GlassFish v3 is Now Available!

It has been 4 and a half years since we announced GlassFish during JavaOne 2005 (PR) and today we are making available our most important release: GlassFish v3 is now available for download!

Our first release was during JavaOne 2006, we released GlassFish v1, the first Java EE 5 compliant App Server (family overview) and the second generation of GlassFish came out in September 2007 (family overview). While still based on JavaEE 5, GFv2 leveraged on Sun's (too) long history of App Servers to add the benefits of an enterprise product (quality, performance, scalability) to those of an open source community (agility, ease of use, supportive teams, pricing).

While the transition between GlassFish v1 and v2 was evolutionary, the transition from v2 to v3 is a major change that includes a whole new set of JCP specifications, JavaEE 6, and a new modular, OSGi-based, architecture that expands significantly the applicability of GlassFish.

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Java EE 6 and NetBeans 6.8 Arrive Today

This morning Sun announced the release of the Java EE 6 SDK and the GlassFish Enterprise Server v3, which is the first application server to support Java EE 6. Also announced was the general availability of NetBeans 6.8. The dual release makes sense for Sun since the public releases now give enterprise developers a new, more powerful standard to code with and a robust environment in which they can develop.

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Java Installable Packages Now Available

"The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the Java JDK and JRE 6.0 binary installable packages for FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x on the i386 and amd64 architectures! The binaries are available at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml.

We would like to thank Kurt Miller for his hard work on this project. We would also like to thank Greg Lewis and Jung-uk Kim from the FreeBSD Java Project for their help and support."

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Open-source Web applications, PHP vs. Java (1 of 2)

It is common knowledge that PHP does well in the open-source Web applications space. PHP has numerous representatives for most application categories, and for some it provides a clear leader, like WordPress. On the other hand, most Java counterparts have apparently failed to reach the same popularity.

Below is an overview of the existing open-source PHP and Java implementations for the following categories of applications: forum, blog, wiki and content management systems (CMS). These are among the most commonly used types of on-line software.

JDK 1.6.0 patchset 2 "Mestengo"

On behalf of the BSD Java Porting team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of Patchset 2 "Mestengo" for JDK 1.6, based on the JDK 1.6.0 Update 2 JRL source code.

This patchset includes bug fixes and updates the code base to use the 1.6.0 Update 2 source code. However, the most exciting part of this patchset is that the browser plugin code now fully supports amd64. This is the first such support of any operating system that I'm aware of and I'd like to specially thank Jung-uk Kim and Kurt Miller for their work on this.

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