As I mentioned in a recent post, we’re investigating some changes to the GlassFish v3 Administration Console. We finally have something fairly concrete to show, and have set up a demo site for you to play with. Ken Pauslen sent an email regarding our demo to the GlassFish users’ list, so instead of repeating all of that, I’ll simply quote his email for you below. Note the comment on performance toward the end.

Please send feedback to the webtier list or the dev list. Many thanks! (more…)

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I’ve been a bit silent of late on what’s happening with Mojarra Scales, so I thought I’d take a moment to bring everyone up to speed. (more…)

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Since the announcement in the recent layoffs at Sun on how the NetBeans team was affected, there’s been much concern over the health of the project. I’m not on the NetBeans team (I’m just a big Finkel fan! so I can’t say for certain what’s going on, but it seems to me that Sun is still committed to the platform. Evidence of that comes in the form of an email I got today about the upcoming 6.7 release. Here is the email: (more…)

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Late last year and early this year, I spent a great deal of time to author/edit a white paper detailing the deployment of Sun Identity Manager using GlassFish and MySQL. The paper, with additional input from Ed Ort, Suveen Nadipalli and John Clingan, gives a brief introduction to what identity management is and why you’d want it, then covers the whats, hows, and whys of MySQL and GlassFish installation, the installation and configuration of Sun Identity Manager, tuning the system, and ends with a quick look at the total cost of ownership. I think we put together a very nice paper on a very interesting and oft-overlooked piece of enterprise data management. If you’re interested in reading more, you can click here for the download page.

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Are you a NetBeans user? Are you wondering what’s going to happen to your IDE of choice given the recent Sun restructuring? The NetBeans Dream Team Call with Matt Thompson the new Sun NetBeans Director, which starts at 10:00am CST today (I just learned about it too) should answer some of your questions. Here are the details:

NetBeans Program Update – Feb 2009

with Matt Thompson (the new NetBeans Director + Developer Cloud Tools Engineering)

SLIDES ARE HERE

WED Feb 11th at 0800am Pacific; 11am US East Coast; 5 pm Europe

US Toll Free Dial-in Number: 866-803-2141
CALL ID: 5121251

Participant Code: GO Here: http://nbdt-feb09.eventbrite.com/
We will be recording this call for later playback on this event page.

Tentative AGENDA:

• Intros and NetBeans team changes + Sun’s Cloud Initiative – Matt Thompson (15 minutes)
• Discuss future topics about upcoming NetBeans Technical Calls — What does the dreamteam want to talk about first…open mic vote if necessary w/Matt… (15min)
• Open Communication Q & A What is on your Mind?? – All (30 minutes)

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