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Dan Allen, the author of Manning's Seam In Action just posted a note explaining how to Deploy a seam-gen Project to GlassFish. The note is based on a more Detailed Description in the Seam in Action Wiki. The instructions currently only cover WAR projects, but Dan says he will expand as soon as he has a moment. We are also trying to find a date where he can present on this topic and on JBoss Seam in general in the GlassFish Online Webinar. |
Webinar Reminder - Ken will present on this topic today (Thursday) at 11:15 am Pacific Time in the GlassFish Online Webinar.
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The JSR-318 EG has released the Public Draft of EJB 3.1 (Download). Ken (the EG lead) is soliciting feedback by email or directly in his blog. Ken will continue to providing highlights of the new features through his blog, a practice he started after the first Early Draft ([1], [2], [3], [4]). His latest entry is Guide to the EJB 3.1 Public Draft. Maybe Mr. EJB, like Mark Twain, will be able to say: "The report of my death was an exaggeration" |
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We have two Webinars this week: • On Monday, Sept 29th, 9am PT, a Special Webinar for GlassFish Partners, to cover GlassFish v3 Prelude and the rest of the GlassFish roadmap. • On Thursday, Oct 2nd, 11:15am PT, a Technical Overview of EJB 3.1, by Ken Saks (Note the new start time). Ken says the EG has a new draft almost ready, hopefully he will be able to cover it. |
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Kohsuke is back from Brazil and has released Hudson 1.253 (will they ever get to Hudson 2?), now with improved support for Windows in Distributed Builds and also support for Parametrized Builds. More on the new SpringSource Enterprise Support. Ryan (a long-term user of the GlassFish Server) was considering purchasing enterprise support for SpringSource and writes about his experience and quoted price tag. Sun and Greenplum are setting up a very large data warehouse for Fox Interactive Media on top of Solaris, ZFS and a bunch of Thumpers. Check out Jonathan's Writeup and the joint Press Release Arun is still in Brazil for the rest of this week and next week. Today he was at DF JUG in Taguatinga. And, if you want to listen to Kohsuke presentation to CeJUG, check out the bottom of the page on the Aniversário do CEJUG - nice audience! The SocialSite team is encouraging external participation: SocialSite Wants You! Check out the List of Proposals for ideas. |
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From Jitu, a description of how to use JAXBContext in Metro. From the SDN Team, it is Sahoo's turn to have his 15 Minutes of Fame; check out Janice's Interview where they cover many topics, from working from India, to OSGi. Davis has a short note showing how to get started with a Servlet App using GFv3 Prelude in NetBeans 6.5. The ever-observant Adam asks whether SpringSource is Working on EJB 3.1. Not sure if he is reading a bit too much into the tealeaves, or whether somebody had an oops... From OpenDS community, Terry reports on his OpenDS Access Log Analyzer WebApp, intended for a future putback into OpenDS. And, a very complimentary testimonial about the ease of installation of OpenDS from KR in his OpenDS in 5 Minutes. And, from Wonderland they have started creating a new, high quality, public world (see WonderBlog and Angad). A nice part is that they are going to be using Blender for the graphics. Blender is an open source tool that seems to be gaining adoption, the results are very good - see for instance the trailer for The Big Buck Bunny. Blender is also a Sun offering at Network.Com/Apps/Blender (thanks to Kevin for the tip). |
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From Kevin and Mark - The recent Price Increate on Oracle Fusion has lead to a new conversion offer for Java CAPS (our SOA product built on GlassFish Server and OpenESB). Check Kevin's and OnTheRecord, these videos (beware! auto-run) and InfoWorld and TheRegister. Alexis noticed a common thread in several comments in the USER alias for GlassFish Server and explains How Configuration on NetBeans may differ from that of your deployment GlassFish Server; and what to do about it. Thanks to Swen-Helge for a pointer to this Mural/MDM tutorial. From Adam a report on Informal Performance of Remote EJB. Adam has a number of entries at his blog arguing for EJB 3(.x) as lightweight component. |
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Adam Bien reports on very nice EJB3 adoption numbers as reported by a German IT magazine survey. The choices given to participants seem quite fair and give the survey some credit IMO. I wonder how much impact Adam's consulting work and blogging has had on the result! It would been nice to be able to compare these numbers over time (say with 1 or 2 years ago). |
EJB 3 was a huge step in the right direction and EJB 3.1 (part of the upcoming Java EE 6) is looking at many improvements such as simplified packaging, read-only beans, singletons, and more. You can start testing some of those new features in GlassFish v3 builds (use Tech Preview 2 for instance) and getting the EJB 3.1 preview container from the update center (bin/updatetool).
More coverage on EJB if you follow this EJB
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One of the uses of an API for an embeddable container is testing, and experience shows this can have a huge impact on the development speed, so I'm very pleased to report progress on this from the JSR 318 EG, led by Ken. The proposed API provides for creation / releasing of the container as in:
EJBContainer ejbC = EJBContainer.createEJBContainer();
Ken's Intro Note also hints at more details from further blogs (a portable global JNDI name, for example), so stay tuned. |
More evidence that the EJB 3.1 Expert Group is keeping a very customer-focused perspective on the
evolution of the spec.
Hats off to them!
Also see EJB3
for more EJB 3-related entries.