GlassFish Story presented by David Heffelfinger/Ensode Technology at JavaOne 2013 GlassFish Community Event.

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How GlassFish Helped Boost
My Consulting Business
David Heffelfinger, CTO
Ensode Technology, LLC
http://www.ensode.com

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How You Are Using GlassFish
Enterprise web based application for a large government client
Java EE 6 application heavily using JSF, EJB, CDI, JPA
First version of the application developed in three weeks
GlassFish is being used in development and production environments
Taking full advantage of NetBeans/GlassFish integration for
development.
GlassFish cluster under Solaris in production

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What Worked with GlassFish
NetBeans integration is a huge productivity boost.
Configuration can be scripted
Allows setting easy setup of a new developer's environment
Implements Java EE APIs before anybody else.
As a consultant, GlassFish keeps me in high demand.

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How GlassFish Can Be Better
How can GlassFish/Java EE be improved?
Set up of the EJB timer service with a cluster is not intuitive.
Any particular features you are interested in seeing?
Web based admin console can be overwhelming for newcomers.
Future plans with GlassFish/Java EE?
Currently updating my Java EE with GlassFish book.
Currently evaluating a migration to GlassFish 4.

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