GlassFish figures prominently in the IT infrastructure car maker PSA, which produces Peugeot and Citroën vehicles, where it is used in support of the company’s wide-ranging set of internal and external Java applications and as part of the company’s strategic use of open source, writes Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine. PSA’s production deployment of GlassFish follows a stringent evaluation and qualification process including setting up consolidated development environments leveraging the domain and node-agent architecture of GlassFish for an overall optimized utilization of GlassFish v2.1. The administration tools (both web console and the asadmin CLI) are key features here, the blogger adds.
Now the World’s Largest Purveyor of Open Source Software
With its acquisition of Sun, Oracle is now the world’s largest purveyor of open source software. However, as Ken Hess notes on the DaniWeb Forum Index, Oracle’s support didn’t start with its purchase of InnoDB, MySQL or Sun. The company has a history of supporting free and open source software and has done much for the FOSS community.
Datasheet Released on Latest Member of Oracle Fusion Middleware Portfolio
A new data sheet has been published for the renamed Oracle GlassFish Server. It begins by referencing it as the first implementation of the Java EE 6 specification built on the open source GlassFish Project. The three-page data sheet then mentions its complete commercial deployment support and availability as a standalone or packaged with other Oracle Fusion Middleware offerings. GlassFish Server is now part of the Oracle Fusion Middleware application grid portfolio.
Step-by-step instructions have been published for using the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System (release 2008.Q4) as a repository for the PostgreSQL database for the ADempiere open source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) application. Penned by Praneet Tiwani, the technical article provides all the configuration details as well as installation of ADempiere and test procedures.
Links to a Variety Resources on the Current Roadmap
The Jan. 27 Oracle presentation on its product strategy for integrating Sun hardware and software produced a lot of information on a variety of solutions and technologies. In this article, readers will find links and references from many different sources to help find material on their valued interests.
Sun BluePrints Reviews Hardware, Software Components and Studies Scalability of Architecture
Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0 with MySQL is a new reference architecture featuring Sun servers, Flash storage products, MySQL Enterprise Server, the Sun GlassFish Portfolio, the ZFS file system, and a choice of OpenSolaris, Solaris or Linux operating systems. A Sun BluePrints paper describes the hardware and software components of the reference architecture, studies the scalability of the architecture and includes step-by-step directions for setup and configuration.
Sun GlassFish Communications Server is a Java EE technology-based converged application server combining enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web services capabilities with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servlets. Version 2.0 is the latest version, offering SIP session replication, diameter support, rolling upgrade, 64-bit JVM support, multihome support and overload protection.
Information on GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans, VirtualBox Revealed
Sun GlassFish, OpenOffice.org, NetBeans and VirtualBox are a few of the Sun-related technologies whose futures’ Oracle recently addressed in an update on its frequently asked questions page regarding the proposed merger of the two companies. Oracle’s new statements on the above mentioned projects and others are summarized.
This five-part series by Mrudul Uchil, Kamna Jain and Rick Palkovic considers the virtue of using a standardized interface language in enterprise architecture in order to liberate the application that publishes a service from having to know anything at all about the calling application. The result of this practice makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) especially useful for both enterprise and inter-enterprise architectures, the authors contend in their introduction to the series.
