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The official JavaOne messages are the Press Releases and GlassFish shows up in a couple from Oracle: Open Source Community and Java Platform but I wanted to highlight some other interesting stories that came up this week.

Sunday

The afternoon started with the Community Event/BOF/Unconference, and, IMVHO, attendance totally rocked: it was SRO and people stayed for 2 hours.  Many folks in production with GlassFish 2 and with GlassFish 3.  Plenty of energy, we presented an updated roadmap (I'll let you know when slides are available), discussed how to move past Java EE 6 and virtualization and cloud requirements, and showed demos from GlassFishVideos and from Johan's RedFX.

No GlassFish during Larry's Sunday keynote on the Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, but the progression/funnel GlassFish -> WebLogic Server/Application Grid -> Exalogic is one of the many ways in which Oracle benefits from GlassFish.

The evening ended with our GlassFish party; we didn't have the Black Eyed Peas, but everybody had a great time.  During the party we made some progress on few topics and started some others.  Two areas I can point to are:

JRuby - tweet and forum post

and

Hub City - tweet and web site

More on these (and others) in the future.

Monday

Plenty of references to GlassFish in the Monday Keynote.

It was very gratifying, from Thomas Kurian's mentions, to Mike Lehmann's demo and t-shirt, and BioWare use of GlassFish. See our Earlier Report for more details.

Tuesday

Tuesday was the formal BOF with the GlassFish Product Managers (AdamL and JohnC).  Good bi-directional Q&A.  At the end I handed out GlassFish Community Posters (20'x30') as treats to get people to tell us stories about GlassFish.  Probably the most interesting testimonial was

ESPN - they run pretty much all of ESPN.com on GlassFish, including the major league baseball, and march madness.  They can easily get 1 to 2 M requests a day on a single GlassFish.

Needless to say, their architect got a poster.  Ah! we also handed out the GlassFish 5th anniversary shirts; I was left only with XL and S, which disappeared back in SCA 22 on Friday.

And More?

I'm sure I missed some stories; post as comments and I'll update this entry.  And when the incipient leads convert into real stories, I'll report on them.

All-in-all, a solid JavaOne for GlassFish; I hope it will help convince people that Oracle is really committed to GlassFish... because it makes business sense for Oracle to do so.

Here are some tips that have been recently published on Java EE 6 & GlassFish:

Tips
• TOTD #144: CDI @Produces for container-managed @Resource (Arun Gupta)
• SailFin CAFE: Preview Release now available (Binod PG)
• Security annotations support in Sailfin CAFE  (Venu Gopal)
• Changing Glassfish EJB Timer from embedded Derby to Oracle
• GlassFish Server Open Source Edition 3.1: Milestone 5 tonight (Jane Young)
• How to enable debug mode in GlassFish v3? (actually 3.1)
• Command output guidelines for asadmin subcommands (for 3.1)
• JDK7: Java vendor property changes  (Kelly O'Hair)

Testimonials
• GlassFish server v3, the first J2EE compliant server!

JavaOne
• Java EE 6 Twitter Demo @ JavaOne 2010 Technical General Session Keynote (Arun Gupta)
• S313522: Instructions for OSGi-enabled Java EE Applications Hands-on Lab at JavaOne 2010 (Arun)
• Bistro!: Beginning Java EE 6 Hands-On Lab from JavaOne 2010 - for S313277 (Alexis)

Other
• Java EE 6 & GlassFish workshop delivered at San Francisco JUG - Slides & Demos available (Arun)

Let us know if you have seen or published a detailed tip like shown above and we'll be happy to share them.

JavaOne has been an opportunity for Oracle to recommit publicly to GlassFish. We presented the roadmap initially in March but repetition, some more details, and the bigger pulpit will spread the message more widely.

The most visible messages came Monday afternoon, during Thomas Kurian's JavaOne keynote, where GlassFish showed up multiple times. Thomas brought up GlassFish first in the context of Java EE 6, talking about the improvements to productivity, then in the adoption gains (9M d/l last year, more downloads than the year before), and then, again, in the context of Oracle's commitment to keeping GlassFish Open Source. Some of this was expected, although the number of mentions was a pleasant surprise.

Next was the first JavaEE-related demo, where Mike Lehmann showed developer productivity and modularity using NetBeans and GlassFish, while wearing our Special Edition GlassFish T-Shirt. In one of the demos he started with the Java EE full-profile, then reduced it, on-stage, to the Web profile. Demos are certainly much easier with a lightweight product like GlassFish.

The second JavaEE demo from the keynote was by Dave Moore from BioWare. He showed a trailer of Star Wars - The Old Republic and, among others, he mentioned that GlassFish played a key role in the back-end.  Very nice!

Other official messages came during the BOFs and Technical Sesions, including:

• The next version of WebLogic Server will be using HK2's kernel (only believe code? here it is!)

• GlassFish and WebLogic Server are increasing their component sharing components, in both directions - for example features from WLS's WS stack are being added to Metro, and improvements to JSF from JDeveloper and ADF.

Oracle also reaffirmed the GlassFish roadmap, including...

• Release of GlassFish 3.1 MS5 (aka build 20 - see map), the feature-complete milestone for 3.1 - including clustering and HA support.

• Positioning between GlassFish and WebLogic Server - no "departmental" tag line

I'll let you know when the slides for the community event are available

I hope the renewed commitments address misconceptions about GlassFish. The two most common false statements are "There will not be HA in GlassFish 3" and "You can't go production with the OSS version of GlassFish". Both are false.  Repeat after me... false :-)