Wotif.com live on Glassfish

Wotif.com, my employer, went live on Glassfish in mid January. I was the driving force behind the move. You can read about it on the Glassfish site here: http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/how_to_run_a_top .
There is a questionnaire linked from the entry that is the raw question and answer source for the entry. You can see it here: http://blogs.sun.com/stories/resource/wotif/wotif_responses.html
Though not one of the main reasons for the change, we find ourselves on the JEE5 platform, and liking it. XDoclet boiler plate generation and EJB in-container testing are things of the past. It took a few days to move our code from EJB2 to EJB3. The end result is that we find ourselves early adopters of JEE5. The opportunitites this presents and some neat ways of capitalising on them are being documented on Robert Watkin’s blog. See http://twasink.net/blog/ .

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By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.