It's been a hard year, but the GlassFish community has kept pushing v3 onward and all the indicators are that the result is very much worth the effort. The target date for GlassFish v3 is mid-December so the last few weeks have been very busy - check out these MarkMail charts: • DEV - last month was really close to an all-time record. • ISSUES - an easy all-time record. • QUALITY - highest since Sept'08. Plenty of progress to highlight from there; below are some.

Final Branch:

• Next Build and Branch for Final Release (Abhijit)
• No More Commits on v3 Trunk and Workspace Now Open for Commits (Jane)
• Hudson Branch Jobs Now Published (Terena)

If you are curious, peek at the hudson dashboard; it has plenty of very interesting jobs, including the nice progress on findbugs.

The FishCAT folks really deserve their own spotlights (soon), but see:

• Start Testing b73 ... and b74 (Judy) (and Survey on FishCAT)
• Latest build for GF Tools Bundle for Eclipse 1.2 (Ludo), and
• v3 + UC Issue: Latest ... Bundle for Eclipse 1.2 (Kampmeier)

And, from the doc team, final reviews of:

• ...GFv3 Application Deployment Guide (Dixie)
• ... Admin Guide (Dixie)
• ... v3 Documentation (Paul)

Today is Nov 21th, 2009. News shorts of interest to our communities, including: New date for EU review of Oracle/Sun acquisition, getting closer to v3 fcs, new OpenESB and OpenDS releases, Devoxx whiteboards, new customers and japanese event, and more.

Waiting for Godot
I read Waiting for Godot for HS, but I didn't expect to live it...

• E.U. Takes More Time to Review Oracle-Sun Deal

On the Road to GlassFish v3
We are getting very close. The buzz around JavaEE 6 and GFv3 at #devoxx was very positive; some more links:

• Migrating your Apps to JavaEE 6 (Wouter van Reeven)
• Adam Bien on
  • Adoption of EJB and JavaEE, Ready for Production and ... (it is) a massive rewrite.
  • Also see Adam's JavaEE Patterns and Best Practices @ Kenai, all based on GF.

New Releases
Final and Release Candidates releases:

• OpenDS 2.2.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available
• DSEE 7 Download, Documentation and Upgrade Guide Available Today
• JavaCAPS 6.2 is now available (ontherecord, webpage) - Based on GlassFish 2.1p2 and OpenESB 2.1
• Fuji (OpenESB v3) Milestone 9 is now available - (Mark's note, Wiki page).

More Devoxx
Devoxx is over.  By all accounts, a successful show.

• Devoxx 2009 picassa album... with
  • Whiteboard pics - JVM, CI Tool, Persistence Layer, Build Tool, UI Framework
  • Hudson #1 in CI (113); next are TeamCity (31) and CruiseControl (30).
• Notes on Mark's jigsaw prezo (from Reinier Zwitserloot)

GlassFish Customers and Events
New customers; new events

• Mapion Co. Ltd, in Japan (chhandomay, customers) - Using GlassFish Enterprise Server, MySQL Cluster and more.
• Health Sciences South Carolina (ontherecord) - Using JavaCAPS 6 including GlassFish ESB, MDM, HL7, LifeRay and more.
• New event: Benefits of GlassFish and MySQL in Japanese (Dec 9th, 2009).  All events at GF Event Calendar.

Other News

• ICEfaces 2.0 is now available for download.
• State of OpenSource AppServers by Masoud Kalali
• The LHC is back online! (website, #LHC)

A new Eclipse proposal (Eclipse Development Process: Pre-Proposal and Proposal) has just been posted at Eclipse.org.

Quoting from the proposal, the scope of the Gemini project is two-fold: • Integration of existing Java enterprise technologies into module-based platforms; and • Implementation of enterprise specifications for module-based platforms The initial emphasis is on standards developed by the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. Gemini is organized under 6 subprojects, each seeded with contributions from SpringSource or Oracle and the overall lead for the project is Mike Keith. The project mentors are Wayne Beaton, Doug Clarke and Adrian Colyer.