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GlassFish BoF summary

The GlassFish BoF on Tuesday evening of JavaOne was well attended with lots of great questions. Jim, Amy and I gave a quick overview of GlassFish, where we are today, highlights on the community and roadmap with future directions. I have posted the slides here .

As I mentioned there were lots of questions during the 50 minute BoF and luckily there were many GlassFish developers, architects and spec leads available to answer all types of questions. I will summarize some of what was covered in case you didn't make it.

Question:Is it really production quality? Answer: yes. Remember GlassFish code was donated in by Sun (SJSAS 8.1) and Oracle (TopLink Essentials). Both products are used in production today. This question was also addresed on the quality alias for GlassFish with more details.

Question:Will clustering features will be added to GlassFish? Answer: Yes. See my previous blog for more information though details have not been worked out. Over the next couple of weeks there will be discussions on what features will be in GlassFish v2 and so the details will be flushed out then.

Question:Are there any books on Java EE 5? Answer: Still a bit early but I know of a few in the pipeline. However, there are many blogs, tech tips, articles which discuss the new features in Java EE 5. The server documentation is available online as well as the Java EE 5 tutorial.

Question:Why did the quality choose TestNG over JUnit for the unified test framwork? Answer: There was a discussion on the quality alias. More notes need to be published but that alias is the right place to get more info.

Question:Why use GlassFish or how do I talk to my management about switching? Answer: GlassFish is the first robust, commercial, compatible Java EE 5 implementation. It is free for development, deployment, and redistribution. You will find GlassFish support in both NetBeans and Eclipse. It has higher throughput, faster response time, and improved management features to streamline deployment, 30 percent faster startup time and web services performance increased by up to 5 times over SJSAS 8.x. There are several support options including $99 for Sun Developer Expert Assistance - See http://developers.sun.com/services/expertassistance/ Many more can be added to the list. We are creating a web page which summarizes the list more completely.

These are some of the questions that were asked that I remember. If I remember more I will update the blog.

Comments

• Question: Why use GlassFish or how do I talk to my management about switching? Answer:
  https://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/testing-junit-testng.pdf

  Posted by: lordy on May 30, 2006 at 11:22 PM

• Sorry, i copy the wrong question. Another try:

  Question: Why did the quality choose TestNG over JUnit for the unified test framwork? Answer:
  https://glassfish.dev.java.net/quality/testing-junit-testng.pdf

  Posted by: lordy on May 30, 2006 at 11:25 PM

• More reasons to use GlassFish:

  
  Great
  support for
  frameworks and applications
  
  Great
  blogs and
  forum support
  
  
  Very
  
  scalable
  
  Great
  
  security
  
  Great
  software service plans for
  production support
  
  Great
  free
  docs
  
  Great
  BluePrints, AJAX examples and
  samples
  
  Great
  
  migration tool support
  
  Free
  classes and
  
  online trainings
  
  Great
  
  administration console
  
  Great
  testimonials
  
  
  Great
  integrated Web services stack
  
  
  Great
  
  price/performance
  
  Free and open source!
  

  Posted by: ai109478 on June 01, 2006 at 10:21 AM

• You said:"Over the next couple of weeks there will be discussions on what features will be in GlassFish v2"
  Will the commiters just decide among themselves what features they want to implement (and how), or are you interested in feedback from the glassfish user community on what features users want, and ideas for implementing them?If you do want user community feedback, how do we participate in these discussions? Is there a forum or a URL you could provide?PS - thanks for such a great v1 product!

  Posted by: dave_clark on June 01, 2006 at 12:23 PM

• Hi dave_clark,
  We definately want feedback from the community. There are things that we think should be in the next release and we also want to hear what users think. We are in the process of figuring out the details of how to do this. Use existing aliases vs new aliases or forums. Suggestions? Let me know.

  Thanks,
  Carla

  Posted by: carlavmott on June 01, 2006 at 11:17 PM

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