Coming Up for Air

Not So Late Breaking News

By Jason Lee on November 3, 2008

I’ve been meaning to say something about this for while, now, but I have been a bit busy, and was finally beaten to the punch by Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine over at The Aquarium. Before I go any further, go read Alexis’ article, paying particular attention to the “real #1 winner” link. Go ahead. I’ll wait…

SparkyPretty exciting, eh? It was, in fact, quite an honor. I was contacted by a friend at Sun, Ken Paulsen, with whom I’ve done a good deal of work in the past (this, for example). He had an opening on his team, the GlassFish Administration Console team, and was wondering if I might be interested in filling it. The chance to work for Sun on GlassFish (from home, to boot!), was just too good of an opportunity to pass up, so my history of work with JavaServer Faces and GlassFish-related open source technologies (code, support, bug reports, etc) translates itself into a full-time gig. If that’s not incentive to get involved, I don’t know what is. :)

At any rate, I’ve been on staff for about three months now, working hard with everyone else on the team getting the GlassFish v3 Prelude release ready to launch, which we’ll do Thursday, November 6. I’ll have an article here (and at my new Sun blog, most of whose contents will likely be cross-posted here) on the launch date. Speaking of which, I need to finish that… :)

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1 Comment to “Not So Late Breaking News”

  1. Rahul Mahajan's GravatarRahul Mahajan
    November 4, 2008   #

    HI, Good news.

    FYI – we tried GlassfishV3 bundled with Netbeans 6,5 RC2 and in some cases it gave us OutOfMemory PermGen space Error, this never came with Glassfish V2.

    Anyways congratulations for getting into this team.

    Also I had one suggestion in mind – If just servlet container can be made very fast with least possible memory requirements, then we can use the existing Web applications on desktop. Everyone just clicks on desktop icon , which internally starts Glassfish(v fast) and runs IE/Firefox, then user will have desktop like experience(no network Latency on localhost) and same code will be reusable. Adobe AIR allows one to use same MXML files that one create for flex and not like JavaFX where we are suppose to rewrite out GUIs again in SWING for RIA sake ( JSF 2 should be renderable on JavaFx too!!!!!)

    Also Google desktop launches search result in browser, so small web-server(v fast) will be a wise initiative.