Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
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 [...]
Posted in java, Uncategorized on Dec 22nd, 2008
JBoss is responsible for producing the Reference Implementation of JSR-299 (aka Web Beans) and Pete Muir(the RI lead) has just announced that the first Alpha release is available. Reference Implementations are useful in that they demonstrate that the specification is practical and can actually be implemented; it also allows people to evaluate the technology (ie. [...]
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 [...]