For those who don't recognise it, the title is a reference to that Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan and his song, but it really is quite apt at the moment. First let's look at some monumental news which is hopefully not so new now: Java EE is moving to a new home, an as-yet undisclosed open source foundation and to presumably a governance model which puts much more power into the hands of the community! This is pretty significant for the wider enterprise Java community, whether you use a full-blown application server or just some of the components that have been defined over the years within the JCP process; now you will have more ability to help influence the direction of the specifications, code etc. just as you might if you were to participate in any open source project. I'm also hoping that the work we are doing with Eclipse MicroProfile will help influence the next releases of Java EE, or whatever it might be called, since that has always been our intent.

OK so on to the next bit of news: www.jboss.org is moving too! Although not quite on the same scale as moving Java EE and not really a move per se, it's important that anyone involved in our upstream communities and products take note because you can really help influence the future of the site. As I mention in my blog on the topic, the changes we have in mind aren't going to happen overnight so there is time to comment or use your clicks to let us know how you use the current site.

A few other changes this week include the fact you can now get NoSQL support in jBPM, and as Maciej also describes, through this there's now an option to use ElasticSearch as a data store. Since we're talking about things Maciej has been writing about this week, he's been busy also by writing about how jBPM 7 can be used in cloud environments.

Just time for a few more announcements. There's an article on how to use MQTT with Vert.x, WildFly 11 CR1 has been released, and of course there have been a number of other projects doing releases so go check out the blog feed. OK that's it for this week (surely that's enough?!) See you next time.

I enjoy reading about and being involved with different organizations that help young men and women get more involved in technology and the sciences.  I like to help with codecamps but a part of my background is around security with Operating Systems and Middleware. Recently I found a US organization, AFA CyberPatriot, that helps youth learn more about finding vulnerabilities and hardening systems through competitions.  Teams compete locally as well as the state level, and then move on to a national competition to compete for the national recognition and scholarship money.  We all get busy in our endeavours, but finding a organization to help our youth, regardless of location in the world, has such an awesome reward.

Now on to the happenings in our open source community!

The Past couple of Weeks Highlights

• Andrea Cosentino discussed Infinispan-Kafka, connect your Kafka cluster with Infinispan
• Eric Schabell discussed How to optimize Existing IT by Modernizing Travel processes
• Christina Lin shared Organizing Microservices - Modern Integration
• John Mazzitelli provided a demo on the Hawkular Alerts 2.0 UI and detail on Hawkular Alerts with Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Kafka
• Maciej Swiderski provided insight on Managed KIE Server getting ready for the cloud
• Christian Posta discussed Application Network Functions with ESBs, API Management, and Now...Service Mesh?
• Kris Verlaenen touched on Drools, jBPM and Optaplanner switching to agile delivery
• Mario Fusco discussed the Drools Canonical Model - Pure Java Rules
• Edson Tirelli provided the talk on Rules Engines at Software Engineering Radio

The Past couple of Weeks Meetups and Conferences

• Kris Verlaenen and Edson Tirelli shared Drools, jBPMS and Optaplanner Day which is taking place September 26 in New York and September 28 in Washington, DC
• Claus Ibsen, the Camel guy, described his agenda for the APAC tour this month

The Past couple of Weeks Releases

• Steven Hawkins shared that Teiid 9.2.5 was released with 6 issues addressed and Teiid 9.3.2 was released
  
• The Arquillian Team provided the details on the Graphene 2.3.1 Release
• The Wildfly Swarm Team provided the details on Wildfly Swarm 2017.8.1
• Jason Greene provided the release information for Wildfly 11 Beta1
• The Arquillian team shared the details on the Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.5 Release and Arquillian Cube Extension 1.8.0 Release
• Gunnar Morling shared the details on the Bean Validation 2.0 Spec
• Guillaume Smet discussed the Hibernate Validator 6.0 Final with Bean Validation 2.0 Support
• Kris Verlaenen highlighted the jBPM 7.1 Release
• The Vert.x Community shared the Vert.x 3.5.0.Beta1 detail

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

Kenneth Peeples

Vice President of Engineering,

Enterprise Services Practice, ISC-CG, Federal

kenneth.peeples@isc-cg.com

Open Source Solutions Director, Shadow-Soft, Commercial

kpeeples@shadow-soft.com