GlassFish ESB v2.1 has been released

"New in GlassFish ESB v2.1 is clustering for all components, a great number of bug fixes, the inclusion of the IEP SE and Scheduler BC (a new component!), several component enhancements, inclusion of the latest NetBeans 6.5.1 IDE and the latest GlassFish v2.1 application server, and support for AIX 5.3. "

Look at the release notes for more.

GlassFish ESB Roadmap

The OpenESB community just released a roadmap for this year. Things are accelerating.

GlassFish ESB v2.1

Scope:

* NetBeans 6.5
* GlassFish 2.1
* Full support for GlassFish clustering
* Scheduler BC
* Misc. performance enhancements
* Bug fixes

Target date: Mid May 2009


GlassFish ESB v3

Scope:

* NetBeans 6.7
* GlassFish 3
* Light weight composition
* IFL
* Maven Support
* OSGi
* Interceptors
* ...

Target date: Sept 2009

So the most interesting will be GF ESB v3 scheduled for September 2009. Glassfish V3 is a micro-kernel based app server running on a OGSi platform. The IFL language is an effort to simplify common ESB tasks and implementing a domain specific language, much like Apache Camel, to implement common enterprise integration patterns and messages manipulation (routing, filtering, splitting, pipelining, ...).

New Sun Glassfish Portfolio

Sun has announced the new Glassfish Portfolio.

Finally Sun seems is learning something from MySQL, they are selling added-value tools for paying customers.

"GlassFish Enterprise Server subscribers are entitled to Enterprise Manager, which delivers improved management and performance monitoring features."

Before the Enterprise Manager was available only for Java CAPS. The new version seems to be a lot improved anyway:

• SNMP monitoring: Leverages existing SNMP infrastructure to monitor GlassFish
• Performance Advisor: Proactively monitors key performance indicators and automatically tunes JDBC connection pools.
  
• Performance Monitor: Diagnoses performance bottlenecks with visibility into key GlassFish performance metrics.

This was a much needed tool for enterprise customers, as monitoring and management is one of the primary features of any ESB, by definition.

From my point of view Glassfish ESB is not an opensource product with optional commercial support, it is a commercial product with the additional benefit of being opensource. Putting words in the right order makes a lot of difference sometimes.

Sun Releases Milestone 1 for GlassFish ESB

Today Sun made the public release of Milestone 1 for GlassFish ESB.

"GlassFish ESB is a binary distribution of OpenESB. It consists of subset of the components in OpenESB. Sun will provide commercial support for GlassFish ESB."

GlassFish ESB delivers a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project OpenESB into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. In essence, GlassFish ESB is a binary distribution that combines technology from Project OpenESB, the GlassFish application server and the NetBeans IDE communities into a supported, commercial distribution.

• GlassFish ESB is a binary distribution from the open source bits in OpenESB.
• Sun will support GlassFish ESB just like any other product: it will not just support the latest version, but also older versions. Once released, fixes to GlassFish ESB will be made on a branch behind the firewall and will be merged periodically to the head of the OpenESB code repository. This is an important point for customers who don’t like to continuously upgrade in production.
• Sun will continue to develop in open source on the OpenESB head.
• GlassFish ESB will be released on Dec 5th; there will be two more milestone releases in between.
• The GlassFish ESB site will soon live on sun.com. There are a few pages for GlassFish ESB on OpenESB just temporarily. We’re trying to separate the commercial aspects (i.e. GlassFish ESB) from OpenESB as much as possible: OpenESB is and should remain an open source community.
• The GlassFish ESB downloads will remain on OpenESB because the bits are being developed in Open Source.
• This does not change anything for the ESB Suite, MDM, and JavaCAPS: we will continue to develop them. There is and will remain a value differentiation between GlassFish ESB and the other products.
• There will be separate component releases next to GlassFish ESB. E.g. IEP will release soon as a separate component.
  

Main Features

• A flexible platform supporting multiple architectural styles (SOA, EJB, MoM, BPM)
• Modular architecture enabling a tailored solution platform for specific project and enterprise needs.
• Leading SOA and WS-* (WS-IT/Metro) support with industry leading interoperability with other platforms
• Integration tooling, based on the award-winning NetBeans IDE with integrated service development, deployment and testing
• Support for JBI, Java EE 5 and a wide range of other key industry standards
• Based on fully open communities Project OpenESB, GlassFish and NetBeans
• Backed by Sun's software support services
• Backed by a large and growing community with an exciting roadmap and future vision
  

Learn more

• Full list of components and standards supported.
• Feature comparison with other other Sun products.