Welcome to another edition of the JBoss Editorial where we take another spin through the Community blogs in search of interesting news and developments.
This week we begin with Mark Little who has written a great post explaining his thoughts on the next generation of frameworks and stacks to come out of JBoss. He discusses the evolution of existing frameworks and their integration with newer frameworks, such as those designed to support microservices and reactive programming, the impact of migrating applications to the cloud and the benefit to be gained from technologies such as Fabric8 and CD/CI. This is definitely worth reading if you want a better understanding of our future.
Why you should use Ceylon
This week sees the release of Ceylon 1.2, a phenomenal development effort that has been underway for the last year. Ceylon is a sophisticated programming language that is designed to run on the JVM and JavaScript virtual machines, as such it is often described as a true cross-platform language. There are many other reasons why you should take a look at Ceylon and who better to describe some of these than Gavin King.
Return to the Asylum
This week sees the long awaited return of the JBoss Community Asylum with guests Tristan Tarrant and William Burns being interviewed about the Infinispan project. The discussion touches on the use cases for Infinispan as well as some of the new features that have been introduced. If this podcast intrigues you then also check out William's post on expiration in which he describes the behaviour present in previous releases and how this has been enhanced in Infinispan 8.
Getting Started with KeyCloak
If you have an interest in Single Sign On or Identity Management then you should check out the KeyCloak project, an integrated SSO/IDM server that comes with many useful features. For those of you who wish to do more than read about the server Stian has provided some great instructions for running the server as standalone, within WildFly, within docker or on OpenShift.
Datamining with Hawkular
The Hawkular team are busy developing a Datamining module for integrating into the Hawkular platform the purpose of which is to predict alerts and forecast the values of metrics. Pavol Loffay introduces the work taking place and describes its architecture, its goals and the next steps for the project.
Cleaning up Hibernate ORM
The Hibernate ORM team are again cleaning up their open JIRA issues, their intention being to close those issues that are no longer applicable to the 5.0 stream, verify the others and to allow them to focus on those issues that matter most. If you have an interest in Hibernate ORM then take a look through the JIRA issues and make sure that any you care about are covered.
Red Hat 4 Kids
As part of our We are Red Hat Week, an annual event that has every office within Red Hat arrange activities in celebration of our culture, the Red Hat France office decided to put on a RedHat4Kids event, following the very successful Devoxx4Kids format, and invited their children into the office to learn about programming.
Docker and Kubernetes Presentations
The first presentation is from Christian Posta who recently gave a four day deep-dive course on Docker and Kubernetes, he has now uploaded his slides for everyone to use. The second presentation is a recording of an interview between Markus Eisele and Rafael Benevides in which Rafael discusses docker within the context of Java EE and it was a sneak peak into their Hands-on-Lab at JavaOne.
JBoss in Books
Markus Eisele has cause to celebrate this week with the publication by O'Reilly of his mini-book entitled "Modern Java EE Design Patterns". Markus has provided more details on the book, including its abstract, and also mentions where you can download the boot for free.
Packt Publishing have recently released the WildFly Cookbook, a book written by Luigi Fugaro. The book identifies specific goals that you may encounter and demonstrates how each goal can be achieved through the use of individual recipes.
JBoss Out and About
The Fabric8 team will soon be visiting New York City, USA to take part in the Microservices Developer Day. The event takes place on November 4th on West 39th Street, Manhattan, New York.
New Releases
- The Hibernate team have announced the release of Hibernate ORM 4.2.21.Final and Hibernate ORM 5.0.3.
- The WildFly team have announced the release of WildFly 9.0.2 and WildFly 10.0.0.CR4.
- The Arquillian team have announced the release of ShrinkWrap 1.2.3 and Graphene 2.1.0.Alpha3.
- The Weld team have announced the release of Weld 2.3.1.Final.
- The KeyCloak team have announced the release of KeyCloak 1.6.1.Final.
- The Ceylon team have announced the release of Ceylon 1.2.0.
- The Teiid team have announced the release of Teiid 8.12.1.
That's all from this week's editorial, join us again next week when we will bring you more news from the JBoss Communities and hopefully more information about what has taken place this week at Java One.