Friday, December 12 was held in Paris, the Aquarium Sun.
Alexis MP had us a quality program that allowed us to discover and rediscover the Sun open source products.
I attended the day, and here's a summary of the major conferences I attended:
Project Fuji : Andi Egloff we presented the draft Fuji is the result of the project OpenESB. This project is still under development and that Sun has decided to share as soon as possible with the community. Andi gave us two ways to describe the sequences of operation within the ESB: one being a very nice web GUI for prototyping and the other a DSL named IFL integrated with NetBeans and d a great power of expression!
Grizzly Comet : Jean-Francois Arcand had moved from Quebec, to present us with the functionality of Grizzly Comet sockets. Grizzly NIO is a framework to easily build scalable and robust network connectors. It is among others used in the HTTP connector Glassfilsh and other Sun products. Jean-Francois showed us a demo of chat running on Grizzly Comet. He also spoke of the project atmosphere in which he is currently working and which aims to unify all the different solutions Comet web servers: Tomcat, Jetty, Grizzly.
OpenSSO : OpenSSO is a mature SSO solution to ensure authentication. It allows you to:
- the classic SSO authentication, lifecycle management of user session, ...
- the federation of authentication, ie authentication between firms.
The whole system works with an agent installed on each server and propagated to the application authentication using JAAS.
MySQL : Serge Frezefond we presented the new features in version 5.1: Partition, scheduler, row-based replication ... and the new features in version 6.0: the online backup, and new storage engine Falcon with a transactional engine oriented transaction short for Web applications. He continued his presentation on the various related products such as MySQL:
- Infobright and Kickfire for Business Intelligence.
- MySQL Cluster
- MySQL Proxy: a proxy that sits between the database and the application, which allows to intercept SQL queries and execute scripts. One can for example be used to load the balencing
- Monitoring MySQL and MySQL Analyze: to learn all about its database. I chose a very interesting feature to list the new requests played on the base, which can be very convenient to find the changes between two versions of an application.
JavaFX : I could not attend the entire presentation JavaFX but the little I could see was amazing! Simply put, JavaFX is a scripting language oriented Java GUI. Richard Bair and Martin Brehovsky we have shown that a few lines of JavaFX, you can make a multimedia application quality, with lots of visual effects, transparency and multimedia content. JavaFX with Java developers will finally be able to make applications "sexy" easily! All of which are used in a Web page and a Java webstart. demos
OpenMQ : OpenMQ is the open source version of Sun Java System Message Queue. Linda Schneider showed us the road map of OpenMQ and we talked about a particular news features 4.3. I noticed the module UMS : for sending JMS messages to the "REST mode" for example using AJAX clients. Part of the presentation was oriented solutions for high availability (HA): OpenMQ's policy to delegate the HA system underlying persistence: mysql-cluster, SunCluster, ... see his post on his blog.
Xwiki : xwiki recently joined the JSR scripting giving it access to more than twenty languages (including Groovy 
) And a WebDAV interface. They are also preparing a new version of their wiki text editor in GWT.
IzPack : izpak is a multiplatform installer applications: Windows, Mac, Linux. A set of files to configure the web page setup and trigger scripts to complete the installation. A Maven plugin allows to easily integrate the generation of the installation file to its application.
In conclusion, this first edition of the Aquarium in Paris shows the involvement of Sun in the Open Source mode and its desire to bring together a large community of developers. Sun now has a range of open source products that meet all the problems of modern applications: the database, the graphical interface, through the application server. Take a package of several applications could be a good solution to streamline its support contracts 
When will the next edition?
