Entries Related to ‘Glassfish’

The role of application servers has grown significantly in IT architecture over the past few years as the cloud becomes the new frontier for application development–a frontier that offers more opportunity and challenges than the Web ever did. And while the Web space is not over and done, the client-server model has become very blurred. If clients are indeed everywhere–and there’s no reason to think they aren’t–then the place where the applications run suddenly becomes very un-localized. Application servers manage it all, but as the power division between client and server becomes ever more diffuse, the complexity of management becomes greater.

Java EE 6 is hot, new, and pretty darn cool. It eases development with its “standardized” features, and the zero-configuration approach apparent in every part of the implementation is really nice, lending an out-of-the-box feeling that’s similar to the .NET environment. In this tutorial we’ll update you on the world of Java EE 6 with the help of a Twitter-like demo application that contains JSF 2.0, PrimeFaces, CDI and Weld as well as Hibernate Validator frameworks.

There’s been a lot of commotion around Oracle’s recent $7.4 billion bid for Sun Microsystems, but what does it really mean to the open source community and Sun’s open source components — especially MySQL? In this article we’ll take a look at some of the possibilities and examine the potential impact of each on the future of open source software.

Learn to deploy a Ruby on Rails application into a production-ready JRuby on Rails environment running GlassFish.

In this tutorial, we cover setting up your Mac environment to use Glassfish as the server to run your Ruby on Rails projects.

The following tables represent research completed in the fall of 2007 by OpenLogic. We went to the experts — members of the OpenLogic Expert Community who are committers and expert users of the projects — and asked them to answer a set of questions. Members of Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty and GlassFish responded. Use the resulting information as a tool to plan your projects.