It's been a more silent week. Holidays and family time. We tend to reflect about the passing year and formulate ideas and goals for the next. But as usual, the JBoss Community barely sleeps and I am very happy to have the honor to write the definite and last weekly editorial in 2015. Let's see what happened this week:

JBoss Forge 3.0.0.Beta1 was released. It has better support for creation of generic projects: Not every project is in Java nowadays (unfortunately), so we are introducing a new addon (project-generic) that should allow you to create commands for non-Java projects more easily. And it introduces component Upgrades: We have upgraded Furnace to 2.22.10.Final and Roaster to 2.17.4.Final. Head over to the download page and get it while it is hot.

JBoss Hibernate Search Version 5.5.2.Final is now available, the latest stable version sporting integration with Hibernate ORM 5 and Apache Lucene 5.3 - the state of the art. Creating this version to be compatible with these two great OSS projects kept us busy for a good deal of this past year; I remember discussing this option with superstar OSS contributors Uwe Schindler (Apache Lucene developer) and Gustavo Nalle (Infinispan developer) at FOSDEM in January 2015! I am grateful to both for their guidance and suggestions, as driving progress forward is sometimes challenging when we strive to keep backwards compatibility as best as we can. Everything you need is available on http://hibernate.org/search/. Download the full distribution from here, or get it from Maven Central and don’t hesitate to reach us in our forums or mailing lists.

The JBoss BRMS Quick Start Video Series by Eric Schabell now has seven chapters for you to check out:

Quick Tour #1: JBoss BRMS the Basic Install Project

Quick Tour #2: Where to get JBoss BRMS product

Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BRMS

Quick Tour #4: Start your first JBoss BRMS project

Quick Tour #5: How to import a project into JBoss BRMS

Quick Tour #6: Build & run a JBoss BRMS project

Quick Tour #7: What's in Business Central

Mark Litle blogged about software transactional memory with WildFly-Swarm and points us to an example with JAX-RS & Arjuna Transactions.This example uses a JAX-RS resource and the Software Transactional Memory implementation of Narayana. This is a non-distributed transaction example. And Christina Lin shows you how to move Camel application between OSGi and Java EE containers.

And Eric and I posted some 2015 reviews which list the most read blog posts and reflect a little on the passing year.

2015 in review - On the road with JBoss Integration & BPM

Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016! - Happy New Year.

After all it has been an amazing year in the JBoss Community. So many contributions, so many releases, so much progress and innovation. And I am really looking forward to another exciting and successful year for all of us! See you all again somewhere soon!

And let me thank the whole editorial team for their all year effort to keep you up to date with the latest happenings in and around JBoss. Don't forget to follow @jbossdeveloper on Twitter!

"Every end marks a new beginning.

Keep your spirits and determination unshaken, and you shall always walk the glory road.

With courage, faith and great effort, you shall achieve everything you desire.

I wish you a very Happy New Year."

With the end of the year, many of you are thinking that the developer world will stop to turn and that no additional contributions will be published, released. Hopefully, this is not the case and this new editorial will prove you that we must stay on the track till the last day of the 2015 year !!

Weld 2.3.2. final is out

Even if this release is mainly a bug-fixing release with 15 issues resolved, it also contains new great features as it allows to perform dependency injection upon objects not having a CDI-compatible constructor, provide enhancements for OSGI probing. See the release details to get more information.

RESTEasy 3.0.14 & wadl

Like Weld, Resteasy 3.0.4 has solved many bugs but supports now to generate the XML description of the HTTP Rest endpoints using the Web Application Description Language (WADL).

Time to send your talks

It is time to send your talks as the Call For Paper process has been launched for many conferences

• Snow Camp in Grenoble (20-22 January) : https://cfp.snowcamp.io/. Get ready with your skis too
• Devoxx France (20 - 22 April) : http://cfp.devoxx.fr/
• DevNation is San Francisco (26-29 June) : DevNation

Advocate's corner

Microservice, container and DevOps have been the hot topics of this year and this O'Really Webcast of Markus Eisele is not an exception as it will dive you into the Microservice Architecture vision promoted top of Java EE Platform.

Claus Ibsen has been interviewed by DZone and reviewed the history behind this fantastic opensource enterprise integration project which is Apache Camel. With the release of the new Red Hat BPM Suite, Eric Schabell has blogged about the ultimate collection of demos available.

As jigsaw and modularity will be part of JDK 9 announced next year, Stéphane Epardaud took the time to present Ceylon language modularity with JDK 9.

Don't miss the video of Claus Ibsen showing how to use the Camel Editor (to creates routes) in a type safe manner. Finally, Christina Lin presented how to manage the Apache Camel Routes using Hawtio Management Console in JBoss EAP.

Releases, ..., releases

• Vert.x 3.2.0.Final
• Weld 2.3.2.Final
• Resteasy 3.0.14.Final
• RichFaces 4.5.12.Final
• Hibernate ORM 5.0.6.Final
• RedDeer 1.0.0.Final to test Eclipse RCP
• Hawkular 1.0.0.Alpha.8 - The monitoring platform
• Arquillian Governor 1.0.1.Final
• Teiid 8.13.Beta1 with WildFly
• Ceylon IDE 1.2.0
• JBoss Fuse 6.2.1

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next instalment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavour 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.

Welcome to another Weekly Editorial where we bring you the latest news from around the JBoss Communities.

The Key to Extending KIE

This week sees a number of articles from Maciej Swiderski discussing the capabilities of the KIE Server that support extensions.  Maciej begins the series with an overview of the extension points within the KIE server and why they are needed, continues with an article that discusses when and why you would extend the server with additional REST endpoints and how to add additional transports should you find that the existing transports do not fit your use case before ending with an article describing how to extend the KIE Server Client.

EE7 and Microservices

With the release of EAP 7 now getting nearer, Markus has spent some time pulling together some resources that will help to refresh your memory about the new features that were introduced into Java EE 7.  Once you have caught up you can then put this information into practice by following along as he demonstrates how to deploy an EE7 application into OpenShift 3 using JBoss Developer Studio.  Markus has also been interviewed recently by Daniel Bryiant during which they discuss Microservices.

Time Scheduling Design Patterns

When using a tool such as OptaPlanner to solve scheduling problems it is very important to understand the domain you are trying to model and the design pattern that best suits the solution you are trying to achieve.  Geoffrey, the project lead of OptaPlanner, has written an article introducing three useful design patterns that can be used to similar scheduling problems with slightly different requirements.

Using Hawkular Business Transaction Management with Docker Images

Gary Brown from the Hawkular Business Transaction Management project has written a great article showing how you can use BTM to monitor the flow of business transactions within applications running within your docker containerized applications, providing greater insight into the workings of your applications and the services they invoke.

Ceylon and Dependency Injection

If you have been using the Ceylon language for any length of time then you will already realise that Ceylon does not provide any native support for Dependency Injection however thanks to Ceylon's interoperability with Java it is reasonably easy to use both Weld and Guice.

Vert.X and Mongo

In the next installment of his Introduction to Vert.X series Clement demonstrates how MongoDB can be integrated with Vert.X in an asynchronous application.  This article is a continuation from his previous article entitled Using the Asynchronous SQL Client and walks you through all the changes that you will need to make in order to switch over to MongoDB.

End of Year Cleaning in the Drools House

The Drools team have recently spent time cleaning up the internal state machine that was introduced back in June in order to manage the interaction of the engine, user and timer threads with their current being to make the code easier to read and understand.

Working Offline with Keycloak

The Keycloak team have written an article describing the  Offline Access token feature that was introduced in Keycloak 1.6.1 and described in the OpenID Connect 1.0 specification, allowing applications to perform actions on behalf of users when running offline.

Back in the Asylum

Max has published the next JBoss Community Asylum podcast in which he sits down with Burr Sutter and Scott Stark to discuss this year's Middleware Keynote Demo.

New Releases

• The Arquillian team announced the release of Arquillian Recorder 1.1.0.Final, Arquillian Container WebLogic 1.0.1.Final and Arquillian Droidium 1.0.1.Final.
• The Hawkular team announced the release of Hawkular Business Transaction Management 0.6.0.Final.
• The Hibernate team announced the release of Hibernate ORM 5.0.5.Final.
• The Teiid team announced the release of Teiid 8.13.Alpha1, the first version that integrates with WildFly.
• The Keycloak team announced the release of Keycloak 1.7.0.CR1.
• The Forge team announced the release of Forge 3.0.0.Alpha2.

That's all from this week's editorial, please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from the JBoss Communities.