GlassFish v3 Prelude was released today. This release of GlassFish is using our new OSGi-based microkernel. You can read about its features in an InfoWorld article and in Jean-Francois' blog entry.

Metro 1.4 is part of this release. Metro 1.4 interoperates with Microsoft's Windows Communication Framework SOAP stack in .NET 3.5 based on Oasis and W3C standards (and with .NET 3.0 based on submission specifications).

REST support in GlassFish is provided by our Jersey implementation of the JAX-RS (JSR 311) specification. Paul's blog entry points out some useful starting points.

You can download GlassFish v3 Prelude here and here

We are developing Eclipse IDE support for GlassFish. Check out here and here for more info.

There is also a book (in progress) for GlassFish v3: GlassFish in Action by Masoud Kalali.

Finally, here are a TON of links:

Press release:

http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/index.jsp
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/pressreleases.jsp
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-11/sunflash.20081106.1.xml

Site:

http://www.sun.com/software/products/glassfishv3_prelude/index.xml
http://www.sun.com/software/products/glassfishv3_prelude/get.jsp (download page)

Announcement and videos on jsc/javaee and dsc/appserver:

http://java.sun.com/javaee/index.jsp
http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jsp
http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/whatsnew.jsp
http://java.sun.com/javaee/community/glassfish/ (under What's New)
http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/screencasts.jsp (new videos listed under GlassFish Videos)
http://developers.sun.com/appserver/index.jsp
http://developers.sun.com/appserver/downloads/index.jsp
http://developers.sun.com/appserver/overview/wn_archive.jsp
http://developers.sun.com/appserver/overview/screencasts/ (new videos listed under GlassFish Videos)
http://developers.sun.com/appserver/reference/index.jsp
http://developers.sun.com/appserver/reference/techart/index.jsp

Announcement and videos on SDN Program News blog:

http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/

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