The NetBeans team released a new NB + MySQL + GF bundle (download) a couple of weeks ago but I didn't time to write about it. The bundle includes: • NetBeans 6.1 • GlassFish v2 UR2 • MySQL Community Server See reviews and comments from James - a frequent NetBeans blogger - and Colin - a frequent MySQL blogger -

The Spring Framework (2.5.4) is now available at the GlassFish v2 Update Center (UC@TA). Installation should be straight-forward: after installing GlassFish v2, run the updatecenter via: $GLASSFISH_ROOT/updatecenter/bin/updatetool There are a couple of post-intallation steps to do; check out the details at Pramod's Note and let us know of your experience, positive or negative.

Note this is the GF v2 update center. And thanks to Rajeshaw to help pushing the module out.

Anybody that has been in the software industry for any time knows that roadmaps are always "work in progress". With that caveat, here are the latest news: • GFv2 UR2, this Thursday (wiki page, Msg) • GFv2.1, moved out to Fall 08 (wiki page, Harpreet's blog, Msg) • GFv3 TP2, JavaOne 08 (wiki page) GFv2 UR2 has a bunch of bug fixes so you should consider it if you are using GFv2. GFv2.1 will continue to be aligned and driven by Sailfin.

GFv3 TP2 is a "Technology Preview" release; we will provide a sneak peak at CommunityOne and will be demoed at JavaOne.

Added - GFv2 UR2 has been pushed out til Monday.

GlassFish v1 and v2 use TopLink Essentials as its JPA (1.0) provider. TLE's bigger brother is EclipseLink (see Announcement), also led by Oracle but now including pretty much all of its TopLink product. EL is a natural fit for GlassFish v3 and today we (Oracle, Eclipse and Sun) announced just that: EL will be used in GFv3 and it will be the RI for JPA 2.0 . Oracle has been doing a great job leading EL and there already is plenty of material available, including the Users Guide, and the Code Repository. EL will be available under dual license, the traditional EPL and the BSD-based EDL License (see license.html@Trunk).

Our immediate focus will be on GFv3 - expect a build of EL with the latest GFv3 Milestone before the end of the week, but EL should work with GFv2 equally well and there is some interest already (see EL@GFv2 Thread); contact me if you were interested in that bundle.

SSL (Overview, SSL@TA) is the workhorse of secure browser-client communication - at least until the more efficient EEC (ECC@TA) gains adoption over it. SSL has been supported in GlassFish since v1 but GFv2 includes additional keystore features that are profile-specific, which are covered in detail in Kumar's tip on Using SSL with GFv2. Kumar's tip is based on an even more detailed entry where he covers SSL and CRL with GFv2. Check both out!

When was the last time you heard about a software schedule being moved forward? Shreedhar has just announced that the GlassFish v2 UR1 release will now be available in mid-December. See his Announcement for details. And, if you have never read The Mythical Man Month it should be in every serious developer's reading list... Even it it was published 32 years ago! What other books you think should be in a must-read list?

Sridatta and Dhiru, the two leads for the GlassFish v2 release, are requesting feedback and lessons learned for this open source development experience - "... We tried to follow an open source process including request for features, specifications, review of specs, development, planning, milestones, meetings and discussions in the open. It is your support that made it possible".

The feedback is expected on USERS and DEV mailing lists, but we'll happily forward any comments we receive here on this blog.

A tip from Ajit: Installing OpenPortal on SSL instance of GFv2

Nice post from Abhijit where he captures graphically, and in more detail, the Future GlassFish Releases. Abhijit covers GFv2 UR1, GFv2.1 (tentative name) and GFv3. Read his Detailed Entry or go directly to the Diagram. Abhijit is also pointing out to the forums where the discussion are actually happening, the mailing lists, Wikis and Concalls. Enjoy!

Current Analysis provides a second (also see Gartner) positive report on the GlassFish v2 release. The full report is here but requires an account; a brief overview is available here.

Current Analysis says "... may push any competitive impact into 2008"; I think it will happen this year. We will see.

Analysist reports from our GlassFish v2 FCS launch are beginning to appear. Quoting from Gartner's report:

Sun and the GlassFish open-source community have delivered the first production-scale open-source Java EE 5 application server. This challenges the dominance of market leaders like Red Hat and IBM.

Note that the analyst identifies GlassFish as challenging the leaders of the open source market (JBoss) and the enterprise market (WebSphere); we are seeing plenty of evidence of this with our own (new) customers. But we have seen no impact from the WebSphere CE branding of Geronimo - which just adds an entry-level offering unrelated to IBM's enterprise-quality product.

Additional Coverage

Earlier reports from the GlassFish v2 FCS announcements are here: [day 1], [day 2], [day 3], [day 4] and [day 5]. Late additions are below:

• GlassFish v2 ya se vende como ApplicationServer 9.1 (Jaime Cid - in Spanish)
• Sun Delivers First Open-Source Java EE 5 Application Server (Gartner)
• Glassfish v2 publicado (PortalJava.COM, in portuguese)
• Glassfish v2: Update Center and port 4848 Web Admin are cool, but... (Mark Watson)
• GlassFish : Version 2.0 UR1 Released, Clustering, HA, Metro WS and more. (Charles Ditzel)
• GlassFish V2: The start of something great (John Clingan)
• GFv2 Headlines (Java Posse)
• Top 10 Resources for GlassFish (chinmayee)

Last summary of news reports on the release of GlassFish v2 FCS. Also see day 1, day 2, day 3 and day 4. Expect a highlights recap sometime during the weekend - time permitting. Added: Also see [day 6].

• Portlet Container 2.0 beta is now available in the new Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 beta
• WSRP 1.0 Beta part of Java Application Platform SDK Update 3 Beta release
• Metro 1.0 disponible
• GlassFish v2 (aka SJS Application Server 9.1) (Danilo - in Italian)
• Sun upgrades GlassFish, slashes Java support price (Network World)
• MacOS build available (Sofotex - Mac Downloads
• Netbeans 6.0b1 with Glassfish v2 FCS - and still no smoke (Adam)
• GlassFish Hits Next Major Rev (Java Developers Journal)
• Glassfish V2, Open Source Java Platform Enterprise Edition Released (Technamyte)
• Development Bonanza Brings New Ruby, PHP, Java Tools (ChannelWeb Network)
• Sun Introduces the Next Major Version of the Open Source Java EE 5 (GlassFish V2) Application Server (eChannel News)
• NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 (ZeroSum)

GlassFish v2 has been released for a few days only but it's already time to talk about the upcoming update release (UR). As explained on the users mailing list, The update is slated to provide GlassFish support for the AIX platform (developer and cluster profiles), and an opportunity to get in a focused set of critical-to-quality bugs.

Tentative dates for this release are :
•  Soft Code Freeze October 31st, 07 (feature complete)
•  Hard Code Freeze November 14th, 07 (all approved bugs fixed and integrated)
•  Quality and Performance testing cycle begins and showstopper bugs fixed between Dec and Jan 22rd
•  FCS release January 24th, 08

This wiki page provides more details for this update release while this link has the first build in that branch.

Here are some of the news related to our GlassFish v2 launch from the last day or so. Also check day 1, day 2 and day 3. Added: Also see [day 5] and [day 6]. Current plan is to do a recap of the responses over the weekend and then go back to our normal reporting.

• GlassFish v2 (JSolutions.se - Sweden)
• Sun atualiza seu servidor de aplicações (Maurício Martins Marques - Brazil)
• GlassFish v2 Ships (Enterprise Architecture)
• GlassFish 2 vs. Tomcat 6 (Matt Raible)
• GlassFish v2 (Jars.de)
• Sun veröffentlicht GlassFish V2 (Der Entwickler)
• Glassfish v2 mit Cluster-Funktion (Golem.de)
• Glassfish v2 mit Cluster-Funktion (Speedmeter.de)
• Suns versterkt Java-applicatieserver (ActueelNieuswOnline.NL)
• Релиз открытого Java EE 5 сервера приложений GlassFish V2 (OpenNet.RU)
• La version majeure Glassfish v2 est disponible (Develppez.COM, France)
• Sun : le retour du serveur d'applications GlassFish en version 2 (Silicon.FR, France)
• Java EE 5 SDK Update 3 (SDN'sider)

Metro 1.0 is the WS stack used in GlassFish v2 FCS. They also released on Monday and they are having their own mini-blogfest: • Metro 1.0 Overview, by Kohsuke. • Metro Core - JAX-WS RI Technical Details, by Vivek. • WS-Policy in Metro, by Fabian. • Tango FCS - Ready for production Use, by Harold. • WS Reliable Messaging Overview, by Bhakti. • Custom Security Policy Assertions in Metro, by Ashutosh.

The team has also recently upgraded the Project WebSite so check it out for more information on how to use Metro, either in its native habitat (GlassFish) or on Apache Tomcat.