How to Deploy a Secure Application with Protected Methods
Learn how to deploy a secure application with protected methods on Oracle-Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Version 3. Nithya Subramanian shows how to provide authentication credentials to the embedded server - a key new feature offered by this version of GlassFish - before invoking the protected methods in a recent blog entry.
New Supported Platforms, Components, Enhancements, and Add-on Packs Now Available
GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 2.2 now supports some of the latest platforms, like NetBeans IDE 6.7.1 and GlassFish Enterprise Server 2.1.1, plus it incorporates ten new GlassFish ESB components and multiple enhancements. GlassFish ESB is a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the Project Open ESB, the GlassFish application server, and the NetBeans IDE into a commercially supported, enterprise-class integration platform.
Enables Clustering via GlassFish Enterprise Server 
Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6.2 comes with some significant features, including clustering via GlassFish Enterprise Server to distribute processing across multiple servers. It also adds support for RESTful Web services, SWIFTReady 2009 certification and a number of platform-level enhancements. Java CAPS provides a standards-based, open, extensible platform for developing software infrastructures using a service-oriented architecture approach.
Making the Most of the Portofolio in Amazon EC2 
A Sun white paper sets out to explain how to maximize the Sun GlassFish Portfolio in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) public cloud environment, with a focus on running applications using the Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server in the EC2. The Sun GlassFish Portfolio is an open platform based on the Project GlassFish software, an open-source application server that implements Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE platform) technology.
Short Items of Interest for the Java Community
Webinar Examines the Benefits of the New GlassFish Release 
The webinar (55+ minutes) on GlassFish Web Stack 1.5 entitled “Turbo Charge Your AMP Deployments with GlassFish Web Stack,” presented by Jeff Trawick provides an overview and demo of the new Enterprise Manager in GlassFish Web Stack and instructs viewers in how to leverage the AMP/SAMP stack with their existing in-house GlassFish Enterprise Server deployments.
Increased Development Cycles up to 50%, Decreased TCO by about 50% for One Telecom
The Netherland’s third largest provider of fixed-telephony services, Pretium Telecom, wanted to simplify its service-oriented architecture (SOA), to speed up the development of a new VoIP offering and to minimize costs. After evaluating possible solutions from Sun, Apache and JBoss, Pretium Telecom and its IT vendor Yenlo concluded that replacing the current SOA Suite with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server could provide the required functionality in a smaller, more agile, open-standards–based framework.
VM Images for VirtualBox and VMware Platforms
A Virtual Machine Template for the GlassFish WebSpace Server is available. The template provides a new method of evaluating and deploying the GlassFish Web Space Server 10 product. “The template is a VM image containing an operating system, application server, database and GlassFish Web Space Server deployed in a headless server profile and lightly pre-configured for immediate evaluation and customization to suit your deployment needs,” explains Sun’s Gabor Puhalla.
