Modern Transaction Programming Techniques

This week Tom Jenkinson blogged about recent standardisation effort in the Microservices arena. This standard allows highly concurrent environments to gain many of the benefits of a traditional transaction, with a reduced impact on throughput.

In addition, Michael Musgrove blogged about Narayana's Software Transactional Memory (STM) implementation. In particular he showed how it can be used with the actor model features of Vert.x and the scaling features of OpenShift.

5 Pillars of a Successful Java Web Application

In this series of posts Eder Ignatowicz describes the 5 pillars that have allowed his team to successfully keep a 7+ year-old Java application up-to-date, whilst combining modern techniques with a legacy codebase of more than 1 million LOC, using an agile, sustainable, and evolutionary web approach. Read the series here: part 1, part 2, part 3.

Other News

• Eric Schabell continues his blog series on 10 Steps to Cloud Happiness. In this post he focuses on the Human Aspect.
• Vlad Mihalcea presents this weeks Hibernate Community Newsletter.
• Jeff Maury announces JUnit 5 support in Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11.1.
• Julien Viet publicises his InfoQ podcast, in which he talks about the recent Eclipse Vert.x 3.5 release and its killer features, Reactive Programming and on what might be the future of the project.

Releases

• Keycloak 3.4.0.CR1
• WildFly Swarm 2017.11.0
• Errai 4.1.0.Final
• Teiid 9.2.7
• Graphene 2.3.2
• Arquillian Drone Extension 2.4.3
• Teiid 10.0.0.Final
• Red Hat Developer Studio 11.1.0.GA
• JBoss Tools 4.5.1.Final