Adam Bien at GlassFish Community Event, JavaOne 2011

1. GlassFish Community Event – Customer
Experiences
Adam Bien
adam-bien.com
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2. How We Are Using GlassFish
• GlassFish v2-3.1 was used in the vast majority of my Java EE
projects.
• We started with GF v1, now v2.1 and 3.1.1
• Overall experience
– Good support, nice community, stable technology, open-minded engineers
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3. Killer AppServer
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4. What Worked
• Java EE is the most productive, simple and efficient platform you can
currently get and GlassFish is an important enabler (a commercially
usable RI)
• Favorites:
– IDE (NetBeans) integration
– Lightweightness + small footprint (deployment)
– Zero Installation or 5 minute installation (with IDE!)
– DevOps compatible (CI and Continuous Deployment)
– Extensive Monitoring
– Multi-Channel Administration
– Reference Implementation / Extensive Documentation
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5. How We Can Make it Better
• More focus on continuous deployment and operations
• Continuous Improvement of performance and efficiency
• Features we would like to see
– Complete REST-Administration (deployment of libraries and drivers)
– Rolling Updates and more 24*7 features
– GlassFish in the clouds (e.g. on ExaLogic J)
– Visual VM Plugins
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