GlassFish @ Utah JUG Summer 2008 - Trip Report

I presented on GlassFish at Utah JUG yesterday, slides are available. The topic provided insight into GlassFish v2, the current production version, and GlassFish v3 - the upcoming modular, embeddable & extensible version. The slides have data on leading adoption indicators on how GlassFish momentum. There were close to 100 attendees and the list of sponsors is certainly impressive ;-)

Here are the list of demos:

• GlassFish v2
• GlassFish v2 Web services Development & Deployment
• GlassFish on Eclipse Ganymede
• Getting Started with GlassFish in IntelliJ
• GlassFish v3
• Rails & Grails Deployment - Tic Tac Toe
• Deploying OSGi bundles in v3
• Embeddable Servlet
• NetBeans Integration
• Eclipse Integration

There are very few developer meets where I've not met a Hudson (Extensible continuous integration engine) user. I had good conversation with some folks about some of the missing pieces around Hudson and will follow up with Kohsuke on that. I also got to meet Manfried Riem - the local Java Champion. And it was great to know that Allen Day (one of the UJUG board members) is already a GlassFish evangelist - see the first picture with GlassFish sticker on his laptop ;)


As mentioned, the new functionality in GlassFish v3 is undergoing review. Please send us feedback on dev@glassfish and more details here.

After all day back-to-back meetings, it was good unwinding at a concert in the Salt Lake City Downtown park - thanks to Harold (actually his wife who pointed us to the concert :) Andrew Bird was performing there and enjoy a short clip of his performance:


It's always good to meet colleagues and old friends!

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