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.

A summary of today's news of interest to our communities. Today is Nov 19th, 2009. One more day to go at Devoxx, some Terracotta news and more GlassFish Events. The Java EE 6 specs are in voting right now, and we are still awaiting Godot. Note - this is an experiment to flush out the daily news that otherwise we can't cover due to limited time. Let us know how the format works for you.

Terracotta News

Bumped into Alex Miller's blog and it has several posts worth mentioning:

• Terracotta Acquires Quartz
• Terracotta, Ehcache, Hibernate, and more to come
• Terracotta Use Cases

Devoxx Updates

• Closures coming to JDK 7 - Samples from Cay;reactions from AlexM and StephenC.
• JDK 7 schedule extended til Sept 2010.
• Jigsaw downloads available
  • And, from last week see JDK 7 M5 and companion NB 6.8
• Hudson, the most used CI Solution at Devoxx (@rob2)
• Photos (from Picassa Album)- Happy faces: Roberto; Antonio and AlexisMP - one, two; Ludo.
• Danny's summaries on Day 1 and Day 2. Many, many tweets at #devoxx.

New GlassFish Events

• Added JSF Summit, Sao Paolo Tech Days and JSF Days 2010 to the GF Event Calendar.