GlassFish 3.1 has now attained the respectable age of one, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine reminds readers of his Aquarium b blog. The more salient aspects of this version, as Moussine-Pouchkine points out, were that the release conformed to the roadmap announced at the time of Sun's acquisition by Oracle; that it added key enhancements in centralized admin (SSH-based) and integrated much-improved high-availability cluster technology, thus making it a production-ready product; and that it introduced GlassFish Server Control, a set of tools to improve the production experience. The release of GlassFish 3.1.2 is imminent, he notes.
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After five release candidates, fixing hundreds of bug, and implementing some neat new features Oracle reports that GlassFish 3.1.2 has now officially shipped !

This is a highly-compatible release with previous GlassFish 3.x releases and as such is recommended for any current GlassFish user and more generally to anyone looking at a production-ready, fully-supported, and developer-friendly Java EE 6 server.

• Bug fixing, compatibility: hundreds of bugs were fixed in GlassFish itself and hundreds more by the integration of more recent versions of its components (mojarra, weld, grizzly, jersey, etc...)

• New Features: improved admin console (startup time, CLI parity, RFEs, ...), DCOM as an alternative to remote node SSH admin on Windows platforms, non-multicast Clustering/GMS, WebSocket support and more...

You can download the bits from the usual glassfish.org page.
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Jonas Boner and Peter Hilton are the guests of Host Roger Brinkley on Episode 73 of the Java Spotlight, where Akka 2.0 and Play 2.0 are under discussion. The Java All Star Developer Panel for this episode comprises Dalibor Topic, Java Free and Open Source Software Ambassador, and Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java EE Developer Advocate.
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