Hello JBoss Followers:

To kick of this week's note, I wish to focus on a major delivery by MANY of our teams - JBoss Developer Studio 6 shipped TODAY and you can download it immediately.   Key features include:

- Based on Eclipse Juno

- Installing JBDS into your own Eclipse Juno via Eclipse Marketplace (see screenshot below)

- Android Tools now in JBoss Central

- GWT Designer now in JBoss Central

- Improved OpenShift Wizard to support OpenShift Enterprise

- Improved Maven Project Wizard

- Support for Seam 2.3

- Tested on Windows 8 and Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

- Tested on Java 7 32-bit and 64-bit

The delivery of JBoss Developer Studio represents more than a simple Eclipse-based toolset due to JBoss Central.   On JBoss Central, you will find the following:

- Easy integration with OpenShift - including the new OpenShift Enterprise

- Use of Java EE 6 Maven Archetypes and JBoss Developer Framework's Stacks

- HTML5 Archetype from the Aerogear Project - which has also dramatically updated their project's website

- RichFaces Archetype from the RichFaces Project

- Spring MVC Archetype from the Snowdrop Project

- GWT Archetype from the Errai Project

- JBoss Developer Framework's Quickstarts - dozens of easy to follow examples to get you started quickly with Java EE6 and complimentary features

- Links to documentation, screencasts, blogs and much more

A significant number of open source stars have to align to deliver all of these capabilities at a single point in time.   If you are the type (like myself) who would rather spend a few minutes watching a video BEFORE you invest the time and energy into downloading and installing something - check out this video I recently uploaded to YouTube:

The JBoss Team has also delivered numerous blogs, new releases and crafted several other videos that I know you will enjoy:

• Brian Leathem describes his vision for Polygot Widgets - UI controls that are available via many frameworks like JSF, GWT and JQuery.  Check out his awesome demo video.
• Gary Brown produced two videos for Project Overlord (SOA Governance) - one on Call Trace Business Activity Monitoring and another on Policy Enforcement.
• Eric Schabell recorded a very nice demo of using SwitchYard at OpenShift.
• The Errai Team talks up their 2.2 candidate release.
• Jozef Hartinger announces Weld 2.0.0.Beta1 - the CDI 1.1 reference implementation - Java EE just gets better and better
• Ales Justin unleashes the CapeDwarf - no this is not a reference to The Hobbit, it is to make your Google App Engine projects more portable!
• Eric Schabell announces the deliver of the OpenShift Primer on Amazon and Apple's iBooks - what is the logical first comment? "What about Google Play?"  :-)
• Bryan Che publishes a great blog on defining a Hybrid Cloud - Portability - Open Source and Open Standards
• Boleslaw Dawidowicz announces GateIn 3.5.0.Final
• Ken Finnigan gives us the GateIn Cookbook - an excellent resource for getting your head into the GateIn game.

There are still a few weeks left in 2012 - I suspect our team can crank out a few more great things in that timeframe.  Stay tuned, it gets better and better