We missed a week but I tried to capture a full two weeks worth of interesting news and announcements (double the pleasure, double the fun). JBoss folks have both amazing energy and a great variety of interests and in this blog I hope to capture some of the highlights and point you at some very interesting new content.
Blogs:
- Have you heard of OptaPlanner? Software that produces the optimal plan for a set of constrained resources - how to staff the hospital nurses, how to load that truck for optimal delivery routing, how to schedule the machines in a factory, etc. In this blog, Geoffrey De Smet walks through an example of how a school might schedule their teachers, courses and associated rooms. I love the fact that he normally provides a nice video to illustrate the point. Will SkyNET control our schedule if the computer optimizes it for us?
- salaboy has been one our most prolific blog authors of late with some great entries on the new jBPM6 Console, with a nice tutorial/example Using the jBPM Console NG - HR Example and a follow-up that provides a lot more detail about the various web UIs associated with the jBPM and Drools projects KIE-WB / JBPM CONSOLE NG – CONFIGURATIONS
- Mark Little delves into the world of wearable, embeddable and generally ubiquitous computing devices - REST and the Internet of Things
- Ray Tsang blogs about Take Advantage of Your Site Map with Navigation API in Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.1
- Adam Warski has been digging into Apache Mahout and offers some nice tips/steps to get you going Using Amazon’s Elastic Map Reduce to compute recommendations with Apache Mahout 0.8
- Shane Johnson offers an excellent article on server-side web frameworks and the new JS, client-side MVC frameworks. Server Side Web Frameworks, The Last Stand
- Interested in Open Source, specifically performance then check out this New book: Performance of Open Source Applications, with a chapter on Infinispan
- More Gource Videos - what's Gource, you will have to see it to almost understand it
The Narayana project visualized by Gource
3 years of WildFly Gource Animation
- Eclipse SWTBot gets a logo - The face of SWTBot
- Andrew Rubinger comes clean on his recent transition to becoming a "marketer" ;-)
Joining the Dark Side | Developer Advocate and Program Manager
- Alessio Soldano publishes his slides for his recent Wise presentation at JBug Milan
- A bug in the JRE/JDK, on my - Oracle releases Java 7 update that fixes eclipse
New Releases:
* Arquillian TestRunner Spock 1.0.0.Beta2 Released
* Integration Stack for JBoss Tools and Developer Studio
* Hibernate Search: 4.4.0.Final released, with 4.5.0.Alpha1 released too
* Arquillian Droidium 1.0.0.Alpha2 Released
* AeroGear UnifiedPush Server 0.8.1 released
* Portlet Bridge 3.3.0.Beta2 released
* Teiid Designer 8.3 Beta2 available
* Arquillian Graphene 2.0 - Functional Testing with Elegance
* JBossWS 4.2.2.Final - Controlling Apache CXF Bus creation for JAXWS clients
* Hibernate ORM 4.2.7.Final Released
* Wait, Hibernate ORM 4.2.7.SP1 Released (yes, back to back releases)
* ModeShape 3.6.0.Final is available
Upcoming Events:
* OpenShift Primer - a JBoss workshop coming soon to JAX London 2013