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 [...]
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 & [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]