The GlassFish Community is holding its first gathering a year after the first version was released and with a second version now in beta. A lot has happened in a year and now is a good time to hear about customer adoption, successful deployments as well as mix-and-matching of Java EE 5 with other technologies.
It'll also be a good time to hear about GlassFish v2's new JAX-WS 2.1 Web Services stack with built-in WSIT (Web Services Interoperability Technologies) capabilities which are regularly tested with Microsoft's WCF (Windows Communication Foundation). You'll also hear about the new support for dynamic clustering, load-balancing and fail-over, all part of the standard GlassFish v2 download.
Whether they're contributing directly to GlassFish, re-using parts of the application server, or adding value on top of it, many partners are available to best fit your architecture and productivity needs. Come and hear about what the GlassFish Community at large has to offer.
Finally, the work that has started on the modules-based GlassFish v3 will be presented, demoed and discussed by GlassFish architect Jerome Dochez.
Identity Services provided by OpenSSO (access and federation) and OpenDS (100% Java LDAP server) show the value of the global GlassFish community. Come and see how to use OpenSSO for OpenID-based authentication to a blog feed using Atom for syndication and OpenDS as a data store, all running on Glassfish.
Experts and partners will be available throughout the day to discuss any questions from seasoned GlassFish users to developers just checking it out.
See you at the GlassFish track at CommunityOne and be part of growing community taking GlassFish to the next level!
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Sessions will include*:
GlassFish -- Getting Started and What's New in GlassFish v.2
In this state of the union GlassFish session, you'll hear about where the community stands, how it's evolving towards a complete middleware solution encompassing a production-ready Java EE application server, a JBI infrastructure for SOA-based deployments and a complete identity infrastructure solution ranging from an LDAP server to an SSO and Federation product.
You'll hear about what makes the GlassFish Application Server unique in the Open Source Java EE space and understand how to get started with both version 1 and version 2 beta. Version 1 of the GlassFish Application Server was released in May 2006 with an Update Release (UR) 1 in December 2006. This is the current stable release implementing all of the Java EE 5 features and more.
Version 2 of GlassFish is currently in beta with exciting new technologies such as a new JAX-WS 2.1 stack, the WSIT (Web Services Interoperability Technology) extension for Microsoft interoperability using WS-* standards, and a complete set of clustering features. These features include dynamic clustering (Project "Shoal"), load balancing for various paths such HTTP(s) or IIOP, as well as memory of HADB-based data replication. GlassFish v2 also provides the integrated OpenESB 2.0 runtime for JBI-based development.
GlassFish v2 also features a new concept of "profiles" making the developer experience much simpler with a single download, an Update Center making notifications and installation for updates much easier than before, a new and improved Grizzly framework, a new JSF/AJAX-based administration console, an upgrade tool and more.
This is also your chance to come and talk to the architects and experts from the JAX-WS, JAXB, WSIT, JPA, EJB, JSF, Grizzly teams and get involved in the GlassFish community as a user or a contributor.
GlassFish in Real Life (Use cases)
In addition to listening to engineers telling you about their product, you may want to listen to people who have actually, used and deployed using GlassFish. Production uses of the technology are showing up rapidly and a few of them are being highlighted on the "Stories" blog (http://blogs.sun.com/stories).
While there are no two identical uses of the GlassFish technologies, this talk will feature three different deployment stories using GlassFish. It will discuss the architectural choices made with technologies such as various JPA implementations, distributed caching technologies, Spring integration, and so on. You will also hear about the interaction with the GlassFish community from the actual users themselves from the time they select a product to the time they put it their architecture into production.
GlassFish Partner Ecosystem 
The GlassFish Partner Ecosystem is growing rapidly to integrate value-added frameworks, innovative clustering and caching technologies, productivity tools, vertical solutions, and more. This session will highlight the solutions from partners which will let you adapt and transform GlassFish to best fit your technical and business needs.
GlassFish Future: v3 and Identity Services with OpenDS, OpenSSO
GlassFish v3 has modularity as its main goal and should provide a great Web 2.0 modular foundation for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP and more. GlassFish v3's module architecture, startup time, simplified administration and flexibility will be demoed and discussed by GlassFish architect Jerome Dochez and other experts. Identity Services in the GlassFish project are provided by OpenSSO (access and federation services) and OpenDS (100% Java LDAP server). In this part of the session we'll specifically show OpenSSO for OpenID-based authentication to a blog feed that uses Atom for syndication and OpenDS as a data store running on Glassfish. We believe you'll find this unconventional use of OpenDS for blog content leveraging the ATOM standard for syndication to be an innovative web 2.0 use case and to be quite different from a lot of the Flickr and Google maps demos that you run in to at shows.
Learn more at http://glassfish.dev.java.net.
*Preliminary, content subject to change.
