The GlassFish community currently includes over 1100 members participating in the GlassFish project, with the objective of developing an open source application server that implements Java EE 5. In addition, the community is working to develop various web services technologies apart from the application server development effort. The community includes independent contributors as well as contributors from various organizations and companies.
The GlassFish project isn’t just about Java EE – it also includes technology for Web Services and AJAX.
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The SE/EE Executive Comittee of the JCP has approved (results) JSR 289, the SIP Servlet 1.1 Specification that is the core for SailFin. The final specification is not yet available but the PFD 2 should be very close. The first public release of SailFin will be aligned with GlassFish v2.1 and will happen around the end of the year; updated roadmaps are due in a few weeks. |
We announced
WebSynergy
at JavaOne;
we were expecting to launch the public site with transparent builds shortly after that but
the end of (our fiscal) year and the summer
have slowed us down.
I think we will soon be able to show public progress;
in the meantime we are making internal progress, together with
the
Liferay
team and with add-ons.
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As an example of the type of synergy across our projects,
Ajit describes how to
Integrating WebSynergy with OpenSSO on GFv3,
showing how to download and assemble the pieces and how to configure
OpenSSO |
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Ming is in charge of the localization efforts for the GlassFish Server and she is soliciting input on Expansion of Language Support. GlassFish is currently localized to Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Spanish - see TA entry and G11n Home Page. The process will be further simplified and opened for participation for GFv3 and GFv2.1. |
If you are interested in helping, please contact Ming or post directly to the G11N mailing list at glassfish.dev.java.net.
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I just noticed that Glen has started working on a Grails in Action book that looks very interesting. While working on that, he is collecting good tips like Grails and JNDI Data Sources in GlassFish. Grails continues to gain adoption (Google Trend), leveraging the strengths of the language and framework and its easy integration into the Java plaform. |
NetBeans is investing to be a top IDE for Grails, see Grails Plugin for NetBeans and Integrating Meera with Grails and NetBeans, and the responses so far are very positive. All this targeted for NetBeans 6.5; I think the result will be a top IDE for dynamic languages.
Even IBM's DeveloperWorks is covering Grails, their Mastering Grails Series includes 7 articles, from Introduction to Grails to Grails and Legacy DataBases. I've skimmed the articles and they look good. Their list of AppServers "somehow" does not include GlassFish server, but don't be distracted - it should work, and if they don't, it's a bug we will fix :-)
Related entries at TheAquarium can be found via tags:
Grails
or
Scripting
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If you need to break the 2GB or 4GB heap maximum barrier for your GlassFish-powered application, you can move to a 64-bit JVM. The topic of 64-bit JVM was touched upon here when GlassFish v2 was released. What wasn't explained is what configuration steps it takes. A recent thread on the GlassFish forum pointed out that this wasn't well documented or at least easily accessible. This FAQ entry on the Wiki tries to fix this. Once you're set with the 64-bit JVM, the GlassFish Performance and Tuning Guide can come handy. |
Let us know when you feel important questions are not well documented on the GlassFish wiki FAQ or on the product documentation. You can either add it yourself to the wiki or send us a ping on the Forum. Thanks!