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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Red Hat, java on Jan 26th, 2010
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 [...]
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Posted in Red Hat, java on Jan 13th, 2010
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 Red Hat [...]
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Posted in Red Hat on Nov 17th, 2009
Red Hat Summit :: JBoss World :: Boston :: June 22-25, 2010
I think I’ve just about recovered from the last JBoss World. Chicago is a fun place and I’m glad I finally got to spend some time there; next year it’s in one of my favorite cities – Boston. From the email :
A comprehensive agenda [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 12th, 2009
JBoss World 2009 is just under 3 weeks away and it’s still not too late to register. GEICO CIO Jess Reed will be one of the keynotes this year underlining that JBoss World is a great place to come and learn how other organizations just like you have saved money and improved performance and stability [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
A few weeks back JBoss Enterprise App. Platform 4.3 achieved Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 2+ – here’s the press release and here’s the evaluators updated page.
Common Criteria Evaluation is an internationally recognized standard that defines a framework for computer systems users to specify security requirements; for vendors to implement them and [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 4th, 2009
It’s July 4th and we have an extended weekend in the US which is a good enough excuse to catch up on some blogging; at least until the Strawberry Margaritas start flowing. At Java One this year we announced an initiative called Open Choice which I blogged about previously. Fundamentally Open Choice is about broadening [...]
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