We begin this week's Editorial by asking for help from everyone who is using Presentation Tier Technologies in their applications.  Brian has prepared a simple, three question survey to help us to get a better understanding of the direction in which your applications are headed, ensuring that we can continue to provide you with the best tools and capabilities to support you in your development efforts.  Please take a minute to look at the survey and help shape the direction we will take going forward and remember, the lists are not exhaustive so please use the 'Other' box to let us know of additional combinations that you are using.

Bayesian Belief Network in Drools

Mark has been very busy developing and integrating a bayesian network subsystem for the Drools pluggable belief system.  In his post he describes the initial work that has been done, references the papers that have been driving the development and briefly discusses the next steps in the development.

Deploying processes in jBPM 6

If you have been trying the recent jBPM 6.0 release then you will already realise that the mechanism for deploying processes has changed, with the packaging moving from a proprietary packaging model to using an extension of a jar file.  Maciej has written a great post explaining the changes that have occurred, highlighting the specific additions that need to be made and walking you through the choices for deploying the new artifacts into your system.

Integration Tooling for JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools

Tooling plays a major part in all projects that contribute to the integration platforms and this week's release of the integration platforms is accompanied by an update to the tooling available through JBoss Developer Studio and JBoss Tools.  For those of you wishing to try out the new tooling, Paul walks you through what is included, provides a step-by-step guide to installation and describes the new components that are now included.

JBoss out and About

As part of the Developer Conference taking place in Brno this weekend, JHackFest will be providing an opportunity for anyone interested in Open Source to join with others and hack on any ideas that may be of interest.  JHackFest takes place on Saturday, February 8th in Masaryk University in Brno.

The Ceylon team have recently held their annual face-to-face meeting in Paris and, with everyone in the same location, took the opportunity to hold their first Ceylon Tour conference.  There were numerous presentation during the day covering topics such as the SDK, Ceylon Idioms, Vert.x, testing, module repositories and Java interoperability.  Stéphane has provided his thoughts on the face-to-face and conference, including slide decks from all the presentations.

If you were at the recent Boston JUG meeting then you would have seen Eric Schabell give a presentation entitled "Zero to Hero with JBoss Business Rules".  Eric has now made his slide deck available for those who are interested in seeing what was covered.

New Releases

The Hibernate Search team have released Hibernate Search 4.5.0.Final, focussing primarily on compatibility with Hibernate ORM 4.3 and WildFly 8.  This version of Hibernate Search will also now be included in the WildFly 8 distribution making it even easier to get started.

The Arquillian team have released 2.0.1.Final of their Graphene component, focussing primarily on browser interoperability and addressing bugs.

That's all the news we have for you this week, join us next week for the next installment from JBoss.

Record JGroups Cluster Size

Bela has recently announced a large jump in the size of the biggest JGroups cluster known to have been created.  The previous record stood at an astounding 536 nodes but this has now been surpassed in style, raising the record to an incredible 1538 nodes.

Transactions Returning to Big Data

Mark Little recently attended the HPTS 2013 Workshop where he presented a paper on Transactions Returning to Big Data.  In his paper he covers a number of the issues that have lead many organisations to reconsider the use of transactions in NoSQL/Big Data deployments.

Project Job Scheduling the OptoPlanner way

Geoffrey has followed up on last week's OptaPlanner video with a new video that demonstrates how OptaPlanner can be used to schedule project related tasks, making use of the available resources in an efficient manner.

Scala Interceptors

Adam Warski has recently written a post describing how easy it is to add interceptors into a Scala application.  While this may sound like a daunting task, Adam introduces us to the MacWire ProxyingInterceptor class which can be used as the foundation for this functionality.

GOTO Aarhus 2013

Eric Schabell was fortunate enough to have attended GOTO 2013, being given an opportunity to present a session on his OpenShift Primer Book.  Eric has now posted the slides of his session online, entitled "OpenShift Primer: Cloud development has never been easier".

jBPM in Magnolia CMS

Kris recently attended the Magnolia conference in Basel, Switzerland, where he co-presented a session with Espen from the Magnolia team.  Their session covered jBPM, versions 5 and 6, and provided details of how Magnolia uses jBPM to drive Magnolia Workflow.

New Releases

• The Forge team has announced Forge 2.0.0.Alpha13
• The Hibernate team has announced Hibernate OGM 4 beta 3

That is all for this week, please check back next week for more updates from the JBoss Communities.

Jave EE in the Cloud

Over the next two months Shane Johnson will be writing a series of articles describing how Java EE applications can be developed and deployed into the Cloud.  In his first article Shane focusses on the OpenShift architecture, discusses the different communication requirements of application servers in the OpenShift environment compared to those within a traditional middleware configuration, introduces the concept of Gears and how they relate to the virtualisation employed by OpenShift and finally lists some of the components and topologies that can be used within OpenShift deployments.

Audit Logging with WildFly

Kabir Khan has written two very interesting articles describing how to configure audit logging for WildFly 8.0.0.Alpha4.

In his first article, Kabir describes how to set up secure Audit Logging to a remote rsyslog daemon.  While this is an advanced configuration for the WildFly audit logging, Kabir takes us through the process step by step and covers the creation of the Certificate Authority which is used to self sign the certificates for TLS, how to configure the WildFly Audit Logging to use TLS as its transport and finally how to configure rsyslogd to recognise the client certificates issued by your new Certificate Authority.  If this article sounds too daunting then you may also want to check out his second article where he describes a simpler example, showing how to enable the WildFly Audit Logging to log entries into a file before going on to show how to add the syslog handler to enable logging to a local syslog daemon.

Upcoming Events

On Wednesday 28th August there will be two BRMS events taking place in Dublin, one in the morning and the second in the evening.  These events are free however spaces are limited.  If you are interested in attending either event then make sure to check Mark's post for details of how to register.

Eric Schabell will be presenting once again at this year's GOTO Aarhus conference.  His session will be taking place on Monday 30th September, from 13:20 to 14:10, and is entitled OpenShift Primer - Cloud development has never been easier.

New Releases

• The Teiid team have released Teiid 8.5 Beta2
• The SwitchYard team have released SwitchYard 1.0.0.Final

That is all for this week, please check back next week for more updates from the JBoss Communities.

We start this week with a couple of topics that have been receiving some controversial cover in various communities.

Banks don't use ACID transactions, at least that is what some people are now saying after reading a blog post which comes to that conclusion.  The reality, however, is not as simple as that post would suggest as the solution employed will depend on the particular requirements of the problem being solved; there are occasions when the solution requires ACID semantics and others where these semantics can be relaxed.  Mark Little has written two blog posts on this topic, the first as a response to the reaction created by the original post and a second on some of the possibilities that are available when your requirements call for ACID semantics but, for whatever reason, this is unachievable.

XACML has also been getting a bit of attention of late, thanks to a blog post by Andras Csar of Forrester who has declared it to be dead, but is this the opinion of the industry?  The situation, as I am sure you can imagine, is more complicated than that post would suggest and the answer depends on who you ask and what it is that they are trying to achieve.  Anil Saldhana, who participated in the creation of the OASIS XACML v3 specification and is co-chair on the OASIS Cloud Authorization TC, has written a post discussing Andras' views and providing his opinions on the future of XACML and alternatives.

Have you ever wondered what goes on within a conference Program Committee?  How do they go about choosing presentations?  Do you want some advice on how to get your abstract noticed?  If so then Michael Istria may be able to help.  Michael was recently invited to play a part in the Program Committee for EclipseCon France, an experience which he enjoyed, and has written about his experience, how the PC worked and how you can improve your chances of success in the submission process.

If you have ever had to use an HTTPS connection within java then you are likely to be aware of the need to set the trustStore system property.  This solution, however, forces you to use the same trust store for all your connections but what can you do if you need to use different trust stores per connection?  If this is one of your requirements then John Mazzitelli has a solution for you, allowing you to ignore the system property and specify the trust store on each connection.

Eric Schabell has written a post introducing a demo project, written by Red Hat UK Solutions Architects to pull together six of the Red Hat JBoss products.  Eric, as you would expect, has taken this a step further and extracted the Car Insurance Demo into a standalone demo framework so that it will be easy for you to run locally.

JBoss on the Road

Randall Hauch has had a busy few weeks travelling to South America, where he presented at JUDCon Brazil, followed by a trip to Cologne, Germany, where he presented at NoSQL Matters, Grenoble, France, where he presented at Alpes JUG and finally Geneva, Switzerland, where he presented at Geneva JUG.

Two others who were present at JUDCon Brazil were Gabriel Cardoso, who gave an interesting presentation on what is required when Designing a New User Interface for Open Source Projects, and Galder Zamarreño, who gave presentations on Infinispan's implementation of the JCache API and how Infinispan can be used as Hibernate's second level cache.

Claus Ibson has recently travelled to Århus, Denmark where he gave a presentation, in Danish naturally, on Apache Camel.

Finally Gunnar Morling attended Berlin Expert Days where he gave a presentation entitled "Bean Validation 1.1 - What's Cooking?"

Upcoming Events

Next week sees Marek Goldman giving his first ever presentation at GeeCON, hosted in Kraków, starting at 11:40am on Wednesday 15th.

The following week will see Mark Proctor deliver a presentation to the London JBUG covering "What's new in Drools 6.0".  If you are in London, and free on May 22nd, then head along to what promises to be a very interesting presentation.

June 9th to June 14th will see a number of conferences taking place at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, USA.  The excitement kicks off with JUDCon 2013: UnitedStates (June 9th - June 11th) followed by CamelOne 2013 (June 10th - June 11th), Red Hat Developer Exchange (June 11th) and finally Red Hat Summit (June 11th - June 14th).  Each of these conferences will be well attended by many of the core JBoss developers and provides one of the best opportunities to meet, talk and work with some of the best in the business.  If you are unsure what will be covered by these conferences then Ray Ploski and Mike Brock can help, both posting their thoughts on what you can expect to see and learn at JUDCon, Camel One and Red Hat Developer Exchange.  Stéphane Épardaud also provides some information on a 4 hour, hands-on lab that he, Gavin King and Emmanuel Bernard will be presenting on Ceylon.

New Releases

This week sees a multitude of releases from a diverse set of projects.

We start the list with two projects that have each announced two releases

• the hibernate team releasing Hibernate Validator 5.0.1 and Hibernate ORM 4.3.0.Beta2
• the Arquillian team releasing Arquillian Container GlassFish 1.0.0.CR4 and Arquillian Drone Extension 1.2.0.Alpha2

In addition to this we have a number of projects announcing final releases

• the TorqueBox team releasing TorqueBox 2.3.1
• the JGroups team releasing JGroups 3.3.0.Final
• the RHQ team releasing RHQ 4.7

and a number that are announcing beta releases

• the Teiid team releasing Teiid 8.4 Beta2
• the jBPM team releasing jBPM 6.0 Beta2
• the Infinispan team releasing Infinispan 5.3.0.Beta1

With this amount of activity there must be something that piques your interest!

We are now a month into the New Year and it is amazing to see the amount of development that is occurring within the JBoss Community.  It would be fair to say that we are no longer ramping back up from a long vacation but are now going full steam ahead.  Sit back and let us take you through all the developments of the last week.

AeroGear Next Steps

The AeroGear team have been very busy preparing for the next milestone release of the AeroGear project by releasing milestones of their JavaScript, Android and iOS libraries.  Kris Borchers has recently written an article discussing the major changes that are coming in the JavaScript library, including how paged resources can be handled by the pipeline and how you can tailor the version of AeroGear.js being used by your application.  Summers Pittman has written an article on the changes coming to the Android lib, including an API on handling paged data from REST endpoints and the new persistent SQL Store.  Finally Christos Vasilakis has written an article covering the iOS lib changes, including support for pagination and property list based storage.

Bean Validation Specification reaches 1.1 Beta 3

With less than three weeks to go before the proposed final draft of the specification is released, the JSR 349 Expert Group have released the third beta of their specification.  If you have any interest in this specification then now is the ideal time to provide feedback to the group.  You can find details of the specification, reference implementation, API and TCK on the beanvalidation site.

Thoughts on Big Data

Shane Johnson has recently written a couple of articles describing his thoughts on Big Data.  In his first article, Big Data and the Flying V, Shane discusses Doug Laney's "3V's" framework for understanding Big Data and how this is reflected in practice.  In his second article, The Structure of Big Data, Shane discusses how the structure of data can be classified, a topic which prompted a response from the ModeShape team, Structured, unstructured and everything between.

Message Batching in JGroups

Bela Ban has been doing some very interesting work to enable message batching within JGroups 3.3.  In his article, Buy one, get many for free, Bela covers the changes that have been introduced, how they will change the behaviour and what can be enabled through this change.  It will be very interesting to see the impact this will have on performance.

WS-BA Participant Completion Race Condition

Paul Robinson has recently posted his second article discussing a race condition which exists within the WS-BA protocol.  His first article concentrated on a high level description of the events and how it affects an application and he now delves into the technical details to show that the outcome of the completion will always be consistent.  This is a must-read if you are using, or considering, WS-BA within an application.

OpenShift Enterprise Reference Architecture for High Availability

If you are interested in running OpenShift Enterprise on premise, or as part of a hybrid PaaS solution, then you should take a look at Eric Schabell's introduction for a high availability architecture.  If this whets your appetite then be sure to read through the complete reference architecture.

Enabling HTTPOnly in JAX-RS

Have you ever wanted to enable support for HTTPOnly in your JAX-RS application?  Do you need this behaviour before it is officially supported in the JAX-RS specification?  If so then Anil Saldhana has a solution to your problem.

Dynamic Panels and Custom Error Pages in JSF

Brian Leathem has a great article discussing how to dynamically create togglePanels, accordions and tabPanels using the RichFaces <a4j:repeat> tag.  While it has always been possible to handle this using JSTL, this addition allows these components to be created during the render phase of the JSF lifecycle.

Jaikiran Pai was recently following an interesting topic on the coderanch forums, involving JBoss, customer error pages, CDI and JSF.  Intrigued by this topic he began investigating the problem under discussion and came up with an elegant solution to the issue of creating a custom error page for expired conversations involving CDI and JSF.

JAX-WS tools and the Java Compiler API

Apache CXF has been, for the most part, well integrated into JBoss AS 7.  One integration problem that remained to be solved was the issue of executing the wsdl-to-java and java-to-wsdl tooling without having to use the endorsed feature of Java to override the version of the JAX-WS api.  Alessio Soldano recently tackled this issue head-on and, through collaboration with the Apache CXF community, has proposed a solution which will allow the JBossWS integration to rely on the modularity of JBoss Modules in order to specify the correct API version.

Annotation Processors Failing Silently

Have you ever had a problem whereby and annotation processor you have written has mysteriously stopped working?  Heiko Rupp recently came across that exact problem and, through some interesting detective work, managed to discover what was occurring and how it could be fixed.

Projects Requiring Help

The Hibernate team have started discussing requirements for using Hibernate ORM within an OSGi environment.  Do you use ORM?  Are you interested in having it work within an OSGi environment?  If so take a look at their proposal and make sure that your use cases are covered.

The Errai team are also asking for your help with the development of Errai 3.0.  Do you have any features that you would like to have considered for this release?  If so head over to their forum and let them know the details.

News from Recent Events

Heiko Rupp recently attended the London Java Community's first "Meet a project" event.  The event involved representatives from six projects, each of which were given 15 minutes to introduce their project to the attendees, explain about open source and discuss how the attendees could get involved and help out.  It sounds like a very interesting format.

Sanne Grinovero was recently in India giving five presentations during JUDCon India 2013.  Read his thoughts on the conference and his amusing description of an unlikely conversation he had with an expert Hibernate Search user.

New Releases for the Week

In keeping with the subject, Full Steam Ahead, we have lots of new releases to share with you this week.

• The Infinispan team have released Infinispan 5.2.0 Final
• The TorqueBox team have released TorqueBox 2.3.0
• The Errai team have released Errai 2.2.0.Final
• The RichFaces team have released RichFaces 4.3.0.Final
• The ModeShape team have released ModeShape 3.1.1.Final
• The Escalante team have released their latest plugin for the scala build tool, Escalante SBT plugin 0.1.1
• The Hibernate team have released Hibernate ORM 4.2.0.CR1
• The HornetQ team have released HornetQ 2.3.0.CR1
• The Weld team have released Weld 2.0.0.Beta3
• The Teiid team have released Teiid 8.3 Beta 1
• The Portlet team have released Portlet Bridge 3.2.0.Alpha2

Thanks very much for reading this far, I hope you have enjoyed this week's Editorial.  Drop back next week for more updates from the JBoss Community.

JBoss Renaming Update

At the beginning of October we announced our intention to rename JBossAS and asked the Community's help in doing so.  Our original plan had the submission period running from October 1st to October 14th, followed by a voting period running from October 21st to November 1st and finally an announcement of the winner during next week's Devoxx conference.  The response we received from the Community was fantastic, with over over 1500 names being submitted, and we are only now completing the short list of names.  This short list will be announced at next week's Devoxx conference, after which we will have a voting period taking us up to the Christmas holiday season with the announcement of the winning submission being made in early 2013.

Keep your eyes open for the announcements and remember to vote for your favourite once voting commences.

Why should you consider using a Data Grid?

Have you ever thought about why you should use a Data Grid?  Perhaps you are wondering what advantages a Data Grid will have over a Clustered Cache?  If these are questions you have been thinking about then Shane Johnson has some answers for these and more.

From Requirements to Deployed Services

The Savara project, part of the Overlord Governance umbrella project, has the aim of developing tooling to support the concept of Testable Architectures.  As part of their recent milestone release, Gary has recorded a screencast which shows how you can get from requirements to deployed services in 15 minutes.  You can find more information about the screencast and demo over at the Savara blog.

Automating ATDD through integration of Thucydides and Arquillian

The Arquillian team have come up with a plan to integrate Acceptance Test Driven Development, the definition of automated acceptance criteria, with the powerful Arquillian test framework.  The integration of Thucydides with Arquillian will create a powerful framework that will enable the automated testing of human-readable test specifications, providing an environment through which Acceptance Testing can become agile.

In order to kickstart this work they will be hacking on this idea during the free-to-attend Devoxx Hackergarten.  If you are in the area and want to get involved then head along to Hackergarten on Tuesday 13th November to take part in the fun.

JBoss AS 7 Tutorials

This week sees two great tutorials from Master The Boss. The first tutorial walks you through the JBoss AS Maven plugin, showing how it can be used to deploy artifacts, undeploy artifacts and add resources into the application server.  The second tutorial walks you through the necessary steps to enable ActiveMQ as a message broken within JBoss AS 7.

GWT and Errai UI Quickstart

If you have ever wanted to do client side HTML5 templating within GWT then this screencast from Lincoln is just what you are looking for.  Lincoln has also provided the demo code so that you can make your own modifications and play around.

Turning packages into a module system

Adam Warski has put together a thought-provoking piece on what he believes would be needed if we decided to turn packages into a module system.  This is worth a read, whether you agree with him or not, so head over and add your thoughts into the discussion.

Scaladin quickstart for Escalante

Escalante, the JBoss application server for Scala, now has its first external contribution in the form of a quickstart demonstrating how to run Scaladin, a Scala wrapper for the Vaadin Framework.  If you are interested in working with Scala in an application server environment, or have an interest in the polyglot efforts at JBoss, then take the quickstart for a spin and see what you think.

JBoss Out and About

Next week will see many of the JBoss Core and Community developers hit Devoxx to teach, learn and hack with the wider Open Source communities.  Emmanuel has written about his expectations for Devoxx; Sarah has written about all the wonderful labs, workshops and BOFs covering the testing universe, and Geoffrey gives you some ideas for hacking Drools Planner during the Hackergarten.

The Infinispan team will be in force at JUDCon China, held on the 29th and 30th November, to give nine presentations on all things Infinispan.

Eric will be at JBugNL on 12th December to give an OpenShift Primer, followed by an appearance at Red Hat Developer Day in London on 14th December to present on Advanced Java & JBoss in the Cloud and finally the Open Source Conference 2012 in Amsterdam on where he will give a talk entitled "Demystifying the path to a JBoss Intelligent, Integrated Enterprise".

Eric has also submitted three sessions to the JAX 2013 conference in Mainz, Germany being held at the end of April 2013.  The sessions are "Advanced Java & JBoss in the Cloud", "Building highly scalable process & rule-driven applications" and "JBoss BPMS sneak peak".

New Releases for the Week

This week has seen numerous releases from across the JBoss ecosystem

• The Overlord team have made two releases
  • Milestone 2 of their Business Activity Monitoring tooling, including a screencast of some of the new features
  • Savara 2.1 Milestone 2, enhancing the support for SwitchYard java service simulation.
• The Arquillian team have also made to releases
  • Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.0.Alpha2, extracting the JTA transaction support into a separate module
  • Arquillian Container Weld 1.0.0.CR5
• The Teiid team join the fun with another two release
  • Teiid 8.2 CR1, including support for Vaults, Google Spreadsheet and a WSDL backed webservice translator
  • Teiid Admin Web Console 1.0 CR1, a new GWT based administrative console for Teiid
• The SwitchYard team have released SwitchYard 0.6 Beta 2 and should shortly be following that with the 0.6 release.
• The tools team have released the first betas of JBoss Tools 4 and JBoss Developer Studio 6
• The Transactions team have released JBoss TS 4.17.2.Final
• The Hibernate team have released Hibernate ORM 4.1.8.Final
• The Portlet Bridge team have released Portlet Bridge 3.1.0.Final
• The Drools team have announced their first public release of UberFire, a web based workbech forming the basis of their consoles

This has been a very productive week for many teams across the JBoss Community, writing many blog posts, publishing screencasts and announcing numerous releases.  Next week promises to be just as productive, especially for all those attending Devoxx.

Join us again next week to find out what happens during Devoxx!

JavaOne 2012

This year's JavaOne conference will be starting in just a few days and we will have many presenters in attendance.  There will twenty six (26) talks covering a diverse selection of areas such as Ceylon, polyglot, CDI, cloud, mobile and many more.  If you are still trying to decide which sessions you would like to attend then take a look at our Speaking Engagements page to find something that interests you.

In addition to the main conference sessions we will be presenting mini-theater sessions at the JBoss booth (Booth #5201).  These sessions will also cover a mixture of topics and will be running on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 10:00am until 4:30pm.

For relaxation there is nothing better than attending the infamous JBoss Party.  This year's party will be held on Tuesday evening at the San Francisco MOMA (from 8:00pm until 11:00pm) and promises to be bigger and better than before.  Stop by the JBoss booth to pick up your ticket, it will be needed to gain entrance, or ask one of the presenters at their sessions.

Tracing, Debugging and Testing the Byteman way

Have you ever had the need to introduce adhoc tracing on a running system, to debug a complex scenario or aid in testing by orchestrating and injecting hard to reproduce scenarios and all of these without modifying your code?  If so then Byteman is the tool you are looking for.

The team at Master the Boss have created a series of articles introducing Byteman and its capabilities.  In their first article, Introduction to Byteman, they walk you through how to obtain Byteman and how to get a simple test running; in their second article, Byteman administration, they discuss how to dynamically change the rules being executed within a running system, and in their final article, Byteman advanced tutorial, they will walk you through another example which highlights some of the more advanced capabilities of Byteman.

Byteman should always be a part of your arsenal, don't leave home without it

Arquillian web UI testing

Arquillian is a very powerful suite of testing tools covering many diverse areas of development including that of automated testing of web based UIs.  Arquillian Graphene provides a solution for testing web UIs, strengthened recently with the introduction of page fragments.  Juraj Húska's has taken some time to cover this interesting, and very powerful, concept in his comprehensive article on page fragments.

Road Trips

Many JBoss colleagues will be on the road over the next couple of months to attend and present at many of the developer conferences across the world, includng Marius Bogoevici who will be at both JavaOne and SpringOne.  Marius will be giving talks at both conferences and will be covering many of the best practices for using Spring in a Java EE environment.

Past Events

Last week saw the fifth Open Blend conference, this year being held at the beautiful Jable Castle near Trzin (north of Ljubljana).  Many of our Slovenian colleagues helped to organise the event and managed to arrange for a number of JBoss developers to attend, including Gavin King and Keith Babo.  If you didn't get a chance to attend, but want to see what you have missed, then take a look at the photographs of the event.

Upcoming Events

October 10th sees the third one day conference organised by the Munich JBoss User Group.  The conference consists of three tracks covering topics such as Java EE, gradle, OSGi, OpenShift, BRMS, Drools, Infinispan and AeroGear.

October 15th sees the start of the Red Hat Integration and BPM week, a virtual event where you will learn about Red Hat's integration and BPM road map, find out how recent acquisitions will be integrated into the portfolio, and gain practical knowledge from the engineering leaders that are driving the most popular integration, messaging and rules, and BPM technologies and standards.  Registration for the event gives you access to all seventeen (17) webinar sessions, well worth the money (it's free)!

October 22nd sees the start of IntelliFest, kicking off with two days of free sessions.  Monday's track is entitled Healthcare focus for Rules, Workflow, Ontologies and Events with Tuesday's track focusing on a General Drools & jBPM workshop.  In you are in, or near, San Diego on those dates then take the opportunity to register and learn from the experts.

New Releases for the week

- Seam 2.3.0.Final has been announced by Marek

- TorqueBox 2.1.2 has been announced by the TorqueBox team

- RHQ 4.5.0 has been released

- Forge 1.1.0 has been announced by the Forge team

That's all for this week.  Stay tuned to find out what will happen at next week's JavaOne as I'm certain there will be lots of interesting announcements.

For many of us within the JBoss Community, Red Hat Summit and JBoss World was the culmination of much work over the preceding months; with numerous project and platform releases, presentations and demonstrations all being finalised in time for the conference.  The weeks that followed have seen lots of us taking a well deserved break in order to recharge our batteries but, unfortunately, this also means that this week's editorial is a little light on content.  But never fear, what we do have is definitely worth exploring .....

JBoss World Keynote

One of the highlights of this year's JBoss World was the keynote demonstration, used to showcase many of the technologies that are now present in the projects and platforms.  The backend services utilised BRMS and jBPM, in order to provide Business Analysts with an easy way of defining and modifying the business logic that was used to drive our simple Toy Store, and exposed a set of REST APIs which could then be consumed by client applications.

As part of the demonstration Kris Borcher developed HTML5 client applications to provide buyer, approver and Vice Principal functionality to a mobile workforce.  These clients could be run through a browser, directly from an OpenShift server, or deployed as a native application on mobile devices thanks to the power of Apache Cordova.  If you want to find out more about the client applications and how they were developed then head over to Kris' post for more details.

Infinispan at JBoss World and JUDCon

The Infinispan project had a great presence at JBoss World and JUDCon with Galder, Manik and Alan Santos all playing their part.  Galder was on stage with Heiko to give a presentation entitled "Effectively Manage & Monitor Red Hat JBoss Data Grid Nodes".  Galder has more information about this presentation, along with his favourite highlights of the conference, in his post "JBoss Data Grid lands in Red Hat Summit".  Vladimir was also at the conferences although he was drawn more to the presentations on Infinispan's Map/Reduce and distributed executor capabilities.

Continuous Enterprise Development in Java

Andrew Lee Rubinger, Dan Allen and Aslak Knutsen have begun work on their next book, "Continuous Enterprise Development in Java", which will be published by O'Reilly Media.  The book will guide the user through some of the most common and interesting use-cases in building multiuser applications and will be based on the work being done through the JBoss Developer Framework.  They are currently on course to begin the Early Access Program around the time of Java One 2012 with the formal release in the Spring of 2013.

Custom Analyzers for Fields in Class or Field Bridges

Prompted by a number of enquires in the Hibernate Search forums and on Stack Overflow, Hardy has written a good article explaining the options available for defining custom analyzers for fields which are introduced through Class or Field Bridges.  All his solutions use only functionality which is available in the latest Hibernate Search release.

IntelliFest

Members of the Drools team will be attending IntelliFest in October, providing the normal Drools & jBPM bootcamp in the run up to the main conference.  Registration for the bootcamp is free but places are limited.

New Releases

The Ceylon team have announced the M3.1 release of Ceylon and the Ceylon IDE.  This release addresses several bugs and introduces a number of significant improvements in the language module and IDE.

The Hibernate team have made successive releases of Hibernate ORM, first announcing Hibernate ORM 4.1.5 followed quickly after by Hibernate ORM 4.1.5.SP1 to address an issue which slipped through the net.

Bela has announced the release of JGroups 3.0.11 and 3.1.0.

The ModeShape team have announced the release of ModeShape 2.8.2.Final, addressing some issues which were discovered after the previous version had been released.

That's all we have at the end of a quiet week.  Drop back next week for more updates from the JBoss Community.