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Another week almost behind us. Today is Thanksgiving and the start into a silent week for most of us non Americans. But the good news is, the JBoss community never sleeps and has some news for you every week. Time to start over with the weekly editorial which brings you the latest news from all of JBoss. This time, I'm going to cover three particular highlights:

 

Vert.x - Reactive Applications On The JVM

Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM. Unlike restrictive traditional application containers, Vert.x gives you incredible power and agility to create compelling, scalable, 21st century applications the way you want to, with a minimum of fuss, in the language you want. This includes JavaScript. In a recent blog-post Paulo Lopes explains what you have to do to port your existing EcmaScript 5 applications to EcmaScript 6. If you want to learn more about it, the project team provides a wide range of examples demonstrating usage of Vert.x in many different situations - from getting started with a hello world example in Maven to a range of web application examples. Don't forget to follow project lead Tim Fox (@timfox).

 

Make your JBoss EAP Fuse ready!

Christina Lin started an interesting series about how to make your JBoss EAP installation ready for Fuse. With the upcoming JBoss Fuse 6.2.1 release Red Hat is supporting a new scenario: Running Camel on EAP. And because Fuse and especially Camel are so rich in terms of features, it takes a couple of blog-posts to walk you through the various development options. The first part showed you how to use the Spring Framework to define your Camel route. The second explains everything about using CDI with the Java DSL to create your routes and the third part uses plain XML without Spring. The final post glues everything together and gives you a complete walk-through on how to integrate your Camel CDI application with a Database.

 

Learn About JBoss Technology Online

virtualjbug_twitter_avatar_400x400.pngThe Virtual JBoss User Group got a make-over. More precisely the website. Make sure to check out www.vjbug.org and enjoy the 40 recorded sessions which are already available on demand. And we’re adding another one or two every month! Make sure to follow our Twitter handle @vJBUG and also check out our meetup group regularly. Next upcoming session will be the legendary Burr Sutter (@burrsutter) talking about “An Enterprise Developer’s Journey to the IoT”.

The new Red Hat developer programs blog has a longer article about the vJBUG up. Make sure to read it!

 

Releases

 

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next installment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavor to bring you more interesting articles written by members of the JBoss communities. And stay up to date with latest developments by following @jbossdeveloper on twitter.

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For this week I wanted to start out describing the rewards of joining the JBoss Community. The JBoss Community is full of great projects and people. In addition to using the Projects you may want to considering becoming a contributor, whether it be a new feature, a bug fix, wiki entries, helping other members, or even just filing a bug report.  When you join an open source community you join developers from all over the world who contribute in different ways.  They are 100% open source, developed for and by its community of users.  For myself, being a part of the JBoss Open Source Community for many years has been very rewarding.  Some of the reasons are:

 

 

  • Building awesome New Technology
  • Learning something new
  • Proving yourself
  • Being part of something big
  • Challenging yourself
  • Building relationships

 

The Wildfly project has come a long way and supports the modern web and Java EE7.  So let's move onto this week in the JBoss Community!

 

 

EAP (Wildfly)

 

Markus walks us through getting started with JBoss Entrprise Application Platform (EAP) 7 Alpha and JEE 7. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP 7) is a middleware platform built on open standards and compliant with the Java Enterprise Edition 7 specification. Built on top of innovative and proven open source technologies like WildFly, it will make Java EE 7 development a lot easier.  Markus also walks us through HTTP/2 with EAP 7.  HTTP/2 support has been added as a technical preview. It is provided by the new webserver Untertow.  HTTP/2 reduces latency by compressing headers and multiplexing many streams over the same TCP connection. It also supports the ability for a server to push resources to the client before it has requested them, leading to faster page loads.

 

 

Rules and more

 

 

 

The Rest

 

 

 

New Releases

 

 

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next installment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavor to bring you more interesting articles written by members of the JBoss communities.

 

And stay up to date with latest developments - Follow @jbossdeveloper

 

And stay up to date on my Open Source Experience - Follow @ossmentor

22921480296_e86af0dabd_z.jpgAs if we would have anticipated something to happen. This years Friday the thirteenth marks the week, we failed to deliver the weekly editorial. The good new: You get two this week. But beside this, the week has been pretty busy as usual. Here's the latest happenings of last week with all the relevant JBoss Community News.

 

Ceylon News

As you might know, Ceylon already has the most feature rich IDE of any modern language for the JVM, with some features that even the Java IDE for Eclipse doesn't have. But IntelliJ users don't like having to switch to Eclipse when they code Ceylon, so a few months ago we got serious about porting Ceylon IDE to IntelliJ. And another post shows you how to write and publish a bare-bones application on OpenShift Online.

 

Java EE And More

I had the pleasure to give two talks at Øredev. One of them is about my favorite topic: Security and Java EE. It is designed to fulfill two goals. On the one side to introduce the typical Java EE developer to the overall application security process and main objectives. But also to look at the details about what Java EE has to offer. Learn all about Security and Java EE in my blog-post. And after that, it was Devoxx Belgium time. There has been a lot of Java EE involved also. The CDI reference implementation Weld released a development mode and JMX support. And finally, the JBoss EAP 7 ALPHA release went out! Right in time to look back and ask, if Java EE is still relevant. Mark Little answers in his blog and also reflects on things he has seen at JavaOne.

 

Devoxx Belgium

The Docker Tooling was presented by Xavier. Chris talked about Process Driven Applications. And Red Hat was happy to sponsor Devoxx4Kids with a significant amount this year. We love opensource and am very proud to help raise the next generation of open source developers.Find the complete set of picture impressions online on flickr. And also make sure to watch all the sessions you missed. Because they are already online available! For Free!! Thanks Devoxx! If you have some more time, spend it on the recording or Aslak's and Alex's talk about The Borg is docking your system; testing is futile! Or is it?.

 

The Rest

 

New Releases

 

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next installment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavor to bring you more interesting articles written by members of the JBoss communities. And stay up to date with latest developments by following @jbossdeveloper on twitter.

Halloween has come and went away, and Winter swept in before the door can close behing the annual pumpkins massacre... But, lucky us, not everything is so gloomy in the JBoss universe this week...


Microservices for the real world

 

Right behind Docker - if not even sometimes in front, "microservices" has certainly been a big buzzword of those last years. And, as any trend, it's good to take the time to step back a bit and look at it seriously, and a couple of article released last week will certainly help you on this. The first one is High Performance APIs for Microservices With Baratine.io, certainly an interesting angle, because high level architecture sometime overlook performance constraint. Of course to be able to assess your microservice performances, you need to be able to deploy it and test it - so, let's how Red Hat JBoss Engineers think about Java EE, Container, Microservices and Testing.


"Architect of an Open World"


However, if you don't even see the value of microservices, all those good practices and considerations will neither help you, or speak to you. If this is the case, I strongly recommand you look at this in depth article on Tear Down Data Silos with Mobile Microservices from Red Hat Developer Blog.


Side note on this topic : How Would ESBs Look Like, If They Were Done Today ? - an interesting disgression, somewhat related to the topic of microservice (at least from my point of view)

 

Events, news and books

 

A lot of very cool upcoming events has been announced last week. I'll start by home territory, as two talks have been announced at the Berlin JUG, one from Infinispan on JBoss Clustering and an other, quite related, about BJGroups by Bela Ban (Berlin JUG Nov 19). If you happen to be in Berlin (Germany) on the 19th, please do join us ! (we'll have beer and pizza !)

 

柏林墙 - The Berlin Wall - Berliner Mauer

Berlin is not the only place to go, Roma will be hosting  Alfresco Day Roma 2015 - so if you really picky about your pizza, you know what to attend ! At last, but not the least, if you are in Switzerland, you may want to take a look at Dimitris' Andreadis Blog on "WildFly activity in Geneva".

 

Of course, not everybody can manage to get to Berlin, Geneva or Roma, but rest assured, some events are coming to you instead, like this upcoming webinar on How to become a data-driven organization to achieve more and gain a competitive edge. And if you don't have time to attend anything, you can still be kept up to date, the "old fashion way" - meaning by reading a book, so checkout this Book Review: "Arquillian in Action" by Alex Soto and Jason Porter.

 

Last bits of news for this week, we are currently looking for a Developer User Experience lead - so if you want to join us or know someone who might fit...

 

How To's and tutorials

 

After those high level considerations, let's get to some more practical stuff. First, let's take a look on How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9, as it never hurts to be well prepared. Along the same line,  if you are looking forward to use JBoss Fuse on JBoss EAP - look how to be ready for it !

 

Now that you are all set up, let's take a deep dive into the command line tool Kubectl : Logging Into a Kubernetes Cluster With Kubectl - I'll bet it will make using Kubernetes and Docker far more efficient for you.

 

Last but not the least, this week have seen the release of a followup on Getting started with Keycloak - Securing a REST Service. Certainly an interesting tutorial to look at...

 

Releases

 

Only two releases this week - propably a the lowest numbers of releases for a week since I contribute to this editorial. But, quite important and major ones.


The first one is Byteman Blog: Byteman 3.0.2 release supporting some exciting and impressive monitoring packages - definitely a must see (or in this case must "click on"). The second one is a new Teiid Designer 9.2 Released, which contains numerous bug fixes, but allow to import dynamic virtual database. If you are a regular user of the Teiid designer, you will probably be quite interested in this release.

 

Decaf'

 

Even if the JBoss Community is a very large one, it's good, now and then, for Java developer to look outside the JVM. Especially, that the following announcement of this week concern the java competitor .NET : Red Hat and Microsoft making .NET on Linux work for Enterprises.And talking about Linux,Fedora 23 has been released, so time to update your system (or try it if you are using an other OS).

 

Last bit of news, concerning more Red Hat than the JBoss Community, but too important to be overlooked: Red Hat jumps into DevOps by buying Ansible ! Indeed, there is also many in the JBoss community using Ansible, and one can guess that this adoption will certainly not slow down now...

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