0 patch 5) is part of the GFv1 family and was released Sept 11th. Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2 patch 3 (aka SJS AS 9.1 patch 3) is part of the GFv2 family and was released Sept 15th. As with all our patch releases, the fixes propagate to the public repository and will be available in the next public release: GlassFish v2.1, tentatively scheduled for December. A full list of our releases is tracked at GlassFishForBusiness.

More pieces of how Sun leverages OpenSource into Enterprise Offerings: Sun OpenDS 1.0 is now in OpenSSO Express - check out Nick, Rajeev, or... pelegri% jar -tf opensso.war | grep -i opends .... WEB-INF/lib/OpenDS.jar

Transparent development opens the development milestones to users. Often these milestones are just a path to using the final releases - as in GlassFish Enterprise Support - but for some users the milestones may have the right combination of features/stability/timeliness and they "just want support for it". And today, to address this need for Open SSO users, Sun announced OpenSSO Express.

Sun OpenSSO Express provides support (in standard, premium and premium plus levels) for the stable milestones in OpenSSO bundled, at no extra cost, with the support of final releases of Sun Access Manager, Identity Management or Java Enterprise System.

The Express model is applicable to any open source projects, but, so far, it is only available for OpenSSO. Details on Sun OpenSSO Express are available at here and it can be downloaded here

Sun has announced an "Unlimited" Offer for GlassFish Enterprise and MySQL Enterprise. The GlassFish Unlimited offer (description) comes in Standard (with 5x12 support) and Premium (7x24) variants; the MySQL Unlimited (decription) only comes in Gold color :-). Notes: (1) companies of any size can apply, prices are tiered; (2) products can be bought separate or together. Also see Mark's podcast and the Cost-of-Ownership numbers from John and Mark.

News Roundup:

&bull Sun Press Release and OnTheRecord
• Yahoo, PR Inside, IW, PCWorld, EMediaWire, LinuxWorld
• Noticias (spanish)
• By grabthar's hammer, what a savings!

I had missed that GlassFish v2 U1 (downloads) was supported on SUSE (Novell Website, Wikipedia). Here is the full list of supported platforms:

• Solaris 9 and 10 (SPARC, x86); 64-bit Solaris 10 (SPARC, x86) • RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 U1, 4.0 • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1; 64-bit version • AIX 5.2, 5.3 • Windows Server 2000 SP4+, Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4+, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Pro SP1+, Windows Vista

Refer to the Supported Platform section of the official documentation for details.

Alexis has just written a fairly detailed description of Sun's commercial support for GlassFish (via its SJS AS brand). This complements my earlier Overview and the commentary on how we Don't do Bait and Switch. Alexis writeup covers SLAs, phone support (complementing USERS@gf), knowledge databases and indemnification - for cases like this. The writeup also explains sustaining releases; recent interactions with users suggest these are poorly known so we may expand on them again later.

Check out Alexis' entry and, if interested, go and Purchase Support Online!

As explained in this wiki page, support for the AIX operating system is one of the major goals. Some people have offered testing on AIX. If you're interested in testing it as well, AIX nightly downloads are here.

YES! You can finally buy commercial Subscription-Based Support for Sun Java System Application Server 9.1, Sun's distribution of GlassFish v2. And it should work with your credit card globally! The link is HERE. Do let us know if there encounter any problems. A big Thank you! to John. You would not believe how long we have been trying to make this happen.