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This is my last post for the year; tomorrow is Christmas (with Xmas trees and pessebres) and after that I'm taking a two week family vacation. I am not planning to do any posts at TheAquarium during that period - barring surprises - but I may tweet a bit here, here and there. It has been a very long but ultimately very rewarding year. Thanks to all for your support of GlassFish and all of us. |
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We released GlassFish v2.1.1 at the end of October and last week we released our first commercial patch for it. Due to how the multiple releases intersect, this patch is also GFv2.1 p7 and SJS AS 9.1U2 p13. GFv2.1.1 p1 addresses 31 new defects since GFv2.1.1. |
The patches are delivered in several formats (file and pkg) and became available at SunSolve in December 18th. More details on the release, including the list of bugs addressed, are available at GlassFish For Business, and at SunSolve.
I've also updated the GlassFish v2 Family Overview and created a new entry for a GlassFish v3 Family Overview.
This is one of a series of resources and links related to the new GlassFish v3 release. Each entry starts with a section with key links; the resources are then grouped into categories.
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Key links:
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Sun Press Releases:
Java EE 6
and
GlassFish v3
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The MySQL Conference 2010, with Sun Microsystems as a founding sponsor, has been announced and the call for participation is open. It's coming later than usual, but it's an opportunity for would be speakers. They will be able to propose talks based on the latest technology, making it even more interesting for attendees. Some of the program is already online. The tutorial page has a great lineup of speakers and advanced topics. More will be announced when the selection ends, at the end of January. |
In the meantime, early bird registration is also open. You will save a few hundred bucks by registering before February.
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The recordings of the JavaEE 6 and GlassFish v3 Virtual Conference are now available. Slides are also available. Registration is required in both cases; enjoy! The VC was a great success; more info on it after the Holiday break. Credits - The picture shown at the left is that of Jack Mullin who recorded the Bing Crosby's Show on the influential Ampex 200. |
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Our JavaEE 6 / GlassFish v3 Virtual Conference was a great success - and a lot of fun. I'm going to let Harpreet report on the detailed attendance numbers, but peak simultaneous (not total/aggregated) attendance at the keynotes was over 1400. This is our first time, so I don't have comparison numbers, but it seems very good for an online presentation in mid-December! |
The general feedback from attendees, presenters and chat participants was very positive and many people suggested us to do these more often. A couple of reports are here and here.
The most common questions have been: Will the recordings be available? (yes) How soon (hopefully within a couple of weeks) and How do I get them? (will notify people in the GlassFish registration mailing list, and will post at GlassFish Resources)
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The GlassFish documentation team has uploaded the javadocs and the tutorial information to the Update Center and it is available through the Update Tool. Paul describes the actions in his note. If you want to check out the screenshots, check out:
Still some work to do to improve the flow of the experience, but this is moving in the right direction.
Attentive readers will notice: (a) There used to be a way to run the update tool within the admin console while the server was running, but that was not safe, so it was removed relatively late in the v3 cycle. (b) The update center repository only has Volume 1 (basics) of the tutorial; we will push Volume 2 there "soon", in the meantime you can get it from here.
Ah! And plenty of documents at docs.glassfish.org, and the javadocs are also available here, thanks to Rajiv.
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MySQL has released its second milestone of the new series, inaugurated this year with MySQL 5.4. The new installment, MySQL 5.5-m2, has several new features, of which the most notables ones are semi-synchronous replication, exception handling through in stored routines through SIGNAL and RESIGNAL, and partitioning enhancements. A quick overview of partitioning and semi-synchronous replication is available in this blog. Hours after the release, Roland Bouman published a very charming example of how useful the new SIGNAL feature can be. |
The new release, available in the usual MySQL download pages, comes with an enhanced user manual.
This release shows that MySQL is moving forward in the path of its new development cycle, leaving behind its previous inflexible model that was stalling innovation and contribution. With this agile cycle, mature features are added more dynamically, while the ones in need of more development are sent to the next milestone, without side effects.
To celebrate the release of GlassFish v3, the GlassFish Podcast channel now has no less than the following 5 new episodes :
As a reminder, you can listen to the episodes on the podcast homepage, as an MP3 (link from the podcast page) or via iTunes.
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NetBeans 6.8 was released last Thursday. This release provides full support for Java EE 6, including improved support for JSF 2.0/Facelets, JPA 2.0, EJB 3.1, JAX-RS and GlassFish v3. NetBeans 6.8 also has improvements to the PHP and JavaFX editors, has better Maven support and tighter integration with Kenai.com. The full list of features is available here. The NetBeans team also released the Multi-Lingual Release (see Masaki's note) and the Java FX Composer Preview (entry, screencast) |
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Tomorrow (Tuesday, Dec 15th) is our online Virtual Conference on JavaEE 6 and GlassFish v3. The conference is free but Requires Registration (check this PDF for full agenda). Attendance is via any Flash-enabled browser; additional information, including the URL to use tomorrow, will be mailed to the email you used during registration. |
Once you login during the VC you will automatically join a chat room with a generated name. Since we are expecting many attendees, I'd recommend you to use the nick command to assign yourself a name that is more easy to remember: to do that, type "/nick myNickname" (without quotes) at the chat window.
The response to the Virtual Conference has been very positive - I hope to see you online tomorrow. I'm specially looking forward to hearing from you in the chat room; a number of us will be there to try to answer your questions.
This is one of a series of resources and links related to the new GlassFish v3 release. Each entry starts with a section with key links; the resources are then grouped into categories.
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Key links
Events
Real-Time News
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Press
Overviews, Appreciation, Analysis
Non-English Posts
Technical Posts (Formatting needs some improvements)
Note I have split the resources and news links off from this GlassFish v3 Announcement into the first of one of a series of resources and links entries. The new arrangement is more manageable and also simplifies the creation of additional entries as more resources and news are posted on the release.
It has been 4 and a half years since we announced GlassFish during JavaOne 2005 (PR) and today we are making available our most important release: GlassFish v3 is now available for download!
Our first release was during JavaOne 2006, we released GlassFish v1, the first Java EE 5 compliant App Server (family overview) and the second generation of GlassFish came out in September 2007 (family overview). While still based on JavaEE 5, GFv2 leveraged on Sun's (too) long history of App Servers to add the benefits of an enterprise product (quality, performance, scalability) to those of an open source community (agility, ease of use, supportive teams, pricing).
While the transition between GlassFish v1 and v2 was evolutionary, the transition from v2 to v3 is a major change that includes a whole new set of JCP specifications, JavaEE 6, and a new modular, OSGi-based, architecture that expands significantly the applicability of GlassFish.
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Key links available now:
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GlassFish v3
Main Product Page
We are hosting several events in the next few days; we hope to see many of you at our Virtual Conference on Dec 15th, and in one of our Community Parties. |
Below are lists of posts relevant to the launch and the release; they will be updated through the day to incorporate news as they happen. Updates will also be posted to @glassfish at Twitter. If you use Twitter we recommend you to use #glassfish to facilitate discovery. Some level of geotagging would help visualize the spread of the community.
Announcements
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It's been a while since we've mentioned Sang Shin's "Java Passion" classes. Sang is a tireless creator of material for training and hands-on labs (HOL) with detailed step-by-step instructions. The already very long list of hands-on labs now includes :
• GlassFish Programming/Development (with Passion!) Online Course (main page)
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but also :
• Ajax/Comet Lab with GlassFish
• Java EE 6 samples
• Servlet 3.0 samples
.. and there's even more to come : Managed Bean, Interceptors, Bean Validation, CDI, JPA 2.0, JSF 2.0, and EJB 3.1. These are likely to come after Sang is done with Sun Tech Days in Brazil (São Paulo), starting this Tuesday (December 8th).
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We are hosting 3 parties on December 16th as part of the Launch of GlassFish v3:
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On Dec 16th, in
Bangalore, 3pm IST
(details,
RSVP)
Let us know if you are aware of other celebrations! Added Party on Dec 16th, in Beijing, 2pm China time. (details, RSVP). |
Previously announced events include:
• On Dec 8th and 9th,
Karen and Jerome will present at
Sun TechDay
in
São Paolo
• On Dec 10th,
Alexis will present in
Paris
in a
Cocktail de l'info Java
hosted by Demos
• On Dec 11th and 12th,
Arun will
Swim to Present at IndicThreads,
in
Pune.
• On Dec 15th, a day-long
Virtual Conference.
All events are listed in our GlassFish Events Calendar.
