Welcome to another week in the world of JBoss.org, a quiet week as is the tradition of reflection this week. Let me explain this...

This week we again catch you up with the news in our world of JBoss. This time we do it a bit different. This is a week in North America, specifically in the United States where everyone has a short work week (four day weekend, can you imagine?!). Thanksgiving is upon us and it is not only a tradition involving big ol' turkey dinners, football (American style) on the television and gathering together with your families. It is a time to reflect on what you are thankful for in your lives.

We have much to be thankful for in the world of JBoss. Not only are we thankful for the chance to better our daily lives by working on, coding, improving, brainstorming and contributing to our projects, but we have one of the best communities in the open source world. This is not about the core JBoss editorial editing team being thankful, it is about you being a part of it all. You the contributor, you the member, you the user should all take time and be thankful for all that is possible in this community we have built together.

So kick back, grab another turkey leg and enjoy this weeks JBoss news. It is not as busy as usual, but next week we will be back in full force!

Events

Kris Verlaenen from the jBPM project has been touring the JBUGs in Sydney (November 19) and Melbourne (November 20) this week, stay tuned for more on this when he gets over his jet-lag!

The Netherlands JBug kicks off on Dec 10th with a JBoss & OpenShift evening by Eric D. Schabell.

Blogs / Articles

Mark Little give a recap of his Devoxx experiences.

Dimitris gives his take on Devoxx and it includes links to most of the existing JBoss blogging activities related to Devoxx.

Over on MasterTheBoss you can find a nice article on SwitchYard & JSF integration. Also one on how to use a Resource Adapter in your MDB (AS7 based).

We have pulled in the help of a Chinese speaking / writing Christina Lin, you can find her latest translations of JBoss content on her site, but it is also linked from the original postings by Eric Schabell and on HowToJBoss.com. Thanks Christina!

Releases

A list of new project releases, enjoy!

• Teiid 8.2 Final released.
• ModeShape 3.0.1.Final released.

Thinking of getting involved in a JBoss User Group (JBUG)?

Setting up or running a JBoss User Group? Follow @JBossNews on twitter and catch the next event online especially for you and your group.

Vote is ongoing!

Don't forget to vote for your favorite new project name for JBoss AS!

Thanks again for taking the time from your busy Thanksgiving activities to read this, we look forward to you all coming back to work on Monday ready to kick it on your favorite JBoss project(s)!

Welcome to another week in the world of JBoss.org!

This week we again catch you up with lots of news in the wonderful world of JBoss. Summer is winding down, students are heading back to university, the weather is starting to cool a bit around my area of the world. In short, time to shake of the lazy vacation temperament and get back on the horse. Get back into the coding game. With this fresh bit of energy we bring you the following news.

Events

From 1-3 October you can hear both Mark Little and myself talking at GOTO Aarhus (I am talking best practices in BRMS).

The biggest news this week would have to be the acquisition of Polymita, a BPM start-up in Spain. Both Mark Little and Kris Verleanen posted articles on this subject.

Blogs / Articles

Pretty neat article over on javalobby on DZone about a company called EPAMEDIA using Drools Planner for the dynamic placement of subjects on its media sites.

Last week there was a webinar on best practices for large scale enterprise rules and process deployments, you can catch the recording here. It covers both Drools and jBPM in the JBoss BRMS product.

Gunner Morling is asking for some feedback on bean validation for method validation and inheritance, help him out! David Bosschaert is also looking for feedback on a slew of OSGI RFP's, please take a look and comment.

Andre Diethisheim put together a very nice example for explaining how to make use of the JBoss library behind OpenShift cli access.

Marek Goldmann talks about how to generate a database schema with OpenJPA and Hibernate in this blog.

Releases

A list of new project releases, enjoy!

• Aerogear 1.0.0.M5
• ModeShape 3.0.0.Beta
• JBoss Portlet Bridge 3.1.0.Alpha1
• TorqueBox 2.1.1

Thinking of getting involved in a JBoss User Group (JBUG)?

Setting up or running a JBoss User Group? Follow @JBossNews on twitter and catch the next event online especially for you and your group.

Before closing it all out this week, I want to welcome back all of the coders that have been on vacation, students that are moving back into their dorms to get ready for the new school year and the rest of you out there that have just decided to get back to work. Slacking and relaxing time is over! Time to get back to fishing for that perfect project to work on and polish up some code for a fresh commit. Like we say where I come from:

Welcome to another week in the world of JBoss.org! As we are approaching this years JUDCon / JBoss World 2012 in Boston, you will notice that the various projects are going 'heads down' to get their projects done in time for all the great demos, sessions, presentations and product release announcements that will be revealed in Boston. That being said, there is enough still going on to bring you this weeks editorial.

Events

Mircea will be talking at Berlinbuzzwords next week covering Infinispan, Sanne will be there too so catch it if you can!

JUDCon / JBoss World 2012 is coming to Boston next month, get ready, here we come!

Blogs / Articles

Big news this week was the release of Fedora 17... now why are we talking about a Linux distribution here on the JBoss weekly editorial you ask? Well, because they have added support for pre-packaged JBoss AS 7! Now you can yum install jboss and be off and running, so get out there and check out Fedora 17!

Anil brings us a story about Social Intelligence posted on his Security & Identity blog, good read. He also gives a few examples of When Access Control Systems Fail.

Mark Proctor did a call for hosting of the West Coast US IntelliFest.

Mark (the other one) Little pushed out an announcement and the links to his transactional android project, check it out!

Gabriel over at the GateIn blog posted a very comprehensive look at User Experience, providing his well founded views on what it really is.

Tiho tells us about adding Japanese support (Internationalization) to the jBPM Web Designer, great work there with screen shots.

John talks about RHQ using Cassandra over on this interesting article in the Big Data category. Also in the RHQ team, Heiko tells about adding support for Group Definitions to their REST API.

Eric put up a short how to article getting you started with JBoss Dev Studio 5 and the SOA tooling, specifically focusing on JBoss BRMS tooling.

Adam discusses the new Envers features in Hibernates 4.1.4 release.

Just a tweet on this, but the migration tooling project JBoss Cake now supports jBPM Migration by integrating in the jbpmmigration project!

Releases

A list of new project releases, enjoy!

• Arquillian Warp Extension 1.0.0.Alpha1 released!
• Hibernate ORM 4.1.4 released!
• Byteman 2.0.3 released!
• ElasticMQ 0.5 released!

Thinking of getting involved in a JBoss User Group (JBUG)?

Setting up or running a JBoss User Group? Follow @JBossNews on twitter and catch the next event online especially for you and your group.

Enjoy your weekend of coding... see you next time!

Welcome to another week of fun and projects from the wonderful world of JBoss.org! Thing have started to heat up in the project releases, with a pretty big list of announcements below. Events are picking up and there is enough to read about so let's get to it.

Events

There was some serious JBoss action going on in Rome, Italy this week at CodeMotion 2012 with several talks on JBoss and OpenShift technology. Mircea Markus describes just getting back from Codemotion.it and Eric describes his Codemotion 2012 Rome OpenShift Primer Adventure.

Mighty Max Andersen (or is that Superman?) is in North America this week and pushed out some really great sessions and news at EclipseCon 2012, posting a JBoss Tools and friends at EclipseCon 2012 story from on location.

OpenShift will be show cased at JUDCon 2012 Boston - talk accepted OpenShift state of the Union by Eric D. Schabell.

Infinispan is on the road again, with Galder Zamarrino bringing Infinispan to the Alpes JUG!

Something a little bit out of the ordinary, you can win a free copy of the JBoss ESB Beginner’s Guide, check it out and take a chance on becoming the proud owner of your very own guide!

Blogs / Articles

This week there is a wonderful diversification of projects and technologies that have take the time to report back to us on their latest creations, announcements and goings on. Here we start with the Drools & jBPM: Guvnor which has introduced an improved default value handling.

The Errai project announced both new version releases below and the first part in a series, Errai IOC: DI in the Browser (Part 1), check it out. Furthermore, PicketLink has now added PicketLink console extensions.

Not only was the JBoss Tools team busy reporting to us above from EclipseCon 2012, but they have pushed the m2e-wtp project into a full fledged Eclipse project. Check out the ins and outs of moving m2e-wtp project to Eclipse.

Over on Mobile Tech and Stuff, we take a trip through Cordova, a look at the Apache Cordova project.

The JBoss TS team provides an update to STM API over on their blog.

JBoss is working its next generation integration layer in the SwitchYard project and brings us some BPM news by introducing the SwitchYard BPM Task API.

Releases

A big list of new project releases, enjoy!

• Infinispan released twice this week:
  • Infinispan 5.1.3.CR1 out now!
  • Infinispan 5.1.3.FINAL is here!
• ModeShape 3.0.0.Alpha3 is available.
• BoxGrinder 0.10.1 released.
• Drools & jBPM: Protege 3.5 Alpha released with Drools SWRLTab support.
• JBoss AS 7 Console 1.2.0.Final released.

Thinking of getting involved in a JBUG?

Setting up or running a JBoss User Group? Follow @JBossNews on twitter and catch the next event online especially for you and your group: Switchyard webinar.

Have a great week, weekend and contribute to your favorite JBoss project!

Happy New Year to all you JBoss users and developers out there! Welcome to 2012 and we have let a week slip by without a weekly editorial, if you were a sharp reader and paying attention you would have noted that a lot has happened in the last few weeks. So hold on to your hat, we are off and running with a heap of news that will get you back on track for a great start to 2012!

Events

Feb 4. 2012 there will a JBoss room hosting anyone who want to turn up at FOSDEM 12', lots of core developers will be there along and some pretty cool sessions. Talks on Drools Planner, jBPM, JBoss AS7, OpenShift and much more!

If you are in Luxembourg next week you can pop into the YaJUG event for some jBPM and OpenShift magicat their Java User Group on Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012.

Submissions to JBoss World 2012 is ongoing for a few more days, so get your thinking hat on and send in your proposal for a great session and we can then meet you in Boston this year! ;-)

Blogs / Articles

The jBPM Form Builder is heating up with an update report from Marian Buenosayres.

Michael Anstis reports that Guided Decision Tables now support BRL columns, "Work has been completed to allow BRL fragments to be used as both (or either) Condition and Action columns in the Guided Decision Table within Guvnor."

Want to get started with the BPMN2 native Eclipse visual editor? Eric D. Schabell posted a short how to online for integrating it into your Eclipse IDE.

Steve Ebersole discusses the changes to registering event listeners, "4.0 changes the way event listeners get registered to leverage some added capabilities, namely services and integrators."

Switchyard project shouts out to the world that they are the first to jump on the "Flux Capacitor" bandwagon in the blog by "Is it auspicious to say that SwitchYard now uses "Flux Capacitor"? Well, yes! Because that is the code name ofJBoss AS 7.1.0.CR1. The nightly builds of SwitchYard now uses Flux Capacitor. How cool is that?"

TorqueBox 2.0 now has its screencasts available on iTunes reports Lance Ball.

Heiko Rupp shows us some really awesome graphs that he has done using D3.js and the REST API in RHQ as he states, "Now that the RHQ REST api can expose raw numerical metrics for the last 7 days, it is possible to create additional graphs for numerics. As before I have used D3.js to create the following graphs." He will also walk you through analyzing your metrics with Rtoo!

Interested in how to configure Infinispan and all the changes to their configuration setup has you stumped? No worries, Pete Muir has sorted this out for you in his blog post!

Someone finally will be explaining multi-server management at JAX2012, that will be Serge Pagop if his abstract is accepted, "Domain mode is one of the most demanded application server architecture in today production environment. But some users mix in their daily jargon the multi-server management domain mode with high availability. In this session, we will learn about the domain mode and high availability in JBoss EAP 6, their differences and look at the ways in a high level how you can leverage high availability with JBoss EAP 6." He has also posted a starter episode on JBoss AS 7.1, JMS and EJB's for those wanting a quickstart.

Max Andersen spent some time sorting out the most round-about-way to deploy an application to OpenShift... it looks like he found it! A must read for all you coders out there with a tablet!

Finally, Mark Little of JBoss fame had some time on his hands and a new Android phone doing nothing in the corner of his desk, so he ported JBossTS to it... you gotta ask yourself... ;-)

Releases

• Ceylon IDE M1 released by Gaven King's crew, "The first official public release of the Ceylon IDE is out! You can read David's announcement here."
• Byteman 2.0.0 released by Andrew Dinn, "It includes a small number of bug fixes and new features and is available from the Byteman download page.

• Infinispan 5.1 'Brahma' CR released and Galder Zamarreno states, "This will be the last of the candidate releases and we expect to go final with the release very shortly, so your help now is crucial." Time to get testing!
  

• TorqueBox v2.0.0.beta2 released by "The entire TorqueBox team is proud to announce immediate availability of TorqueBox v2.0.0.beta2."
• Weld 1.1.5.Final released by Ales Justin, "It doesn't have many fixes, but a super pesky one with protection domains, which bugged us a lot for our EAP6 testing."
• jBPM Migration Tooling v0.10 and v0.11 released by Eric D. Schabell, the first was the release, the second was to get through the JBoss Nexus... don't ask! ;-)
  
• Teiid 8.1.alpha1 released by the Teiid Team, "This is the first release of Teiid that is based on JBoss AS 7 as host environment. It is also start of the next major revision for Teiid and departure from Teiid 7.x releases."

Showcases

• one of my favorite JBoss projects is starting to come out of its shell with success stories like How Byteman Squashed a Drools Bug, a very cool read so don't miss it!
  
• wanted to point out the site infoq.com is doing a call for articles, so if you have something to say about JBoss, get over there and submit your first 2012 article!

Have a great week, weekend and code onwards into 2012!

Another week and another update about the wonderful world of JBoss, with this week again we will highlight the latest, greatest JBoss project news!

JUDCon

JUDCon is coming to India in 2012!. Be sure to get your papers sumbitted, the deadline is fast approaching.

QCon

Mark Little and company where at QCon where he was speaking about JBossEverywhere again and with help from Kevin, also trying to reproduce the original JBoss World demo.

Devoxx

This last week was Devoxx in Antwerp, with a huge amout of talks on all things Java but also JBoss. Max Anderson posted his "Three Crazy Weeks" leading up to and including Devoxx.

Ceylon

We have some exciting news on Ceylon, the new JVM based programming language Gavin has been discussing on this blog. We now have a website, a blog and opened up all our source code.

It's official now: Ceylon is close to it's first beta and the team have launched the site at Devoxx. Of course we heard about Ceylon earlier this year but the curtain really came up last week. In great JBoss tradition, it's not just about the specification or implementation, but also about the thriving community that's built up in only a few short months!

Now it is up to you to pop on over there, install the Eclipse IDE plugin and get started providing feedback to the team!

Releases

There have been some new released in the following projects:

• Infinispan 5.1.0.BETA5 has just been the released with a few interesting additions and important fixes. As always, please keep the feedback coming. You can download the release from here and you get further details on the issues addressed in the changelog .
• JBossWS 4.0.0.CR1 has been released at the end of last week and is currently available for download in binary and source distributions. The release covers both Native and Apache CXF integration stacks and comes with ahuge number of improvements, new features and fixes compared to the previous 3.4.1 final release. Have a look at the news page and the release notes [1][2] for further details.
• It took a while to release it (due to other work that needed to be completed first), but the first release of our CDI Spring bridge, aka Seam Spring 3.1.0.Alpha1 is out. The details are on the module main page, and an explanation on how it works is on the documentation page.
• Weld 1.1.4.Final release is out! Full release notes can be found here: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310891&version=12318550.
• Seam 3.1.0.Beta5 released. This will be the last beta release for Seam 3.1, the next release will be CR1 and our plan is to have it available by the end of this month.

Showcase

This section is a weekly spotlight on one or two pretty cool items out there in the JBoss community, just to let you know what you might be missing in the shadows.

• an interesting rules project called Tohu
• wondering what JBoss does with OSGi support, check out the project
• Kosmos is a pretty neat looking monitoring suite
• finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention the jBPM Migration project which will get you up and running on jBPM5 ;-)

Have a great week, enjoy your weekend and hopefully you will find some time to code!

Another week and another update about the wonderful world of JBoss, a community that is gaining both momentum and more traction every day. Each week we try to bring you an overview of the latest, greatest JBoss project news, keeping you up to speed on the width and breadth of the innovation being done in our house.

Published

The Practical RichFaces book was published this week! The book is completely dedicated to development with latest RichFaces 4 release and that means that it's all based on the new JavaServer Faces 2.

OpenShift

There was a new release of OpenShift Express this week. For JBoss developers they have added a modules directory to the Git repo so users can easily add their own JBoss modules. Also there have been some busy beavers over in the TorqueBox team, making it available on OpenShift!

Switchyard

Release v0.2 was pushed out by Keith Babo this week, good job here and it's worth looking at this next generation JBoss ESB project. A quote from Keith on the release, "We are pretty jazzed about how easy it is to use CDI for both implementing services and mixing integration glue logic into Camel routes. The two use cases are quite distinct, but the developer gets the same easy-peasy, standard programming model for both. The tooling that we have written in this area generates SCA component definitions off of the CDI bean services that the user has created. This is currently implemented as a Maven plugin. We also use the Forge tooling support from JBoss Tools. Works like a charm."

Hibernate Core

Release v4.0.0.CR2 of Hibernate Core was announced by Strong Liu.

Drools & jBPM

Michael Anstis posted a story about the new Guvnor wizzard framework, a nice improvement for Guvnor!

Kris Verlaenen will be hosting a set of workshops in September on jBPM5, in Japan and Australia. These workshops are a combination of presentations highlighting the various features, combined with practical sessions where you can try it out yourself using simple exercises on your own laptop.

Finally, the jBPM Migration project has been integrated into the Drools / jBPM github set of official projects. This was proceeded by the release of jBPM Migration v0.9, so come on over and join in to help us get everyone migrated to jBPM5!

JBoss AS 7

Andy Taylor provided a quick tutorial on how to get started deploying JMS resources and MDB's using HornetQ. Over on DZone, community member Daniel Bevenius has written a migration guide covering several of the possible pitfalls when migrating ejb applications to JBoss 7.

JBoss events

Not only do we have events coming up, but there is lots of news about who is speaking where and about what topics:

• Pete Muir on Devoxx 2011, Java One 2011 and JUDCon 2011.
• Eric D. Schabell on Cloud Developer Conference 2011 and JUDCon 2011.
• Manik Surtani on Infinispan at Java One 2011 and Devoxx 2011.
• Alessio Soldano on ECOWS 2011
• Andrew Rubinger and Aslak are presenting JBoss AS 7 and Arquillian at JavaZone the week.
• There is a Seam Hack Night on the 8th of September, meet on #seam-dev on irc.freenode.net at 22:00 hrs UTC. Seam Hack Night is a monthly gathering in IRC where everyone in the channel works together to improve some part of Seam, as opposed to the normal mode of operation where people are working on different things.
• Also keep your eyes on the JBoss Events page!

Showcase

This section is a weekly spotlight on one or two pretty cool items out there in the JBoss community, just to let you know what you might be missing in the shadows.

• over on the blog by Stuart Douglas there is a nice tip for merging Git pull requests in large quantities.
• Bela Ban has a very in depth look at Optimizations for large clusters that you don't want to miss. All of this can be found in the JGroups release v3.0.0.CR1.
• over on twitter we had an anniversary for @kabirkhan, so give him a shout out for 7 years (and counting) at JBoss / Red Hat! ;-)
• community member bpmn2 has a great blog full of jBPM tips and examples. Check this stuff out if you are just getting started with jBPM!
• if you want to track conferences, speakers and you twitter contacts activities, check out a great tool / site at Lanyrd.com.

For the rest of you out there, enjoy your week and code on! ;-)