March 16: Roberto Chinnici, principal engineer, Java EE, will discuss Java EE 6.
March 30: Wim Coekaerts, VP Linux and VM Development, will discuss Oracle VM and VirtualBox integration. A demonstration is expected to be presented.
April 13: Steve Wilson, VP, Systems Management, will discuss Ops Center.
Tune in to The TechCast Show hosted by OTN Senior Director Justin Kestelyn at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on the dates listed above, and listen in live. Questions can also be posed via Twitter, Facebook, or the native chat offered.
Focuses on New Technologies, Usability Improvements
Sun Developer Network (SDN) staff writer Ed Ort has written a three-part article series introducing the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 6 platform. Released this December, Java EE 6 adds significant new technologies and extends the usability improvements made in previous Java EE releases. Ort’s review of the platform highlights some of these enhancements.
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.
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.
JRuby Libraries Plus GlassFish Equals a Great Combination
The Sun white paper “First Steps to Develop and Deploy Ruby on Rails Applications with GlassFish” explains how JRuby brings the power of the Java libraries to Rails applications while GlassFish brings the power, scalability, and ease of use of a mature Java EE application server to these applications. The white paper lists the steps one needs to get started through GUI, command line and NetBeans IDE with JRuby applications on GlassFish.
With Java-Based Reporting Solution from MCM Software Solutions
Retailer Ivan Smith Furniture found working with Sun to deploy a business-analytics solution generating real-time reports not only reduced the amount of time reports needed to run from minutes to seconds, but it also cut the business’ yearly licensing costs by more than $127,000 per year and provided a complete return on investment in less than two months.
“Using OpenSSO To Protect Java EE Applications, Part 1: Setting Up X.509 Client Authentication” by Bruno Bonfils and Rick Palkovic is the first part of a two-part tutorial that explains how to use OpenSSO to protect a Java EE application. The example it illustrates grants access — which requires authentication by a certificate — to part of an application. The authors assume that readers will already have deployed OpenSSO on GlassFish, JBoss or another application server. The choice of application server makes a difference, as described later in this article.
ADP Uses GlassFish in Both Development and Production Environments
When ADP, a leading HR, payroll, tax and benefits administration company, was asked to comment on its experience with Java EE and GlassFish, the result was the detailed questionnaire from which the following responses have been abstracted. The respondent for ADP was Frederic Venturini. Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine’s blog introduces the ADP response.
Find out About its Features, System Requirements, Supported Platforms/OSes, Licensing, Docs
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 is a high-performant, enterprise-ready Java EE 5 server with support for clustering and in-memory based high availability. Free for development, deployment, and re-distribution, GlassFish Enterprise Server is Sun’s commercial offering of the open source GlassFish application server and delivers additional platform support, many bug fixes, and re-branding from Sun Java System Application Server.
