GlassFish - Bringing you a better application server in three steps

Abstract

GlassFish has a plan to prevail.
Step 1: care about developers.
Step 2: care about developers and surpass the competition.
Step 3: care about developers and be different.

The first part was all about supporting Java EE 5 in a fully open source application server back in 2006. The second step was in the fall of 2007 with the release of the top performing product with full out-of-the-box clustering and support for multiple Web 2.0 technologies (AJAX, Ruby on Rails, ...). You no longer need to chose between open source and enterprise features and performance. We're now in the middle of delivering on step 3 with a highly modular, fast and light architecture aligned with the Java EE 6 themes. So what's next? You tell us! You help us!

This session will cover GlassFish v2, its clustering capabilities, Metro web services stack with .Net interoperability, Web tier (Grizzly, Comet, jMaki, ...), tools support, and administration features. It will then get into ongoing work for GlassFish v3. Finally it will give an overview of the much broader GlassFish community with telco, identity, directory, MQ, integration, database, social, and other software.

Speaker

Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine