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November 2005 Archives

Running GlassFish on Mac OS X

Yesterday I tried the latest Mac OS X build of GlassFish. I only tried a simple "hello world" application, and that worked fine but I had to hunt and peek a bit around to find how to do a few things, so read on for a somewhat detailed description of how to install and set-up GF and how to run that hello world WAR.

I've updated the community documentation at the Wiki to reflect these notes and will file an Issue item on a couple of problems that I believe are bugs. I will try installing some more interesting applications later in the week.

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Jerome is engineering lead for GF

Well, I tried to convince Abhijit not to do it, but he did go to the dark side of management... A sad day, except that Jerome Dochez is now the lead architect. Jerome and I first worked together in JavaBeans 1.0. Graham, me, and several others interviewed this guy with the french accent that knew COM inside and out. We made him an offer, he accepted and that was a good thing for Sun. He also turned out to also be a really funny guy. We finished the spec early then went together to Long Beach for an event, just across from Microsoft's PDC. The presentation went well, except that Jerome's presentation made mine look totally flat; I still have the tape of those presentations...

Jerome has been doing a number of things since JavaBeans 1.0, but I am very happy that he is now providing the engineering leadership in the GlassFish community.

What are your favorite public REST endpoints?

There are a number of Consumer Web Services in the internet, the eBays, Yahoos, Googles, etc. A number of these use a REST architecture. The JAX-WS 2.0 specification supports REST endpoints, and, with the good integration with JAXB 2.0, we expect a very good developer experience. We would like to collect some public REST endpoints so we can test the implementation (in the JAX-WS project in the GlassFish Community) and possibly also write a few samples.

What are your favorite public REST endpoints?

Thanks, - eduard/o

Free Support... for a while...

Sun has a new SDN program. This is a pilot program for developers using the Sun developer tools (Java Studio Creator, Sun Studio or Java Studio Enterprise) or core J2SE. The program is free for a limited time. You get free service and Sun gets to understand better the needs of its customers.

Check out the details of the pilot program at the web site.

And, btw, Java Studio Creator and Java Studio Enterprise are now free with your SDN subscription.

Ask-the-Expert on Project GlassFish

A quick heads-up that Jim, Carla and Amy are going to host an Ask the Experts session on Project GlassFish. Hopefully there will be follow-up sessions on specialized topics.

JavaPosse is neat...

Not too long ago I thought it would be neat to try an audioblog of Java News... Not a very original ideal perhaps, and it turns out that Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn and Dick Wall have been doing a very good job with The Java Posse. They carry a pretty good set of Java News and Interviews and are already in volume 11. Cool!

A pitty that my car does not have an MP3 player... maybe I'll have to finally break down and get one. Anybody knows of a good, not too expensive, solution for my Prius?

Looking for a great WS & XML Evangelist...

Thanks to everybody that applied for the engineering job openings in our group. We filled a number of the openings but we still have some in Prague so please contact me if you are interested in that location. My last attempt to fly to Prague was derailed at the eleventh hour, but everybody says it is a great place and at least one of our engineers is relocating there.

We have one new opening, this time for an evangelist on Web Services and XML. The work would include evangelizing the Project GlassFish technologies, which include Fast Infoset, JAXB 2.0 and JAX-WS 2.0 among other Java EE 5 technologies and the recently announced effort on interoperability with .Net.

More details are in the job posting. The location is listed as either Santa Clara, CA, or Burlington, MA, but there may be some flexibility.

Drop me an email if you are interested. The technologies are great, we want a super evangelist that will spread the word.

Glassfish to interoperate with .Net

The GlassFish Project is currently working on adding interoperability with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF, nee Indigo). The first press report I see is from InternetNews.

This initiative will be developed at GlassFish and will be using the same CDDL license that is used by the rest of GlassFish and other projects like OpenSolaris. As with other previous projects, it may take some time for the project to show in the public CVS repositories, although the lag time has been getting shorter. When it goes out, the effort it will be fully aligned with the rest of the WS and XMLM projects that are part of the JWSDP subcommunity of GlassFish.

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