{#asciidoc} = GlassFish Roadmap Jason Lee 2010-03-26

There has been a lot of speculation and concern about the fate of GlassFish after the Oracle acquisition. Yesterday, though, we were able to unveil the official roadmap for GlassFish, and I think it looks very promising. In short, not much is going to change with regard to the open source side of things, though there are some changes on the commercially supported offering, which is not unexpected. Some of the highlights include:

For a more complete picture, see the slide deck here.

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{#asciidoc} = Writing Selenium Tests for the GlassFish Admin Console

One of the results of the Oracle purchase of Sun has been an increased focus on testing — not that we didn’t test GlassFish before, but it was mostly manual in my area of the server. The task of automating this fell to me, and, after a little — ahem — testing, I settled on Selenium.

{#asciidoc} = Run GlassFish V3 As a Non-Root Service on Gentoo Linux Jason Lee 2010-03-04

Byron Nevins, a colleague of mine here at Oracle, has a couple of nice blog entries showing how to run GlassFish as a service, both as root and non-root users, on Ubuntu or Debian. As a Gentoo user, that doesn’t help me much, unfortunately, but, some time ago, I developed a script that works great for me, so I thought I’d share it here.

{#asciidoc} = New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part IV – sc:combo Jason Lee 2010-02-18

Yesterday brought us Part III in our look at some new components in Mojarra Scales. Today, Part IV brings us sc:combo, combination, if you can imagine that, of a h:selectOneMenu and h:inputText.

{#asciidoc} = New Components in Mojarra Scales: Part III – sc:imageZoomer and sc:lightbox Jason Lee 2010-02-18

In Part II of this series, I introduced the new auto complete component in Mojarra Scales. In this installment, we’ll take a look at two new closely related components, sc:imageZoomer and sc:lightbox.