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New comment by henk53 in "I wanna live an NPC life"

henk53 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:38:37 +0000

> We are wired to be needed, wanted, useful, accountable, social.

When AI eventually takes nearly ALL jobs, that will be a quite difficult thing.

OmniHai: A Java framework for all major AI providers

henk53 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://omnihai.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666031

Points: 4

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We reduced tests from hours to just minutes using automatic GlassFish pools

henk53 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://balusc.omnifaces.org/2026/06/from-hours-to-minutes-glassfish-pool.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413497

Points: 1

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A three year long unfruitful struggle to publish an official image on dockerhub

henk53 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/14107

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607510

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by henk53 in "Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish"

henk53 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:26:35 +0000

> single, self contained deployable

EE doesn't exclude that model at all.

For the most part, maybe like 99%, the Jakarta APIs are agnostic of what the deployment model is. They are APIs to validate input, service HTTP requests, store data in databases, look up roles, connect to identity providers, etc etc.

New comment by henk53 in "Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish"

henk53 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:08:02 +0000

> I thought that was Tomcat or was Tomcat just the servlet reference implementation

Tomcat itself has never been an official reference implementation of anything.

Tomcat implements various Jakarta EE APIs, most centrallly Servlet indeed, but also JSP (Jakarta Pages) and JSTL (Jakarta Tags), WebSockets and Jakarta Authentication.

The initial Tomcat was donated to Apache, then used back in GlassFish. GlassFish WAS the reference implementation of Servlet (among others), so indirectly Tomcat kinda was the reference implementation indeed. But just a fork of its code via GlassFish.

New comment by henk53 in "Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish"

henk53 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:39:16 +0000

> Spring won. Why would anyone want to learn the standard aside from it being a standard that few people use?

People don't really talk about Jakarta EE as "the standard". Haven't been doing that for quite some time.

You learn it so you don't hand Spring the ultimate monopoly. I thought we all didn't like monopolies? Why give Broadcom one?

Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

henk53 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:27:02 +0000

Article URL: https://foojay.io/today/eclipse-glassfish-this-isnt-your-fathers-glassfish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517076

Points: 47

# Comments: 47

Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

henk53 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 13:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://omnifish.ee/eclipse-glassfish-this-isnt-your-fathers-glassfish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47297346

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish

henk53 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:18:57 +0000

Article URL: https://omnifish.ee/eclipse-glassfish-this-isnt-your-fathers-glassfish/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268593

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Jakarta EE 11 Delivers 16 Updated Specifications and Modernized TCK

henk53 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:09:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/jakarta-ee-11-updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453097

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by henk53 in "Java: RedHat X IBM Annoucement"

henk53 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:30:36 +0000

IBM already owns Red Hat, but for a few years it operated as a largely individual company still.

GlassFish is rolling forward. What's New?

henk53 — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:44:24 +0000

Article URL: https://omnifish.ee/2024/09/12/glassfish-is-rolling-forward-whats-new/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254915

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The GlassFish server is rolling forward again. What happened?

henk53 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:40:39 +0000

Article URL: https://omnifish.ee/2024/09/12/glassfish-is-rolling-forward-whats-new/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41523410

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by henk53 in "GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps"

henk53 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:32:10 +0000

> Spring is just a framework, not an application server with isolated classloaders that the JaveEE application servers were based on.

But Spring Boot with its embedded HTTP server and internal infrastructure is certainly more than just a framework. It has its own class loade (launchedurlclassloader). See https://dzone.com/articles/spring-boot-classloader-and-class...

Piranha Cloud on the other hand runs Jakarta EE code without any class loader of its own. See https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/you-dont-always-n...

New comment by henk53 in "GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps"

henk53 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:11:55 +0000

> JavaEE somehow associates with managing applications through the Application Server’s admin panel,

That is a wrong association really.

Even in the really old versions of GlassFish and JBoss such an admin panel was just an extra (I hate them too, btw).

You could always, Tomcat style, just copy your .war to a deployment folder. If you wanted, you could also zip up GlassFish with the war already in that folder and deploy that.

> registering EJBs with deployment descriptors

That was required for the last time in J2EE 1.4, from 2003 or so. Already in Java EE 5 from 2005 that wasn't necessary anymore. Also don't forget that spring beans needed to be registered in very similar deployment descriptors (huge xml files) just as well.

New comment by henk53 in "GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps"

henk53 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:08:14 +0000

Java EE 6 was pretty decent really. It came with JAXRS, CDI, Bean Validation and JSF 2.

New comment by henk53 in "GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps"

henk53 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:10:12 +0000

If you used J2EE in 2012, did you happen to get that idea from a very old book?

J2EE ended in 2005. So if you used it in 2012 it may explain something.

New comment by henk53 in "GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps"

henk53 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:02:27 +0000

Isn't this very article about directly running GlassFish from Java SE?

You could also say btw that GlassFish doesn't need any WebSphere or JBoss. Or you could say that WebSphere doesn't need a JBoss or GlassFish.

Also, WebSphere is legacy within IBM. Their new and much much better server for some time is called Open Liberty. It uses some components from WebSphere, but in a highly modularised way, and the overal runtime is totally different.

New comment by henk53 in "GlassFish Embedded – a simple way to run Jakarta EE apps"

henk53 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:57:12 +0000

> LOL - I wondered if I had just travelled back to 2001 when I saw this.

In 2001 the product wasn't called GlassFish yet, and even the Sun ONE Application Server name wasn't there yet.

The name GlassFish wasn't introduced until 2005 and had its first release the year after that.