The Aquarium

Hudson on iPhone and Android

pelegri — Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0700

Hudson fans no longer have to be envious of POssO (the portable administration console for OpenSSO) or of Zen (the OpenDS variant); now you can also show-off your iPhone through the Hudson Helper for iPhone - see it in action Building Galileo.

Not content with just that, David also ported the Hudson Helper To Android!

Me thinks somebody should do a good JavaFX version... then you could run it in your TV!!

Happy 4th of July!

pelegri — Sat, 4 Jul 2009 06:00:00 -0700

Happy Fourth of July! Today's holiday celebrates the adoption of the US Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

This is a big date for the US; and also marks an event that had influence beyond the borders of that country...

• Bastille Day (July 14th, 1789)
• Declaración de Independencia de Venezuela (July 5, 1811)
• Declaración de la Independencia Argentina (July 9, 1816)
• Acta Solemne de la Declaración de Independencia de la América Septentrional (November 6, 1813)

BTW, had you noticed the clustering of these independence dates?

OpenMQ Roadmap Updated

pelegri — Fri, 3 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0700

Ed has updated the Roadmap for OpenMQ with the information related to OpenMQ 4.4, targeted for GlassFish v3. Key features include:

• JMS Bridge -- Connect to other Open MQ clusters, or other JMS products
• STOMP -- use the Streaming Text Oriented Message Protocol in Open MQ
• Embedding -- Use Open MQ as an embedded messaging provider in your own Java application

Full details at OpenMQ 4.4 Feature Page.

GlassFish Adoption Report for May '09

pelegri — Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:59:15 -0700

I've posted the May 09 GlassFish Adoption Report. Some growth from April 09, but not back to the March 09 peak; probably some seasonal drop, possibly some impact from the Oracle announcement.

The full report includes the usual download data for run-time and tools bundles, a comparison with JBoss downloads, GeoMap, Registration and Update Center.

I expect to post the June report next week.

VirtualBox 3.0 is out - Multiple Virtual CPU Support (and more)

pelegri — Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:33:47 -0700

VirtualBox 3.0, is now available for download. This is a major release (PR), most notable is support for guest SMP support - up to 32 vCPUs. Also included is support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests and experimental support for Direct3D 8/9 on Windows guests.

Check the Changelog Details and then go to download page.

Andy has a nice Overview and Podcast; Jeff has an overview focused on Virtual SMP Support. Other Sun reviews come from Rudolf and Homer. Non-Sun reviews include Softpedia, Virtualization Review and an early mention in InfoWeek.

The ZDnet/CNet folks have several reviews on VirtualBox and seem increasingly positive about it - see Jason Perlow's Very Positive Review (earlier last year he had written a V12N Comparison based on VBox 1.6) and Dan Kusnetzky Review; also see their Screenshot Gallery. On the CNetTV, check Tom Merritt's story on Installing Windows 7 RC on VBox.

Finally, this is a very interesting release and I believe it will make a big difference in applicability of VirtualBox, but all major releases "push the envelope" a bit. I'm not in the VirtualBox team but, based on their Release History I'd expect follow-up maintenance releases "soon".

Hudson Growth - Plugins, Jobs, Eclipse

pelegri — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:59:24 -0700

Hudson continues to show very nice growth; This post reports on three different indicators.

Seiji Sogabe recently did an analysis of the addition of new Hudson plugins, and the pace is accelerating: there were 55 new plugins in 2008, while half-way through 2009 we already are up to 44. Seiji represented this new created a chart to show this graphically in a chart, also shown to the left. See Kohsuke's post for an english version of Seiji's note.

The number of job offerings at Indeed.com where Hudson is listed is also growing. Unfortunately, "Hudson" is too common a term to search on it, so I approximated the growth trend by adding "Continuous" and "Integration"; the result is here. As a reference, I compared the growth with CruiseControl, using relative and absolute metrics. The results (absolute and relative) shows that CruiseControl has flattened while Hudson is growing.

Counting the actual number of jobs is harder, but an approximation suggests that CruiseControl still has more entries than Hudson, but not by much - see trend comparison, CC jobs (121) and Hudson jobs (97).

Finally, Kohsuke also reports on Adoption at Eclipse, where Hudson was the #1 CI tool, ahead of CruiseControl and Bamboo.

More Adoption indicators tagged Hudson+Adoption

What's the Right GlassFish Release For You?

pelegri — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:12:00 -0700

Alexis has a nice summary of the different GlassFish releases, explaining how to Choose the Right Release: GlassFish v2.1, GlassFish v3 Prelude or GlassFish v3 Preview. In a nutshell, v2.1 is for production deployments, v3 Preview is a beta for v3 final and v3 Prelude is/was a transitional release...

... but you want the full story, so check Alexis' Answers...

... or just ask Ask the Magic 8 Ball :-)

NetBeans 6.7 Final is Here

pelegri — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:24:21 -0700

NetBeans 6.7 is now available for download. The site includes their usual screencasts (see specially the Overview) and Tutorials.

The new features I find most interesting are the Connected Developer and the Build Tool support (including Hudson and Maven). Other features include support for more Dynamic Languages, Java Desktop/Swing and Web and Java EE; bundled JavaEE 6 and JavaFX 1.2 will be in later releases.

Related entries tagged netbeans

How Things Work - IPS and GF v3 Packages, continued

pelegri — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:06:35 -0700

Alexis has posted additional entries in his GlassFish à la carte series. Part I and Part II (also see Review) showed how to get a minimal distro and add components to it, including some containers; Part III shows how to create a Custom Layered Distro from GlassFish v3 using the IPS tools.

The distro only bundles pre-existing components; enough to run an ejb/jersey sample. I think that this layered distro arrangement may become quite common for distribution of packages for GFv3 and it nicely shows the power of the modularity in GFv3, IPS and the embedded IPS support in GFv3.

Alexis' examples show how to create the new package, add it to your own IPS repository, and then create a new domain to run the EJB-Jersey sample. The IPS setup is very easy thanks to the documents and binaries from IPS Best Practices project, plus the Package Prototype from Alexis.

To learn about IPS, check out Producing and Maintaining Packages (specially Christophe's Prezo) and MakePkgs. All the binaries you need are included in the IPS Toolkit.

The whole thing works like a champ; excerpting some of the key commands from my shell trascript:

# Created a directory for my local repo % pkg/bin/pkg.depotd -p 10001 -d /Users/pelegri/Software/my-repo # port no. and store dir. # downloaded package prototype and renamed it as pkg_proto_epll.py % cat >LICENSE.txt # need a LICENSE file! % pkg/bin/makepkgs -s http://localhost:10001/ -b ../Sample ../Sample/pkg_proto_epll.py % bin/pkg set-publisher -P --enable -O http://pkg.glassfish.org/v3/dev dev.glassfish.org % bin/pkg set-publisher --enable -O http://localhost:10001 localRepo % bin/updatetool # screenshot % bin/pkg install sample-distro # pretty much all done % bin/asadmin create-domain --instanceport 8080 --adminport 4848 mydomain % bin/asadmin start-domain mydomain # download the jersey-ejb sample WAR file % bin/asadmin deploy ../../jersey-samples/jersey-ejb-1.1.1-ea-SNAPSHOT.war % open http://localhost:8080/jersey-ejb/ # screenshot

New EJB 3.1 Overview Article

pelegri — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:00:00 -0700

Ken and the Expert Group have done a great job in making EJB 3.1 easier to use and Ken has been also easing learning it through a number of short notes: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]. Ken's latest addition is an Overview with Samples where he covers all the highlights.

So, if you are curious about EJB 3.1, check Ken's Overview and try it on GlassFish v3 Preview.

Thanks to Ed for the tip, and, for related entries, check the EJB3 and javaee6 tags.

What's JeOS, and Why You Should Care?

pelegri — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:26:47 -0700

Earlier in the month, we announced a Virtual Image for WebSpace. In the note I mentioned that that image included a "JeOS OpenSolaris Prototype", and that effort was Formaly Announcement on Tuesday. JeOSs play an important piece of the virtualization story, so here is a set of links to get you up to speed quickly.

JeOS stands for "Just Enough OS" ("just right" as with the Three Bears). JeOS is usually described as including the JeOS media ( OS core {Kernel,Drives,Login} + OS Mimimum maintenance tools + Minimum user space tools ) + Packages repository (DVD or Network based). The term is relatively new; an early (initial?) reference seems to be from Jordi's; also see Cocktail.

There are different JeOS depending on what OS they are based. Linux is currently a popular base; three variants are Ubuntu JeOS (Wikipedia, WebSite, and How to use it), Oracle (Oracle EL JeOS and Product Page) and Novell (Novell SUSE JeOS, LimeJeOS Blog details).

We believe that there are some benefits in having an OpenSolaris based JeOS, and several folks have been working on that. The Announcement Above is part of that process; more links in follow-up notes.

Simplified mod_jk with GlassFish v3

pelegri — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:36:00 -0700

A common setup for GlassFish Server is to have Apache httpd as the front-end using mod_jk as the connector between the two. Although GFv2 supported mod_jk, the setup has been simplified in GFv3 and Amy just published a detailed note with the Configuration Steps on both sides.

Evans Users Choice on IDE Available - Rational, Visual Studio, NetBeans

pelegri — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:59:35 -0700

Evans Data just published their User's Choice on Software Development Environments. The survey asks for satisfaction of the respondents on the IDE features they used and weights them based on the aggregated priorities to determine satisfaction indexes.

The overall satisfaction rankings are: IBM's Rational Tools, MS's Visual Studio, NetBeans, JDeveloper, Sun Studio, Delphi, IntelliJ, Eclipse.

Note: my biggest issue with the EDC Users' Choice methodology is that they do not weigh in number of users for a given option, not do they disclose enough data to assess the relevance of the samples. So, as far as I've been able to determine, a few very happy customers can give a small, narrow, vendor the top ranking. Another caution area is the weights assigned to each feature to compute the overall ranking, but that is easier to navigate by using the per-feature rankings that are included in the report. As always, if you are interested in the topic, I recommend you to check out the report for details.

Last 3 Days of Free JavaFX, MySQL and GlassFish Training Class - Atlanta, Raleigh, Cleveland

pelegri — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:10:00 -0700

I just found out but Sang has been teaching a series of 1-day free training sessions on JavaFX, MySQL and GlassFish. The full list is at his JavaPassion Site but by now there are only 3 days left, so check it out and signup if you are interested and available.

• June 24th, Atlanta, GA
• June 25th, Raleigh, NC
• June 26th, Cleveland, OH

ADempiere on GlassFish and OpenSolaris

pelegri — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:34:00 -0700

Praneet had previously shown how to run ADempiere with GlassFish and now has expanded that to include OpenSolaris and PostgreSQL in a more Detailed Document. Additional links in Praneet's Note.

Pranee't previous posts were covered in this spotlight.

Atmosphere News - 0.2 Released, Bayeux on 0.3

pelegri — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700

The premise of the Atmosphere is to deliver an easy to use Java framework for portable AjaxPush/Comet Applications. Atmosphere was Launched last Fall and in May of this year its core Aligned with Jersey. The latest developments have been the Release of 0.2 and the introduction of Bayeux Support in the trunk for 0.3.

Try out 0.2 via the Download Page. Feedback through the USERS mailing list (read/post via Nabble, or archived at MarkMail).

Jazoon Preview - GlassFish, JavaEE 6, Hudson, Metro, JavaFX... and James

pelegri — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:00:00 -0700

Not exactly the Antipodes but I think we can argue we have the whole world covered... While FISL is hosted in Porto Alegre, Jazoon will be held in Zurich.

Check out the Jazoon Home Page and Schedule and check Alexis' List of Talks related to GlassFish.

And, if you are on the other side, check GlassFish @FISL!

FISL Preview - GlassFish, Hudson, Jersey, OpenSSO, OpenDS and more...

pelegri — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:29:29 -0700

The 10th FISL starts this week. Like previous years, it looks like a lot of fun: the Program is full of good content, and there is also Porto Alegre... FISL starts on the 24th and it is preceded by Javali, an event focused on Java, on the 23rd (Agenda).

I did a quick pass through the FISL program to highlight some sessions, including those related to GlassFish Projects and friends:

• Arun on GF, MySQL and NetBeans (S205) (Arun's note)
• Mauricio on OSGi in GFv3 (S736)
• Ludo will talk about OpenDS (S473) (Ludo's note)
• Fabiane on Hudson (S733)
• Pat on OpenSSO (S360) (Pat's note)
• Fabio Veloso on Jersey (S282)

Other talks related to GlassFish include

• On OpenJDK, Bruno (S734) and Charlie (S226)
• On OpenSolaris Rafael (S600) and Brian (S749)
• On NetBeans et al, Geertjan (S735), and
• On OSS, Simon (S757),

I wish I was there! If you attend FISL or Javali, please report back.

JMS over HTTP on GlassFish (and OpenMQ)

pelegri — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:00:00 -0700

Masoud has a nice Detailed Writeup explaining how to configure OpenMQ (the GlassFish JMS implementation) to run over HTTP. This is very useful in constrained situations, for example...

An untrusted applet can communicate back to a server which it is initiated from (server which hosted the applet and delivered the .class and jar files). So your applet can either use mq protocol or it can use JMS over HTTP protocol which is shown in the sample.

BTW, Masoud also briely mentions the new UMS feature in OpenMQ and positions it relative to JMS over HTTP. Full details in Masoud's Writeup.

Fuji M6 is now Available - POJOs, S3, SSL and other features

pelegri — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0700

Earlier in the week the team for Fuji (advance for OpenESB v3) released their latest Milestone, M6. Mark has a good Overview of the release which includes a good Demo (note - content is not streamed). The Downloads now include an install image for Felix and a bundle with GlassFish v3. New features include Java POJOs, S3, and SSL support.

For more details, refer to Mark's post or go to the M6 home page and the Demos and Screncasts page.

Learning JSF 2.0 - New Links, RefCards, Samples, JSF Fu...

pelegri — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:40:54 -0700

Now that JSF 2.0 is Final and is is easily accessible in GFv3 Preview, it is a good time to learn more about it, so here is a set of useful links:

• The JSR 314 site (EG) has a link to the spec, the votes, etc.
• The (production ready) RI is available at the Mojarra page, but a better way is to...
• Use GlassFish v3 Preview, which includes samples, documentation and the Update Tool.
• The Mojarra site also includes the JavaDocs and the JSF DataSheet.
• Sun's JSF Technology page has multiple links, including the JSF 2.0 tutorial.
• From Cay, check out his DZone RefCard.
• From David Geary see his JSF Fu articles: part 1 and part 2.
• From Jim see his series on JSF features, including his additional JSF resources.
• From Ryan, his detailed Series on New Spec Features.

Also, all related TA entries are tagged JSF... And, please send us feedback on the spec or the implementation to help us with the Fit and Finish.

Another GlassFish v3 Book - Adam Bien and Real World Java EE Patterns

pelegri — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:01:51 -0700

Adam's Java EE (5/6) book (Real World Java EE Patterns) is now available. The book uses GlassFish (v3) and NetBeans for its examples, which are all available online at Kenai. The book is an example of self-publishing (through Lulu) and you can buy it online in either electronic or paper form.

More details at Adam's announcement. This is the second book based on JavaEE 6 (due for release in late September); the previous one is Antonio's Beginning Java™ EE 6 Platform with GlassFish™ 3: From Novice to Professional.

More GlassFish book's tagged Book.

Hudson Support in NetBeans 6.7... and Maven, and Subversion

pelegri — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:06:58 -0700

The Release Candidate 3 for NetBeans 6.7 is now available and so are several posts highlighting some of its new features. Check out:

• Petr on Hudson Support,
• Geertjan on Maven Support, and
• Octavian on Subversion Support

Check out previous entries tagged NetBeans for highlights on other features like the Connected Developer (and Kenai), more scripting support, and how to use NB 6.7 with GlassFish v3.

Virtual Image for GlassFish WebSpace Server

pelegri — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:18:57 -0700

Several teams at Sun have collaborated to put together a Virtual Machine Template for the GlassFish WebSpace Server. The image is available in a number of formats for VirtualBox (OVF, VDI) and for VMware Workstation (VMDK) and VMware Server ESX (VMDK) and bundles WebSpace, GlassFish, MySQL, and a JeOS prototype of OpenSolaris.

With this image the evaluation of WSS is very easy: I already had VBox so I first downloaded the OVF Image; then I imported it and accepted its Configuration Panel, started it, read the end point URL from the VBox Console, pointed my browser there and followed the link in the Image Start Page to the WebSpace Welcome Page.

More details at Gabor's Announcement and in the Documentation Page.

GlassFish v3 Translated to 12 Languages - Is _Yours_ Missing?

pelegri — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700

Ogino reports on two new languages in the GlassFish v3 localization. The current list is: cs_CZ, de, es, fr, ja_JP, ko_KR, no, ru_RU, tr_TR, zh_CN, zh_TW (check ISO 639-2 and ISO 3166-1). The multi-lingual bundle is available here; download it and try it out.

I'm surprised there is no pr_BR... where are the brazilians?

To contribute check out the Project Home Page.

GlassFish ESB v2.1 released

fkieviet — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:27:49 -0700

After a few months of development, bug fixing, testing, etc, GlassFish ESB v2.1 is now released. New in this release is that is a lot easier to scale GlassFish ESB through clustering. All components now have support for clustering. By the way, GlassFish ESB clustering is (of course) based on GlassFish clustering.

Also new in this release is the inclusion of the IEP SE and Scheduler BC (a new component!), several component enhancements, and support for AIX 5.3.

More details can be found in the release notes. And GlassFish ESB v2.1 can be downloaded from the OpenESB downloads page!

Jazoon 2009 and GlassFish Day

alexismp — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:00:00 -0700

GlassFish Day at Jazoon (register) is only a week away and the (almost final) agenda has been posted (Marek will stand in for Harold for the Metro talk) and is now included in the GlassFish events iCal feed. This is the second year in a row we're running this free event on the first day of the Jazoon conference in beautiful Zurich.

While not an unconference, this is meant to be an informative and pretty laid back day with lots of opportunities to interact with other attendees and the various speakers. Please make sure to register if you plan on attending (we have some space left in a nice and comfy theater).

Given the energy spent by the organizers and Christian in particular, visiting literally dozens of JUGs around Europe, I expect Jazoon to be yet another successful Java conference. James Gosling will be the first keynote speaker (other Sun speakers are listed here). Get the full agenda there and a dedicated Google iCal feed here.

Business Trends - JBoss, Spring Framework, and eXo

pelegri — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:00:00 -0700

A couple of recent Red Hat announcements are relevant to the competitive landscape around the GlassFish products:

Red Hat announced Open Choice, which notably includes support for the Spring Framework. Also see the Press Release, Rich's note, and reactions from The Register and Rod Johnson; and, for historical/wider context, recall Oracle and Spring.

The second announcement is the eXo and JBoss Partnernship, which seems quite similar to our partnership with Liferay around Sun GlassFish WebSpace Server. See Rick's post, the PR and comments at CMS Watch.

Additional business context for all these moves include our Partnership with Liferay, the immediate release of Java EE 6 and GlassFish v3, the Oracle announcement, and even the JSR299 and JSR330 exchanges. The next few months will be interesting...

New MySQL Release Model

pelegri — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:20:45 -0700

Release models make a huge difference in the properties of the software delivered. I believe there is no single "ideal" model; what to choose depends on the code base, the group/community creating the code, the users/customers, the technology available (languages, CI tools, others)... What works for Hudson does not work for GlassFish nor for Solaris.

MySQL is changing its release model to improve agility, quality, predictability and facilitate contributions. Giuseppe just posted an Overview; in a nutshell, the trunk tree is always in beta quality, new features are first developed in stage branches, then integrated into the trunk, which is then brought to RC quality and another cycle starts (see Diagram).

Full details at the MySQL Forge and in Tomas's Presentation at MySQL University (slides; recording is NYA).

The basic model seems feasible; now we need a few release cycles to adjust the model and we will see how it works in real-life. As Don Quijote said... the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

How Things Work - IPS and GF v3 Packages (GlassFish à la Carte)

pelegri — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:28:33 -0700

You probably know that the new, modular, GlassFish v3 is built from (OSGi) components that can be updated using IPS. We assemble these pieces into ready-to-go JavaEE 6 Web Profile and full JavaEE 6 bundles but they can also be used to create à la carte distributions, as Alexis shows in his latest posts.

I recommend you to at least try the first example to get a better understanding of how all these technologies work together. The beauty of GFv3 is that everything is very small and fast - I'm writing this entry from a public WiFi site with pretty moderate connectivity and I'm spending more time waiting on BSC than running the example.

Part I starts with a IPS toolkit image from IPS Best Practices. The toolkit image is 5MB (most of it is the python 2.4 runtime) and has no GlassFish in it. From there, the next step is to download the GF v3 nucleus (2.41MB), which automatically brings in Felix (564KB), Grizzly (943KB) and HK2 (565KB); the IPS packages include the relevant OSGi modules.

The rest of that entry shows how to install the updatecenter IPS pkg (that is the biggest package because of python graphical toolkit) and how to use it to add the management pkg, and then creates and starts a domain.

Part II in the series shows first how to install the GFv3 Web Container; then it mirrors Jerome's recent entry on GF v3, OSGi and Spring (that portion gets a bit complex and I see that Jerome already published a simpler version). Part III will continue the main theme of creating an a la carte GF v3 that has the components you want and is yet extensible.