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Re: Announcing FishCAT, a community Beta program -- results and thank you card to FishCAT members !

From: Judy Tang <Judy.J.Tang_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:23:55 -0800

Hi Miro,

Thanks for giving us your input. And thanks for sharing your
expertise. Let me invite more community members to join the discussion.

Judy
Miroslav Nachev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One idea related with OSGi based EAR (all JARs are OSGi Bundles)
> deployment? If you are interested I can start working on that idea?
> For example the content in one OSGi based EAR file will be:
> 1. Core Java EE Application:
> 1.1. One or more EJB bundles. It is good all interfaces to be
> separated from the implementation in different bundles.
> 1.2. One Web Application Bundle (JAR file)
> 1.3. One Java Web Start (JWS) Application Bundle (JAR file)
> 2. Libraries:
> 2.1. Zero or many libraries represented as bundles. For example
> Hibernate, Apache, JDBC Drivers, etc.
>
> It is good the Swing application (JWS) to be started in some OSGi
> Framework which to retrive from the Server or another place signed
> Bundles (JARs). This will require some changes in Java Network Launch
> Protocol (JNLP) because the 1st action MUST be downloading of OSGi
> Framework (if this is a part of JDK7 then this part will be skipped)
> and then to download and install all bundles from which the main
> application bundles depends. As repository for bundles can be used:
> 1. The Server from where the application is started
> 2. Maven Repositories
> 3. OSGi Bundle Repository (OBR)
>
>
> Regards,
> Miro.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Judy Tang <Judy.J.Tang_at_sun.com
> <mailto:Judy.J.Tang_at_sun.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Kristian,
>
> Yes, we will continue building GFv3, so testing can continue. We
> would like to get
> community (FishCAT and FishCAT going to be) continue help us to
> improve quality :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Judy
>
>
> Kristian Rink wrote:
>> Hi Judy;
>>
>> Judy Tang schrieb:
>> [...]
>>
>>> We look forward to have more community members join FishCAT program [2],
>>> [3] to improve GlassFish quality together with us.
>>>
>> Will FishCAT, then, continue to exist even after GFv3 Prelude being
>> released? How are things supposed to continue now - heading forward to
>> "full" GFv3? Surely looking forward to seeing things to come...
>>
>> All the best,
>> Kristian
>>
>>
>>
>
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