Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Enterprise, open source, Red Hat on Jul 12th, 2011
Just 6 months after JBoss AS 6 was released, JBoss AS 7 (codename Lightning) is now available. Congratulations and a big thank you to the JBoss AS team and community. JBoss AS 7 is a major release in every respect and will become the technology underpinning for much of what we do at JBoss for [...]
Posted in Business, Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat on Nov 21st, 2010
There was a fairly innocuous post on the interwebs at the end of last week which Oracle employees have jumped all over in an effort to discredit JBoss. I’ll rise above the petty mud-slinging and instead use this post to explain the relationship between upstream projects that JBoss uses and the downstream platforms that JBoss [...]
Posted in open source on Nov 2nd, 2010
I’ve been a mostly happy OO user for the most part of the last decade (ever since my then employer – Sun acquired StarOffice) – it’s really been the only office application I’ve used consistently at home and at work and I’ve used it across many operating systems – Winders, many Linux variants and OS/X. [...]
Posted in Enterprise, java, open source, Red Hat 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 java, open source on Feb 16th, 2010
The JBoss AS team moved to a more rapid and incremental release cycle with the 6.x family and the second milestone was released today (release notes, download, repo.). The release was lead by Brian Stansberry and new features include : Servlet 3.0 / JBoss Web 3.0 JPA 2.0 / Hibernate 3.5 JAX-RS 1.0 / RESTEasy [...]
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, open source on Dec 19th, 2008
Three surveys ([1] [2] [3,4]] ) have been rattling around my almost empty pre-christmas inbox this week which give us some useful insight into how open source is being adopted; what drives adoption and what inhibits it. Reading across the surveys – I come up with the following observations and few surprises : Open Source [...]
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 open source on Oct 30th, 2008
Pete Muir (Seam lead and fellow Brit.) has just posted a podcast on JSF Central. Seam is a pretty broad integration framework and it’s hard to talk about Seam without talking about a host of other technologies – Web Beans, Wicket, JSF, GWT, Flex, Facelets – which Pete does in the podcast. Seam 2.1 was [...]
Posted in java, open source on Oct 23rd, 2008
The really big news last week was that JBoss ON (Operation Network) has finally been open sourced as the Jopr project (I’m trying to like the name – honest). JBoss ON is a sophisticated management platform for the JBoss Middleware stack and it’s based on Project RHQ (A collaboration between Red Hat and Hyperic). There’s [...]