Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 2.0
Microcontainer 2.2
More detail [...]
I guess there’s a chance that we’ll know more tomorrow but regarding the future of Java under Oracle’s control – I’m still neutral to optimistic and sticking to what I said 6 months ago :
DZone: With Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, are you concerned at all about some of the potential changes that will [...]
Yesterday we started a series of Web Casts covering JBoss Application Platforms (Recording, Slides). We didn’t manage to cover all the questions in the Q&A so as promised here they are :
Q: When using your Apache & Tomcat bundled software, do you provide any additional security patches above and beyond what the Apache & Tomcat [...]
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 Uncategorized on Jun 9th, 2009
From the “release early and often” files :
JBoss Messaging 2.0 beta is out. According to JBM lead, Tim Fox – New features include, performance, performance, performance, flexible clustering, seamless high-availability, large message support. See Tim’s announcement for details.
Thomas Diesler has some thoughts on how the JBoss Microcontainer could fully implement the OSGi spec. It will [...]
Posted in mass on May 29th, 2009
It’s been just over 3 months since we created the JBoss MASS project and today we’re announcing the first major code contribution – The Migration Analysis Tool (MAT) was created by Mitch Mocle and team at Middleware Connections. The tool is used as a starting point for estimating the effort required to migrate a group [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 23rd, 2009
Today we’re announcing a couple of things. First – the immediate availability of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 (JBDS 2.0). This is a pretty significant release, with many new features including :
Support for JBoss ESB, specifically the ability to create projects, deploy, debug and manage configurations.
Improvements to the jPDL Graphical Process Designer
A new Portlet wizard for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009
Three new community releases and one JSR review hit my inbox this morning :
JBoss Cache 3.0.3 GA, bug fixes and a few feature requests. Manik says “I recommend that everyone who is on JBoss Cache 2.x and 3.x move to this release, it is the fastest, most stable release to date”.
JBoss AS 5.0.1 GA, the [...]
Posted in mass on Feb 11th, 2009
A lot of interest in JBoss Enterprise Middleware is thanks to our proprietary competitors’ exorbitantly high license costs and completely disproportionate and poorly timed price hikes. While cost is certainly the main reason customers move – it’s not the reason they stay once they have made the move. According to recent surveys – Vendor Independence, [...]