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GlassFish Milestone 5 - Beta release

GlassFish Beta or Milestone 5 is offically available. The GlassFish community is building an open source application server implementing the Java EE 5 specifications. Milestone 5 implements the Public Final Draft version of all Java EE 5 specifications except EJB. The latest implementation of that specification will continue to be tracked in weekly builds of GlassFish.

Contributions from Sun, Oracle and individuals in the community have helped to make GlassFish Milestone 5 a great product to try out or learn the new technologies in the Java EE 5 platform. Tools support for GlassFish include a plugin for Eclipse available from the GlassFishPlugins project as well as native support in NetBeans 5.5. There are many blogs and tech tips ranging from how to get started with GlassFish to describing the latest technologies and how to use them. Also check out the frameworks and applications already running on GlassFish.

Sun uses the GlassFish builds to create the Sun Java System Application Sever PE 9.0 which is included as part of the Java EE 5 SDK. Both are available now for download.

GlassFish Plugin for Eclipse updated

GlassFish (Milestone 5) RC available

The Release Candidate, build 32g, for Milestone 5 (beta) of GlassFish is now available. We had to delay the bits because there were issues in the javadocs and when we did the respin we ran into some problems building due to the site outage. Now we think we have the right set of bits all from the beta branch and after some amount of testing seem good.

We think it is ready but let us know if you find major problems as we plan to close the beta branch next week.

GlassFish Tech Tips page and Q&A session

We're trying to make is easier for you to get detailed information about how to use the latest features in GlassFish.

There have been alot of really good blogs, articles and Tech Tips describing how to use the new Java EE 5 features in GlassFish . Many of the blogs have been posted on The Aquarium. There are so many in a week that we created a page in the GlassFish project where we archive what we think users will find interesting and useful. Most of the entries have been written or reviewed by the GlassFish team. If you find something we've missed let us know so we can add it.

Sometimes it's nice to ask a question and as it turns out every month Sun runs an Ask the Expert session where users can submit questions through email and get answers from the developers of a particular technology. There was one on GlassFish a few months back and next week there is a session featuring what is new in JWSDP 2.0. This is a popular program and a great opportunity for you to get the developers' attention. All questions and answers are archived on that same site.

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