In one of the first results of its $1 billion purchase of MySQL, Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA) has packaged the popular open source database with its GlassFish application server and is offering the two as a $65,000-per-year bundle.
As I outlined in Migrate to GlassFish acitivities , I am migrating samples from different application servers to GlassFish to illustrate migration to GlassFish. Here, I selected the WebLogic's "JSP SimpleTag" sample to migrate to GlassFish.
When picking which JEE server to use for your application, you have a number of choices to select from. Knowing which application server is the best is key. Jonathan Campbell took a handful of JEE application servers, and came up with surprising results
One big question is what Sun does next to build out its stack of open source software and other applications covering middleware, storage and virtualization. Sun’s software lineup now includes Java, MySQL, OpenSolaris and GlassFish
I wrote a simple, really simple Stateless Session Bean with one method in it and published it as a web service to JBoss, WebLogic,Glassfish and Oracle AS. It's up to you to decide which ones are good, bad, and ugly.
BEA has released WebLogic Server 10.0, as a Technology Preview for their Java EE 5 support. BEA is using the GlassFish implementations for JAX-WS 2.0, and JAXB 2.0, which were part of GlassFish v1 UR1
I think part of what's making Sun more relevant in the enterprise Java space is that they are now more plugged into what's happening in the wider world, and are willing to take the input on board and act on it
JetBrains has announced the list of new features in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 some time ago, but people often ask us where to find or how to use a certain feature. Probably, in this case Reviewer’s Guide can help
The motivation behind this blog entry is to provide a simple step-by-step guide for getting started with JPA in a standalone environment with the Spring Framework.