Preparing Java EE 6 development environment with Eclipse and GlassFish v3

Ludovic Champenois, Philippe Ombredanne (nexB Inc.)

Eclipse IDE And Languages - Web Tools · Long - one hour
Tuesday, 10:10, 50 minutes | Great America Meeting Room 2

Ludovic Champenois

Philippe Ombredanne

GlassFish v2 is the Java EE 5 reference implementation and a production ready application server. GlassFish v3 is the next generation of Application Servers, built on top of OSGi modular system and is the working environment for defining the new Java EE 6 specification.

Both application servers have a nice integration with the Eclipse IDE based on WTP and EclipseLink JPA Dali tooling. A new Eclipse plugin is also in progress for offering Jax WS Metro Web Services development environment.

This talk will present the current Eclipse tooling offering for GlassFish as well as previews of Servlet 3.0, JSF 2.0, Metro Jax WS Web Services, EJB 3.1 development using the Eclipse IDE.

Current status is available at
https://glassfishplugins.dev.java.net/eclipse34/

Ludovic Champenois is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and has been with Sun and Java for the last 12 years. He is one of the tech lead and architect on the GlassFish Application Server and is responsible to ensure best in class developer experience for Java EE programmers with GlassFish and Developer IDEs. Ludovic is also heavily involved in leading Sun's open source initiative (Projects Ajax jMaki including plugins for NetBeans and Eclipse, Phobos server side Javascript, and OpenSolaris)

Philippe is a passionate open source software developer, Eclipse committer, open source activist and enthusiast plug-in developer. He is a maintainer for EasyEclipse, an open source distribution of useful Eclipse plug-ins, and contributor to several open source Eclipse projects, including PHPEclipse, the Visual Editor, the Ajax Tooling Framework, the Drools IDE and more. As a volunteer, he co-leads the Google Summer of Code program for Eclipse for the last three years. He is the CTO and co-founder of nexB, a software company dedicated to open source tools. Prior to nexB, he has worked at McDonnell Douglas, Accenture, and BearingPoint in various software development and consulting positions. He has worked on assignments with Apple, BEA, Checkpoint, Cisco, HP, Informatica, Mercury, Microsoft, Motorola, NetApp, Oracle, Salesforce.com, SAP and Wind River.