Miles to go …

I presented on “Creating powerful web applications using GlassFish, MySQL and NetBeans/Eclipse” as the first talk of FISL 10 yesterday. The room was only partial full being the first talk of FISL but got packed towards the middle so that was exciting. The slides are available here.

The key message is that NetBeans and Eclipse provide a seamless development/deployment environment for GlassFish.

The several demos shown in the talk are explained at:

• CRUD operations using NetBeans, JPA and MySQL
• Publish MySQL Table as a RESTful Web service
• Develop, Deploy and Debug Rails Application on GlassFish using NetBeans
• GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse
• End-to-end problem solving using GlassFish v3 + MySQL DTrace probes
• GlassFish Price/Performance Advantage

And you can find a lot more information on the Portuguese TheAquarium.

The soccer balls at the Sun booth in the pavilion were quite a hit as evident by the video below:

Come by again at Sun booth until the end of conference to get one for yourself

There were booths from Debian, Gnome, Firefox, Fedora and a host of other open source projects. There were community booths from local Java User Groups, Linux User Group, Open Solaris User Group and similar efforts. Some government and financial companies that heavily use/promote open source products were also present. And then there were other commercial vendors as well!

Some attendees were playing musical instruments to the local tunes which added to the festive atmosphere in the exhibitor floor. Enjoy the video below:

The day ended with great food at Na Brasa Churrascaria, love the caipirinhas!

Here are some pictures from Day 1:

This is the 10th anniversary of FISL and so here is the timline over the past years as shown in the exhibitor pavilion:

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And the evolving album:

See you in few hours at the FISL.

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I, along with several other speakers, presented at Javali (an ancillary event of FISL) earlier today. The event was sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Many thanks to Sou Java and RS JUG for organizing the event and thanks to Serpro for hosting the event. There were several speakers from different companies making the event a good mix.

I presented on Java EE 6, showed GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse and gave a brief overview of some of the enterprise features of GlassFish.

The Java EE 6 focuses on making the platform more powerful and adding more flexibility. The power is added by revamping several existing specifications such as Servlet 3.0 and Java Server Faces 2.0. The flexibility is incoporated by several mechanisms. The first is the ability to define a profile targeted at a particular bundle of technologies, such as Web profile defined by the JSR 316 EG (more details). Secondly, some of the existing specifications that are not widely used, such as JAX-RPC or JAXR, now can be pruned from the platform. And lastly third-party libraries can be easily registered using “web-fragment.xml” (more details). All these together make the entire platform really powerful and flexible.

The GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse provide an integrated bundle based on Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.2 with GlassFish v2.1 and v3 integrated and pre-configured. These bits can also be installed on Eclipse Galileo (to be released soon) as a separate plugin. The features like Deploy-on-save and Session-preservation boosts the productivity tremendously allowing the developer to focus on business logic. Screencast #28 shows more details how to easily get started.

The enterprise features of GlassFish covered were:

• SOAP & RESTful Web services
• Dynamic Languages & Web Frameworks
• GlassFish High Availability & Clustering
• GlassFish Enterprise Manager

There were approximately 50 attendees physically present in the room but many others in the mutliple video conference rooms and on the Internet. Bruno told me that there were 92 viewers on the public Internet and 132 within Serpro after my talk, so that’s cool The slides presented are available here (Java EE 6) and here (Enterprise Features).

Brian Leonard‘s talk on “Developing beyond localhost” showed practical strategies of taking an application developed on the localhost and ensuring it works in the deployed environment. The basic strategy was WOTE (Write Once Test Everywhere) for any application developed within an IDE. He showed how to create a JNLP of a web application and deploy on GlassFish Web Stack. Some of the common mistakes like local filesystem URLs and database URLs can be easily diagnosed by testing the application using multiple Virtual Box images.

Roger Brinkley‘s talk on Mobile and Embedded is always fun. He basically talked about updates happened within that community in past one year. I caught up only during the last part where he showed a demo of Sensor Motor Gloves created by the community, the video is available below:

Fabiane‘s talk on Continuous Integration with Hudson showed how to setup and configure Hudson. The cool part was the sunspot integration where a build failure lights up the LEDs on a sunspot device.

Pat Patterson‘s talk on “Securing RESTful Web services using Open SSO” gave an overview of the Open SSO community. He then explained the purpose of OAuth and how it’s integrated in OpenSSO using Jersey extensions.

Met Campus Ambassadors from Porto Alegre and Sao Paolo which is always refreshing.

Talked to Vinicius Senger who is a Java EE architect and runs supercrud.com. This website allows you to create an online application domain model and then generate templates for different technologies such as Java Server Faces, JPA, Spring/Hibernate, and others. The website is running on GlassFish and more details on why he picked GlassFish instead of JBoss will be available in a formal GlassFish story, thanks Vinicius! I recorded a short interview that will be published this week as well.

There were other Portuguese speakers who were able to connect with the audience much better

Bruno and Mauricio played an excellent role of translating from English -> Portuguese for the local audience, thanks!

The day ended with a great pizza party with interesting toppings like corn/onion, banana, chocolate and others too

Here are some pictures from the past couple of days:

And the evolving album:

See you tomorrow morning at 9am/40T in “Creating Quick and Powerful Web Applications with MySQL, GlassFish, and NetBeans/Eclipse” talk at FISL.

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The clustrmaps on this blog are scheduled to be archived sometime around today. And so here is a snapshot of visitors to this blog from Jun 20, 2008.

The legend is:

And here is the same map with smaller clusters:

The entries tagged milestogo show other similar statistics.

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I received the following photographs from a GlassFish Fan (aka Ben Leadholm) in Minnesota.

And here is a picture of his daughter, Rachel, sporting the fancy GlassFish tattoo:

Thanks Ben and Rachel for promoting/using GlassFish and sharing the pictures!

Do you have any similar pictures ? Send me an email arun dot gupta at sun dot com and will be happy to share them with others.

The GlassFish number plates and Tattoos (and much more) were distributed at the recently concluded JavaOne 2009.

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FISL stands for “Forum Internacional Software Livre” in the Portuguese language and means “International Free Software Forum” in the English language. The punch line is “A technologia que liberta” and means “The technology that liberates”. This is the biggest event about free software in America and was attended by 7417 participants in 2008.

Just like “Freedom of Speech” is a basic human right, “Freedom of Software” is a basic right for the technology evolution. GlassFish gives you the freedom:

• To Pick your own framework: Java EE, Ruby-on-Rails, Python/Django, Groovy/Grails, or any other
• Choose your IDE: NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ and others.
• Over properietary Application Servers by providing highly reliable and production quality features like
• Clustering/Load balancing
• Secure, Reliable, and Transactional, and .NET-interoperable Web services stack (Metro)
• Easy-to-use web-based administration console along with a powerful CLI

in an open source world.

• Offers dual open-source license (CDDL or GPL v2 w/ CPE)

Similarly NetBeans allows you to create Java, Ruby, Python, Groovy, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript, Java EE, Mobile, REST/SOAP, and a variety of applications. Eclipse also provides an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database.

Together, GlassFish, NetBeans/Eclipse, and MySQL liberates you from the vendor lock-in by offering you a compelling choice.

At FISL 10, learn how GlassFish, NetBeans/Eclipse, and MySQL provide a powerful feature-rich yet easy to use platform for developing/deploying your web applications. The complete details about the session are available here. I plan to show multiple demos during the talk that you may find useful in your regular work.

Where ? Porto Alegre, Brazil
When ? Jun 24-27, 2009

Click on the map below for coordinates of the venue:

Join the Facebook Group or follow on Twitter @fisl10.

Close to 6000 attendees have registered for FISL so far and am definitely looking forward to feel/enjoy the Brazilian spirit.

To Brazil, Capirinhas, Guaranas, Churascarias, Beaches … La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La

Drop a comment if you are interested in a meal or run together

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What is an Eclipse Demo Camp ? The Eclipse DemoCamps are an opportunity to showcase all of the cool interesting technology being built by the Eclipse community. They are also an opportunity for you to meet Eclipse enthusiasts in your city.

The GlassFish team will showcase the seamless integration with Eclipse. Several blog entries are already available at glassfish+eclipse.

Do you know:

• GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse provide Eclipse 3.4.2 with Java EE support, GlassFish v 2.1 + GlassFish v3 pre-registered/configured, with commercial support
• GlassFish v3 Preview can be added
• Screencast #28 shows how develop/debug a web application using Eclipse and GlassFish
• TOTD #66 shows how to install GlassFish plugin in an existing Eclipse install
• Eclipse Galileo can be used for GlassFish development/deployment, use “http://ajax.dev.java.net/eclipse” as the udpate site.

Meet us in person and hear the glory:

When ? Jun 17th, 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Where ? Oracle Headquarters, Redwood Shores

Complete details here.

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