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April 2006 Archives

GlassFish Community - Join us at JavaOne

Below, I've listed just a few of the GlassFish related activities at JavaOne. Note the time change for the GlasFish reception.

TS-3274 Project GlassFishSM : Developing the Java™ EE SDK. This session covers the projects around GlassFish, the technical architecture of the open source application server, how users can use and extend GlassFish, demos of ongoing projects and discuss possible future directions.

BOF-0251 - GlassFish - Where we are today and where we are going. Just one year after we open sourced the application server and alot has happened. Amy and I will talk about some of the things that happened over the year. We will discuss the highlevel roadmap for the next couple of releases of GlassFish and present how you can participate in the exciting efforts coming up. This BoF is scheduled for Tuesday eveing 8:30 to 9:25.

GlassFish reception - Note TIME CHANGE. The reception has been rescheduled for Wed May 18th 5pm to 7pm at the Argent Hotel. This is a combined event with the Java by the Bay user group and will include short talks on Java EE 5, AJAX and GlassFish Community introductions and awards with plenty of time to meet other community members.

For a list of GlassFish activities at JavaOne see our wiki page, http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Projects/GlassFishAtJavaOne. We're still updating the page so check often.

GlassFish BoF and reception at JavaOne

The GlassFish BoF (BOF-0251) is Tuesday evening at 8:30. We'll talk about where we are today, some of the new things we're planning for GlassFish in the coming months and a highlevel roadmap of upcoming releases. Learn how you can participate in GlassFish.next and GlassFish.next.next. Join us in discussing some of the features we're thinking about and give us feedback. Let us know what is working well in the community and also what we can do to improve.

Also just come hang out. Here's an opportunity for members of the GlassFish community to get to know each other and have some fun. During the reception we'll make a few introductions and then recognize some of members who have made contributions to GlassFish. Join us on Wed May 17, 6-8 pm at the Argent Hotel the beer is on us.

GlassFish Java Persistence API download bundle

The implementation of the Java Persistence API has been availale in GlassFish for quite some time. Last week the GlassFish team made available separate Java Persistence API standalone bundle. This is useful for users who want to use Java Persistence but don't want to have to use the EJB container.

Previously out-of-container users had to download GlassFish and extract the required jar files. Now all users need to do is to download the implementation of the Java Persistence API bundle, unzip and they are ready to go. The implementation is feature complete though not yet final so expect weekly builds with bug fixes.

The Tech Tips and Blogs page has pointers to several useful articles and blogs on Java Persistence.

GlassFish distribution license - clarified

I wanted to try and clear up some misunderstandings about exactly what license applies to the binary distributions of GlassFish.

The majority of the GlassFish code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) v1.0 and that applies to source code as well as the binary format. There are components which are open source products under different licenses such as Apache and those components are distributed under their respective license. Finally, there are a few components in GlassFish for which the source is not available and those (and ONLY those) components are covered under Sun's binary license.

Confused? We are doing two things to help clarify things. We have created a wiki which lists each component and the license which covers it. Second, we are working to make the source code available for all components such that Sun's binary license is no longer needed.

Still confused? Ask me below.

GlassFish bug filing contest

There was no winner on the GlassFish bug filing contest. There were alot of bugs filed and many would have been really good candidates but no one submitted a bug id to the contest alias so I could not consider them. That's what the rules said...

Well, this means that I still have an iPod to give away and I do want to give it away. My current thinking is to give it away at JavaOne. We are in the process of planning a GlassFish reception on Wed evening and so will try to think of a give away for that. Stay tuned for details on GlassFish activities at JavaOne.

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