GlassFish figures prominently in the IT infrastructure car maker PSA, which produces Peugeot and Citroën vehicles, where it is used in support of the company's wide-ranging set of internal and external Java applications and as part of the company's strategic use of open source, writes Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine. PSA's production deployment of GlassFish follows a stringent evaluation and qualification process including setting up consolidated development environments leveraging the domain and node-agent architecture of GlassFish for an overall optimized utilization of GlassFish v2.1. The administration tools (both web console and the asadmin CLI) are key features here, the blogger adds.
The Mobile Desktop Grid is a project designed to interconnect institutions that have clustered and non-clustered computers, with the objective to assist researchers who are addressing global issues in completing their intensive computational jobs in a shorter period of time. Basically, the MDG project aims to assist those requiring the intensive computational power of clustered systems, but are unable to purchase the technology due to financial constraints.
Learn how to deploy a secure application with protected methods on Oracle-Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server Version 3. Nithya Subramanian shows how to provide authentication credentials to the embedded server - a key new feature offered by this version of GlassFish - before invoking the protected methods in a recent blog entry.
Oracle's Sun Java Wireless Client is now available for Qualcomm's Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP). This means Oracle's Java implementation for mobile handsets is now pre-integrated with Brew MP, giving handset manufacturers and developers a turnkey solution to incorporate Java technology into mobile devices based on Brew MP in a consistent manner across devices.
Although in the short term, development will continue in parallel on both the Sun HotSpot Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and the JRockit JVM that Oracle acquired from BEA Systems, the most informed speculation is that, eventually, a single JVM based on both technologies is expected within the coming 18 months to two years, or so writes Paul Krill in InfoWorld.
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