Summer is definitely here in the Northern Hemisphere, and if not hindering the activities of the community it certainly show by change of balance between announcement and releases over in depth technical article All the better for our readers, as I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy the numerous technical bites (or bytes) from last week !

Technical bytes

So if you like techcrunch and in depth article, you are in for a treat this week. First, let's start with alternative language and take a look at the Ceylon TypeScript Loader (GSoC project). From there, you should move quite naturally to some more high level client technologies, and see What is new in Android Client with Hawkular. Of course, if you prefer to stay on the language level, there is also this very interesting article on Null and not-null @DiscriminatorValue options. See ? Only good stuff out there !

Now, let's move to a more high level overview. with this passionating article on Visualizing Integration Applications. It's clearly a broad (and thus complex) topic, but this article does a fair job at at both describing the state of art and how we got here, but also sum up what are the current solutions and best practices. Kudos to its author Bilgin Ibryam.

Last, but not the least, Eric D. Schabell describes a Vaadin powered solution, using the Red Hat Cool Store demo, but also illustrating, at the same time, a cool usage of the JBoss BRMS framework.

Keycloak going "legit" : Red Hat Web Single Sign-On !

Keycloak has been a thriving project since its inception, and if you follow the weekly carefully, you must have seen many news, article and frequent releases from the project. And this is why, I wanted to echo here a news coming from the Red Hat JBoss Middleware blog, that may have not reach the JBoss Community: Red Hat announces Integrated Web Single Sign-On and Identity Federation. Indeed, Red Hat has decided to have a product based on Keycloak, and anyone will soon be able to request support and/or expertise if needed. Congratulations to the project and the community, this is a big achievement !

Infinispan & Docker - a mix in Heaven

Infinispan is a very powerful and flexible project, and I'm for one certainly happy to that there is now Improved Infinispan Docker image available , whiich hopefully will enable people to easily setup and play with the project. So, time to discover the bleeding edge of Infinispan on Docker !

Releases, releases, releases...

Well for once, and this must be a record, there is only one release in the last days ! But still a good one   :

• Weld: Arquillian container Weld 2.0.0.Beta1 released!

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next installment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavor to bring you more interesting articles written by members of the JBoss communities. And stay up to date with latest developments by following @jbossdeveloper on twitter.

If spring has yet to come to us (at least in Europe), there is a definitly a feeling of "waking up", all over the community. Projects are releasing, as they always do, but important milestones are coming - and with them, the release of crucial and exciting features...

Waking up the bear

The Hibernate community has grown over the border of the Hibernate framework for a long time now. Numerous projects, like the Hibernate ORM (which just released 5.0.9.Final) and Hibernate Search (which just 5.6.0.Alpha3) are part of this blooming community.

Thus it was decided to set up a dedicated Hibernate Community Newsletter, to allow people interest by all (or most) of those projects, to easily follow their activities.

In the Eye of the Hawkular

On top of releasing the 1.0.0.Alpha11, which is getting the project closer and closer to the 1.0.0 milestone, Hawkular team took the time to produce a Hawkular features overview (1.0.0.Alpha11). The article covers quickly how Hawkular can (graphically) monitor business transactions or application performance, alongside dealing with management operations and artifacts deployments.

Also, to show how flexible and extendable the project is, one of the developer, Heiko Rupp, produced a very intriguing blog entry on Reacting on IoT data with Hawkular. This new article is a follow up on his previous ones on Sending IoT sensor data to Hawkular-Metrics via MQTT and Send IoT data to Hawkular-full and all of them certainly forms an exciting testimony to the possibility offered by Hawkular.

Evangelist's Corner

Last week, Christina has released the part four of a her Fuse Integration Service demo on"Auto Dealership Management"

and, as always, Eric D. Schabell has been quite prolific and produced a guide on Installing the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK), but also take the time to answer some questions on OpenShift Profiles (An interview with Eric D. Schabell).

Events

Worth to mention here is certainly the opening of the Call For Paper - Riveria Dev, a conference located in the south of France, at Sophia-Antipolis, on the 16 and 17 June. The CfP itself closes on the 30th April. If you have the chance to be able to apply or attend, please do so, I only hear good things about this event !

Releases, releases, releases...

The JBoss community would not be as thriving as it is, if it were not to release as often as it does. Thus, this week is again having its fair share of interesting releases:

• JBoss Forge 3.0.0 Final and already JBoss Forge 3.0.1 Final
• Infinispan Hadoop connector 0.2 released!
• Hibernate ORM 5.0.9.Final
• Hawkular released 1.0.0.Alpha11
• Hibernate Search version 5.6.0.Alpha3 is now available!
• Teiid 9.0 Alpha2 Released

With Christmas only a couple of weeks away, most of us are trying to wrap up things nicely to enjoy the holiday with a nice sense of completeness - and that's probably why there are so many releases this week. Sadly, some are not at all in the Christmas spirit as you'll see by the Ceylon's troll alert... But first things first, let's look at the good stuff !

Keycloak is out and social !

Keycloak 1.7.0.Final Released and it's full of good features (already documented when the RC was released: Keycloak 1.7.0.CR1 Released). And if you wonder how this could help you, well take a look at this article on First social login in Keycloak, and you'll know what to do next time your application needs some authentification layer (no more extra passwords and user credentials to manage anymore !).

Infinispan is also out and make sparks !

Infinispan 8.1.0.Final is out! This release comes with many enhancements, but the main focus is certainly on the brand new Web Management Console - which the team has been working on quite hard, and are rightly proud about. They even made a video for you to check it out: Infinispan 8.1.0 Admin Console.

Infinispan is a very powerful tool and it's nice to see that more and more connectors allow to integrate with it smoothly. A nice example of this is this brand new Infinispan Spark connector. If you like to play with Spark, check it out !

Really ? In this day and age ?

Sometimes, you run into something that just make you think "Seriously ? People are still doing that ?" - and of course not in a good way. Indeed, the Ceylon community has just released "Troll alert". I honestly thought those days were gone, but apparently, I have been quite naive about it - read the whole story, it's a cautionary tale.

On C-Level

While the JBoss Community is obviously all about the gritty-nittyness of in-depth technical details, it's also nice to take one's head out of those, and to look at the so-called "Big Picture": DevOps and the Myth of Efficiency.

Evangelist's Corner

As every week, our Evangelist team, all over the globe, have been quite busy. First, Christina released a new workshop "101 Fuse in EAP", that certainly is worth a look. And, as usual, Eric D. Schabell produced new materials on his ongoing series of JBoss BPM 6.2 new features articles, including Multi-user support in Business Central and How to use the Correlation Key.

Releases, releases, releases...

• Teiid 8.12.3 Released - quite an important release as it might be the last one of the 8.12 series, and it also has introduced support for Wildfly 9 !
• Weld project has been quite busy - two quite important releases out:
  • Weld 3.0.0.Alpha14 and Weld: Weld 2.3.2.Final
• Arquillian Transaction Extension 1.0.3.Final
• JBoss Forge Alpha3
• Infinispan 8.1.0.Final, as mentioned above, and along with
  • Infinispan Spark connector 0.2 released!
• Keycloak 1.7.0.Final Released

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next installment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavor to bring you more interesting articles written by members of the JBoss communities. And stay up to date with latest developments by following @jbossdeveloper on twitter.

Incredibly enough, this week, there is no Docker related news (at least in the JBossverse) ! ! ! But don't worry this does NOT mean, this weekly is empty, far from it. Indeed, on the week jBPM and Wildfly lastst releases, there is a a lot of interesting material to peruse into, so buckle up and let's go !

BPM & Rules

With the released of both jBPM 6.3 and Drools 6.3, the last week, BPM has a been the focus for many people in the JBoss community. First of all, if you have no idea or prior experience on the topic, you may want to use the discount code on the book "Mastering jBPM6". Indeed, I do still believe that reading an actual book is an excellent to get into a subject, especially, when - like it is the case with BPM, it comes with a long history and rich ecosystem. Of course, in our ages of learning technologies by reading a couple of blogs and/or watching a couple of video, you might want something a bit more "hands on", but rest assure, as always Eric D. Schabell has thought of you and released three more videos on BPM Quick Tour series:

• Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BPM Suite (video)
• Quick Tour #4: Start your first JBoss BPM Suite project (video)
• Quick Tour #5: How to import a project into JBoss BPM Suite (video)

Some interesting stories around jBPM have been released also last week, including the Google Summer of Code 2015 Success Story: jBPM Mobile (MGTW) , but also a technology highlights: jBPM and BPMN 2.0 workflow creation and a in depth article: Lienzo for new jBPM Designer and Drools Decision Tables.

Last but not the least you are living in Chile or Argentina, or going there in November, you might be quite interested by the upcoming Drools Workshops Chile/Argentina (Nov/15) happening over there.

Infinispan

Infinispan is an excellent project, bringing the power of data grid storage and computing to the Java ecosystem on top of giving a new youth to the JCache API. If you want to learn more about Infinispan (and its associate Red Hat Product, JBoss Data Grid) and attend the Red Hat EMEA Partner Conf 2015, please come to my lab on 5 Things You Should Know on JBoss Data Grid for a quick, and hands on, introduction to the matter.

If you are already familiar with Infinispan, a couple of very interesting articles has been released last week. The first one is Infinispan: Memory based eviction - and eviction being at the core of the product, you will certainly appreciate this nice walk-through from William Burns of the internal design. The other one is the first of a series of article from Thomas Qvarnström on JBoss Tech Blog: Scaleable Events with JBoss Data Grid - part 1 Overview of Events. Events in Infinispan are a very simple and yet powerful way to implements logic on data changes or insert, leveraging the very scalable and distributed nature of the grid. Just take a peak at this article and I'm sure you'll see what I mean here

Wildfly 10 is coming...

... Soon. So soon in fact, that WildFly 10 CR2 has been released and that Markus made a nice overview of its key feature: Java EE 7, Java 8, Hibernate 5, JavaScript Support with Hot Reloading. Enjoy the preview, and rest assure, you won't be waiting for too long for the GA.

Technological bits (or bytes)

First of all, let's take it easy by starting with a video - no coding, nor reading to do, just enjoy the JBoss Fuse - Tools make your world go round, the slides and basics, and learn :

• How to debug Camel application using the tooling provides.
• Data mapping between POJO and XML, JSON with Dozer with drag and drops only.
• Deploy and package an OSGi ready Applications.

Then, our own Kenny Peeples will take you through the  the new feature Data Virtualization 6.2. In case you are not aware of this, Data Virtualization is the Red Hat products associated to the Open Source project Teiid, which, by the way, have been recently named "Best Open Source Application" by InfoWorld Bossie Awards. A nice, simple read here again, but now let's go up a notch, and look at Narayana.

Narayana is the implementation of the Java Transaction Service, which is of course a crucial, internal part of our JEE server Wildfly. That being said, most likely - or at least for most of you, you will never interact directly with it. However, now that Narayana team has released a JTS Docker Container, it gives you the opportunity to easily test this framework and see for yourself the intricate complexities of transaction management (if you think that this matter is simple, try, like me to read Mark Little's book on the topic and call me when you hit the first bottle of aspirin...). IMHO, it is quite crucial to any application developer to have a fair grasp of transaction management - at least to know when NOT to use them and when you actually CAN'T go without them. This light docker container might be an easy for you to test it or demonstrate it*.

OK, let's go even further with OptaPlanner - How lucky are your random seeds ? But, on this one, I'll take the 5th amendment (even if I'm no citizen of the US), because my knowledge of OptaPlanner is sketchy at best, and to make it worse, I really suck at statistics and math. But if you are into any of those, you'll bet you'll find yourself a nice gift in this article...

* This docker container for JTS does not count as a Docker related news - not changing the title of this weekly editorial !

Releases, releases, releases

On top of the jBPM 6.3 and  Drools 6.3, already mentioned above, the rest of the JBoss Community has not been resting, idle, and has delivered, as always, a fair amount of new version in the last week:

• Drools & jBPM:
  • Processes, Rules and Events: jBPM 6.3 released
  • Drools 6.3.0.Final released
• Hibernate ORM
  • Second bug-fix release for ORM 5.0
• Arquillian
  • Arquillian Governor 1.0.0.Final Released
  • ShrinkWrap Descriptors 2.0.0-alpha-8 Released
  • Arquillian Recorder 1.1.0.Alpha2 Released

In a few days, most kids will be back to school, if not already, and holidays season will come to an end (for now).... It could be a depressing time, but don't worry, this editorial will bring enough thrilling news to make your coming back at work passionating !

Getting started with ... everything !

In a few days, school start again and it's probably a got time for all us of to also "get started". And this is so with perfect timing, the JBoss community has released many "getting started" in the previous week:

• Eric D. Schabell: 7 Steps to Your First Process with JBoss BPM Suite Start Kit
• Christina の J老闆 : Red Hat JBoss Fuse - Getting Started Home Loan Demo version 6.2 Part 6
• The Open Universe: Easy Getting Started Example with Data Virtualization for Developers
• Pedro Igor's WildFly Blog: Using a Database to Authenticate and Authorize Your Users in Elytron.
• Red Hat JBoss AMQP.Net Lite Client – Hello World! | Red Hat Developer Blog
• Not a getting start, but remember that Hibernate ORM 5.0 has gone Final and it is certainly worth a look...

Disclaimer : some of those quickstarts will be mentioned again below.

Docking Point

Whenever I do this editorial, I often make joke about Docker as being the almost systematic "topic of the week". Well, this entry not be an exception, as

Ioannis Canellos entry on"Fabric8 Kubernetes and Openshift Java DSL" gives us, yet again, an interesting insight in the popular container technology. That being, I'm also happy to see that the fad is seems to be finally getting down a bit, and people start questioning if "Docker everywhere, for everything" is really the answer to all our problems (one day our industry will learn, one day...).

That's why I found equally interesting Thomas Qvarnström entry on"Application Containers is not a replacement for Virtualization", along with Containers in the enterprise – Are you ready for this?. Indeed, if Docker has certainly a lot of merits, it is - as always, good to know where to use it and where not to use it - in short, how to find your docking point.

Data Virtualization with Teiid

I'm quite happy to see that in the last years, Teiid (and the associated product JBoss Data Virt) have been getting a lot of attention, and a lot of interesting material about it have been released, blogged or twitted. Indeed, while part of the JBoss community since a long time now, this very powerfull tool that is still a tidbit of a mystery for many people.

But at least for those living in Europe, now that Teiid and Data Virtualization are going to be a focus the EMEA Partner Conference

, they have a chance to catch on ! And if you can't be in Frankfurt, on the 5th of October, don't worry, you can always catch a glimpse of Teiid magic by following this Easy Getting Started Example with Data Virtualization for Developers !

Security :Database Authentification & Authorization with Elytron

In the last year, security have been a raging topic, especially with hacks as public as the one of Ashley Madison (or the far less impressive one of TV5 in France), so it is certainly a good idea to take a little tour of Wildfly security subsystem, Elytron, following Pedro Igor's WildFly Blog: Using a Database to Authenticate and Authorize Your Users in Elytron.

Wildfly Console Updated and Feedback Requested !

If you have been in the JBossverse for a long time, you might remember the high quality user experience of our very first JMX console with a mix feeling of dread and panic   (BTW, I loved the JMX console, but I also read my email with mutt and chat over irssi, not sure I'm the right customer for fancy UI). Of course, we've been doing some major progress in this area for years now, and the current webconsole provided with Wildfly is pretty slick.

Nonetheless we still aim at making it better, so please checkout Arun Gupta's entry on WildFly Admin Console Updated - Feedback Requested

and take the time to give us some feedback on how you will like to see it enhance.

Decaf'

Langing for some "hard core" C programming, and low level grittyness ? Take a pick at the impressive Dirty Trick: Launching a helper process under memory and latency constraints (pthread_create and vfork).

As a late student sneaking into classroom, and pretending to have been there since the beginning, summer has suddenly rolled on Europe this week. However, despite the heatwave coming with it, the JBoss communities have been, as always, thriving and produced numerous releases and interesting content for you. So, if it's too hot to work, or if you wish it would be, maybe it's time to have an iced tea, sit back and enjoy a nice tour of what happened last week...

When Data Virtualization goes the NoSQL road...

As you may know, Teiid is a data virtualization solution, which allows you to abstract your numerous databases into one, both simplifying your applications developpment and enabling you to easily creates report spanning across various part of your company or organization. If you don't know anything about it, the project just released Teiid 8.11 CR1 so it's perfect opportunity to go check it out.

For people who already knows about data virtualization, quite focused on SQL storage, they often overlook the fact that Teiid can also access NoSQL storage such as Infinispan or MongoDB. And even bring some SQL capacity to such storage ! Look at this in details with Ramesh Reddy blog's entries an SQL on MongoDB using Teiid - Part 1 and SQL on MongoDB using Teiid - Part 2.

Photo Credit Wikipedia

(sorry, I really tried to find a picture of Teiid Lizard eating mangos, but one must admit the internet still has its limits, so you got a well feed one instead)

Keycloak in real life

Nowadays no website is really secured without a proper authentification - as my friend François Le Droff and I have strongly pointed out during out talk on Java & Security at Devoxx France (in French, sorry). However, strong authenficiation generally makes a horrid user experience - expect if you smartly uses OAuth2. And if you wonder how to set that in place, look at this thorough demonstration using Keycloak to secure your services with OAuth2.

An other brilliant demonstration of Keycloak usefulness is this other explanation of how OpenShift UI Console authentication with Keycloak and OpenID connect together.

Hopefully those two description will convince you to give a serious at look at Keycloak, so if you happen to go to DevNation, don't forget to attend Enterprise security with Keycloak – from the intranet to mobile.

Photo Credit - FutUndBeidl

No Docker ? Seriously ?

Of course not ! This entry would not be a proper "IT related blog entry" without at least one entry mentioning Docker, would it not ? Well, don't worry, here it comes : Docker Compose on Windows with Python And Babon ! (Yes, just one, but a good one )

AeroGear and Feedhenry

If you are an aficionado of either AeroGear or Feedhenry, you'll probably be curious about this new post on AeroGear quick start push Templates,

which show both product can operate together quite nicely.

Evangelist's Corner

As always, our team of Evangelists have been tireless and produced quite a lot of interesting content for you to browse this week. First, Eric D. Schabell offers, yet an other follow up, to his JBoss BPM Travel Agency Demo adding modern BPM Data Integration to it, along with a peak of sneak preview of his submission for both NCDevCon and Red Hat Summit :

• NCDevCon 2015 submission - Rule the World with Practical Rules & BPM Development
• Red Hat Summit 2015 - Choose Your Own Adventure with JBoss BRMS

Then, Arun Gupta comes and discusses how to go from Monolithic to Microservices Refactoring for Java EE Applications,  whille Markus Eisele is tackling on an ever more challenging (albeit none technical) task in his 9 Ways To Stop Hurting And Start Helping Women In Tech.

Releases, releases, releases

• Artificer 1.0.0.Beta1 Released! - Finally a tool to take care and sort out you project "junk" ! (or try S-RAMP)
• SwitchYard 2.0.0.Final now available - SwitchYard is a structured framework for developing integration applications and works really well with Apache Camel and Wildfly AS, Karaf and Fuse. If you have never try it, now would be the perfect to do it !
• TorqueBox: TorqueBox 4 Beta1 Released - A JRuby runtime, that can even be deployed on Wildfly AS ? Yes ! Go check it out !
• Teiid 8.11 CR1 - already mentioned above, but for the sake of completeness
• WildFly Swarm Alpha2 is out ! Recently launched, Wildfly Swarm project helps deconstruct and reconstructing Wildfly AS to tailored to your need (with of course in mind, building microservices). If this has peek your interest, know that this new release comes along a batch of interesting examples....
• Hibernate Search 5.3.0.Final now available and here is a First preview of Hibernate Search for Hibernate ORM 5
• And also, for Red Hat customers, the First update to JBoss EAP 6.4 has been released !

Decaf'

With some many cool Java news, your blood is now filled with caffeine, your hands must be shaking like hell, and your heart is pounding. In short, time to switch to decaf' ! So, for a change, and a completly none Java related topic, take a look at this quite thorough and interesting description on Five different ways to handle leap seconds with NTP (if only to be able to clearly state why leap seconds is not an issue for your Java code ).

That's all for this week's spin through the JBoss world, please join us again next week when we will take you through more interesting and informative articles written by our communities. And don't forget to follow @jbossdeveloper !

Welcome to this new edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial ! Despite a couple of April's fool pranks released yesterday, there is still a lot of actual - and exciting news, this week. Hopefully this new edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial will walk you through it nicely...

JBoss Community Asylum - Feeding a Henry

On the Learning Curve...

Time to blow of Fuse, err, wait no !

Christina Lin's JBoss 101 series. This last addition focused on running Camel inside container, such as Karaf or Wildfly. Fuse community being quite large, you may be also a bit at lost in term of what to download to do what - again, no issue, Chistina also took the time to do some House Keeping: where to download and what version of JBoss Fuse?

And who knows, if you are good student, and improve your Fuse fluency, maybe you'll get one of those nice Fuse stickers, Kenny is talking about !

Learning BPM at 240 BPM per minute

On the BPM side, Eric Schabell keeps on with his long running Online Workshop (Building a Rewards Demo) and just released the last lab, numbered 19, on "Automated e-mail task notifications". And if you are already familliar with BPM, you might also be interested by his recent JBoss BPM Suite Quick Guide: Customize Your Rules Maven Repository.

OReva, the future of OData for Teiid ?

In case, you don't know it, the OData standard (Protocol for REST APIs) is quite important for Teiid, as it can be used to expose many datasources, from SQL to NoSQL and even existing WebServices, as an OData endpoint. While the new release of Teiid, is coming closer (see  Teiid 8.11 Alpha1 Released) the community has just decided a big step for its future: they have just launched OReva - Fork of OData4J library. If you have interest in OData or if you were, as Reddy, disappointed by the lack of activity around OData4j, here is an excellent opportunity to wake up your interest in the project !

Blowing in the Wind

If you ever had to migrate an application from one app server (or container) to an other, you know it can be a daunting task and that you can get easily lost in "time and space", trying to sort why the target app server is throwing this or that exception. While people (of course ) tends to migrate to Wildfly more than any other app server - and the JBoss community makes everything possible ot make it a smooth ride, it remains a somewhat difficult task (especially with complex JEE apps). And that's why, you'll find the Windup project awesome !

Indeed, Windup, which was just released in 2.2.0 version,  analyses your artifact (war, ear) and look for issue, in the current code or configuration, with the target platform. It will spot misconfiguration, uses of not supported and proprietary annotation and so on... More information on Windup Wiki. If you are currently waiting for your app to deploy on an other server than Wildfly, maybe give it a try, to see how hard it would to migrate to Wildfly/EAP !....

Docker here, Docker there, Docker everywhere I go !

Unless you lived under a rock - or just managed to survive the 60's without hearing about a band called the Beatles, by now, you be aware of a new technology called Docker. While not a JBoss community project, it interweaves a lot with many of them, whether to help set up demo, use as a dev environment or even going in production on top of it, as some people start experimenting with. Therefore, with such an adoption, it  maybe it's time to think (and read) about something we generally tend not to like thinking too much, security: Where Docker security may be headed !

Of course, for all of this to really matter, you will need to be able to work properly with Docker, especially within your favorite IDE. Hence, it's an excellent news that JBoss Tools has an Upcoming Docker Tooling for Eclipse ! Even if you don't plan to use Docker that much, it remains a brilliant way to provide running demo, as the recently launched project Hawkular has just proven ! It is however a shame that Hawkular is stopping after such an effort !!!

And some more for the road...

What about architecture ?

When it comes to architecture, there is of course, a lot to be said on Java EE apps for enterprise, and that's probably you'll certainly enjoy this Virtual JUG session with Markus Eisele: Architecting Large Enterprise Java Projects.

There is a lot of chatter around the concept of micro-services theses days, and not all of this chatter is as clear as this very detailled and well written blog entry from Arun Gupta on Microservices, Monoliths, and NoOps. Go check it out !

Getting Things Done with Artificer

If, like many of us, follow the "Getting Things Done" methodology, but also want to know more about a new cool project o the JBoss community, go checkout this very cool demo using Artificer. The demo will show how to use the product to implement the methodology, by relying heavily on ontology.

Releases

• Infinispan 7.2.0.Beta2 - Sometimes, it also nice NOT to have to learn, and for things to basically work out themself on their own. That's why this latest release should catch your eyes, as it improved the default configuration handling, thus letting you seat back and enjoy the show !
• Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Beta1 - Adding support Java 8 and many others goodies, go check it out !
• RichFaces 4.5.4.Final - fixes a security issue concerning a4j:mediaOutput, but note that your applications may be vulnerable even if they don't use the component. Definitly a release to check out if you are using RichFaces.
• Also, this week Red Hat released version 6.1 of DataVirt, the product based on Teiid.

Our favorite Java EE application server

At the heart of the JBoss ecosystem certainly lays Wildfly (formerly known as JBoss AS). If the JBoss community have obviously overgrown the mere purpose of building a fully Open Source appserver, with project such as Infinispan or Drools for instance, the application server remains an essential part of it. And this is why we are very happy to announce the release of Wildfly 8.2.0 - please check this link for an overview of the content of this release !

And if you are looking for a lab to start playing with this latest release, look no further, Arun Gupta just blogged a Java EE 7 Hands-on Lab on WildFly and Docker ! But more specific to this release is the new integration with Camel, on which Markus Eisele (obviously not tired after his 3 weeks summary of last week) just blogged about. Also, if you are feeling adventurous, maybe you'll want to try out Kotlin on our Java EE app server ?

Last but not least, everyone knows (or should know ) that one cannot run anykind software - even as slick as Widfly, into production without an appropriate monitoring and operation infrastructure in place. Well, timing here is perfect, because as you play with this latest release of Wildfly, you can also try out the last release of RHQ 4.13 !

Developer Corner

Last week have produced a lot of interesting content for developer. Indeed, wheter it is on Maven, with this interesting blog entry on how to handle test resources when deploying webapp or on how to enhance for loops in Eclipse, the difficult art of software development certainly go its fair share. Even more with this in depth article asking if there is a downside to the use of IDE (my IDE is vim, so I guess you know where I stand on this topic ).

Of course, for any developer, the big revolution (at least, so they say) coming next in the development work is Docker. In this regard, you will find those articles on Maven with Docker (on Windows) and how to run Java EE test with Wildfly and Aquillian Cube on Docker quite relevant. All in all, for developers, Christmas has already arrived !

Weld

Weld is the reference implementation of CDI: Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform - which is the Java standard for dependency injection and contextual lifecycle management, and its version 2 is now quite mature. That why I'm particularly excited that Weld 3 is on the way, and going to bring some new cool features to the container. And if you are as interested as me, you can already play with those new feature, even with Wildfly (just follow this article which tell how to patch Weld 3 in Wildfly 8.2) !

Release, release, always release !

As always, no JBoss Weekly Editorial would be complete with a set of latest releases coming from our thriving community:

• WildFly 8.2 Final is released !
• TorqueBox 4.0.0.Aplha1
• Overlord S-RAMP: 0.7.0.Final Released

On the shelf

Well, in fact, instead of actual books, why not enjoy those 3 must see videos from the last Red Hat Summit ? (And by the way, now would be the perfect moment to apply for next year DevNation!)

Moving Forward

In school, my teachers always told me to finish any text by a nice opening. Something not on topic, but loosely related, to allow a new discussion to form (guess why French people are all chatty and argumentative ). Anyway, as I finish this editorial by mentioning that .Net gets Open Source, I think it certainly respect this very scholastic tradition.

And, on a even more positive mark, it's quite heart warming to see that Open Source & Free Software have met enough adoption and recognition to trigger such initiative. Certainly a very nice christmas gift for this year !