It has been some time since we have had a chance to chat and update you on all the JBoss goodness that has been cooking up behind the scenes here since the New Year started.
Time we fixed that, so without further delay, we bring you several weeks of news from the JBoss communities.
Events
Call for papers is open until the end of Jan for OSCON 2014 and in the JBoss communities there are things brewing, time to get your ideas in there too so we can meet up in July in Portland, Oregon.
This coming April there is the brand new DevNation conference coming, aligning all the JUDCon / CamelOne goodness you were used to and bringing them under one umbrella in San Francisco. The call for papers is ongoing, so hurry up and get your talks submitted!
The Red Hat Summit 2014 is coming in April to San Francisco and the agenda was made available today, you can browse the talks and enjoy a preview from some of the JBoss speakers in our community.
Next week, Jan 30th, there will be a JBoss BPM migration webinar covering the aspects you might be interested in when moving from the old version 5 to the new version 6.
There will be a Boston JUG meetup next week, Jan 30th in the evening that you can join to become a business rules hero. The following week all the JBoss Evangelist are going to descend on Chicago for a special workshop filled JBUG meetup.
There is a report following up on the workshops given in Singapore a few weeks ago training the locals up on JBoss technologies. The week after they were busy passing the gospel of JBoss to the Japanese in Tokyo at another workshop showcasing JBoss BPM Suite, JDV, and FSW. We also have a new translation contributor that is working on bringing various articles to the Japanese people.
You can follow up on the webinar around JBoss, Glassfish and Weblogic with links to the replay and Q&A lists from the webinar.
In March there will be an Atlanta JBUG meetup with speakers talking about the next generation integration with JBoss Fuse Service Works
There is a webinar coming up to get you started with JBoss A-MQ, don't miss it.
Blogs / Articles
The following articles were collected for your enjoyment:
The RHQ project has pushed out their vision of the future in a State of the Union address.
A new demo is available for the JBoss Business Resource Optimizer, this time running on OpenShift, start planning resource usage in the Cloud. If you are interested in upgrading from the older 5.5 to the new version 6, check out the blog detailing the experience.
The latest Forge 2 tooling has been made available in JBossTools and you get a tour through the tooling from installation to producing project code.
We welcome the brand new project, with an interview introducing the Narayana Transaction Analyser.
There was a series of WildFly tech tips published the last few weeks, you can catch up on them here; deploying multiple instances in the 8th tech tip, deploying applications and artifacts to Wildfly using the maven plugin in the 9th tech tip, deploying to WildFly using curl in the 10th tech tip, jboss-cli deployments in the 11th tech tip, and the 12th tech tip on using WildFly covers Role Based access control.
Take a tour of the new Drools core algorithm PHREAK stack based evaluations and backward chaining to sharpen your rules skills. Then you can watch them stress test the new algorithm with the OptaPlanner, find out which core engine is faster.
Take a closer look at using Spring with JBoss jBPM's newest release, this story will take you down the path to a warm Spring.
Interested in a new quick start guide for remote queries over Hot Rod by the Infinispan team?
There is a nice overview on how to integrate Apache Solr search results with your enterprise data using Teiid.
Catch up with the meetings in Brno last week by going through the slides to the WildFly EE Concurrency Utilities presentation.
Releases
This weeks list of new project releases, enjoy!
- Forge 2.0.0.Beta4 (Pound) Released
- CapeDwarf on WildFly 2.0.0.Beta1 released
- Arquillian Droidium 1.0.0.Alpha4 Released
- ModeShape 3.7.0.Final is available and also ModeShape 3.7.1.Final is available
- Narayana Transaction Analyser 1.0.0.Alpha1
- Teiid 8.7 Alpha1
- JBoss Forge 2.0.0.CR1 is now available
- Portlet Bridge 3.3.1.Final released
- Hibernate Validator 5.1.0.Beta1
- Hibernate ORM 4.3.1.Final Release
- Arquillian Warp 1.0.0.Alpha6 Released
- Arquillian Spacelift 1.0.0.Alpha1 Released
- WildFly 8.0 CR1 release