Calling All GlassFish Users and User Groups: Please Contribute to GlassFish!

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Calling All GlassFish Users and User Groups: Please Contribute to GlassFish!Reza Rahman, OracleSteve Millidge, C2B2 and Payara


Agenda

GlassFish Roadmap How to Contribute How to Build GlassFish What would make you contribute? What features would you like to see?


Why I feel we need contributions

GlassFish is an excellent open source application server– Modern OSGI Kernel

We need a strong open source, production ready, Java EE 7 application server

– Otherwise what is the future for JavaEE

We need strong competition in open source Java EE– Only WildFly is not enough

– GlassFish 5 is minimum of 2 years away


GlassFish Role

GlassFish commercial discontinued– No Oracle commercial support for GlassFish 4 and beyond

– GlassFish 3 commercial support continues

– Java EE commercialized through WebLogic

– Third party support (including from C2B2 via Payara)

GlassFish open source continues– Reference implementation

– Focus on standards support, usability, community, innovation, evangelism

– Java EE releases, bug fixes

– Contributions most welcome!


GlassFish 4.1

Glassfish 4.1 Open Source Edition, Java EE 7 RI and SDK– Addressing must-fix and important bugs (800+)

– Updates to projects: Jersey, Mojarra, WebSocket 1.1, Tyrus, Grizzly, CDI 1.2, Weld

– JDK 7 and JDK 8 support

– Security bug fixes

– IDE Support: NetBeans 8.0.1 will include GlassFish 4.1


Java EE/GlassFish Roadmap

JSR Submissions

20172017

Final Release• Reference Implementation/GlassFish 5 Open Source Edition

• JavaOne 2016

Expert groups up and running (JavaOne)

Early Drafts

Public Review Draft

Proposed FinalDraft

Final DraftsSubmitted

201620162015201520142014

GlassFish 4.1 Open Source Edition


Ways to Contribute

Forums– Stack Overflow

Bugs– Use, test, file (FishCAT)

– Make easier to fix

– Contribute bug fixes

Java EE/JCP– Adopt-a-JSR

Blog, speak, social media Samples/documentation New features


Contributing Code

Explore/understand the code Find a developer, ask questions Build, setup, test Sign the OCA Work with a developer Earn commit rights Get recognition for your work


Short Demo


Building GlassFish Recap

Browse the Code – https://java.net/projects/glassfish/sources/svn/show/trunk

Checkout from SVN– https://java.net/projects/glassfish/sources/svn/show/trunk/main

Build with Maven– cd main

– mvn –DskipTests clean install

Get your release– appserver/distributions/glassfish/target/glassfish.zip

Unzip and run– $GLASSFISH/bin/asadmin start-domain domain1


Building a Specific Module

As before go the module directory– mvn –DskipTests clean install

Copy the module to the modules directory– $GLASSFISH/glassfish/modules

OSGI Development trick– Add to $GLASSFISH/glassfish/config/osgi.properties

– org.osgi.framework.storage.clean=onFirstInit


Things to Consider

GlassFish is built from many projects– Jersey, Tyrus, HK2, Felix, Eclipselink + others

– You may have to fix those projects

Pick a bug– https://java.net/jira/browse/GLASSFISH

– Many are more like support tickets than issues


What do you need to help you contribute?Capture Here


What areas do you think need work?Capture Here


What Features over JavaEE would you like?Capture Here


Features We’ve been asked for.

IIOP using Grizzly Hazelcast as JSR107 implementation Session Stores: Hazelcast, Mongo, Memcached, Couchbase Devops integration, Chef, Puppet OpenStack api integration Microservices release (core, JAX-RS, JPA) Elastic Clustering for clouds Simple Monitoring Console

Thoughts


Learn More

GlassFish– http://glassfish.org

How to contribute to GlassFish– https://glassfish.java.net/contribute.html

Adopt-a-JSR for Java EE 7– https://glassfish.java.net/adoptajsr/

Building GlassFish– https://wikis.oracle.com/display/GlassFish/FullBuildInstructions

The Aquarium– http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium


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Calling All GlassFish Users and User Groups: Please Contribute to GlassFish!