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Productizing Open Source - The GlassFish Approach: A description of how Sun productizes the GlassFish AppServer.
Posted by pelegri on August 31, 2007 at 12:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

OpenSourcing Java and Language Design...: OpenSourcing the Java Platform may re-energize language design
Posted by pelegri on November 16, 2006 at 10:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Reference Implementations and Production Quality Implementations:
Posted by pelegri on June 13, 2006 at 09:58 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JavaOne Recommendations for GlassFish Fans...:
Posted by pelegri on May 12, 2006 at 13:50 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

First 5 months of TheAquarium - Reporting on GlassFish and more...: A status report on the first 5 months of TheAquarium, a News Blog covering the GlassFish Community.
Posted by pelegri on April 30, 2006 at 11:58 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Java EE 5 and GlassFish are Community Efforts: This is a multi-release morning: the Beta for the SDK for Java EE 5 and the Technology Preview for NB 5.5 Enterprise Pack. A big step for the Java EE platform, GlassFish, the tools, and the communities that power them.
Posted by pelegri on February 21, 2006 at 13:13 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Time Zones Don't Matter in the BlogSphere: Each communication media has a style of use. Email is not a very good match for widely separated Time Zones; Blogs are.
Posted by pelegri on February 19, 2006 at 23:18 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The Aquarium - The First Month: December was our first month at The Aquarium, so time for a quick retrospective. So far, it is going really well...
Posted by pelegri on January 02, 2006 at 05:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Calling for GlassFish Screencasts: I would like to set a repository of screencasts for the GlassFish community. Let me know if you have a contribution to make.
Posted by pelegri on December 07, 2005 at 12:20 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

Java EE 5 and GlassFish pages at Java.Sun.Com: There are new pages for Java EE 5 and the GlassFish community at Java.Sun.Com.
Posted by pelegri on December 06, 2005 at 14:33 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Java EE 5 specifications in PFD: The GlassFish Community is implementing the Java EE 5 specifications. Almost all those specifications are now in the Proposed Final Draft stage, which means they are done, except for fixing substantial problems. Here is a list of pointers to the specification documents...
Posted by pelegri on December 04, 2005 at 13:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The Aquarium: News from the GlassFish Community: We have started a new blog to highlight interesting news from the GlassFish Community.
Posted by pelegri on December 01, 2005 at 21:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Running GlassFish on Mac OS X: How to run the latest GlassFish build (b28) on Mac OS X
Posted by pelegri on November 26, 2005 at 18:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Jerome is engineering lead for GF: Jerome Dochez is the new engineering lead for GlassFish
Posted by pelegri on November 22, 2005 at 15:58 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

What are your favorite public REST endpoints?: One of the new features of JAX-WS 2.0 is its support for REST endpoints. We want to test the implementation and write some demos. What are your favorite public REST endpoints?
Posted by pelegri on November 18, 2005 at 10:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Free Support... for a while...: Sun has a pilot program to provide support for their tools. In exchange for helping Sun understand the needs of its potential customes, the service is free for a limited time...
Posted by pelegri on November 15, 2005 at 17:16 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Ask-the-Expert on Project GlassFish: Jim, Carla and Amy will host a (first) Ask-the-Experts session at java.sun.com next week.
Posted by pelegri on November 10, 2005 at 22:58 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JavaPosse is neat...: Audioblogs of Java News and Interviews
Posted by pelegri on November 08, 2005 at 21:14 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Looking for a great WS & XML Evangelist...: We have an opening for a great WS and XML evangelist to work on project GlassFish and related technologies...
Posted by pelegri on November 06, 2005 at 17:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Glassfish to interoperate with .Net: A new initiative in Project GlassFish for WS interoperability with .Net
Posted by pelegri on November 04, 2005 at 09:51 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Openings in the WS and XML group available now: The Web Services and XML group at Sun has several very interesting jobs available now in several geographic locations
Posted by pelegri on August 02, 2005 at 20:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (9)  

My Favorite Heroes of JavaOne: My favorite heroes of each JavaOne are the Duarte folks. They are behind the scenes but they have saved me time and time again doing those last minute changes to my presentation.
Posted by pelegri on June 30, 2005 at 11:49 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Note for J1'06: BOFs and After Dark do not mix...: We were one of the BOFs that overlapped with the After Dark activities tonight... Guess where tired attendees went ... :-)
Posted by pelegri on June 29, 2005 at 22:14 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

MTOM interop working...: Rajiv tells me that last night we got MTOM interop between the Indigo beta RC and the JAX-WS 2.0 EA2 builds. Check TS-9866 this afternoon.
Posted by pelegri on June 29, 2005 at 11:14 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

The WS Stack from Java.Net: Kohsuke, Kirill and I are doing a BOF tomorrow on the JWSDP community tomorrow. Drop by if you want to hear more about TWX, JAXB-workshop, or ask questions about the community in general.
Posted by pelegri on June 28, 2005 at 16:02 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

My TS spotlight for Tuesday - FI and iStack TS: A recommendation for two Technical Sessions on Tuesday that are based on Java.Net projects in Java WS and XML Community: TS-7187 - Fast Infoset - and TS-3477 - the iStack implementation.
Posted by pelegri on June 27, 2005 at 23:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JavaOne sessions: Projects from WS & XML Community: A list of the Technical Sessions and BOFs that are directly related to projects in the WS and XML community at JavaOne
Posted by pelegri on June 27, 2005 at 20:27 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JWSDP components, GlassFish and CDDL: The JWSDP projects include the WS and XML components in GlassFish, and, since GlassFish will be available under CDDL, so will our projects.
Posted by pelegri on June 27, 2005 at 00:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

You can try FastInfoset with JAX-RPC: The just released JWSDP 1.6 includes a version of JAX-RPC 1.1 that supports the FastInfoset standard. Our internal benchmarks show very nice improvements but it would be nice to know how it works for you...
Posted by pelegri on June 26, 2005 at 12:58 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JWSDP 1.6 is now available: There is a new JavaOne around the corner so there should be a new JWSDP release and... here it is. This one includes Fast Infoset and Sun's Service Registry.
Posted by pelegri on June 25, 2005 at 13:03 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Developers page for JWSDP: The heart of any developer community are its developers, and the developers page for the JWSDP community will try to highlight them. I just added a few names preparing for JavaOne
Posted by pelegri on June 25, 2005 at 12:41 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Sun's Service Registry announced: Sun announced it Service Registry. This is based on the freebXML Registry project and will be in the forthcoming JWSDP 1.6.
Posted by pelegri on June 17, 2005 at 13:16 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JAXP Builds now available: Buids for JAXP 1.3 (in GlassFish) and JAXP 1.4 (in Mustang) are now available.
Posted by pelegri on June 15, 2005 at 17:50 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

One last WS/XML summer intern slot: Our group just received a summer intern slot in the area of WS and RSS.
Posted by pelegri on June 15, 2005 at 09:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JAXP 1.4 at Java.Net: JAXP 1.4 is the version of JAXP for Mustang. The CVS repository for JAXP 1.4 is now at Java.Net and it includes a high performance implementation of StAX
Posted by pelegri on June 13, 2005 at 00:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JWSDP now also in GlassFish!: Many of the projects in the JWSDP community have multiple lives and are available individually, in the JWSDP bundle, and in many other artifacts. The latest one is the new GlassFish project.
Posted by pelegri on June 08, 2005 at 06:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

BeanShell JSR - yeah!: Pat Niemeyer has submitted a JSR for standarizing the BeanShell.
Posted by pelegri on May 24, 2005 at 17:25 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Revamped JWSDP Developer home page: I have revamped the JWSDP developer's home page at Java.Net.
Posted by pelegri on April 18, 2005 at 22:00 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JAXB 2.0 and JAX-RPC 2.0 EA binaries...: The binaries for the Early Access of JAXB 2.0 and JAX-RPC 2.0 are out
Posted by pelegri on April 07, 2005 at 21:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

JAX-RPC 2.0 ED 3 is out!: The Early Draft 3 of JAX-RPC 2.0 is out.
Posted by pelegri on April 05, 2005 at 16:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Help produce great JAXB/JAX-RPC 2.0 Specs: The quality of a Java spec critically depends on the community feedback. The Early Access for the JAXB 2.0 and JAX-RPC 2.0 specs will be out very soon; that will be a great opportunity for your feedback on these two specs.
Posted by pelegri on April 05, 2005 at 10:00 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JAXP 1.3 sources now at Java.Net!: The JAXP team just posted the sources for JAXP 1.3 to Java.net -- and here is a nutshell summary of what's new in JAXP 1.3...
Posted by pelegri on April 01, 2005 at 00:05 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Want to help create JAX-WSA?: Arun is looking for a couple of good members for the JAX-WSA expert group. Specially from smaller companies and expert individuals.
Posted by pelegri on March 10, 2005 at 21:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

How to use quotes in comments to blogs: The software that handles comments to blogs does not like quotes. Use the HTML entities instead...
Posted by pelegri on March 07, 2005 at 11:15 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

The Javadocs are coming - and that's good!: The Javadocs for JAXB 2.0 and for J2SE 6.0 are now available at Java.Net, and others will follow. Releasing the javadocs of these, ongoing specifications is "a (very) good thing" (tm)
Posted by pelegri on March 06, 2005 at 21:06 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Mailing List or Web Forum? - Have Both!: The version of Jive forums that is used in Java.Net supports "watches" that let you easily follow Forums by email
Posted by pelegri on March 06, 2005 at 08:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Moore's Law and Binary XML: Moore's Law will not remove the market's need for Binary XML, here is why...
Posted by pelegri on March 03, 2005 at 23:16 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JDJ 2004 Reader's Choice - interpreting poll results...: The Java Developer's Journal is holding their 2004 Readers' Choice vote. The result, as in previous years, will depend highly on what sites are advertising the vote.
Posted by pelegri on February 24, 2005 at 22:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Indigo and Binary XML: Yesterday I attended Indigo Day in San Francisco. Microsoft is putting together a good WS platform, and it includes their version of binary XML.
Posted by pelegri on February 09, 2005 at 23:24 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Preview of next Draft of JAX-RPC/JAXB 2.0: Arun has posted a Technology Preview for the next draft of JAX-RPC 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 to encourage the developer community to provide feedback on these two very important specifications
Posted by pelegri on January 31, 2005 at 22:27 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

JWSDP 1.5 Chat at Java.Net: Attend the chat on JWSDP tomorrow, Tuesday, Jan 25th, with your questions on the JWSDP 1.5.
Posted by pelegri on January 24, 2005 at 13:31 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Summer Intern Positions available: We have two summer intern openings and we are looking for strong candidates.
Posted by pelegri on January 13, 2005 at 23:23 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

WS and XML Sessions at JavaOne '05?: I think Pierre Delisle's blog is a very good idea. So, for you in the Web Services and XML neck of the Java woods... what do you want to hear at J1'05?
Posted by pelegri on January 11, 2005 at 17:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

The FI Project - An Open Source Implementation of a Binary XML Standard: Sun has released under Open Source its implementation of Fast Infoset, an in-progress standard for Binary XML. Fast Infoset is simple to use and to integrate; you can think of it as GZIP for XML. This implementation is intended to be a high quality implementation to be used in production artifacts and we hope it will encourage wide adoption of the standard.
Posted by pelegri on January 06, 2005 at 01:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Yes, I like my Prius: It seems that at least once a week somebody stops me and asks me if I like our new Prius. Yes, I do... and read the entry for more details
Posted by pelegri on December 27, 2004 at 22:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

You should know about JavaOne Online: Do you know about JavaOne Online? It has all the J1 sessions from '02, '03 and '04, including some that were not presented at J1, plus webinars and extra presentations. And there is a JWSDP 1.5 webinar tomorrow! (Wed Dec 15th)
Posted by pelegri on December 14, 2004 at 12:02 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

What are the JRL and the JDL licenses?: The JDL is a new license from Sun that is being used in some JCP-related projects. It complements the existing JRL license.
Posted by pelegri on December 13, 2004 at 08:00 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JAX-RPC and JAXB now under the new JDL!: The Reference Implementations of JAXB and JAX-RPC are now available under a brand-new license that allows commercial deployment: JDL - the Java Distribution License.
Posted by pelegri on December 09, 2004 at 23:11 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

JSR for JAX-WSA just filed: JSR-261 is a Java Specification Request for JAX-WSA: Java API for XML-based Web Services Addressing
Posted by pelegri on December 01, 2004 at 17:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

JWSDP 1.5 is out!: JWSDP 1.5 was released today. It includes an EA version of Sun's implementation of StAX and an FCS Implementation of XML Web Services Security.
Posted by pelegri on November 11, 2004 at 22:08 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

RSS and us: Did you know that the announcements for every project at Java.Net is available as an RSS feed? Did you know we have several cool RSS-based projects at Java.Net? I just finished a pass to take advantage of the feed mechanism in the home page of the Java WS & XML community, and started a few Wiki pages to advertise our projects...
Posted by pelegri on November 09, 2004 at 23:25 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Using JAXP 1.3; even in older JVMs!: JAXP 1.3 is the latest release of the Java API for XML processing and it is part of Tiger. Tiger is great, but, what do you do if you can't switch to Tiger right away?
Posted by pelegri on October 19, 2004 at 22:34 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

Want to help lead the WS & XML Community at Java.Net?: We are looking for a couple of additional people to rotate into the management team for the Java Web Services and XML community at Java.Net
Posted by pelegri on October 15, 2004 at 16:37 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JWSDP 1.4 is out!: The JWSDP 1.4 was announced a month ago, but it is now finally out! It includes what I mentioned then, and a few other goodies too!
Posted by pelegri on June 24, 2004 at 23:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

JAXB 2.0 and JAX-RPC 2.0 EA specs are out: The EA versions of JAX-RPC 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 specs are now available.
Posted by pelegri on June 23, 2004 at 11:03 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

You should know about the J2EE SDK...: I'm still surprised at how many people are confused about Sun's J2EE 1.4 SDK. For example, did you know it is free? Really free, even for deployment?
Posted by pelegri on June 13, 2004 at 13:32 PST | Permalink | Discuss (17)  

Tiger Snapshots: bringing early feedback into the release cycle...: Mark Reinhold has just announced that Tiger snapshots are now available. Check them out. I'm very happy that we are seing more and more products from Sun following this early access approach; this can just improve the quality of the products.
Posted by pelegri on June 12, 2004 at 14:55 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Technical Forum on Web and XML -- Call for topics and speakers: I am going to moderate a technical forum on Web and XML technologies. Do you have suggestions for topics and / or speakers?
Posted by pelegri on June 04, 2004 at 10:45 PST | Permalink | Discuss (11)  

Simple, Fast, no-Loss binary XML - Fast Infoset: What can you do if you would want to use XML but you are having performance problems? Binary encodings have been proposed and investigated for a while but they have yet to gain real adoption. Here is a proposed standard that delivers substantial performance benefits without losing the benefits of XML. Think of it as an improved GZIPed XML...
Posted by pelegri on June 04, 2004 at 08:13 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

What is in JWSDP 1.4...: Sun has announced that it will release JWSDP 1.4 in the very near future. New features in this release include support for additional containers and support for two key news specs: BP 1.1 with Attachements Profile 1.0 from WS-I and Web Services Security from OASIS. Stay tuned to this channel for the actual release of the bits.
Posted by pelegri on May 27, 2004 at 14:03 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Community Spring Cleaning: Our one year anniversary is almost here, which was a good excuse to do a (late) spring cleaning through the projects in the Java WS & XML community. Here is a report and a call for suggestions on future activities.
Posted by pelegri on May 22, 2004 at 13:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (7)  

Getting to know each other: Part of being a community is to know something about each other. This is a call to members in the Java WS and XML community to create entries in the Java.Net people Wiki.
Posted by pelegri on April 21, 2004 at 17:36 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Total Cost of Development and Developer Communities: Developer Communities address very effectiively some important contributors to the Total Cost of Development.
Posted by pelegri on April 17, 2004 at 09:48 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Distance in the Internet... Time Zones and Geos: What does it mean to be "far away" in the internet? My experience is that distance in the internet is more a function of time zones than of geography. When the time zones distance is big enough, email exchanges take days and teleconferences and IM don't work. So, what works?
Posted by pelegri on August 25, 2003 at 10:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Java.Net for non-English speakers - a Call for Action...: Java.net fills a need for many non-US developers. Please help us make Java.Net useful to non-English speaking developers.
Posted by pelegri on June 13, 2003 at 16:10 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)