JON 2.0 - not just sexy
Apr 24th, 2008 by sharps
JON 2.0 sounds like a cheesey-made-for-cable film you’d find on SciFi channel during the afternoon (not that I would know).
But it’s not - JON stands for JBoss Operations Network. There’s a myth that open source ‘products’ tend to be a bit rough around the edges, not easy to use, no flashy consoles, etc. Well, JON 2.0 busts that myth.
I just had a preview of JON 2.0 and was suitably impressed - and I’ve seen a lot of similar attempts in the past so I had some pretty high expectations going in.
The background to JON is pretty interesting too - Red Hat and Hyperic joined forces to develop the core technology for building management solutions - the open source RHQ project. JON 2.0 is JBoss’ offering based on that core technology. I really think the RHQ project could raise the bar for OSS.
If you’re going to Java One - you’ll no doubt see a lot more of JON 2.0; if you’re not, there are some flash demos here.
btw. I just heard the JON team are hiring - they’re looking for a Product Marketing Manager (GTM, sales training, sales support, collateral,etc.) - I’m not sure the opening is posted yet but if think you’re worthy of marketing such a cool product 
and think you have the gonads for the fast-paced Open Source environment - drop me a note : rich dot sharples at redhat dot com.
Is there a CHANGES file, that can be used to compare what changed between 1.4 and 2.0 (besides the internals).
How does JBoss ON differentiate itself from RHQ?
The Whitepaper does not mention Tomcat 6 as monitorable, which is the default in JBoss 4.2 (even EAP). Is that an oversight?
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@Tobias: Everything changed
I don’t think there will be a CHANGES file in the classical sence, as it would be too big. And most of the changes are “internals”, which allow you to scale in to sizes that were not possible with 1.4.
We will have some more info about JOn2 out there real soon.
Jon2 will definitvely allow to monitor Tomcat6 as part of JBossAS 4.2 or EAP.
And hey: just answer the mail in your inbox that you want a presentation of RHQ at the Stuttgart JBoss Users Group
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