Johan's blog
First day at JavaOne
I went to the GlassFish Unconference today at the Moscone Center. This is a prelude to CommunityOne, which is a prelude to JavaOne. Well, maybe it should be the other way round since the level of interactivity is very high at the unconferences. I had the opportunity to have some discussions with the spec leads for the different parts of the GlassFish project. It is interesting to see that GlassFish is currently much more than just the reference implementation of Java EE 5. Besides being the reference implementation of the forthcoming Java EE 6 specification, it has its own life and ambitions. A more modular system, with an OSGi framework in the heart, and with a number of distribution builds, to name a few.
I am pretty confident in the future of GlassFish. It is open-source and cleverly written. The OSGi integration has only started, and may become a very interesting opportunity for developers that want to write code in the OSGi way.
Stay tuned for more JavaOne news.
