This screencast is an introduction to a real-life Rich Internet Application that plots markers on a Google Map retrieving data from a database. The detailed steps to reproduce this application are described at: http://blogs.sun.com /arungupta/entry/scr eencast_web11_travel _map_another
NetBeans IDE is used to build the application and it's deployed on GlassFish.
This is a real-life Rich Internet Application created using jMaki. It shows how widgets from multiple Ajax toolkits can communicate to each other in the same page using jMaki publish/subscribe mechanism. The complete details to create this application are available at: http://blogs.sun.com /arungupta/entry/sun _tech_days_event_map
GlassFish v3 (glassfish.java.net/ v3) is a modular, extensible and embeddable Application Server. You can easily install it from within NetBeans IDE. This screencast shows the exact steps to get you started.