This was a quieter week, but interesting things still keep happening in the world of JBoss. Here are few:

A  shout from the JBoss Asylum inmates

Our favourite podcast, the JBoss Asylum, has recorded another edition, focusing on Java One. This edition's guest is Andrew Rubinger, tackling topics such as JBoss AS7, Arquillian as well as other recent developments from the enterprise Java world.

JBPM editor: On the web first, then in the cloud

We have announced last week the enhancements to the web-based JBPM editor. This week, Eric Schabell will show you how you can try it by yourself, by using the cloud-based version deployed in OpenShift. Indeed, all the nice web applications want to go there.

Pluggable encoding with TorqueBox

Torquebox provides now pluggable message encoding. What does this mean?  It means that Ruby applications that are deployed in TorqueBox may talk in a portable fashion to other applications via messages, regardless of what language are they written in. Learn how TorqueBox is  adding superior interoperability to the extensive list of advantages that the Java EE-based Ruby runtime provides from Toby Crawley's post.

Learn Switchyard with the workshop materials

The Switchyard team went on an Asian tour last month, giving a series of workshops. Keith Babo has published the workshop materials, so you can now learn more about using the new lightweight and powerful ESB from JBoss.

Content negociation in RHQ's RESTful API

Heiko Rupp has provided an overview of the latest enhancements of RHQ's RESTful API in the area of content negociation, providing an interesting example of avoiding code duplication when explicitly handling concerns that apply across content types, such as response codes and caching.

Unveiling MVEL

MVEL, a scripting language for the JVM, has been an integral part of Drools for a long time. In this article, published on The Server Side, Mike Proctor and Mike Brock provide an overview the main features of the language, arguing why it is, as they say, "JBoss' secret weapon".

New releases:

• Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR5 and 3.6.8
• Seam 3.1 Beta 4
• Drools 5.3.0.Final (including Expert, Fusion, Planner and Guvnor)
• Teiid 7.6 Beta 1
• Infinispan 5.1.0.Beta3
• RichFaces 4.1.0.M3

Upcoming Events

• Don't miss the London JUDCon on October 31st
  
• The JUDCon is scheduled at the same time with the JAX conference -  if you're at the conference, don't miss the JBoss day on November 1st
• The community webinar focusing on mobile JSF for the Java developer on November 2nd

Have a fun coding time, and join us next week for another round of news!

It's conference season, so there should be no surprise that some of the most important stories this week relate to the JBoss presence at various events. But not only that - we also have new releases, technical articles and many other  news from near and far.

We came, you saw, everyone won: Java One

As anticipated, the JBoss presence at Java One was massive and well-received, and our team on the ground has been kept busy by the packed audience at the sessions and at the booths (see the pictures).  Mark Little has been the first to publish his impressions - and there are more blogs to come.

Duke makes the right choice. Twice.

Besides the opportunity of talking about our latest technologies, there was another reason for the JBoss crowd  to enjoy their participation at Java One. We're talking about Duke's Choice Awards where two JBoss projects are winners this year:

• Arquillian for Innovative Integration Testing
• Netty for Innovative Network Programming

Fun fact about Netty: whenever you tweet about our weekly update, you are one of its users. Netty, a NIO-based asynchronous event-driven network application framework is a central component in Twitter's architecture.

Break your applications to make them better: Byteman

Andrew Dinn has published the 'Getting Started with Byteman' guide to DZone. Byteman is a Java bytecode instrumentation tool that allows the injection of code into applications (including running ones), using a simple yet powerful scripting language. This makes tracing and monitoring particularly easy, but it is fault injection - testing that your application is robust enough to handle unexpected failures - where Byteman proves to be uniquely useful.

Advanced Wizardry with SwitchYard and the Eclipse plugin

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Or, at least, so goes Arthur C. Clarke's quote. Be that as it may, a wizard's powers can be put to good use in either case. So, technology it is. Following Keith Babo's introduction of the SwitchYard plugin last week, Rob Cernich follows by describing its features in more detail, including the new wizards, XSD handling and m2e (Maven integration) configurations. SwitchYard is a premier lightweight enterprise integration framework, and tooling support (both through Eclipse and Forge) is another great addition to a great set of features.

BPM and rules management

In addition to the sessions at the upcoming RuleFest in San Francisco (October 24 - October 28), JBoss and Red Hat will organize a two-day Drools/JBPM BootCamp on October 27-28 (with a specific focus on healthcare on the second day).  For more details, read Mark Proctor's detailed announcement here.

On a related topic, Kris Verlaenen has published an overview of the service repository introduced by JBPM 5, which allows developers to create and share  services. This should make integration with well-known providers much easier. JBoss thrives first and foremost on the participation of its community, so you are encouraged to contribute to the repository with your own implementation.

JBoss AS7: as seen by the community

Adam Bien, Java Champion and Java EE expert has blogged about his experience of using JBoss AS 7.0.2 for more than a simple smoke test.

Hanneli Tavante, Seam community member has written about JBoss AS7 (in Portuguese).

New releases

• Hibernate Search 4 has published its first release candidate, which means that a final release is forthcoming
• Tattletale 1.2.0.Beta1 is out - it's even easier to check what the dependecies of a project are, since it supports WARs and EARs too now

JBoss sightings

Besides Java One, there were a couple of other events where JBoss was present:

• JBoss in Bossa in Brasilia (October 8) - you can find a list of participants as well as slides here
• JBoss One Day Talk in Munich (October 13)

Upcoming events

• JUDCon London - October 31-November 1
• JAX London (October 31-November 2) which features a JBoss Day

Was this a busy week? We cannot possibly know. A JBossian's work is never done, so we will keep working to deliver state-of-the art technology in collaboration with our enthusiastic community. Read us next week, for more news.