Success stories on GlassFish adoptions are making the rounds. Here are three of recent note.

Kenai.com

GlassFish Adoption Questionnaire provides insight into the uses made at Kenai.com -- Web server -- by Lea Wang. She notes that GlassFish meets Kenai's needs to be able to run Ruby on Rails applications on JRuby and noting the assistance provided by the GlassFish team regarding tuning and diagnosing performance issues. Wang says that Sun service and support are what she likes most about GlassFish.

LinkedIn

Linkedln Polls: Ruby-on-Rails and GlassFish reports a winning combination with this application that enables the polling of an audience and the subsequent analysis and sharing of the results. Developed by the Light Engineering (LED) team at Linkedln, Linkedln Polls is a revenue generation source for the company.

The application, they report, is built using Ruby-on-Rails and deployed as a WAR file on GlassFish. because it works on GlassFish, which provides useful error messages into the bargain.

LinkedIn Polls, deployed on Solaris Zones from a hosting provider, uses MySQL as the database, is featured at on-air with CNBC.

JotBot

Yet another use of GlassFish is the cross platform desktop-based time tracking application at JotBot, which is written using JRuby, Swing, Monkeybars and Ramaze. The application itself is deployed on GlassFish on a VPS hosted on eApps.

GlassFish was chosen because it met the the evaluation criteria for better deployment and management and for the options offered by hosting companies. Choosing GlassFish, the JotBot team reports, enabled the company to focus more on development effort and less on sysadmin work and offered a solution that has been working with no trouble for a few months now. JotBot reports that Sequel is used as the ORM for talking to MySQL and H2 databases and NetBeans was used for designing the screens.

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