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Great news to our fellows bleeding edge Java EE developers and GlassFish users. We are now pushing two images of the application server to Docker Hub to make it even easier to try new and upcoming releases. The GlassFish organization is under registry.hub.docker.com/u/glassfish/, and here are the two images we have:
This image is based on the latest builds of GlassFish, and updated when a new build is produced. To try this one, run: Read the complete article here.
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GlassFish 4.1 was released a couple of months ago now, bringing with it a large number of welcome bug fixes and improvements. As the Payara Open Source project was born from it, it would be remiss of us not give all of you who maintain an interest in GlassFish a brief overview of some of the things that have changed or been updated since 4.0. Among these changes, the minimum JDK version required is now 7 Update 65, or 8 Update 20, so you’ll need to update if you intend to use it with anything less; it likely just won’t start otherwise!
Updated Platforms and Specifications
As you might expect from any major update to an application server (even if it is just a minor point release), and particularly since GlassFish still holds itself as the Java EE reference application server, there is now support for more recent platforms and Java EE specifications.
Java SE 8
Arguably the headline new feature, GlassFish 4.1 now supports Java SE 8, bringing it up to date with the latest Java specifications. This brings with it all of the new features available in Java 8, such as Lambda expressions, a brand new Date and Time API, and concurrent accumulator classes. There’s quite a stir around the introduction of Lambda expressions, and how it adds some functional programming “oomph” to the Java language.
PermGen No More? Read the complete article here
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We are at JavaOne 2014 and one of the key reasons for me to attend was to catch up on the future of GlassFish. So on Sunday I went along to the GlassFish community update at the Moscone Center to consult with the Oracle on the future of GlassFish.
The reason I go to JavaOne is to hear the definitive view on GlassFish and JavaEE futures from the people that make the decisions. There’s no other conference you can say that about.
On the stand there were 4 Oracle guys who make the decisions on GlassFish.
John Clingan – Product Manager for JavaEE and GlassFish; Mike Lehman – Product Manager for Cloud Application Framework; Cameron Purdy – VP Development; Reza Rahman – Evangelist for JavaEE and GlassFish.
What I saw was that there is a roadmap for GlassFish out until JavaOne 2016 as JavaEE8 develops with GlassFish 5 being the reference implementation for JavaEE 8. GlassFish 5 will aim to be released as the final draft for JavaEE 8 hit the JCP.
Cameron spoke about GlassFish being a key Research and Development platform with much of the technology created in GlassFish to support the JavaEE specifications finding its way into WebLogic with GlassFish having a key role in the evolution of JavaEE far into the future. Many of the key JavaEE specification developers are working on GlassFish as part of their JSR work and that is a huge investment.
John reiterated that Quality, stability and security are still important. The team continue to work to ensure that GlassFish passes all the JSR Compatibility Test Suites and any issues will be fixed. In fact the key priorities for the recent 4.1 release were Java 8 support, stability and quality. Also much of the work invested into GlassFish for JavaEE 8 support will be shareable with WebLogic. Read the complete article here.
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Spotlight on GlassFish 4.1′ is a series of posts that highlights specific enhancements of the latest GF release, GlassFish 4.1. It could be a new feature, a fix, a behavior change, a tip, etc. #12 GlassFish Tools for Luna
A new version of the GlassFish Tools (aka the ‘GF Eclipse Plugin’) has just been released for Luna, the latest and greatest Eclipse version. This version supports both GF 3.1.x and GF 4.1 and is a recommended upgrade as it introduces several UI improvements and fixes various issues. Note that this capability is also offered in the ‘Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse’ (aka OEPE).
Installation is simple, just drag this ‘Install’ button and drop it into your Eclipse Luna workspace. Follow the process and make sure to select both ‘GlassFish Tools’ and ‘Oracle Java EE’ features. You can also do this from the Eclipse Marketplace.
To configure a GlassFish instance, open the Eclipse preferences window and specify, in the ‘Runtime Environments’ section, where your GF 4.1 install is located. Be aware that the UI uses the generic ‘GlassFish 4’ version, which encompass 4.1 as well!
Questions, remarks, REFs around ‘GlassFish Tools for Eclipse’ and OEPE can be asked here
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GlassFish Server 4.1 Open Source Edition is available for download! This release of the world’s first Java EE 7 application server includes multiple new and valuable features and updates. Here is a quick look at what’s new:In summary, GlassFish 4.1 offers updated platform support, improved developer experience, new features and is bundled in the refreshed Java EE 7 SDK. GlassFish 4.1 can bedownloaded from glassfish.org, and the Java EE 7 SDK can be downloaded from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN).
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For some of our own internal applications, we (AMIS) are using 2 products of Oracle that do not require any license to be payed: ADF Essentials and the Oracle XE database.
These applications were initially deployed to a Tomcat 6 server, only when trying to deploy new applications we encountered issues with conflicting libraries. As the Glassfish Open Source edition is also free and well documented and supported I decided to investigate a switch.
Since ADF Essentials is available more than a year, posts about using ADF Essentials with Glassfish are there already. Take this one for example by Shay Smeltzer. But in these posts there was always something missing, in this post I share the steps I needed for a working deployment to a remote server (in the cloud in my case).
Environment
First my assumptions/environment:
Installing and configuring Glassfish
First we check that a JDK 6 or 7 is installed on the server. If not please install JDK 7. Read the complete article here.
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