Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I just heard that JBoss AS 5 CR2 is out (download, release notes). This is an important milestone as it passes the Java EE 5 TCK – we’ve been bouncing around the 99% mark for some time so it’s good to finally get over the line. While most of the key features of Java EE [...]
Posted in open source, Red Hat, Technology on May 8th, 2008
There was a time when when the main selling point of (Free) Open Source was cost and consumers of the technology we’re willing to make compromises in other areas. I think that’s changed and Enterprise adoption is one of the causes. If your are responsible for maintaining your organization’s business crtitcal infrastructure – you’re not [...]
Posted in Enterprise, open source, Technology on Mar 5th, 2008
If you work in the IT / software industry and unless you’ve been shipwrecked on a deserted island for the last 5 years you have probably followed the rise of JBoss. I have tracked them very closely as a competitor. Founded in 2001; JBoss proved the commercial Open Source model, disrupted the incumbents in an [...]