This week has been horrible for many of us after the tragic events that took place in Brussels this Tuesday the 22th of March. But as the show must go on, you will find hereafter another edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial where we bring you up to speed with all that has been happening across the JBoss Communities.
SOA Governance with the Api Catalog
Our middleware products offering has always suffered the comparison with the competition due to the lack of a SOA Service registry or catalog and the tooling that we need to manage / import services/apis. Hopefully, the situation is changing and as we can now use the API Catalog feature proposed by the Apiman project to :
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Thank to Eric Wittman which has blogged around that recently !
Turn on a Database to Event Streams with Debezium
Debezium is a distributed platform that turns your existing databases into event streams, so applications can see and respond almost instantly to each
committed row-level change in the databases. Debezium is built on top of Apache Kafka and provides Kafka Connect compatible connectors that monitor specific database management systems.
Debezium records the history of data changes in Kafka logs, so your application can be stopped and restarted at
any time and can easily consume all of the events it missed while it was not running, ensuring that all events are processed correctly and
completely !
Debezium has been designed around these architecture patterns : Change Data Capture (CDC) and Command Query Responsibility Separation (CQRS)
Hibernate Search & Elasticsearch
Hibernate Search can now store indexes and query from an Elasticsearch cluster. What's cool is that all of your Hibernate ORM applications can now be indexed by Elasticsearch. The index is kept synchronized with the database thanks to Hibernate Search.
More info in these blog entries:
* http://in.relation.to/2016/02/29/HibernateSearchAlpha-Elasticsearch/
* http://in.relation.to/2016/03/17/ThirdAlphaElasticsearch/
Evangelist's Corner
Charles has released a collection of "In Action" projects hosted on the FuseByExample github repository to play and discover the RedHat Middleware
technology using Apache Camel, JBoss Fuse, FeedHenry, Linux Container but also the security around the endpoints using Apiman & Keycloak.
- REST DSL in Action : Design REST endpoints using Apache Camel REST DSL & Swagger API, manage the info using ElasticSearch & Kibana Dashboard
- Enforcement Security in Action : Secure Apache Camel endpoints using Apiman API Mngt & Keycloak Web SSO servers (basic authentication, Oauth2)
- Mobile & REST in action : Extend the project REST DSL in action project to run the application using Feedhenry js api, AngularJS & Apache Cordova
- MicroService in Action : Turn on Apache Camel project as MicroServices running top of Linux Containers and loadbalance the services using Kubernetes
Releases, release, releases ....
- Teiid 8.13.3 Released
- Arquillian Cube Extension 1.0.0.Alpha10 released
- Early access of JDK9 including jigsaw available
- Debezium 0.1 is available
I hope this week's editorial has provided you with something of interest, please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from JBoss and the JBoss Communities.
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
I hope this week's editorial has provided you with something of interest, please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from JBoss and the JBoss Communities.
This year we have one extra day to enjoy Open Source Software by JBoss. This past Monday was February 29th so I thought I would share why we have one extra day on the calendar every 4 years.
One orbit of Earth around the Sun takes 365.2422 days—a little more than our Gregorian calendar’s 365. Adding an extra day, aka a leap day, to the calendar every 4 years brings the calendar in line and therefore synchronizes with the four seasons. Without leap days, the calendar would be off by 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds each year. After 100 years, the seasons would be off by 25 days. The extra leap day adjusts this drift.
A year is a leap year if it is divisible by 4, but century years are not leap years unless they are divisible by 400. So, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but the year 2000 was. Non-leap years begin and end on the same day of the week.
So to determine a leap year here is a quick algorithm:
if (year is not divisible by 4) then (it is a common year)
else if (year is not divisible by 100) then (it is a leap year)
else if (year is not divisible by 400) then (it is a common year)
else (it is a leap year)
I hope everyone had a great week. So onto our Week in JBoss...
New Releases
- The first candidate for release Infinispan 8.2 (Infinispan 8.2.0.CR1) is now available. It brings several bug fixes, documentation polishing and support for Apache Lucene 5.5.0.
- The release 0.13.0 of Hawkular Metrics is announced. This release is anchored by Hawkular integration enhancements, under-the-cover refactorings and fixes, and a new bulk data generation tool.
- RichFaces 4.5.14.Final is available for download. In this release we've implemented a long-requested feature - a menu for hiding columns in rich:extendedDataTable (you can see it action in the Showcase).
- The first Alpha release of Hibernate Search 5.6.0.Alpha2 now has experimental integration with Elasticsearch. We also updated to use Apache Lucene 5.5 - the latest stable release of our favourite search engine - as of course we’re not abandoning our traditional users!
- The Arquillian team is proud to announce the 1.0.0.Alpha9 release of the Arquillian Cube Extension component.
Fuse and Camel
Christina Lin shared part 2 of her Auto DealershipManagement Demo. This series of blog is based on building an auto dealership management system on Fuse Integration Service. It creates three major functions in the system:
- Sales report tracking
- Vehicle inventory status
- Customer IoT Service
Claus Ibsen shared the continuation of the video blogs he has done about our development on the fabric8 Camel tools. He covers the camel tools to add or edit endpoints from the current cursor position.
KIE Server
Maciej Swiderski shares the capabilities of the jBPM UI extension on the KIE server. One of the most desired use case is to be able to visualize state of given process instance - including graphical annotations about which nodes are active and which are already completed, showing complete flow of the process instance. This has been added to KIE Server as part of jBPM UI extensions and provides following capabilities:
- display process definition diagram as SVG
- display annotated process instance diagram as SVG
- greyed out are completed nodes
- marked as red are active nodes
- display structure of process forms
- display structure of task forms
He also shares what Wildfly Swarm means in the context of the KIE Server.
More from the week
- Eric Schabell shared more on the App Dev Cloud Stack Series on Why containers at scale matter
- Heiko Rupp shared Sending IoT data to Hawkular-full
- Gunnar Morling shared Converting projection results of full-text queries into POJOs
- Vlad Mihalcea shared the Hibernate Community newsletter 5/2016
Thanks for reading and being a part of a great community....
Kenneth Peeples
@ossmentor
Welcome to another edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial where we bring you up to speed with all that has been happening across the JBoss Communities. This past Sunday the 14th was Valentine's Day and so I thought I would share a little bit of history before moving onto the week....
The day first became associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. In 18th-century England, it evolved into an occasion in which love interest expressed their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines"). In Europe, Saint Valentine's Keys are given to love interest "as a romantic symbol and an invitation to unlock the giver’s heart", as well as to children, in order to ward off epilepsy (called Saint Valentine's Malady). Valentine's Day symbols that are used today include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten valentines have given way to mass-produced greeting cards as seen in the attached image.
I hope everyone had a great Valentine's day as well as a great week. So onto our Week in JBoss...
New Releases
- Teiid 8.13.1 is now available. It is a fix release addressing 15 issues.
- Hibernate Validator 5.2.4.Final is now available. This is a bugfix release which addresses two issues around one of the more advanced features of Bean Validation and redefined default group sequences.
- Hibernate ORM 5.0.8.Final has just been tagged and published. The complete list of changes can be found here (or here for people without a Hibernate Jira account).
- JBoss Forge 3.0.0.CR1 is now available. Grab it while it is hot!
- Infinispan is proud to announce two fresh releases. First is 8.2.0.Beta2, from our development branch. The second is 8.1.2.Final which contains bug fixes.
- Infinispan Javascipt Client 0.1.0 is now available. The Javascript client based on Node.js which can talk to Infinispan Server instances.
- Teiid 9.0 Alpha1 is now available. With the creation of the 8.13 transitional release, we are now ready to start the release stream for 9.0 with Alpha1. Please consult the migration documentation from 8.x to 9,
Cloud Stack Series
Eric Schabell continues his tour of the Cloud stack continues from his previous article in a series where he laid the first foundational bricks, the reliable and container supporting operating system. The core machines on which our Cloud will rest, that support containers but obviously don't do much more than that. You can find more of articles in the series listed below.
- Can’t ignore the stack anymore
- Foundations for a stable Cloud
- Beginners guide to containers at scale
- Why containers at scale matter (coming soon...)
- It’s all about the PaaS baby (coming soon...)
- Open interoperability critical to success (coming soon...)
- Securing containers at scale (coming soon...)
Codemotion Amsterdam 2016
This coming Spring there will be a CodeMotion conference in Amsterdam in May from 11th - 12th, 2016. The Call for Papers is open until Feb 15, 2016. Eric shared his talk submissions here.
Hibernate Documentation
Vlad Mihalcea shared with us the New Hibernate ORM User Guide and the Hibernate Community Newletter. Starting this year, they are hosting a series of articles focused on the Hibernate community. They share blog posts, forum and StackOverflow questions that are especially relevant to their users. Also, they announced that the new Hibernate ORM User Guide has become the default Hibernate 5.1 reference documentation. This process was started last summer, and it was one of the primary goals of the Hibernate 5 project version.
Decision-as-a-Service Webinar
Edson Tirelli announced that Red Hat will be hosting a free webinar on Tuesday, Feb 23rd, on Decisions-as-a-Service with Drools/Red Hat BRMS. This is the perfect opportunity to watch how easy it is to author and publish decision services with Drools/Red Hat BRMS. For more details and to register, click here.
JSON Web Tokens
Stan Silvert attended DevNexus in Atlanta and discusses the JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
Thanks for reading and being a part of a great community....
Kenneth Peeples
@ossmentor
If snow storms hit badly the East Coast last week, they certainly have not hindered the progress - and releases - of the JBoss Community. So, yet again, you have a fully packed JBoss Weekly Editorial to catch you up with all of that happens last week...
Hawkular and Apiman - coming of age
With the release of the Hawkular nineth milestone, it is clearly becoming time to get a look at this new project, aiming to replace the RHQ. Some articles have been released that may give you already an interesting glimpse on it :
- Hawkular - Hawkular Data Mining - Predictive Charts
- Thoughts From A Management Platform Developer: Hawkular Command Gateway Clients
- Hawkular - Hawkular-BTM now includes Application Performance Management
On its own side, the Apiman project just released Apiman 1.2.1.Final, along with some articles offering also some much needed insight in the technology, starting by an article explained CORS, cheekily titled: CORS? Of Course!
along with an also cheekily titled article on authentification : Cover yourself up! Protecting your APIs with mutual auth. The later is nicely complemented by an other in depth article on how to use Keycloak to secure your APIs with OAuth2.
(oh, and along the lines of Keycloak, there is also a detailled blog post on Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) of Keycloak)
An other sign of the coming of age of Apiman is the recent renaming (Apiman Names Have Been Changed to Protect the Guilty), clearly aiming at improving understanding of the framework concept. And at last, but not the least, one final article on Apiman : Apiman 1.2.1 Export and Import.
Retrospective
Our industry has been known for falling all over again in the same traps (just with a different wrapping) for years know. (Remember the all thin client, rich client, web client, rich client swinging movement ) and that is why I personally always like when (smart) people take the time to step back and think about the new fad of the day. If you're like me, I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy then this article from Mark Little on Frameworks versus stacks ?
Technicals crumps
Drools and jBPM
Business rules and business processes are at the root of many applications, and thus it is why, it's never a bad idea learn more about their features and capabilities. A couple of last week's articles cover some of those, one on Advanced queries in jBPM 6.4 and the other on Advanced queries in KIE Server. Enjoy !
Fuse, Camel and Fabric8
First of all, in case you really missed the rise of Fuse technologies in the recent years, here is a nice introduction to Fuse Integration Service- What is Fuse Integration Service?. Assuming you are already familliar with Fuse and Camel, here is a couple more in depth articles, you might enjoy: Performance Tuning Ideas for Apache Camel
and Idempotent Consumer EIP Icon (both by Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) ).
Last quite interesting technical bite Typesafe Kubernetes-manifest DSL for JVM-based apps ! A very intriguing article leverage Farbic8 feature to interact your docker infrastructure (using Kubernetes). Pretty interesting entry...
Nifty bag of tricks
While we all like (and need) some architecture overview of products, and some in depth analysis of technical topic or issue, nothing helps us more, in the daily life, than knowing a good tips on any of our favorite tooling. For instance, I'm pretty sure that if you are using Eclipse, for instance with Infinispan, you'll be delighted to learn about Eclipse tools for Hibernate Search. Of course, you might be a Vert.x fan instead, but don't worry I'm pretty sure this Intro to Vert.x Shell will get you coverered.
And when it's not our tools, we want to get better at using, it is generally our infrastructure, so this entry on Running Any Docker Image On OpenShift Origin will also come in handy. Last, but not the least, if you are doing distributed development, either using Wildfly (or JBoss EAP) clustering feature or simply Infinispan, you will probably be quite interested in the latest blog entry from JGroups's project leader, Bela Ban: Dump RPC stats with JGroups.
Releases, releases, releases...
- Hawkular - The nineth milestone of Hawkular released
- Keycloak: Keycloak 1.8.0.CR2 Released and Keycloak: Keycloak 1.8.0.CR3 Released
- JBoss Forge 3.0.0.Beta3
- Arquillian Cube Extension 1.0.0.Alpha8 Released
- Apiman 1.2.1.Final is released
- Friends with Java 9 - Hibernate Validator 5.2.3.Final is out
- Wildfly based Teiid 8.13 Final Released
- RichFaces 4.5.13.Final Release Announcement
Welcome to another week in JBoss. A little late (again); looks like we're still ramping up again and it takes a while to get back into the flow.
EAP 7 Is here!
There are a few Open Source technologies and products that have spearheaded the drive of Open Source into the enterprise and managed to overcome historical objections. Red Hat’s JBoss EAP (upstream WildFly , previously JBoss AS) is one of those pioneering technologies. The latest EAP 7 beta was launched this week and there is a lot of coverage around it. If you can't wait go ahead and read all about it and get the latest bits from jboss.org.
- JBoss EAP 7 Beta is now available! – Red Hat Developer Blog
- http://blog.softwhere.org/2016/01/18/jboss-eap-7-beta/
- Thoughts on JBoss EAP 7 Beta from an ex-GlassFish Product Manager – Middle-Me
- Better with Docker: JBoss EAP 7 Beta Ready | Voxxed
- http://blog.eisele.net/2015/12/red-hat-eap7-public-beta-early-access.html
- A Refresher - Top 5 Java EE 7 Frontend
- A Refresher - Top 10 Java EE 7 Backend Features
Hibernate Community Newsletter
Starting this year, we are hosting a series of articles focused on the Hibernate community. We share blog posts, forum and StackOverflow questions that are especially relevant to our users. The second edition of the newsletter went out this week.
Vert.x News
Vert.x Unit is a very elegant library to test asynchronous applications developed with vert.x. However because of this asynchronous aspect, reporting test failures is not natural for JUnit users. Learn how to overcome this with the latest blog about using Hamcrest Matchers with Vert.x Unit.
The expectations of users for interactivity with web applications have changed over the past few years. Users during bidding in auction no longer want to press the refresh button to check if the price has changed or the auction is over. This made bidding difficult and less fun. Instead, they expect to see the updates in application in real-time. Vert.x can help a lot and the other highlight blog-post of this week shows you how to implement a real-time bidding with Websockets and Vert.x.
New Releases
- Hawkular Metrics 0.11.0
- JGroups 3.6.7.Final released
- 7th bug-fix release for ORM 5.0
- Keycloak 1.8.0.CR1 Released
- Teiid 8.12.4 Released
- Arquillian Governor 1.0.2.Final Released
- Hibernate Validator 5.3.0.Alpha1 is out
- Forge 3.0.0.Beta2 is here
- Teiid 8.13 CR3 Released
- WildFly Swarm 1.0.0.Alpha6
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.
It's been a more silent week. Holidays and family time. We tend to reflect about the passing year and formulate ideas and goals for the next. But as usual, the JBoss Community barely sleeps and I am very happy to have the honor to write the definite and last weekly editorial in 2015. Let's see what happened this week:
JBoss Forge 3.0.0.Beta1 was released. It has better support for creation of generic projects: Not every project is in Java nowadays (unfortunately), so we are introducing a new addon (project-generic) that should allow you to create commands for non-Java projects more easily. And it introduces component Upgrades: We have upgraded Furnace to 2.22.10.Final and Roaster to 2.17.4.Final. Head over to the download page and get it while it is hot.
JBoss Hibernate Search Version 5.5.2.Final is now available, the latest stable version sporting integration with Hibernate ORM 5 and Apache Lucene 5.3 - the state of the art. Creating this version to be compatible with these two great OSS projects kept us busy for a good deal of this past year; I remember discussing this option with superstar OSS contributors Uwe Schindler (Apache Lucene developer) and Gustavo Nalle (Infinispan developer) at FOSDEM in January 2015! I am grateful to both for their guidance and suggestions, as driving progress forward is sometimes challenging when we strive to keep backwards compatibility as best as we can. Everything you need is available on http://hibernate.org/search/. Download the full distribution from here, or get it from Maven Central and don’t hesitate to reach us in our forums or mailing lists.
The JBoss BRMS Quick Start Video Series by Eric Schabell now has seven chapters for you to check out:
Quick Tour #1: JBoss BRMS the Basic Install Project
Quick Tour #2: Where to get JBoss BRMS product
Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BRMS
Quick Tour #4: Start your first JBoss BRMS project
Quick Tour #5: How to import a project into JBoss BRMS
Quick Tour #6: Build & run a JBoss BRMS project
Quick Tour #7: What's in Business Central
Mark Litle blogged about software transactional memory with WildFly-Swarm and points us to an example with JAX-RS & Arjuna Transactions.This example uses a JAX-RS resource and the Software Transactional Memory implementation of Narayana. This is a non-distributed transaction example. And Christina Lin shows you how to move Camel application between OSGi and Java EE containers.
And Eric and I posted some 2015 reviews which list the most read blog posts and reflect a little on the passing year.
2015 in review - On the road with JBoss Integration & BPM
Goodbye 2015, Hello 2016! - Happy New Year.
After all it has been an amazing year in the JBoss Community. So many contributions, so many releases, so much progress and innovation. And I am really looking forward to another exciting and successful year for all of us! See you all again somewhere soon!
And let me thank the whole editorial team for their all year effort to keep you up to date with the latest happenings in and around JBoss. Don't forget to follow @jbossdeveloper on Twitter!
"Every end marks a new beginning.
Keep your spirits and determination unshaken, and you shall always walk the glory road.
With courage, faith and great effort, you shall achieve everything you desire.
I wish you a very Happy New Year."
Yes it's that time of year again when a lot of the world starts to think about Father Christmas, festive cheer and snowmen! JBoss and Red Hat are no different, but despite this it's also been a busy time for us here. Maybe the snowmen have been helping us out?!
The Vert.x community have been asynchronously hard at work (see what I did there ?) with automatic redeployment in Eclipse. And talking about Eclipse, as Alexey mentions we're hiring again for the team so if you've any interest then get in touch! Ho ho ho, let's not forget about the JBoss Tools maintenance release either!
Two of our most prolific authors have been making their lists, checking them twice and writing about a lot of interesting things: Eric, who has been writing about all things BRMS related for a very long time, presents his audience with a lovely Christmas present of the Ultimate Collection of BRMS Demos, and if that wasn't enough he has a quick tour of importing a project into BRMS. Meanwhile Markus has written about the latest EAP 7 Beta release, just in time for those people with time on their hands on Christmas day. And conveniently he also has the second part of his refresher on EE7 backend features.
If that isn't enough for you, Markus also managed to find time to write an article and associated video about getting started with EAP 7 quickstarts! Phew!
Now if EAP 7 beta isn't enough for you both Jason and Alessio have a few things to say about the latest candidate release of WildFly 10. So let's finish with Davide's article on Cassandra integration with Hibernate OGM 5.0.0 Beta1 and Christina's entry about different ways in which you can develop Fuse applications. I hope you've enjoyed these additional Christmas presents and we see you all after the day. Enjoy and remember: we love you!
