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Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:36:24 -0800
Waiting for Godot, Migrating to JavaEE 6, and Other Highlights from Nov 21th, 2009

Today is Nov 21th, 2009 .

News shorts of interest to our communit ies, including:
New date for EU review of Oracle/Sun acquisition, getting closer to v3 fcs, new OpenESB and OpenDS releases, Devoxx whiteboards, new customers and japanese event, and more.

Waiting for Godot
I read Waiting for Godot for HS, but I didn ' t expect to live it...

E.U. Takes More Time to Review Oracle-Sun Deal

On the Road to GlassFish v3
We are getting very close. The buzz around JavaEE 6 and GFv3 at #devoxx was very positive; some more links:

Migrating your Apps to JavaEE 6 (Wouter van Reeven)
Adam Bien on
- Adoption of EJB and JavaEE , Ready for Production and ... (it is) a massive rewrite.
- Also see Adam ' s JavaEE Patterns and Best Practices @ Kenai , all based on GF.

New Releases
Final and Release Candidates releases:

OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available
DSEE 7 Download, Documentation and Upgrade Guide Available Today
JavaCAPS 6.2 is now available ( ontherecord , webpage ) - Based on GlassFish 2.1p2 and OpenESB 2.1
Fuji (OpenESB v3) Milestone 9 is now available - ( Mark ' s note , Wiki page ).

More Devoxx
Devoxx is over. By all accounts, a successful show.

Devoxx 2009 picassa album ... with
- Whiteboard pics - JVM , CI Tool , Persistence Layer , Build Tool , UI Framework
- Hudson #1 in CI (113); next are TeamCity (31) and CruiseControl (30).
Notes on Mark ' s jigsaw prezo (from Reinier Zwitserloot)

GlassFish Customers and Events
New customers; new events

Mapion Co. Ltd, in Japan ( chhandomay , customers ) - Using GlassFish Enterprise Server, MySQL Cluster and more.
Health Sciences South Carolina ( ontherecord ) - Using JavaCAPS 6 including GlassFish ESB, MDM, HL7, LifeRay and more.
New event: Benefits of GlassFish and MySQL in Japanese (Dec 9th, 2009). All events at GF Event Calendar .

Other News

ICEfaces 2.0 is now available for download .
State of OpenSource AppServers by Masoud Kalali
The LHC is back online! ( website , #LHC )

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:28:21 -0800
Eclipse Gemini Proposal - Enterprise Modules Project

A new Eclipse proposal ( Eclipse Development Process : Pre-Proposal and Proposal ) has just been posted at Eclipse.org .

Quoting from the proposal, the scope of the Gemini project is two-fold:

• Integration of existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms; and
• Implementation of enterprise specifications for module-based platforms

The initial emphasis is on standards developed by the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group .

Gemini is organized under 6 subprojects, each seeded with contributions from SpringSource or Oracle and the overall lead for the project is Mike Keith . The project mentors are Wayne Beaton , Doug Clarke and Adrian Colyer .

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:32 -0800
Java Closures at Devoxx and Other Hig hlights from Nov 19th, 2009

A summary of today ' s news of interest to our communities.

Today is Nov 19th, 2009 . One more day to go at Devoxx , some Terracotta news and more GlassFish Events. The Java EE 6 specs are in voting right now , and we are still awaiting Godot .

Note - this is an experiment to flush out the daily news that otherwise we can ' t cover due to limited time. Let us know how the format works for you.

Terracotta News

Bumped into Alex Miller ' s blog and it has several posts worth mentioning:

Devoxx Updates

Closures coming to JDK 7 - Samples from Cay ;reactions from AlexM and StephenC .
JDK 7 schedule extended til Sept 2010.
Jigsaw downloads available
- And, from last week see JDK 7 M5 and companion NB 6.8
Hudson, the most used CI Solution at Devoxx (@rob2)
Photos (from Picassa Album )- Happy faces: Roberto ; Antonio and AlexisMP - one , two ; Ludo .
Danny ' s summaries on Day 1 and Day 2 . Many, many tweets at #devoxx.

New GlassFish Events

Added JSF Summit , Sao Paolo Tech Days and JSF Days 2010 to the GF Event Calendar.

Recent Posts From Stories

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:23:44 -0800
NHIN Connects Using GlassFish and OpenESB

The goal of the National Health Information Network (NHIN) is to provide secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health and healthcare . And the CONNECT Gateway is intended to let the federal agencies connect to the NHIN.

Within the HHS , the ONC is the main entity that coordinates these efforts and it just has choosen Health Information Exchange Open Source ( HIEOS ) as a key portion of NHIN Connect.

And, HIEOS - developed by Vangent - is using several of our OpenSource components - see Architectural Diagram - including OpenESB and GlassFish , and MySQL .

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:00:00 -0700
Suncorp: OpenSSO as the Foundation of an Insurance Portal

The Suncorp Group is one of Australia ' s leaders in banking, insurance, investment and pensions. When th ey evaluated a range of commercial and open source single sign-on solutions for their SunCentral portal, they selected OpenSSO due to its feature completeness, enterprise readiness, support options and because it is open source software .

Fast forward six months, and OpenSSO is live, providing single sign-on to both intranet and Internet-facing applications at Suncorp as well as federated access to an external service provider, with a population of 3000 external insurance brokers and other partners plus 15,000 internal staff members accessing the system daily. Suncorp ' s Damien Covey reports: OpenSSO has been stable in our production environment. In the 6 months since we ' ve been live we ' ve had one issue caused by OpenSSO. This issue has now been patched in OpenSSO (after our issue report) [... ] .

Read the full questionnaire response for the full scoop.

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:18:52 -0700
Gluu: OpenDS as the foundation of Online Identity Management Services

Gluu is a San Antonio, TX, USA based startup offering a cloud based Identity Service that aims to make it easier for organizations to securely share identity information and to achieve inter-domain web sin gle sign on. The Gluu services are built on open source software such as Apache, Penrose, MySQL database , OpenSSO and OpenDS.

OpenDS, the LDAPv3 directory service in Java , is used for different services in the Gluu infrastructure. It is used for storing all of the users ' identity information as well as groups and access control information, in a highly available manner thanks to several instances of OpenDS replicated in a multi-master topology. Also OpenDS is used as a cache layer for some of the Gluu internal data, for availability and performance. Finally OpenDS is also the configuration store for the OpenSSO services. Gluu offers web services access to the LDAP directory services through the OpenDS DSML Gateway, a web application translating DSML messages to LDAP.

OpenDS was chosen over other directory servers for its inherent multi-platform support, its numerous features and its simplicity. Read all the details in the questionnaire .