GlassFish V2 Released
Depois de muito trabalho a Sun disponibiliza a versão 2 do seu App Server OpenSource... denominado GlassFish (ou SunApp 9.1)..
Muito legal notar como glassfish tem se tornado uma opção viavel e com uma performance muito boa, os plugins tanto para eclipse quanto para NetBeans são funcionais e não tem 500MB (aka JBossIDE)
Lembrando que a pilha WS (projeto Metro) do glassfish vem sendo utilizada em varios app server e sendo cogitada como uma das melhores implementacoes dos padroes WS-*.
O Glassfish apareceu como um "sun app capado" e se mostrou muito mais do que isso, em sua versao 3 que está em preview ( nem alpha nao é heheh) o microkernel dele boota em menos de um segundo... coisa show :)
O legal do glassfish é o console dele, alem de muito intuitivo, é realmente bastante prático, outra coisa que considero definitiva é ele implementar Java EE 5 desde sua versao 1.0 , por mais que muita gente não considere isso uma vantagem.... eu acho que poder contar com as funcionalidades como elas foram concebidas em qualquer lugar é algo MUITO BOM.
Anuncio do RedHat Enterprise Application Plataform:
"The first release of EAP is version 4.2, which corresponds with the version of JBoss Application Server that it is based on - it also bundles in JBoss Clustering, JBoss Cache, JBoss Messaging, Hibernate, JBoss Seam and JBoss Transactions. EAP fully implements the J2EE 1.4 specification, and also provides several features of the Java EE 5.0 specification including EJB 3.0, JSP 2.1, Servlets 2.5, JSTL 1.2 and JSF 1.2 as well as a few other smaller components."
O que me deixa triste é esse "serval features of Java EE 5" :( espero que no comando da Red Hat isso mude rapido...
Baixe o GlassFish e teste... voce nao vai se arrepender...
Algumas funcionalidades da versão 2 do GlassFish :
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Best-in-class performance – as evidenced in a July 2007 SPECjAppServer benchmark result
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Clustering – enables enterprises to group servers for scalability and replicate data in-memory for fail over protection and high availability.
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Centralized administration – manage application server clusters and application deployments from a centralized administration console.
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Project Metro – allows for interoperability between Web services hosted on Java technology and Windows environments.
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Open ESB – enables easy integration of Web services and existing enterprise resources.
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Java Business Integration (JBI) – provides a standardized approach to delivering SOA using Web services.
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NetBeans(TM) IDE Integration - enabling developers to deploy SOA applications by designing business process execution language (BPEL) workflows.
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Clustering and HA - GFv2 includes a new in-memory replication mechanism using JXTA for simplified configuration and improved performance, and it inherits HADB from (SJS AS 8.2) for 5-9s availability. See Clustering @ TA.
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Commercial-grade Admin/Monitoring - This includes Admin Console, Documentation, CLI Monitoring. All of these have been substantially improved or are new. The Console, for example, has been redone and it is now using the new Woodstock JSF components and JSF-Templating
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All-in One Bundle - The old SJS AS 8.x releases used to come in multiple versions: Platform Edition / Standard Edition / Enterprise Edition. Some of them were free for deploy, others where not. There is now a single, all-in one, moderately sized, bundl (~55MB) that has everything and there is the notion of profiles that is used to adjust functionality based on intent (developer, clustered, enterprise profiles).
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Performance - GlassFish is the only open source appserver that has published a SPECj Appserver 2004 benchmark: at the time of posting it was the fastest submission on a single-processor T2000.
Performance records are meant to be broken and I believe that there is now a faster 2-processor submission, but we will continue to improve (see related posts @ TA).
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Metro WS Framework - GlassFish uses the Metro Web Services framework. This framework includes project Tango (aka WSIT) and the JAX-WS RI and has best-in-class performance and excellent usability. Metro also has very extensive WS-* interoperability with Microsoft which can be used in many applications; a simple example shows an Excel spreadsheet on Vista that has live cells representing content generated dynamically from a GlassFish server.