Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 Jan 14th, 2009
Back in June I stumbled across code_swarm – a very nice visualization of the commit history of a software project. I hinted on an internal list that it would be nice to see visualizations for JBoss projects and lo-and-behold – they’ve started appearing (I’m not suggesting for one moment that anyone takes a blind bit [...]
Posted in Enterprise on Nov 24th, 2008
The nice folks at DZone have just released a Refcard for Seam. A Refcard is a “handy guide for understanding core concepts, configuration, and tool usage”. Get it here.
Posted in Enterprise on Nov 10th, 2008
I’ve found it difficult to keep up with blogs in between travel hell so I’m being lazy and combining a whole bunch of items that really deserve longer entries, opinion and elaboration. Bob McWhirter has been playing with JBoss and Rails integration; clearly he’s made a lot of progress – to the extent where he [...]
Posted in open source on Oct 30th, 2008
Pete Muir (Seam lead and fellow Brit.) has just posted a podcast on JSF Central. Seam is a pretty broad integration framework and it’s hard to talk about Seam without talking about a host of other technologies – Web Beans, Wicket, JSF, GWT, Flex, Facelets – which Pete does in the podcast. Seam 2.1 was [...]
I was in Italy last week with the core Hibernate and Seam developers – working on he roadmaps / strategy for both. It was a great opportunity to meet some of JBoss’ best and brightest and put some email addresses to faces. Instead of the usual over-priced hotel accommodation – the venue was a house [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 4th, 2008
David Ward interviewed on DZone talking mainly about JBDS but also about Seam, the platforms, jBPM and what’s coming in AS 5.0 – good overview if you’re a JBoss n00b like me. It’s always great to see your own products streamlining business and saving customers money – but optimization often has consequences. JBoss Portal has [...]