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Sun, 8 Nov 2009 18:21:39 -0800
Extra GlassFish News - Nov 8th, 2009

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
  

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Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:08:48 -0800
New Tools for TheAquarium: Twitter and Weekly News Summary

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.

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Fri, 6 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0800
GlassFish at Devoxx 2009

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 a lso 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!

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Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:23:44 -0800
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