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All open databases are equal in front of the developers community. This is the message launched by Baron Schwartz in his announcement of the first Open SQL Camp. After the last MySQL Users Conference, there were some talks of alternative conferences organized by the users for users. This is the first such event. It will be held in Charlottesville, VA, USA, November 14-16, 2008. |
Users, in the context of databases, especially open ones, means developers. Do you feel like hacking some database project? If your database of choice is open (MySQL, PostgreSQL, JavaDB, SQLite, Firebird), you may give the OpenSQLCamp a try!
As we are getting close to our GlassFish v3 Prelude launch, we are going to resume the GlassFish Online Partner Showcase program, catching up after the summer lull.
The May 7th Launch had an initial membership of 41 members, below are the additions since then
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• 3Tera - Applogic Grid OS
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Note - we have several more in the queue but, if yours does not show, send us a reminder (by email or using the contact form). And, new interested partners, please check the GF Partnership Form.
A compilation of today's news of interest:
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From Rajeev, a report on an OpenSSO WebStart Prototype done through embedding GlassFish v3. Just click and go! A big change from a couple of years ago when installing and starting Sun's Access Manager was such a big task! And, from SuperPat a report on OpenSSO Integration with JIRA, done by Alexey. From Arun, trip reports on the RailsConf Europe 2008 at Berlin, Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. The VirtualBox team has been very busy and they have Released VirtualBox 2.0 (Press Release). Check the Changelog and Download it. A change in this release is that, as with the strategy followed by the rest of our Open Source portfolio, VB 2.0 now has enterprise support. On the Storage side, a Press Release reporting that Sun's market share growth the last quarter grew almost 30% Y-to-Y (top in the industry). And this is w/o the OpenStorage systems getting readied, see ComputerWorld and NYTimes. And a very warm welcome back to Lew Tucker. Lew was in the original JavaSoft group and we overlapped briefly there. Sun has quite an open door policy to people who left (and bring back fresh experiences from outside). We even have coined a term for them: Boomerangs :-). |
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The vast majority of Tomcat applications ran fin on GlassFish. Jan tell us that now even the ones using the Tomcat-style valves will run unmodified.
Of at
The ServerSide
Pawan explains
How to use OpenMQ with Mule ESB by configuring the Mule JMS connector.
Added (by pelegri) - I've heard of a number of requests for this,
please let us know if you use the combination so we can track
OpenMQ LayeredTech announced free GlassFish hosting for Sun Startup Essentials™ Program participants. CrazyRails has a post on how to install JRuby on Rails on Mac, including GlassFish and MySQL setup. More GlassFish coverage is promised. |
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Binod and Sivakumar have been driving the work on JSR 322: JavaTM EE Connector Architecture 1.6, a lesser-advertised but quite important part of the forthcoming Java EE 6 standard. The overall goal is to strengthen the existing 1.5 version of the specification. More details are available in this entry by Siva. It includes Generic Inflow Context, Security Inflow, some Ease of Development, and more. Comments on the Early Draft are accepted for a few more days, until September 8th (in case you're looking for something to read this week-end! :). |
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Jean-Francois started
Grizzly
(Grizzly The Project Roadmap lists 1.8.2 as the latest release before switching to 2.0, but JFA indicates in his Companion Note that there will be a 1.9 that will include support for NIO2; I'll confirm. I'll also double check that the plan for GFv3.final is to include Grizzly 2.0. |
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We just launched Mural, our Open Source MDM (Master Data Management) project but Forrester's latest Wave Report already says: "Sun Microsystems debuted in the top slot among Strong Performers with solid data deduplication, architecture, and open-source options". |
An MDM system allows a single, consolidated, presentation from multiple data sources. Mural brings the experience from JavaCAPS, and adds OpenSource and the benefits of bundling GlassFish Server and MySQL to the mix. I need to write some spotlights on Mural, stay tuned.
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Benefits of project WebSynergy, Satya reports that Portal Pack (for NetBeans) Now Supports Liferay. From Bangalore a report by Vasudha on a Large Attendance on Vasundha's Presentation on GlassFish. Use of GlassFish in India started slow but it has been accelerating very rapidly recently; we see it in download numbers and also in registrations - India is the country with the 4th largest representation, over 10% of the 184K registrations this year. Hudson continues to gather adoption and advocates. ThinkVitamin reports on Automated Testing with Hudson and Selenium, and the WSJ SOA Reader's Choice on Automation Tool Poll has Hudson winning handly - but don't hesitate to Add your Vote. Ken was interviewed by OStatic on GlassFish; check out his interview; and don't forget the OStatic Free Hosting Offer. More BDays... this time is the 5th Anniversary of DTrace! And, under the And Now for Something Completely Different, check out the Hadron Collider Rap!
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Dick has a detailed post on "LAMP stack on GlassFish" which really focused on Caucho's Quercus PHP runtime inside GlassFish to execute Wordpress (with MySQL as the back-end obviously). The post provides database setup details and prefers standalone WAR files (carying along Quercus). Sébastien focuses on Joomla on GlassFish but prefers the PHP/JavaBridge route even if it requires more configuration steps including a native PHP installation. |
In JRuby on Rails land, Jacob has a two-part series on how to make the GlassFish jRubyOnRails runtime pooling more effective and the AI-logic available to other scripting technologies hosted in GlassFish as well.
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The MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2009 has open its Call for Papers. The past edition had close to 2,000 participants, and the next one shouldn't be any poorer. The theme for the next conference is Innovation Everywhere. After being a earthquake in the business world with the acquisition by Sun, MySQL continues its course towards innovation, by pursuing new users, new markets, new needs with continuous innovation. |
A novelty, compared to past edition, is an embedded MySQLCamp within the conference. It will be an open space, driven and organized by the community, oriented to developers and advanced users.
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One of our favorite TV series (with great replay value) is Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie; the beauty of DVDs and Internets, one can keep with TV around the world, even in a no-broadcast TV family! Anyhow, turns out Stephen Fry is an OSS fan and has helped put together a video wishing Happy 25 Birthday to GNU (and Stallman). Check it out Here. You can also download the recording; note you will need a Ogg player. Thanks to Barton for the Tip, and if you want another recommendation for a great non-US TV series, check out Slings and Arrows. |
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Congratulations! You have MySQL and Glassfish in your server. Now what? If you have asked yourself this question before, perhaps you did not have the right stimulus to continue. Indeed, what can you do with the most popular open source database and the most advanced application server? People providing a practical answer to the above question may be handsomely rewarded. If you have the answer yourself, rush to participate to the MySQL-Glassfish student contest. The contest requires GFv2 UR2 and MySQL 5.1. Make sure to read the contest rules before applying. |
Of course, you may have a better idea, and create a killer application that will make you rich and famous overnight. No objections to your plan either. If you do, and thus consider the competition utterly superfluous, just drop us a line. We will appreciate it.
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The biggest (technical) news of the day is the Google announcement of a WebKit-based Chrome browser (Blog, Cartoon). I have mixed feelings about this; competition is usually good for users/consumers, but I like that FireFox is an independent party, generating things like Ubiquity and Smart Location-Bar... From the OpenPortal folks, WSRP Consumer in Liferay (it was already in WebSynergy) and progress on the NetBeans 6.5 Portal Pack. From Eamonn, a description of the JMX Event Service in JDK 7 Snapthots, including things like more flexible notifications and the ability to use additional transports. Eamonn and Shanliang are asking for feedback on the design. And from Steve and update on the next phase in the xVM Server Early Access.
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Carol had previously (in July) posted an example of a SlideShow Using Comet; now she and Rick have a refined and expanded version where they provide more details, including screenshots, and also have modified the implemetantation so they NetBeans for development, MySQL and JPA for data presistence, Grizzly for Comet support, Jersey (JAX-RS) for the REST end-points, and GlassFish Server for the App. |
Looks very useful; check it out at
RESTful Web Services and Comet.
More information also at
Comet
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Jersey and
Grizzly.
I'm biased, but I think it is really cool that examples like this can be ran in a totally open source stack, and you can also buy commercial support for it. We surely Are Not in Kansas Anymore!
Added - I am republishing this today since yesterday I had posted it into the past by mistake.
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GlassFish is swimming to various places in the next few weeks:
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Topics covered in those events range from GlassFish v2 and v3, Rails and other dynamic languages in GlassFish, Hudson, Web Services, and more. Please come by even to simply to say hello. We love to hear about how GlassFish and friends are being used around the globe!
I've updated the "Events" sections of the wiki and TheAquarium (this page).
