Hey, look ! It's me again ! And so, here I am again to welcome you to this brand new JBoss Weekly Editorial. Certainly a rich one, as the quiet work of the JBoss Community over the holiday period is paying off, and many blogs, articles, and releases have been done in the last week. Ready for some tech action ? Here we go...

On the architecture side of life...

Before diving into code and low level considerations, let's take a look at some high-level topics that were discussed last weeks within the community. The he interesting notes of Markus Eisele on Coding in a cloud-based enterprise - designing for distributed architectures ~ Enterprise Software Development with Java are certainly a good start, and will probably led you naturally to read Thomas Qvarnström"s JBoss Tech Blog entry on "How to add JBoss xPaaS images streams to OpenShift Enterprise V3".

Once those read, you'll be ready for the next, more gritty items coming right now !

And the developer's corner

You are back for holiday, you did not good, hack together and tinker with anything for a little while, and both your mind and heart are hurting for a new, interesting challenge. Well, you're in for a threat as the community has delivered many intriguing litte tutorial and "tips and tricks" for you in the last week:

• Processes, Rules and Events: New feature: JavaScript as process dialect - JavaScript is going everywhere these days, so why not into rules and processes ?
• Hawkular - Monitoring Rails App using Hawkular Metrics - oh come on, you always wanted to add your own metrics to Wildfly WebConsole, you know it !
• Infinispan: Functional Map API: Working with single entries - and maybe a nice opportunity to check out the new release
• Vert.x3 real time web apps - yep, you read well, one can do "real time app" with Vert.x3 ! How ? Well, go see it by yourself !
• Keycloak: Service accounts support in Keycloak - have your application authentificate for you with Keycloak !
• Minecraft Modding at Schools and Libraries - want your kids to learn programming ? Well check this out and learn about more how Devoxx4kids is doing it (amazingly well, may I add...)

Learning JBoss Fuse with BPM & BRMS

The potential power of using both a powerful integration tool such as JBoss Fuse with a business rules engine (BRMS) along with Business process management (BPM) is certainly attracting for anybody who has dwelved a bit in either technologies. Issue is, seldom people have managed to tackle both.

Fortunately this week, Christina の J老闆 is offering you a very Getting Started Home Loan Demo version 6.2, followed by JBoss Fuse - JBoss BPM Microservices Integration. Of course, if you are already familliar with Fuse, you might not know yet BPM. Not an issue,   Eric D. Schabell is here for you with his new starter kit : Launching Digital Sign for JBoss BPM Suite Starter Kit. And once you'll be done with this one, guess what ? You'll get one for BRMS too : 7 Steps to Your First Rules with JBoss BRMS Starter Kit ! Isn't that swell ? 

Releases, releases, releases ... and some more releases !

To kickoff September as well as we could, the Jboss Community has released a lot of new version, including quite a lot of very important ones (in bold, if you want to be a bit picky, and only look at those):

• Belas Blog: JGroups 3.6.5 released - if you don't know what JGroups is and how it is important, well, be embarassed and check it out right away !
• Infinispan: Infinispan 8.0.0.Final - it's here and it's ready for Java 8 !
• TorqueBox: TorqueBox 4 Beta2 Released - last chance to find (and get fixed) some bug before 4.0 is released !
• Teiid 8.12 Beta2 and 8.11.3
• Immutant | Immutant 2.1.0 Release
• Arquillian Core 1.1.9.Final Released · Arquillian Blog
• JBoss Forge 2.19.0 Final "Spectre" is here - at least some of us are ready for the next James Bond movie !
• First bug-fix release for ORM 5.0
• JBossWS: JBossWS 5.1.0.Final is available!
• and, not really a release (yet), but quite related: Hibernate Search now ready for Hibernate ORM 5 !

Events

A couple of upcoming events are worth mentioning this week. First, Eric D. Schabell's description of Red Hat Forum UKI 2015 in London

will probably make anyone closed enough to attend, so check it out. Also in Europe, but a tidbit more later on the EMEA Partner Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, from 4th to 7th October, where I will be delivering (shameless plug) a lab on JBoss Data Grid (Infinispan).

That's all for this Editorial, and if you want more, well, it's impressive, because there is already quite a lot ! Please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from the communities surrounding the JBoss projects.