The Aquarium

Eclipse Gemini Proposal - Enterprise Modules Project

pelegri — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:28:21 -0800

A new Eclipse proposal (Eclipse Development Process: Pre-Proposal and Proposal) has just been posted at Eclipse.org.

Quoting from the proposal, the scope of the Gemini project is two-fold:

• Integration of existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms; and
• Implementation of enterprise specifications for module-based platforms

The initial emphasis is on standards developed by the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group.

Gemini is organized under 6 subprojects, each seeded with contributions from SpringSource or Oracle and the overall lead for the project is Mike Keith. The project mentors are Wayne Beaton, Doug Clarke and Adrian Colyer.

Java Closures at Devoxx and Other Highlights from Nov 19th, 2009

pelegri — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:32 -0800

A summary of today's news of interest to our communities.

Today is Nov 19th, 2009. One more day to go at Devoxx, some Terracotta news and more GlassFish Events. The Java EE 6 specs are in voting right now, and we are still awaiting Godot.

Note - this is an experiment to flush out the daily news that otherwise we can't cover due to limited time. Let us know how the format works for you.

Terracotta News

Bumped into Alex Miller's blog and it has several posts worth mentioning:

Devoxx Updates

Closures coming to JDK 7 - Samples from Cay;reactions from AlexM and StephenC.
JDK 7 schedule extended til Sept 2010.
Jigsaw downloads available
- And, from last week see JDK 7 M5 and companion NB 6.8
Hudson, the most used CI Solution at Devoxx (@rob2)
Photos (from Picassa Album)- Happy faces: Roberto; Antonio and AlexisMP - one, two; Ludo.
Danny's summaries on Day 1 and Day 2. Many, many tweets at #devoxx.

New GlassFish Events

Added JSF Summit, Sao Paolo Tech Days and JSF Days 2010 to the GF Event Calendar.

GlassFish Events Calendar Info

pelegri — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0800

Calling all GlassFish-related events!

We maintain a master calendar for events related to all the projects in GlassFish Portfolio at Google Calendar; if you are hosting such an event, or presenting at one, please let us know to theaquarium at sun dot com.

The calendar ID is 3722ulvfgor2qabrut1mkia5m0@group.calendar.google.com, and you can access it in a number of modes:

• RSS Feed
• iCal Format
• HTML

Sparky has a New Friend - Steve Harris at Devoxx

pelegri — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:58:42 -0800

Check out this photo of Steve Harris's keynote at Devoxx; Sparky has a new friend!

Twitter is full of positive comments. I need to do a pass to separate the interesting ones, but raw data at: #glassFish OR glassfish, #JavaEE6, #glassfish and #Devoxx. Looking forward to a complete report from Alexis (this photo is from the standing-room only JavaEE 6 University talk that he and Antonio gave).

PS. Thanks to ~~whoever took Steve's photo. I'll add attribution as soon as I find the author~~ Aaron Houston for Steve's photo.

Hudson Growth - Community and Product

pelegri — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:40:30 -0800

The adoption of Hudson continues to grow and we are also beginning to see movement in Sun's commercial offering.

Kohsuke's Hudson Feed has many examples of adoption. The community is very active and recent posts include A Campfire Plugin and a CMake Plugin, a spanish Tutorial on SVN and Hudson and Using Hudson with Rational Team Concert (from the official IBM site!). Two posts with nice, quotable compliments are:

• From Grant Smith's Creating a Continuous Integration Server for Java Projects Using Hudson at Wazi: our conclusion - based on a combination of first-hand experience and other people's opinions - is that Hudson is the current front-runner among open source CI engines.

• From Joe Heck: Hudson - A lot of things done right: check out Hudson. It's a quick check - one download, one command-line, and you are rolling.

Three examples on the commercial side, all from today:

• We closed another customer for Sun's Hudson Support; nice! Just let us know if you have any questions.

• We also got email from one of Sun's Principal Field Engineers. He is overseas visiting a (very) large customer where he found wide use of Hudson and strong interest in improved support. We not even knew this company was using Hudson - strike another win for Open Source!

• And, our friends at Sun's Inner Circle - Sun's newsletter for CIOs - included an article on Hudson in the Nov/Dec issue.

The Road Towards JavaEE 6 - Specs Submitted to EC

pelegri — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:04:36 -0800

The last batch of JSR's for JavaEE 6 were submitted earlier this week for Final Approval Ballot . The ballot will start on 11/17/09 and end on 11/30/09. They are:

• JSR 316 - Java^TM Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 (Java EE 6) Specification
• JSR 315 - Java^TM Servlet 3.0 Specification
• JSR 317 - Java^TM Persistence 2.0
• JSR 318 - Enterprise JavaBeans^TM 3.1
• JSR 322 - Java^TM EE Connector Architecture 1.6
• JSR-299 - Web Beans (now called CDI)

Several JSRs had been submitted and approved previously:

• JSR 314 - JavaServer Faces 2.0 (News@TA, vote results: 12 YES/4 Not voted)
• JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java (News@TA, vote results: 14 Yes/1 No/1 Not voted)
• JSR 303 - Bean Validation (Emmanuel's note, vote results: 12 Yes/4 Not voted)

A few of the specs went through the lighter-weight Maintenance Process, including:

• JSR 311 - JAX-RS: The Java^TM API for RESTful Web Services JAX-RS 1.1 (Paul's note, change log)

Updated Repositories for GFv3 Prelude

pelegri — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0800

GlassFish v3 is not just modular but the components can be updated through IPS-based UpdateCenter machinery. The Update Center team has been evolving tracking the IPS changes and adding refinements of their own; newer releases, like GFv3Preview, have been running recent UC, but the repositories for GFv3Prelude were running an older version of UC.

Last week the Glassfish team pushed Update Center Toolkit 2.2u2 to the Prelude repositories. In normal conditions you should not notice the change but if you visit the repository directly you will see new graphics and additional facilities (like package search) plus improved performance and metrics.

GFv3 FCS is around the corner and we are seeing very high interest in the release. At that point we expect the bulk of the GlassFish downloads to switch to being served from the IPS repositories - and we will find out if our capacity planning has been accurate :-)

Site Migrations: NetBeans, OpenSolaris.Org, Hudson

pelegri — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:41:03 -0800

Migration time! OpenSolaris, NetBeans and Hudson have moved (part of) their infrastructure.

The OpenSolaris Website Community migrated opensolaris.org from an ad-hoc web app to XWiki on October 26th, 2009 completing phase 2 of the OpenSolaris.org transition. Check the Transition FAQ for more details. This move had been in the planning for a long time and is still unfolding.

The NetBeans site moved the week of Nov 2dn to a new site, see the Announcement and the FAQ. The new NB site uses the Kenai infrastructure but is its own instance, separate from that of Kenai.org. I believe this move has completed.

The last (ongoing) move is for Hudson. Most of Hudson was at Java.Net but some parts were not - like the confluence-based wiki. After the availability problems from a couple of months ago, Kohsuke and the community decided to move the bulk to Kenai. That move is still ongoing but some key sections, like the front-page, have already moved.

In all cases, these moves are intended to be (mostly) transparent to the users (hopefully with improved QoS).

In This Week's Episode of the Sun/Oracle Saga...

pelegri — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:05:45 -0800

This week carries a new episode in the Sun/Oracle/EU saga: The EU Comission has issued a statement of objections on the acquisition of Sun by Oracle.

Since I am a Sun employee, I will just provide the basic links, no matter how tempting it might be to go beyond that...

• (Nov 9th) EU issues SoO - I've only found indirect references to the SoO, like Sun's K-8 Filing.
• (later that same day...) Oracle reacted with a PR Statement.
• (a bit later...) The DOJ issued their own comment on the EU SoO.
• (next morming, Nov 10th) And the EU comments on the DOJ comment (Reuters)
• (and, on Nov 11th) According to eWeek Europe, the next step is a hearing on Nov 25th.

The material would make for good pulp fiction. It's very sad to see the impact on people, but today I was talking with a friend that was affected and he was being very good at keeping things in perspective, so I thought of using the front cover of a true pulp fiction: Doc Savage - which I first encountered in an old Spanish translation in a storage room in my grandfather's flat in Barcelona (together with copies of The Shadow and El Coyote).

Perhaps also time to watch again the movie? Blu-ray, pretty please?

Rich web frameworks for GlassFish v3 (ZK, Vaadin, ...)

alexismp — Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:00:00 -0800

Vaadin and ZK are both popular RIA frameworks that have been tested to work with GlassFish v3.

The JavaDude has a detailed blog on "ZK 3.6.3 with Netbeans 6.8 Beta on Glassfish V3" (this is the ZK release from a few days ago). It discusses developing with or without the ZK community plugin for NetBeans (which is mostly about adding meta-data to a Java EE project), creating ZUML pages with a component palette and deploying to GlassFish v3. This framework does Ajax and push with no JavaScript exposed to the developer and should be familiar to people used to Swing development. Bobby wrote a blog entry you may want to revisit.

Vaadin is another framework that keeps the developer away from JavaScript. It builds on GWT and has some interesting OSGi features that make it a good fit for the GlassFish v3 modular architecture. Vaadin's Petter has several tutorials showing the use of the GlassFish servlet 3.0 implementation but also how the Vaadin OSGi packaging allows for various options to avoid having to carry the framework with the application. It also discusses having multiple versions of the framework deployed in GlassFish v3. If you're interested, start with this "Deployment Options on GlassFish v3" article.

Both ZK and Vaadin are GlassFish Partners, just like WebORB, ICEFaces (now in Alpha and tested to work in the most recent promoted builds of GlassFish v3) and many others.

Extra GlassFish News - Nov 8th, 2009

pelegri — Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:21:39 -0800

This is the first of our weekly news catch-up and covers Nov 1 to Nov 11, 2009. This week the news catch-up is partial; next week I'll create the entry through the week and will try to be more comprehensive.

This week we also cover old news on JRuby and OSGi.

GlassFish and Middleware News

IBM DeveloperWorks: Introducing Metro. Nice to see IBM refering to the GlassFish WebServices implementation as it is Used by Many, including IBM. Incidentally, the article triggered several internal and external threads on the topic, see for example: Broken Fault Handling in Metro.
Subversion is now an Apache Incubator podling and same for LibCloud (from Apache incubator)
New IzPack, and new GlassFish v2.1.1 installer (via alexismp)
Sun's Financial results for Q3FY2010 are now available. The revenue for MiddleWare+MySQL are shown as a single entry and are (slightly) up, Year-to-Year (Y/Y); Java and OpenStorage are significantly up Y/Y; other segments are down Y/Y. Also check the numbers for previous quarters.
IntelliJ IDEA 9 (Maia) goes Beta with full JavaEE 6 (and GlassFish v3) suport.
Sun's to cut 3000 jobs.
New record month in GlassFish GeoMap numbers (more details still to come).

Predicting our Systems Future

Systems-related: New DTrace CheatSheet, Simple LB in OpenSolaris
Latest installment in Chris's series on Reduced Install of OpenSolaris. The series deserves a spotlight...
Dedup in ZFS. This is a big deal; DeDup is big $$ business.

From the past: OSGi in GlassFish (triggered by this thread):

Sahoo has done a lot of work on the OSGi portion of GF; see his blogs on: Running GlassFish on Equinox (and other OSGi Platforms), OSGi enabled web applications inGlassFish, Developing Hybrid (OSGi + Java EE) applications in GlassFish and Our second hybrid application: EJB as OSGi Service and OSGi Declarative Service bundle in GlassFish.
Also see Arun's note building on this work at GlassFish v3 with different OSGi runtimes – Felix, Equinox, and Knoplerfish

From the past: JRuby on GlassFish (triggered by this thread)

From GF Wiki: Getting Started with JRuby on GF

New Tools for TheAquarium: Twitter and Weekly News Summary

pelegri — Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:08:48 -0800

I've added a couple of new twists to the coverage of GlassFish News at TheAquarium to do a better job while controlling our time investment:

• I've started posting short news posts to my twitter feed as I encounter them;
also tweeting are Frank, Giuseppe, Andi, Binod and AlexisMP.
• Nobody is tweeting at TheAquarium, but...
if you want to follow the tweets from the editors, use @theaquarium/editors.
• We will continue doing the usual spotlights posts as time permits,
• I'll do a weekly summary of news uncovered in the spotlights,

I've also started using ScribeFire to reduce the cost of creating posts, but this should be transparent to the readers.

Reporting on news is a losing battle, but I'm hoping that this approach will keep TheAquarium the best source for news on the (larger) GlassFish community while giving the editors a bit more "free" time to invest in other tasks.

GlassFish at Devoxx 2009

pelegri — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800

The Devoxx conference is around the corner (in just over a week) and will take place in Antwerp, Belgium as every year, only a bit earlier than usual (December was just too close to the Christmas holidays).

This week-long conference runs as follows: the first two days are 3-hour sessions to go deeper into the technology (they're called University sessions). The regular conference starts on the third day and offers keynotes and 1-hour sessions. Devoxx also has "Tools in actions" (30-minute), "BOFs", Quickies (15-minute), white boards, and more.

First and foremost, the Wednesday Sun and Oracle keynotes should not be missed (or to be watched later on Parleys) :
• Java, the Platform for the Future - Steve Harris (Oracle)
• Java EE 6 and GlassFish V3: Evolution of a Platform - Roberto Chinnici and Ludo Champenois.

But there's a also long list of GlassFish and Sun-related session for this year's session :

University talks :
• Enhancing the JavaServer Faces 2.0 Component Model - Roger Kitain
• SOA, OpenESB and OpenSSO Programming with Passion - Sang Shin
• The Java EE 6 Platform University - Antonio Goncalves, Alexis MP

Sessions:
• JDK7 Update - Mark Reinhold
• The Java EE 6 Platform - Antonio Goncalves
• Writing Asynchronous Web application (Comet) using the Atmosphere Framework - Jean-Francois Arcand, Paul Sandoz
• Project Coin - Joe Darcy
• Using BTrace and DTrace to Instrument and Analyse Java Applications - Simon Ritter
• Enhancing the JavaServer Faces 2.0 Component Model - Roger Kitain
• Managing GlassFish on OpenSolaris - Simon Ritter
• The Modular Java Platform & Project Jigsaw - Mark Reinhold
• Deep dive on the Java EE 6 platform with GlassFish V3 - Roberto Chinnici, Ludo Champenois

BOFs:
• Grizzzly Servlet Container - Jean-Francois Arcand
• Update JDK 7 - Mark, Alex, and Brian
• The Modular Java Platform & Project JigSaw - Mark Reinhold, Alex Buckley

Quickies:
• Java EE 6 and OSGi. Ludo Champenois

See you there!

ZFS Adds DeDuplication

pelegri — Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:06:10 -0800

Data Deduplication is a big deal, as was shown back in July when EMC spent 2.4B$ to acquire Data Domain. This morning Jeff announced that dedup has been added to ZFS; this has generated quite a bit of buzz in the 'web, although I've yet to see Oracle's stock going up... or Apple changing their mind.

Check Jeff's post and comments; it is a nice read. Also read on disk savings at ZFS-Discuss.

Learn about OpenSSO or Troubleshoot it! - With Firefox

pelegri — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:27:00 -0700

Jim Faut and Rick Palkovic have been posting a nice series on how to troubleshoot OpenSSO with Firefox Add-Ons. They just pushed out two more entries in the series, which now includes:

• Part 1: Introduction
• Part 2: Single Sign-On and Policy Protection
• Part 3: Cross-Domain Single Sign-On
• Part 4: Service Provider Initiated Fedlet Single Sign-On
• Part 5: Identity Provider Initiated Fedlet SSO Fedlet deployment

These articles are worth a check even if you just want to learn about how OpenSSO works: just follow their diagrams to see the exchange of information between the parties that enable these features.

And, on this topic, you may want to track the participation of the OpenSSO team at next week's Internet Identity WorkShop; see Daniel's note.

And Happy Halloween!

ColdFusion Supported on GlassFish, and Other Sightings

pelegri — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:13:00 -0700

ColdFusion (wikipedia, product) was first released in '95 by Allaire which was later bought by Macromedia in '01 and merged into Adobe in '05. CF was rewritten into Java a while ago, interacts nicely with JavaEE and with Adobe's products and is still quite popular.

When we got serious about GlassFish several of us drove down to San Jose to talk with Adobe. Adding a new supported platform is non-trivial for a large vendor; the question is not "does it run?" part but "is it worth setting up my testing and support team?"... which boils down to, "do I see enough traction in my customers?". So, I'm very pleased to point to: ColdFusion 9 supports ... and Sun™ GlassFish.

Happy! And Wednesday's news should just help further.

Adding a few other recent GlassFish sightings...

How to Install JRebel on GlassFish with Eclipse IDE
JavaMonitor Probe for GlassFish
Servlet 3.0 support in Maia (IntelliJ IDEA 9) via GlassFish v3
Installation Guide for JSF+Facelets+RichFaces (Technical BrainWave)

Also, check out: Sun's Technology powers Verizon Developer Community. We really need to get back to posting adoption stories - there have been quite a number of great ones in the last few months.

GlassFish v2.1.1 is Now Available

pelegri — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:32:20 -0700

GlassFish v2.1.1 is out (Sun Distro, Community Distro). GFv2.1.1 is the foundation for SailFin v2 and includes refinements on Replication and Failure detection plus many (>200) bug fixes and other improvements. See Shreedhar' s Overview, Kevin's post, the Wiki page and PR @Oracle OpenWorld.

GFv2.1.1 also includes OpenMQ 4.4, Grizzly 1.0.30 (changes), Jersey 1.0.3 (changes), Shoal 1.1 (changes) and JSF 1.2_13. The bulk of the changes are from the GF repository (changes).

The commercial offering is via the GlassFish Portfolio. Note that GFv2.1.1 is also a patch for earlier releases (GFv2.1, itself a patch for GFv2U2) but the patch has not yet published at SunSolve. I'll post an entry at GlassFishForBusiness when it becomes available.

JavaCard 3 - Classic and Connected!

pelegri — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:00:00 -0700

James reports on the latest news on JavaCard 3. JavaCard (wikipedia, spec site) is what we all have in our pockets (ATM cards) and/or our phones (SIM cards).

The JavaCard 3 comes in two Editions: Classic (for SIM/ATMs) and Connected. The new kid, Connected, supports most of the JDK6 VM as well as Servlet 2.5, extended and classic Applets, HTTP and HTTPS, etc. The target of JavaCard3 Connected includes secure USB tokens and personal DBs, Embedded Servers, WebDAV-Compliant Thumb Drives, etc.

JavaCard Connected seems it may deliver on the promise of "connected" Java devices everywhere; we will see how it gets adopted. There is a new project at Kenai focused on learning about JavaCard Connected. The project includes the NetBeans Plugin (see sneak preview).

SailFin 2.0 is Now Available! Also GlassFish v2.1.1

pelegri — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:41:25 -0700

Today was the release of SailFin v2 (download, home, wiki) and its companion Sun GlassFish Communications Server 2.0 (download, home). SailFin v2 is a big release; it leverages GlassFish v2.1.1 (more tomorrow) and adds a number of features including high availability, rolling upgrade, flexible network topology, better overload protection, Diameter support, improved diagnosability, Java based DCR files for the load balancer, and more.

I can't cover SailFin v2 properly but I'll collect some of the relevant links so you can follow them up. Start with Binod's overview: SailFin v2 Released! and move from there:

Some of the major changes are:

A new replica selection algorithm that improves scalability by easing load distribution after failure.
Enhancements to the Converged Load Balancer to support writing DCR rules in Java.
The ability to do rolling upgrades leverages session replication; see this example.
Improved use of multihoming features for more flexible deployments. See Ramesh's writeup.
Diameter support in Sun's for-fee AddOn; see details in Venu's many posts, including [1] and [2].
Improved load protection. See Robert's one pager and Sankar's work on JMX Notification.

As part of the release, the team has posted a number of new entries, including:

Next is what? (Prasad)
Subscribing to user state using Sun Diameter Sh API (Venu)
Setup and Configure Diameter on SailFin (Naman Mehta)
Diameter Administration on SailFIn 2.0 (Yamini KB)
SailFin v2 Released (Srikanth Anandal)
CLB Enhancements in SailFin 2.0 (Kshitiz Saxena)
Overload Protection in SailFin: What's new in 2.0 (Rampsarathy)
Tips and Tricks of SailFin HA (Bhavani Shankar)
Multihoming in SailFin. (Ramesh)

Older posts worth checking include:

TA entries tagged SailFin,
Prasad's earlier roundup: "SailFin 2.0 is Around the Corner!"
Sreeram's notes on SailFin amazon images.
How to write Conference App in 15 lines of nicely formatted code!

Finally, a list for PR/Press reports:

Sun Communications Server Speaks VoIP (The H Open Source)
Barron's, BusinesWire.

Note - GlassFish v2.1.1 is also available from Sun's Download Center and from the Community Site. More on that release tomorrow. And the OpenMQ 4.4 (and 4.4.1 RC1) are available from here.

JCP Election Ballot is Now Open

pelegri — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:39:10 -0700

The JCP Election Ballot is OPEN. There are ballots for "ratified" and "elected" seats on both the SE/EE and the ME Executive Committes. These are very important positions - for example, they vote on all the key JSR events.

Voting period is until midnight (PT) on Monday, November 2nd. If you are a JCP Member you can go vote through the online Ballot.

The elected seats candidates for JavaEE include Liferay, Matthew McCullough, Tim Peierls and Terracotta. Ratification candidates are Doug Lea, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Oracle. More information on the election process at the JCP Elections Page.

New "Oracle and Sun Overview and FAQ"

pelegri — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:02:25 -0700

Oracle has updated their page on Oracle and Sun and it now includes a PDF entitled "Oracle and Sun Overview and FAQ". Check it out for comments on many topics covering Sun's Hardware (SPARC, Storage, x86) and Software offerings, including NetBeans, OpenOffice, MySQL, xVM OpsCenter, OpenSource, VirtualBox and GlassFish.

AWS Now With MySQL Support

pelegri — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:55:58 -0700

Amazon has just announced the availability of a new service: the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), based on MySQL 5.1 (AWS Blog, RDS@AWS). They support both InnoDB and MyISAM but not replication. See notes from: Mark Callahan@Facebook, Robert Treat@OmniTI, CannelWeb...

RDS's pricing depends on the size of the DB instance, ranging from 1.7 GB, 1 ECU to 68 GB of memory, 26 ECUs. Also note that EC2 has lowered its prices.

Quoting from the RDS site, this is how Amazon is presenting the value prop:

Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You also benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.

More AWS info at Products, FAQs and elsewhere at AWS. Overall, this is a good move from Amazon, and the whole space is going to continue to change rapidly in the near future, see for example AWS@Oracle and Oracle@AWS.

NHIN Connect Using GlassFish and OpenESB

pelegri — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:00:00 -0700

The importance of information exchange in Health Care will continue to grow and the Federal Goverment has several projects to improve it, while also trying to reduce costs. And, as Bill wrote earlier in the year, Sun's Open Source has been actively engaged in this.

Added - Just noticed Tim O'Reilly's note on WhiteHouse.GOV's stack. They use MySQL, Drupal and Apache.

The goal of the National Health Information Network (NHIN) is to provide secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health and healthcare. And the CONNECT Gateway is intended to let the federal agencies connect to the NHIN.

Within the HHS, the ONC is the main entity that coordinates these efforts and it just has choosen Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS) as a key portion of NHIN Connect.

And, HIEOS - developed by Vangent - is using several of our OpenSource components - see Architectural Diagram - including OpenESB and GlassFish, and MySQL.

Apple at MacOS Forge: "The ZFS project has been discontinued"

pelegri — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:27:48 -0700

Apple kills ZFS at MacOS Forge. The effort had shown signs of stress for a while, so the community reaction ([1], [2]) has been to quickly move to a new site; see Dustin's announcement and MacZFS @ Google Code.

See reactions on the web at Engadget, AppleInsider, Gizmodo and Macrumors.

The Goodbye message was very terse. Given Apple's usual behavior, I doubt we will get any more details than that. Overall reaction is quite muted - the reaction meter at MR was 85+, 400- but the Discussion Thread is quite mild (and technically uninformed).

WADL at W3C

pelegri — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:04:35 -0700

WADL, the Web Services Description Language, (home@java.net, WADL@TA) is now a W3C Member Submission. WADL is a clean way to describe RESTful Web Services and is supported by Jersey (and thus by GlassFish v3) and other tools like Zembly (announcement, wiki).

Congratulations, Marc!

NetBeans 6.8 Beta is Now Available

pelegri — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:37:22 -0700

NetBeans 6.8 beta is now available (Download, NB 6.8 Home Page). NB 6.8 has a number of key features, from support for GlassFish v3 to JavaFX to PHP frameworks like symfony.

The NB6.8 website links to other documentation that is being updated as we get closer to fcs, including Tutorials and Screencasts. NetBeans screencasts can also be found in the NB Channel at Channel Sun (for example, see the Symfony Support recording; and that of kick butt).

JBoss, Hudson, Cloud, Liferay and Other Recent GlassFish White Papers

pelegri — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:14:18 -0700

Harpreet has been driving the creation of a Several New WhitePapers for the Sun GlassFish Portfolio. Topics covered include: Hudson, JBoss, WebSpace Server Cloud and many more.

A full list is available from the GF Portfolio Resources page. Also see the Sun.Com Resources page for whitepapers and more across all of Sun's products.

All whitepapers are free but registration is required.

Mojarra 2.0.0 is here! Start Using JSF 2.0 Now!

alexismp — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:26:42 -0700

Mojarra 2.0, the production-quality, reference implementation for JSF 2.0 is out! Yet another step closer to v3 final. This will of course be part of GlassFish v3 later this year (with an integration planned as early as this week) but Maven and standalone are two other options to grab the bits.

In his blog, Ryan lists a set of very good resources (mainly blog posts) on JSF 2.0. Earlier this year, Ryan authored a series of blogposts which were also very detailed and informative. He covers tools support (yes, it's coming very soon as Cay discusses for NetBeans in his latest blog post) and recognizes the numerous contributors to this major release.

Note also that while JSF 2.0 is set to be part of Java EE 6, it does not require a servlet 3.0 container. In the case of GlassFish v3.0, web.xml is optional and there is no longer the need to declare the Faces servlet (see Cay's entry on that as well).

Mojarra as an implementation of JSF 2.0 is the first one out but it is also set to be part of a number of coopetitor's. Finally, now is probably a good time to skim throught The Aquarium posts tagged with the jsf2 and mojarra keywords.

Added The latest release is Mojarra 2.0.1, see Jim's post.

Proof that Sun is Cool! Sightings at Engadget (SunFire) and Gizmodo (VBox)

pelegri — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:07:00 -0700

No idea if there is any correlation, but this last week had sightings of Sun's products at two high-volume "gadget" news blogs: Engadget and Gizmodo. Engadget covered the New Sun FlashFire Cards while Gizmodo talkeda about VirtualBox.

I checked and the last time Engadget covered us significantly was back in 2007; Gizmodo has a few more hits. Does this means we are cool again? :-)

Now Playing, Kohsuke! Recording of Hudson Webinar Now Available

pelegri — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:07:54 -0700

Kohsuke's Webinar on Hudson last week was a success; it was very well attended and had Great Reviews, and it is now Available for Replay (free, but requires registration).

If you are interested in the topic, also check the Hudson Whitepaper. And, if you want to move beyond that, Sun offers Hudson support as part of the GlassFish Portfolio offering - see Summary of Offering.