JavaZone 2009 - GlassFish v3 - The future of app servers and Java EE is here
This is certainly interesting times for application servers in general and for GlassFish in particular. This session will discuss GlassFish v3 and Java EE 6 which will both be weeks if not days away from being declared final at the time of the JavaZone conference. It will cover what's new with the technology and product but also with the community work.
GlassFish is not only a modular application server platform with its core built on top of OSGi (it ships with Felix but also runs on multiple OSGi implementations), it also has a unique non-intrusive and extensible architecture. In essence, GlassFish is all about choice: Felix or Equinox, NetBeans or Eclipse (there are now GlassFish bundles with both Eclipse and NetBeans), and your choice of modules, all dynamically loaded. The resulting product ranges from extremely lightweight to extremely powerful.
Choice doesn't stop at the Java EE frontier. The update center feature in the product also offers a powerful way to manage existing modules and access new ones from multiple repositories. It enables developers and companies to deal effectively with multiple frameworks, libraries and applications available from a simple graphical and command-line
interface.
Java EE 6 has many things going for it: new features (JAX-RS and JSR 299), important enhancements to existing well accepted technologies such as Servlet 3.0, JPA 2.0, EJB 3.1, and JSF 2.0, but also a web profile. With changing landscapes in a company or more broadly in the industry, the value of betting on a standard is higher than ever.
Java EE 6 is improving the platform while taking into account what enterprise developers ask for: low barrier to access, maintainable applications, and yet infinite architectural solutions.
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine is a member of the GlassFish team and has been acting as the ambassador for the project for the past two years.
Alexis is a former speaker at JavaZone 2007/2008 and CommunityOne North 2009 is Oslo and has some NOK's left over from previous traveling he'd like to spend.