Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, java, open source on Feb 24th, 2010
Apparently it was Apache Web Server’s 15th birthday yesterday – congratulations to anyone who’s ever been involved in the project. I doubt any would have thought that 15 years on, Apache would have become the dominant Web Server on the Web and the foundation of one of the most successful and recognized Open Source forges. [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java on Feb 1st, 2010
One of the benefits we talk about with Open Source is that the license and collaborative nature can offer some protection for users should the main supporter disappear. Rarely has this been put to test but here’s an example that came across in my feeds today. OpenSSO was a Sun project that Oracle seemingly killed [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, Technology, java, open source on Dec 1st, 2009
Zallinger’s “March of Progress” from wikipedia.
I’ve been part of the Java ecosystem for long enough to see and be part of every Java EE / J2EE release to date. I still have a Forte SynerJ box-set somewhere – we claimed it as the first fully integrated J2EE 1.2 App Server and IDE – that was [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, Red Hat, java on Nov 9th, 2009
Another nice score card from Gartner puts JBoss Enterprise App. Platform in the leader’s quadrant of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers. That’s the fourth year in a row, in case you were wondering. Unscientific as it is – comparing with last year I’d say the leaders are widening the gap (cumulative advantage [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Red Hat, java on Nov 6th, 2009
This week we GA’d JBoss EAP 5.0. As you’d expect from a new release there’s a long list of new features, capabilities and APIs and at some point I’ll talk about those some more. But the intention of this post is to give you an idea of some of the other less visible things that [...]
Posted in Enterprise on Jun 4th, 2009
Earlier this week we announced a couple of things. First, a change in our platform strategy, second some new products to implement that strategy. We felt we had to give that strategy a name and “Open Choice”, while unoriginal, best illustrated what we’re doing. And what we’re doing is expanding our support to include Open [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Uncategorized on Jan 30th, 2009
Pete Muir (fellow Brit. with an incredibly plummy accent) tipped me off that he’s just released Alpha 2 of Web Beans (the reference implementation of JSR-299 : “Java Contexts and Dependency Injection”). Pete says that it’s about 80% complete – with only a couple of features missing. (Pete’s announcement, Release Notes, Download)
You’ll need JBoss AS [...]
Posted in Enterprise, Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2009
RHEL 5.3 was released this week and one of the major new features is the inclusion of and full production support for OpenJDK. As I mentioned earlier – that’s great news for OpenJDK adoption and great news for RHEL and JBoss customers – Red Hat can now support a full Enterprise Linux and Java stack [...]
Posted in Enterprise on Jan 11th, 2009
Just under a year after the original announcement, the Blacktie Project has just announced it’s first milestone release.
Blacktie allows the user to easily migrate their existing XATMI applications from any existing provider onto the open source JBoss application server with no re-writing of existing XATMI code
Read more on the project Wiki or Project Blog.
Posted in Enterprise on Nov 24th, 2008
The nice folks at DZone have just released a Refcard for Seam. A Refcard is a “handy guide for understanding core concepts, configuration, and tool usage”. Get it here.