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Tab Sweep : JBoss

sharps — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:22:20 +0000

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 be interesting to see the results of this and it will be a great example of the power and flexibility of the JBoss architecture. JBossOSGi 1.0.0 Beta2 was released last week.

If you are eager to try out Eclipse 3.5 / Galileo and want to explor the upcoming features in JBoss Tools / JBDS you now can – JBoss Tools 3.1.0.M1 is available. See what’s new and noteworthy.

The recently released Seam 2.1.2 includes improved support for JAX-RS (RESTful web services) – more details here.

Finally, we have a free online seminar tomorrow (June 10th) at 9am EDT, 3pm CEST which covers Web Beans (JSR-299 / JCDI – Java Contexts and Dependency Injection). More details here.

Tab Sweep – JBoss

sharps — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:37:31 +0000

Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5, OSGi and beyond on DZone. Bill Burke on REST and JAX-RS. btw there’s a whole Microzone on Java Lobby / DZone dedicated to JBoss.

You can now catch up with videos from the JBoss community about JBoss people and technology on YouTube, blip.tv and Streamocracy,

Tha VAR Guy on Red Hat, desktop Linux and JBoss middleware.

Red Hat’s JBoss business hits overdrive. Matt Asay of c|net interviews my boss – Craig Muzilla (VP of Marketing for the JBoss division).

JBoss Tools 3.0 Alpha has been released – see Max’s blog posting for details.

Finally (and this isn’t specifically about JBoss) – theres an opinion piece in CIO magazine by Bernard Golden which suggests that SAP and Oracle have basically run out of ideas and innovation and are just milking their customers for everything they can.

JBoss AS 5.0 CR1 almost baked

sharps — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:44:07 +0000

JBoss AS 5.0 CR1 should be released within a week – this is a huge milestone for JBoss and the industry as a whole. AS 5 is significant investment in JBoss’ the future; the new architecture will allow us to quickly adapt to future changes and continue to outpace the competition; while maintaining a stable platform and operational footprint.

Now I just want to see the new admin. console working !

Sacha (JBoss’ CTO) has blogged his thoughts on AS 5 and recalls some of the history of it’s inception. Dimitris Adreadis (the JBoss AS lead developer) was interviewed on InfoQ and talks about some of the main features and his views on the prosposed Java EE 6 profiles and OSGi.

Modular, Pfft

sharps — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:49:10 +0000

So now every vendor is claiming a modular architecture for their enterprise Java runtime. This is progress and maybe OSGi really will become the standard framework for enabling modular architectures. Unfortunately people needed this capability 5 years ago.

It’s great to see the innovators rallying around such a good cause – but look at the dates !

“provide an up-to-date server model that gives enterprises the features they want.”
- Rod Johnson, Spring Source CEO – April, 2008 [link]

“GlassFish v3 has a modular, lightweight, extensible architecture”
Sun Employee, glassfish.net – June, 2008 [link]

“JBoss’ modular architecture means customers can also choose the features they want, instead of installing a full J2EE application server on devices with limited processing and memory capability.”

Marc Fleury, JBoss CEO, December, 2002 [link]