December 19, 2008
Single Sign-On for SugarCRM Through a SAML-Based Integration of OpenSSO and simpleSAMLphp With PHP-based SugarCRM as an example, this article shows you how to enforce SSO in a PHP environment. The process integrates OpenSSO, Sun's open-source Web access management project, with an application in the LAMP [Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP] or SAMP [Solaris and AMP] stack. Here, simpleSAMLphp acts as the front end for SugarCRM.

December 12, 2008
Protecting Java EE Applications With OpenSSO Policy Agents, Part 1: Basic Steps Writing security code and configuring the security model for Web applications can be cumbersome. The open-source project OpenSSO offers many security-related capabilities for applications: authentication, authorization, single sign on, identity services, security for Web services. This article describes how to easily protect Web applications with the OpenSSO Policy Agents in just a few steps.

December 12, 2008
Tech Tip: Customizing JAXB In this tip, you'll learn several ways of customizing or extending the default behavior of JAXB.

December 12, 2008
Getting Started With JRuby on Rails for Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions for the basic tasks involved with using JRuby on GlassFish. Learn how to install JRuby and how to create a simple application and deploy it to the GlassFish server. (Registration required.)

December 5, 2008
Federated Single Sign-On for Google Apps in OpenSSO Federating single sign-on with OpenSSO is fast, straightforward, and intuitive. This article describes the process for highly popular Google Apps.

December 5, 2008
Guide to GlassFish High Availability This white paper presents flexible reference configurations that demonstrate how you can deploy business services to meet various availability requirements using GlassFish, Solaris 10 containers, and Sun Fire T2000 servers. (Registration required.)

November 21, 2008
GlassFish and MySQL, Part 2: Building a CRUD Web Application With Data Persistence Learn how to use the NetBeans IDE with GlassFish and MySQL to build a create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) application.

November 21, 2008
Tech Tips Quiz Here's a short quiz that tests your knowledge of some topics covered in recent Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips.

November 21, 2008
Screencast: Build a Simple Web Application Using Eclipse and GlassFish v3 Prelude This screencast shows you how to create a simple Web application using JavaServer Pages and servlets in Eclipse 3.4, debug it, and rapidly deploy it directly on GlassFish v3 Prelude. Watch other GlassFish screencasts too.

November 14, 2008
GlassFish and MySQL, Part 1: A Perfect Combination for Web Applications Learn why the combination of GlassFish and MySQL is a perfect choice for developing and deploying web applications.

November 14, 2008
GlassFish Update Center Find and install additional applications for GlassFish. View all modules or see the most popular or most recent modules.

November 14, 2008
Configuring JSON for RESTful Web Services in Jersey 1.0 This Tech Tip shows you how to build a Jersey-based web application that returns information in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

November 12, 2008
Multilingual Java EE SDKs Now Available Update 6 versions of the Java EE 5 SDKs and Java Application Platform SDKs now offer multilingual support. Documentation for the SDKs is available in Japanese and Simplified Chinese and in several languages for the application server. Download the SDKs now.

November 6, 2008
GlassFish v3 Prelude Released Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v3 Prelude improves productivity with rapid deployment technology and modular architecture based on OSGi. Read the overview and download it now.

November 6, 2008
GlassFish v3 Prelude Videos Learn more about GlassFish v3 Prelude in these three videos: Introducing GlassFish v3 Prelude, What's New in GlassFish v3 Prelude?, and Java EE 6 and GlassFish.

October 21, 2008
Java Application Platform SDK Update 6 Released This latest free-for-use, production-ready SDK includes these updates: Portlet Container 2.0 Update 1 and Web Services for Remote Portlets 2.0 Beta. The SDK bundles with Java SE (JDK) 6 have been enhanced with JDK 6 Update 10. Read the overview and download the SDKs now.

October 21, 2008
NetBeans IDE 6.5 Release Candidate Now Available Rapidly create web, enterprise, desktop, and mobile applications with Java, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy, and C/C++.

October 17, 2008
Using WS-Trust Support in Metro to Secure Web Services In this Tech Tip, learn about the support in Metro for WS-Trust and its Security Token Service (STS) framework, and see how easy it is to take advantage of this support to secure a web service using Metro and the NetBeans IDE.

October 10, 2008
Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server Go open source for identity management! Deployment of OpenSSO on GlassFish application server results in an ideal environment for developing secure Web applications. This article describes the basic deployment process.

October 10, 2008
Ask the Experts Transcript: OpenSSO Will OpenSSO support Active Directory to integrate with Windows authentication? Will it support all the databases like SQL 2005/2008 and Oracle 11g? Find the answers to these and a variety of other questions about OpenSSO in the Ask the Experts transcript.

October 03, 2008
RESTful Web Services and Comet Users can interact remotely with a Comet web application. Learn how to build one with Dojo, Java EE technologies, and GlassFish.

October 03, 2008
Securing Attachments With Metro 1.3 In this Tech Tip, you will learn how to secure a SOAP Messages with Attachments (SwA) attachment using the Metro 1.3 Web services stack.

September 19, 2008
True Abstraction: Composite UI Components in JSF 2.0 -- Part 2 Part 1 of this Tech Tip showed you how to create a composite UI component and use it in a web application. In Part 2, you will learn how to add functionality to the composite component that you created.

August 22, 2008
Building an Ajax-Enabled Web Application Using Phobos and jMaki This Tech Tip shows you how to use Phobos and jMaki to create a simple Ajax-enabled web application. Phobos is a lightweight, scripting-friendly, web application environment. jMaki is a lightweight framework for creating Web 2.0 applications with standards-based technologies such as CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

August 22, 2008
Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, and the Java Persistence API This Tech Tip shows you how to create an online catalog application using the Groovy language, the Grails framework, the MySQL database, the Java Persistence API, and the GlassFish application server.

July 18, 2008
Using P6Spy and the GlassFish Connection Pool to Trace Database Operations This Tech Tip demonstrates how to use a tool called P6Spy to trace the database requests issued by an application running with the GlassFish v2 application server.

July 18, 2008
Java EE SDKs Refreshed The Java EE 5 SDK and Java Application Platform SDK bundles that include Java SE (JDK) 6 have been updated with JDK 6 Update 7. Download the latest versions.

July 11, 2008
Beyond LAMP: SAMP... LGPJ... LAMJ... LAMP: It's not just for Linux any more! Develop using your OS, language, app server, database, and IDE of choice.

June 6, 2008
Java EE SDKs With Multilingual Support Update 5 versions of the Java EE 5 SDKs and Java Application Platform SDKs and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server now offer multilingual support. Download them now. Documentation for the SDKs is available in Japanese and Simplified Chinese and in several languages for the application server.

May 30, 2008
GlassFish Podcast Jean-Francois Arcand discusses the Comet paradigm, its availability in GlassFish v2 and v3, standardization in the forthcoming Servlet 3.0 specification, and more. See The Aquarium for additional information about Comet.

May 30, 2008
GlassFish v3 TP2 Quick Start Tutorial Watch this screencast to learn about how to install the GlassFish v3 TP2 Application Server software, GlassFish Update Tool, and Admin Console GUI and deploy and undeploy applications.

May 9, 2008
Creating a Java EE Appliance on OpenSolaris At the JavaOne conference, Sun technical evangelists Peter Karlsson and Chuk-Munn Lee discussed how to build a Java EE platform-based appliance with the GlassFish application server on OpenSolaris.

May 5, 2008
Project SailFin and Ericsson Application Competition Create or enhance an IMS client-server application for a chance to win USD $5,000 or a Sony Ericsson phone.

May 5, 2008
Preview GlassFish v3 Technology Preview 2 gives you an early look at GlassFish v3 and its modular, lightweight, and extensible architecture. This milestone release contains web-tier technologies and the Java Persistence API from Java EE 5. In addition, you can use the Update Center to access new early access versions of EJB 3.1 and the JAX-RS API. Try it today.

May 2, 2008
Adding Authentication Mechanisms to the GlassFish Servlet Container This Tech Tip will show you how to implement and configure new authentication mechanisms in the GlassFish v2 servlet container.

April 28, 2008
Java Application Platform SDK Update 5 Released This latest free-for-use, production-ready SDK includes updates to Sun Java System Application Server (GlassFish), Open ESB, Portlet Container, and more. Download it now and read the overview for details.

April 18, 2008
Using MySQL and Memcached on the GlassFish Application Server Use GlassFish to host a web application backed by MySQL and memcached.

April 18, 2008
URL Redirection in Sun Java System Application Server This article uses examples to show how to configure web application URLs in Sun Java System Application Server or GlassFish.

March 27, 2008
GlassFish With MySQL Cobundle Released Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Update 1 (GlassFish v2 UR1) is now available bundled with the MySQL Community Server open-source database. Read the Release Notes and this blog for details. Download it now.

March 21, 2008
Rails Powered by GlassFish Tired of putting together and managing all the pieces of a Ruby-on-Rails deployment? Simplify your life by developing and deploying with JRuby on GlassFish.

February 7, 2008
Java Application Platform SDK Update 4 Released This free-for-use, production-ready SDK includes the latest technologies from Sun Java System Application Server (GlassFish), Portal Container, Access Manager, and Open ESB. Read the overview for more details.

January 23, 2008
Connect and Participate With GlassFish Try GlassFish for a chance to win an iPhone. This sweepstakes ends on March 23, 2008. Submit your entry today.