JSR 289 went final less than a month back. And we have the first implementation of JSR 289 at alpha stage available now. SailFin V1 Alpha has been released. Though a major chunk of JSR 289 is already implemented, it is still not yet compliant with the final release of the specification.

Prasad has written a nice overview of the release. Check it out .

As a round up, here is the journey of SailFin via blogs.

• Sreeram Duvur : Launching Project SailFin more than an year back • Jan Luehe : Converged HTTP Sessions • Kshitiz Saxena : Converged Load Balancer • Yvo Bogers : Application Router • Vince Kraemer : Netbeans Tooling • Eltjo Boersma : Configuration • Yamini : CallFlow • Bhavani Shankar : Good Application Examples • Venu : Security/Digest Authentication • Me : At javaOne

And now, the Alpha has been released. It is likely to be much stabler, given the testing it has undergone already. Give it a whirl and give us feedback