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GlassFish Adoption Report for May '09

Posted 4 days ago by pelegri

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 ... [More] 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. [Less]

What's the Right GlassFish Release For You?

Posted 7 days ago by pelegri

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 ... [More] 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 :-) [Less]

How Things Work - IPS and GF v3 Packages, continued

Posted 8 days ago by pelegri

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 ... [More] 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 [Less]

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

Posted 17 days ago by pelegri

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 ... [More] , 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. [Less]

GlassFish ESB v2.1 released

Posted 20 days ago by fkieviet

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 ... [More] , 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! [Less]

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