Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
There are only 9 days left to submit your talks for JBoss World 2010, in case you need them, here are some good reasons : It’s in Boston, In June. It’s a great city and the snow and ice will probably be mostly gone by June. You get a free conference pass, good for all [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat, Technology 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 [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, java, Red Hat 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, java, Red Hat 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 java on Mar 9th, 2009
I haven’t done one of these in years but later this week I’ll be joining some familiar faces to discuss the future of Application Servers / Stacks. The Panel is at SD-West in Santa Clara, CA this Thursday from 10.15am – 11.45am (schedule) The session is lead by Chris Haddad from Burton and I’ve worked [...]
Posted in java on Feb 20th, 2009
Last week we hosted the first JBoss Virtual Experience – by all measures it was a great success – 2563 registrants, 3400 visits to the booths, and an average of 300 attendees per session. The technology held up well and we only had a few minor technical issues so kudos to all those involved in [...]
Posted in java, Uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2008
JBoss is responsible for producing the Reference Implementation of JSR-299 (aka Web Beans) and Pete Muir(the RI lead) has just announced that the first Alpha release is available. Reference Implementations are useful in that they demonstrate that the specification is practical and can actually be implemented; it also allows people to evaluate the technology (ie. [...]
Posted in java, open source on Dec 8th, 2008
The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. — Isaac Asimov And that, so I’ve been told, was a guiding [...]
Posted in java on Nov 14th, 2008
JBoss (a division of Red Hat) is hiring. One of our Technical Development Managers (the most excellent Bruno Georges has moved to a new role in APAC sales) so we’re looking for a replacement to manage the Portal Platform and common framework teams. We’re also looking for curriculum developers and trainers for JBoss Middleware. You [...]
Posted in java on Oct 27th, 2008
I just saw this nice screencast of the new AS console (aka embedded Jopr) – so even if you don’t have time to download and play yourself, you can get a feel for what’s coming.