As September reaches its end, we give you more editorial leading with the welcome return of the JBoss Asylum podcast,  followed by an in-depth article from James Strachan on how to set up and use both Docker and Kubernetes, but, for once, from a point of view of a Java developer. And a busy one, with little precious time to lose on this...

Return to the Arkham Asylum

The JBoss Asylum podcast is back ! Well, it's back for what appears to be its now yearly release schedule JBoss Community Asylum - I git your flow. Whatever the release frequency is, we'll take it as this is still an excellent podcast to listen too ! In this episode, Emmanuel, Max and co took the time to revisit an interesting topic: workflow with git.

This has been the topics of many talks in the early 2010's - I know that for a fact, as many of my own talks were about that at the time - and it is very interesting to see what have come out it, several years afterward, now that the adoption of Git and Github, has become massive (at least in the JBoss ecosystem, if nowhere else).

And, of course, as always with git, the episode will reveal some nefty little nice tricks... Along with the return of a debate that never becomes old: tab vs space !!!

A Java developer guide to microservices with Docker and Kubernetes

James Strachan is one of core developer of fabric8, and thus a very busy person. However he took the time to write up this very nice guide : A busy Java developers guide to developing microservices on Kubernetes and docker - which covers, in a few words, how to setup and use both Kubernetes and Docker, but from a Java developer standpoint. If somehow, you managed to escape the Docker and Kubernetes frenzy up to this point (How did you managed do that ? Are you living on a rock in the ocean ?) this is a perfect article to catch up in no time...

Events - Microservices Journey with Apache Camel and Scotland JBUG

Announced already a couple of weeks ago, the Microservices Journey with Apache Camel is happening next week. A friendly reminder, in case you happen to be around and available. And if you missed the latest session of the Scotland JBUG, Eric D. Schabell will catch you up with his Scotland JBug Recap - An evening of Cloud, Containers, BPM & more.

Google is drolling

Another Google Summer of Code just went by successful as always, and features among the most intriguing experiment, this integration between Drools & Minecraft ! An original one, to say the least, where the business engine is used to declaratively define the game's logic.

Tech bytes

First of all, the previous Google Summer of Code news was not the only news on the Drools front : an interesting article has also been released on: Improved container handling and updates in KIE Server. Go take a look ! On another front, Hawkular, Heiko took the time to write a nice summary on how the framework handles Computed metrics for HawkFX.

The Hibernate ecosystem is as always thriving and if you want to know more about it, just checkout this month's newsletter: Hibernate Community Newsletter 19/2016. Not far from the ORM business, lays the world of data virtualization, and its lead project: Teiid. The project has indeed a major change coming its way - albeit not technical: Teiid Licensing is going to change (following the trend of other JBoss project, to a more permissive license).

Let's go now to a completely different universe. If your Java is often flavored by some JavaScript on the side, you may find this article on Checking Dependencies with SZero quite interesting.

Last item on this section, an other interesting tutorial from Eric D. Schabell : Installing the Red Hat Container Development Kit 2.2

. Well, all of this should keep you busy for while, shouldn't it ?

Releases, releases, releases...

No releases this week !!! Incredible ! That's the first time, since I've started writing those editorial, that it happens ! Well, don't worry, they'll be back next week !

Red Hat is bringing the Microservices Journey with Apache Camel to Atlanta (and Minneapolis) in October and Shadow-Soft will be sponsoring the happy hour after the Atlanta event.  Join this full-day event to learn from experienced developers about microservices architectures. This event features special Red Hat guest speakers, James Strachan and Claus Ibsen:

• James created the Groovy programming language, is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and is co-founder of a number of other open source projects.
• Claus Ibsen works on open source integration projects such as Apache Camel, fabric8, and hawtio. He's the author of Camel in Action books.

James, Claus, and other speakers will discuss topics including: Kubernetes for Java™ developers, microservices with Apache Camel, microservices workflow, Integrated Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS), and API-centric architectures.

Now on to the happenings in our open source community!

Releases

• TorqueBox 3.2.0 Released - TorqueBox 3.2.0 is out and updates the bundled JRuby from the 1.7 series to 9.1.5.0 along with a few other minor fixes.
• Keycloak 2.2.0.Final Released - For the list of resolved issues check out JIRA and to download the release go to the Keycloak homepage. Before you upgrade refer to the migration guide

• Teiid 9.1 Beta2 Released - Teiid 9.1 Beta2 has been posted.  Notable features since Beta1. TEIID-4421 Embedded Translator Refinements to allow for functioning that is similar to the server.

• Teiid 9.0.4 Released - The 9.0.4 fix release is now available.  It addresses 13 issues since 9.0.3.
• Artemis 1.4.0 Released - Release include: Paging had a lot of improvements. you can have a max-size for the entire broker before the destinations will start to page, the producers will block when the disk is beyond a % limit and when you kick clients, consumers will disconnect immediately (unless you configured reconnects on core protocol).
• Weld 2.4.0.Final - First stable version of Weld 2.4 (CDI 1.2). See also the release details. From now on, 2.4 is the current stable version of Weld and 2.3 is not actively developed anymore.
• Vert.x 3.3.3 - We have just released Vert.x 3.3.3, a bug fix release of Vert.x 3.3.x.

Microprofiles

Ken Finnigan highlighted the MicroProfile which is a new initiative in the Enterprise Java community to foster rapid innovation around Microservices and Enterprise Java. A MicroProfile 1.0 will be announced next week at JavaOne, which contains CDI, JAX-RS and JSON-P.  If you’d like to voice your opinions and participate in the community check out the discussions in the Google Group.

Bean Validation 2.0

Gunnar Morling described the Bean Validation 2.0 constraint discussion regarding which should be added.  Gunnar indicated the group is requesting feedback.  Taking the survey will help provide feedback.

JPA and Hibernate

Vlad Mihalcea published an article to show you how easily you can now test JPA logic using Java 1.8 lambdas with the migration of Hibernate 5.2 to Java 1.8.

Hawkular API over SSL

Josejulio Martinez shows how to trust self-signed certificates for use with Ruby client, used on projects such as ManageIQ and HawkFX.

Cloud Native

Eric Schabell dives into the Cloud-Native Term in his article this week.

Thanks for being a part of the JBoss Community and stay tuned for the next Weekly Editorial!

Kenneth Peeples, Shadow-Soft Director of Technical Services

kpeeples@shadow-soft.com

@ossmentor

www.shadow-soft.com

For various reasons we appear to have missed a week of our Editorial and this week's edition is coming later than usual for which I apologise.  The good news is  we now have more articles to draw on so you are more likely to find something of interest to you

Hibernate News

Our first article comes from Mincong, an Engineering student from France who is working with the Hibernate team on a Google Summer of Code project.  Mincong has been working on an alternative to the current mass indexer within Hibernate using JSR 352, the Batching Applications API  now part of EE7, to take advantage of the batch tooling delivered within the platform.

Our next article is asking for your help to make a decision on the direction of Hibernate OGM. Hibernate OGM has been able to work with an embedded Neo4j instance for some time however the team would now like to add in the ability to work with a remote instance.  There are two options being presented, adding support for the Bolt binary protocol or make use of the REST API.  If you are interested in OGM then get involved and vote on its future.

We end this section with the latest edition of the Community Newsletter in which they highlight articles on using Java 8 Streams, the benefits of Repeatable annotations, defining Query Timeouts and many more.

Microservices

As part of a Google Summer of Code project working with the Vert.x team, Eric Zhao has been working on a set of blueprint tutorials designed to guide users through the design and development of message-based applications and microservices using Vert.x.  The blueprints cover many aspects of Vertx.x development as well as microservices patterns such as Service Discover, Circuit Breaker etc. and can be seen running on OpenShift.

If you are interested in using Spring Boot to implement Microservices then check out Christian's demos for creating a service and running it within Kubernetes.

Infinispan News

With the release of the C++ Hotrod Client you may now be wondering how to integrate Infinispan caching into  your application, if so then Vittorio can help through his example code  demonstrating how to set up the client, populate the cache and finally run queries against the data.

If you are using the Infinispan docker image then you have a number of options for how to configure the image depending on the environment within which you are running, for some advice take a look at Sebastian's article covering the choices you have.

Getting Started with OptaPlanner

OptaPlanner is a project  implementing a constraint satisfaction solver, an engine  using sophisticated optimisation algorithms to help you manage a limited set of constrained resources.  If getting started with this project appears daunting then Duncan has six steps you can follow to help you develop a solution  satisfying your problem.

Authenticating EAP Users using the Operating System

While EAP does not provide an 'out of the box' solution to integrate with your Operating System's authentication mechanism this is something that can be added in very quickly and easily.  If you are a user of Linux/Unix or Windows then Siddhartha demonstrates how  this can be solved through the integration of JPAM and Waffle with the EAP security domain.

Generating Reports from Windup

Marek demonstrates how to use the Windup migration tool to export its analysis results into a CSV format so  the results can be imported into spreadsheets tools such as LibreOffice.  Marek shows how simple this is using a JEE example application distributed as part of Windup so now you have no excuses for giving this a try .

JBoss Out and About

Andrew Block will be attending the annual APAC Red Hat Tech Exchange conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to present several talks on behalf of Eric Schabell.  The conference begins on September 4th and runs until September 8th.

Julian, Clement, Burr, Edson and Paulo from the Vert.x team will be attending numerous conferences over the fall, including JavaOne and Devoxx BE, to help spread the news about this fantastic reactive framework for Java.

Claus Ibsen will be attending the JDK.IO conference in Copenhagen to present talks on Apache Camel and  developing Java based microservices.  The conference runs from September 13th to September 15th.

New Releases

• The WildFly team have announced the release of WildFly 10.1.
• The Teiid team have announced the release of Teiid 9.0.3 and Teiid 9.1 Beta1.
• The Arquillian team have announced the release of Arquillian Governor 1.0.3.Final, Arquillian Extension Byteman 1.0.0.Alpha4 and Arquillian Cube Extension 1.0.0.Alpha15.
• The SwitchYard team have announced the release of SwitchYard 2.1.0.Final.
• The Infinispan team have announced the release of Hotrod clients C++/C# 8.0.0.Final.
• The Forge team have announced the release of JBoss Forge 3.3.1.Final.
• The Weld team have announced their first Release Candidate for Weld 2.4.
• The JGroups team have announced the release of JGroups 4.0.0.Alpha1.

That's all for this week, please join us again next week when we will endeavour to resume our normal schedule.