Find out the latest on GlassFish and Java EE in two sessions at Sunday’s Oracle Users Forum at JavaOne.

First, the “GlassFish Roadmap and Executive Panel” [UGF9120]  will cover the current status and future roadmap for GlassFish and Java EE. Oracle’s John Clingan, Anil Gaur, and Cameron Purdy will be on hand to answer your questions at this informal session. Come with questions, leave with answers.

That session will be immediately followed by “GlassFish Adoption Story and Deep Dive” [UGF9123] , where you will hear about who is adopting GlassFish and Java EE in real life. Egyptian Java User Group (EGJUG)] Leader Mohamed Taman will share the story of the first-known production deployment of GlassFish 4 and Java EE 7 in a deployment for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP). This session will also explore the newest cool features in GlassFish, including the extensible GlassFish command-line framework. 

Congratulations to the newest Java Champion, Justin Lee! Nominated and selected by the current Java Champions, Lee has a strong passion and love for the Java language and platform.

Lee has been a Java developer since 1996 (and can still remember being excited about the upcoming release of the new Swing UI toolkit).  Not counting occasional forays in to desktop development, he has spent the better part of the last 18 years doing server-side development including building quasi-Java EE application servers and ORMs. Lee helped with shepherding of websockets support in to first Glassfish/Grizzly and then in to Java EE itself.  Currently employed at MongoDB, Lee works on the Java driver, Morphia, and is the mongo-hadoop project lead. You can visit his web site and follow him on Twitter at @evanchooly. 

The Java Champions are an exclusive group of passionate Java technology and community leaders who are community-nominated and selected under a project sponsored by Oracle. Java Champions get the opportunity to provide feedback, ideas, and direction that will help Oracle grow the Java Platform. Nominees are named and selected through a peer review process. (Current Oracle employees are not eligible.) Learn more at the Java Champions page on Java.net.

In this video, David Delabassee discusses Java EE and Glassfish at Devoxx UK 2014. Learn how Java EE 8 planning is underway, and what's happening with GlassFish:

Resources

Java EE on Java.net 

Community Survey Results (PDF) 

GlassFish

JavaOne Sessions on Java EE 

Oracle Technology Network's (OTN) first Virtual Technology Summit is this week: July 9 and 10. The VTS includes tracks on Database, Middleware, Systems and, of course, Java. In the Java track, titled "Big Trends and Technologies," you will learn how Java lets you mine Big Data, build robust apps with HTML5, JavaScript and Java EE, and expand into the Internet of Things. Experts will present and you’ll be able to chat with them live online. 

The event is FREE, but you need to register!

Java Sessions 

Efficient architectures for creating MapReduce Pipelines 
by Fabiane Nardon, Java Champion and Big Data Expert

JavaScript/HTML5 Rich Clients Using Java EE 7
by Reza Rahman, Java Evangelist and Java EE Expert

How to Become an Embedded Developer
by Angelia Caicedo, Java Evangelist and Java Embedded Expert

At OTN's Virtual Technology Summit we want you to learn how to get the most out of Java. These sessions are real-world and code-heavy.  Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn from some of the best minds in the Java community.

by guest blogger David Delebasse 

We are now ready for the third and final instalment of the 2014 Java Virtual  Developer Day. This time, the schedule is geared towards Asia and Pacific Time Zones. So the APAC Java Virtual Developer Day will take place on May 28th (see below for exact timing)! Please note that this is not the date originally announced a few weeks ago so make sure to update your calendar with this new date and schedule (*)!

(*) Java Developer Day APAC - May 28th, 2014 :

Please join us for the Virtual Developer Day: Java 2014 on May 6th (tomorrow!)

9:00 a.m. ‐ 1:00 p.m. PDT / 12:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. EDT / 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. BRT

We've got a great agenda: technical topics by the real Java experts. Join us for the whole event or a single session; it's a great investment in you. This is a free event, but you must register.

Agenda

Register now and we'll see you online!