Bob McWhirter has been playing around with Ruby and JBoss – here’s his first progress report. The start of something cool I’m sure.

JAX-RS (aka JSR 311) is approved – now we just need a TCK. Bill has just released beta 8 of RestEasy and also posted some REST inspired articles on DZone (Intro. to REST, Putting Java to REST). Bill also provides some sage and hard-earned advice for Rod Johnson – I agree, and said this a while back – monetizing OSS is about more carrot and less stick.

Over on the JBoss Portal blog – there’s some nice horizontal scalability testing results. Portal is getting a real shot in the arm – we have a new Product Manager (thanks IBM) and a new project lead and the team seems pretty fired up. We even made Gartner’s MQ for horizontal portals – not bad given the young age of the project.

JBoss Cache is now searchable – and JBC is turning into a bit of a family project !

From what I’ve read so far – Red hat scored some Brownie points for disclosing the recent intrusion. I doubt all vendors would’ve been so transparent.

Red Hat IT switched over to JBoss EAP 4.3 – they’d outgrown Tomcat and needed some of the more advanced features to keep all our applications running all the time. I’ve been lucky enough to get a quick overview of how they’re managing their JBoss cloud – hopefully we’ll get more details out. But Project Genome was a result of some of the work they’ve done.

Finally – don’t forget to vote (no not that) – this.