With the end of the year, many of you are thinking that the developer world will stop to turn and that no additional contributions will be published, released. Hopefully, this is not the case and this new editorial will prove you that we must stay on the track till the last day of the 2015 year !!

Weld 2.3.2. final is out

Even if this release is mainly a bug-fixing release with 15 issues resolved, it also contains new great features as it allows to perform dependency injection upon objects not having a CDI-compatible constructor, provide enhancements for OSGI probing. See the release details to get more information.

RESTEasy 3.0.14 & wadl

Like Weld, Resteasy 3.0.4 has solved many bugs but supports now to generate the XML description of the HTTP Rest endpoints using the Web Application Description Language (WADL).

Time to send your talks

It is time to send your talks as the Call For Paper process has been launched for many conferences

• Snow Camp in Grenoble (20-22 January) : https://cfp.snowcamp.io/. Get ready with your skis too
• Devoxx France (20 - 22 April) : http://cfp.devoxx.fr/
• DevNation is San Francisco (26-29 June) : DevNation

Advocate's corner

Microservice, container and DevOps have been the hot topics of this year and this O'Really Webcast of Markus Eisele is not an exception as it will dive you into the Microservice Architecture vision promoted top of Java EE Platform.

Claus Ibsen has been interviewed by DZone and reviewed the history behind this fantastic opensource enterprise integration project which is Apache Camel. With the release of the new Red Hat BPM Suite, Eric Schabell has blogged about the ultimate collection of demos available.

As jigsaw and modularity will be part of JDK 9 announced next year, Stéphane Epardaud took the time to present Ceylon language modularity with JDK 9.

Don't miss the video of Claus Ibsen showing how to use the Camel Editor (to creates routes) in a type safe manner. Finally, Christina Lin presented how to manage the Apache Camel Routes using Hawtio Management Console in JBoss EAP.

Releases, ..., releases

• Vert.x 3.2.0.Final
• Weld 2.3.2.Final
• Resteasy 3.0.14.Final
• RichFaces 4.5.12.Final
• Hibernate ORM 5.0.6.Final
• RedDeer 1.0.0.Final to test Eclipse RCP
• Hawkular 1.0.0.Alpha.8 - The monitoring platform
• Arquillian Governor 1.0.1.Final
• Teiid 8.13.Beta1 with WildFly
• Ceylon IDE 1.2.0
• JBoss Fuse 6.2.1

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next instalment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavour 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.

Welcome to another Weekly Editorial where we bring you the latest news from around the JBoss Communities.

The Key to Extending KIE

This week sees a number of articles from Maciej Swiderski discussing the capabilities of the KIE Server that support extensions.  Maciej begins the series with an overview of the extension points within the KIE server and why they are needed, continues with an article that discusses when and why you would extend the server with additional REST endpoints and how to add additional transports should you find that the existing transports do not fit your use case before ending with an article describing how to extend the KIE Server Client.

EE7 and Microservices

With the release of EAP 7 now getting nearer, Markus has spent some time pulling together some resources that will help to refresh your memory about the new features that were introduced into Java EE 7.  Once you have caught up you can then put this information into practice by following along as he demonstrates how to deploy an EE7 application into OpenShift 3 using JBoss Developer Studio.  Markus has also been interviewed recently by Daniel Bryiant during which they discuss Microservices.

Time Scheduling Design Patterns

When using a tool such as OptaPlanner to solve scheduling problems it is very important to understand the domain you are trying to model and the design pattern that best suits the solution you are trying to achieve.  Geoffrey, the project lead of OptaPlanner, has written an article introducing three useful design patterns that can be used to similar scheduling problems with slightly different requirements.

Using Hawkular Business Transaction Management with Docker Images

Gary Brown from the Hawkular Business Transaction Management project has written a great article showing how you can use BTM to monitor the flow of business transactions within applications running within your docker containerized applications, providing greater insight into the workings of your applications and the services they invoke.

Ceylon and Dependency Injection

If you have been using the Ceylon language for any length of time then you will already realise that Ceylon does not provide any native support for Dependency Injection however thanks to Ceylon's interoperability with Java it is reasonably easy to use both Weld and Guice.

Vert.X and Mongo

In the next installment of his Introduction to Vert.X series Clement demonstrates how MongoDB can be integrated with Vert.X in an asynchronous application.  This article is a continuation from his previous article entitled Using the Asynchronous SQL Client and walks you through all the changes that you will need to make in order to switch over to MongoDB.

End of Year Cleaning in the Drools House

The Drools team have recently spent time cleaning up the internal state machine that was introduced back in June in order to manage the interaction of the engine, user and timer threads with their current being to make the code easier to read and understand.

Working Offline with Keycloak

The Keycloak team have written an article describing the  Offline Access token feature that was introduced in Keycloak 1.6.1 and described in the OpenID Connect 1.0 specification, allowing applications to perform actions on behalf of users when running offline.

Back in the Asylum

Max has published the next JBoss Community Asylum podcast in which he sits down with Burr Sutter and Scott Stark to discuss this year's Middleware Keynote Demo.

New Releases

• The Arquillian team announced the release of Arquillian Recorder 1.1.0.Final, Arquillian Container WebLogic 1.0.1.Final and Arquillian Droidium 1.0.1.Final.
• The Hawkular team announced the release of Hawkular Business Transaction Management 0.6.0.Final.
• The Hibernate team announced the release of Hibernate ORM 5.0.5.Final.
• The Teiid team announced the release of Teiid 8.13.Alpha1, the first version that integrates with WildFly.
• The Keycloak team announced the release of Keycloak 1.7.0.CR1.
• The Forge team announced the release of Forge 3.0.0.Alpha2.

That's all from this week's editorial, please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from the JBoss Communities.

For this week I wanted to start out describing the rewards of joining the JBoss Community. The JBoss Community is full of great projects and people. In addition to using the Projects you may want to considering becoming a contributor, whether it be a new feature, a bug fix, wiki entries, helping other members, or even just filing a bug report.  When you join an open source community you join developers from all over the world who contribute in different ways.  They are 100% open source, developed for and by its community of users.  For myself, being a part of the JBoss Open Source Community for many years has been very rewarding.  Some of the reasons are:

• Building awesome New Technology
• Learning something new
• Proving yourself
• Being part of something big
• Challenging yourself
• Building relationships

The Wildfly project has come a long way and supports the modern web and Java EE7.  So let's move onto this week in the JBoss Community!

EAP (Wildfly)

Markus walks us through getting started with JBoss Entrprise Application Platform (EAP) 7 Alpha and JEE 7. Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP 7) is a middleware platform built on open standards and compliant with the Java Enterprise Edition 7 specification. Built on top of innovative and proven open source technologies like WildFly, it will make Java EE 7 development a lot easier.  Markus also walks us through HTTP/2 with EAP 7.  HTTP/2 support has been added as a technical preview. It is provided by the new webserver Untertow.  HTTP/2 reduces latency by compressing headers and multiplexing many streams over the same TCP connection. It also supports the ability for a server to push resources to the client before it has requested them, leading to faster page loads.

Rules and more

• Eric walks through the Quick Tour #3: How to install JBoss BRMS
• Eric also shares a Video of jBPM lead Kris Verlaenen talking process-driven application at Devoxx
• Mario describes using a reactive stream as a data source for Drools

The Rest

• Claus shares fabric8 developers are going to London for the full-day open microservices event
• I shared a blog from Neil MacDonald from Gartner, DevOps needs to be DevOpsSec
• Christina shows us 3 ways to develop your Fuse Application in JBoss EAP and Spring DSL
• Stian shares that Keycloak has passed 5k Commits

New Releases

• Thomas explains the Seventh Milestone of the Hawkular 1.0.0 Alpha 7
• Steve explains the Fourth bug-fix release for ORM 5.0
• The Arquillian Project Team explains the Arquiliian Container Chameleon 1.0.0 Alpha 6 Release

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.

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Halloween has come and went away, and Winter swept in before the door can close behing the annual pumpkins massacre... But, lucky us, not everything is so gloomy in the JBoss universe this week...

Microservices for the real world

Right behind Docker - if not even sometimes in front, "microservices" has certainly been a big buzzword of those last years. And, as any trend, it's good to take the time to step back a bit and look at it seriously, and a couple of article released last week will certainly help you on this. The first one is High Performance APIs for Microservices With Baratine.io, certainly an interesting angle, because high level architecture sometime overlook performance constraint. Of course to be able to assess your microservice performances, you need to be able to deploy it and test it - so, let's how Red Hat JBoss Engineers think about Java EE, Container, Microservices and Testing.

However, if you don't even see the value of microservices, all those good practices and considerations will neither help you, or speak to you. If this is the case, I strongly recommand you look at this in depth article on Tear Down Data Silos with Mobile Microservices from Red Hat Developer Blog.

Side note on this topic : How Would ESBs Look Like, If They Were Done Today ? - an interesting disgression, somewhat related to the topic of microservice (at least from my point of view)

Events, news and books

A lot of very cool upcoming events has been announced last week. I'll start by home territory, as two talks have been announced at the Berlin JUG, one from Infinispan on JBoss Clustering and an other, quite related, about BJGroups by Bela Ban (Berlin JUG Nov 19). If you happen to be in Berlin (Germany) on the 19th, please do join us ! (we'll have beer and pizza !)

Berlin is not the only place to go, Roma will be hosting  Alfresco Day Roma 2015 - so if you really picky about your pizza, you know what to attend ! At last, but not the least, if you are in Switzerland, you may want to take a look at Dimitris' Andreadis Blog on "WildFly activity in Geneva".

Of course, not everybody can manage to get to Berlin, Geneva or Roma, but rest assured, some events are coming to you instead, like this upcoming webinar on How to become a data-driven organization to achieve more and gain a competitive edge. And if you don't have time to attend anything, you can still be kept up to date, the "old fashion way" - meaning by reading a book, so checkout this Book Review: "Arquillian in Action" by Alex Soto and Jason Porter.

Last bits of news for this week, we are currently looking for a Developer User Experience lead - so if you want to join us or know someone who might fit...

How To's and tutorials

After those high level considerations, let's get to some more practical stuff. First, let's take a look on How To Setup Integration & SOA Tooling For JBoss Developer Studio 9, as it never hurts to be well prepared. Along the same line,  if you are looking forward to use JBoss Fuse on JBoss EAP - look how to be ready for it !

Now that you are all set up, let's take a deep dive into the command line tool Kubectl : Logging Into a Kubernetes Cluster With Kubectl - I'll bet it will make using Kubernetes and Docker far more efficient for you.

Last but not the least, this week have seen the release of a followup on Getting started with Keycloak - Securing a REST Service. Certainly an interesting tutorial to look at...

Releases

Only two releases this week - propably a the lowest numbers of releases for a week since I contribute to this editorial. But, quite important and major ones.

The first one is Byteman Blog: Byteman 3.0.2 release supporting some exciting and impressive monitoring packages - definitely a must see (or in this case must "click on"). The second one is a new Teiid Designer 9.2 Released, which contains numerous bug fixes, but allow to import dynamic virtual database. If you are a regular user of the Teiid designer, you will probably be quite interested in this release.

Decaf'

Even if the JBoss Community is a very large one, it's good, now and then, for Java developer to look outside the JVM. Especially, that the following announcement of this week concern the java competitor .NET : Red Hat and Microsoft making .NET on Linux work for Enterprises.And talking about Linux,Fedora 23 has been released, so time to update your system (or try it if you are using an other OS).

Last bit of news, concerning more Red Hat than the JBoss Community, but too important to be overlooked: Red Hat jumps into DevOps by buying Ansible ! Indeed, there is also many in the JBoss community using Ansible, and one can guess that this adoption will certainly not slow down now...

Java One returns to San Francisco next week and we are fortunate to have many Engineers presenting sessions on behalf of Red Hat and our communities.  If you are attending the conference then take a look at Markus' blog and see if you can find something that interests you.  You may also want to check out the mini-theater schedule at our booth for smaller presentations and don't forget to stop by the Red Hat party where you'll have another great chance to mingle with Red Hat Engineers and talk about anything that interests you.

BPM and Push Notifications

Integrating with mobile devices is often at the forefront of any modern development, a fact that is equally as true for those developing Business Processes.  If this is something that interests you then Kenny has a great article showing how easy it is to set up the push server and integrate it with a business process to send notifications back to those using mobile devices.

Running Kie Server alongside the Workbench

If you are running jBPM or drools in a development environment then you may wish to run both the Kie Server and the Workbench on the same machine.  Thanks to Maciej you now have all you need in order to set this up using either Wildfly or Tomcat.

Port Forwarding with the OpenShift V3 All-in-One Image

If you have been playing around with the OpenShift all-in-one image then you may also have been wondering how to use port forwarding to expose internal services, you may even have tried to make this work and been unsuccessful.  Fortunately this is a problem that Markus recently faced and solved, writing up all he details so that we do not have to go through the same process of discovery.

Asynchronous SQL through Vert.X

After a long break Clement continues his Introduction to Vert.X series with his next topic being the asynchronous JDBC client.  Through the use of a working example Clement discusses the setup and initialisation of the asynchronous client before showing how it can be used within an asynchronous application.

Webinars

On November 12th there will be a webinar introducing BPMS, entitled 6 Steps to Your First Process with JBoss BPM Suite Starter Kit.  Register now to reserve your place!

New Releases

• The Arquillian team have announced the release of Arquillian Recorder 1.1.0.Alpha4 and Arquillian Core 1.1.10.Final.
• The Infinispan team have announced the release of Infinispan 8.1.0.Alpha2.
• The KeyCloak team have announced the release of KeyCloak 1.6.0.Final.
• The Hawkular team have announced the release of Hawkular 1.0.0.Alpha6.
• The hawtio team have announced the release of hawtio 1.4.56.
• The Teiid team have announced the release of Teiid 8.11.5.

That's all for this week, join us again next week when we will bring you more articles from the JBoss Communities and plenty of news from the upcoming Java One conference.

This is really incredible to discover every week what happened during the previous week. You felt that nothing new, trendy was out and finally after digging into the different emails, tweets & forums, you can always find amazing news and info to share with the community.

RedHat JBoss Developer Studio & JBoss Tools

One of the great announce of this week is certainly the release of JBDS9 supporting Eclipse Mars and the new JBoss Tools release. There are many new features and improvements. The full list of what is new you can find on this page. Hundreds of bugs have been fixed on JBoss Tools side but they have also continued to work on making Eclipse better and contributed to many Eclipse projects: Web Tools, Docker, Maven Integration, JavaScript, Hybrid Mobile Tools and many others.

Some of the more significant highlights concern the new Openshift3 tool which help to develop kubernetes applications, improvements did around the Docker tool & the Java EE7 Batch tool.

Integration with Apache Camel

Even if the release hasn't been yet published on the Apache web site of the Camel project, the Apache Camel 2.16 release is out since this Friday. This new release proposes around 10 new components which are really great as it will be possible to generate pdf content (camel-pdf), to expose HTTP-based endpoints using the HTTP Server part of the Wildfly platform (camel-undertow), to transform JSON to JSON messages (camel-jolt) or to use the MQTT client of the Eclipse Paho project (camel-paho).

Another dataformat will be supported with the camel-boon data format component to transform from/to POJO to JSON. The DSL language of Camel has been enriched to support script execution using this syntax :

from("file://inbox")
  .script().groovy("// some groovy code goes here")
  .to("bean:MyServiceBean.processLine");

while it will be possible now dynamically calculate the endpoint where the message must be send

from("direct:start")
  .toD("mock:${header.foo}");

Fabric8 & DevOps

The Open Source Fabric8 project which has been designed around the OpenShift 3 platform & docker container technology provides a DevOps tool to generate a Continuous Delivery project top of docker containers. This DevOps Tool uses behind the scene JBoss Forge to edit the steps of the  process to create the environment as a collection of commands. During the creation of the cd-pipeline project, it will be possible to grab the required information like the name of the git repo, to enable the synchronization of the git repo with the Gerrit Code Review server or to specify which jenkins groovy script must be used to setup the jenkins jobs, ... The information collected will be used next to setup the different pods required to put in place the cd-pipeline : Gogs - Git Management Platform, Gerrit Git Code Review, Nexus Maven Repository server, Jenkins Server, Letschat - Chat Server integrated with a Hubot Server, Taiga - Project & Issues management.

This DevOps tool has been demonstrated this week during the RedHat EMEA Partners conference by Charles Moulliard.

Blog Articles

- Camel & Swagger in action by Claus Ibsen which explain how to use the new Swagger 2.0 spec with Camel & how Camel can generate from the model read the Swagger AP=i documenting the REST endpoints

- Quick Tip: Running Wildfly Docker image on Openshift Orign by Markus Eisele

- A WildFly Swarm JAX-RS Miroservice in a Docker Container by Markus Eisele

- Quick Tour : JBoss BRMS the basic Install Project - Video by Eric Schabell

- Updates in the Docker Tooling by Xavier Coulon

- Update Modern BPM Data Integration with JBoss BPM Travel Agency by Eric Schabell

- Turn your static static config into dynamic templates with MVEL by Paolo Antinori

- Critical HL7 Use cases with Camel, ElasticSearch & ActiveMQ by Christian Posta

Releases, releases, releases

On top of the Apache Camel 2.16, 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:

• Vert.x 3.1.0 released : some highlights - vertx-sync to receive events in sync way, vertx-stomp to expose a platform supporting the Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol
• Hawtio 1.4.45 : support Apache Camel 2.16 & new release of Jolokia 1.3.2
• RichFaces 4.5.10. final announced
• JBoss Developer Studio 9.0.0.GA
• JBoss Tools 4.3.0.Final
• Hawkular-BTM 0.4.0 released
• Teiid 8.12 CR1

It's Thursday and as such time for another weekly roundup on latest JBoss news and features. It's been another week full of surprises, releases and how-to's by fellow Red Hat JBoss Middleware egineers and friends and going through it as the responsible editor once a week is a little bit of a time-machine experience. So, sit back, relax, grab a #coffee+++ and read through it while enjoying your lunch-break.

Integration

Red Hat Tech Exchange has taken place in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh city two weeks ago, it was a great event held by Red Hat in Asia Pacific Region. Many of the technical marketing managers have been there and brought back some new technical presentations. Christina Lin and Thomas Qvarnström showed the audience how to Supercharge your integration services .  Another interesting blog by Christina was about how to Load Balance Quartz Cron Jobs with JBoss Fuse. Claus Ibsen blogged about Apache Camel 2.16 - Swagger Java and API documentation out of the box.

Automation

Our very own Eric D.Schabell wasn't vacationing this week either. He posted a couple of revamped quickstarts for the updated JBoss BPM Starter Kit: Quick Tour #1: JBoss BPM Suite the Basic Install Project and Quick Tour #2: Where to get JBoss BPM Suite product. If you're a Java developer and looking for the JBPM API documentation, he also knows how to get you there: How to setup JBoss BPM Suite 6.1 API (javadoc) documentation. A little cross technology synergy was raised by the OptaPlaner team: They showcased how to integrate JPA with Hibernate.

Hester Mofet - The rest of the week

For all you movie loving readers no need to explain that title (everybody else, check IMDB). The Keycloak project wrote down a longer experience post about their fun with REST API documentation. And I have a new post up after a while about Running OpenShift Origin on Windows. A little more specific the Infinispan team introduced you to the Infinispan Hadoop Connector. And we've seen a great wrap-up of one of our Google Summer of Code students about his experience with the Keycloak project. If you want to get 50% off of selected WildFly titles by Packt Publishing, check out my blog post for a discount code!

The Bossi Award for JBoss Teiid!

We are very proud to announce that Teiid was named one of the winners of the 2015 InfoWorld Bossie (Best of Open Source Software) awards in the business applications, enterprise integration and middleware category.

New Releases

Data Virtualization 6.2 Released!

JBoss Data Grid 6.5.1 is out

JBoss Tools CR1 for Eclipse Mars - more Docker, OpenShift and WildFly 10

Infinispan 8.1.0.Alpha1

ShrinkWrap Resolver 2.2.0 Released

Weld 2.3.0.Final released!

Teiid 8.12 Beta3

And A Goodbye

Beside all the new releases and news, we had one loss this week. My fellow boss and friend Arun Gupta went on to new endeavors and left Red Hat with a last Au Revoir Red Hat blog post. We wish you the best for your new gig Arun.

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.

This week I wanted to bring you some Highlights of the Red Hat Technical Exchange (RHTE) that occurred in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City, this past week.  Ho Chi Minh City is a beautiful place that is full of history and culture.  The picture to the left is the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Building, which used to be named Saigon City Hall.  It is not open to the public but it is a very popular tourist destination for pictures, especially at night when it is lit up.  The event occurred in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City’s vibrant business and entertainment district on the famous Dong Khoi street at the Sheraton.  Quinten Laureijs did an excellent job organizing the event.  The Asia Pacific Red Hat Tech Exchange is a yearly event for Red Hatters and technology and business partners to catch up on the latest trends in technology as well as best practices. This year's theme was Train (gain and apply knowledge and skills), Share (best practices and experiences) and Enable (your personal and customer success).

During the event Enterprise Products and Community Projects were discussed.  The first half of Monday was devoted to keynotes: Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Train. Share. Enable., Sachin Shridhar on Collaboration: key to enabling wins, Mark Little on Cloud, IoT, future of Java, Phyllis Fann and Larry Spangler on Communities Of Practice, Javier Perez on Red Hat Mobile Application Platform, James Labocki and Thomas Cameron on the Cloud, and Harish Pillay on Back to the Future.  The rest of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday revolved around internal and external sessions.  On Thursday and Friday additional add ons took place for a deeper look at some of the topics: Openshift v3.0 Implementation by Shachar Borenstein, Anuva Ambastha, Red Hat Mobile Application Platform by Hong Hua Chin, Kenny Peeples, and Openstack (Kilo) Implementation by Asaf Waizman, Glen West and the Devops/Agile Masterclass.

Now on to our JBoss Community Weekly Recap.........

Releases, releases, releases ... and some more releases !

• Releasing Hibernate Search 5.5.0.CR1 - The first Candidate Release for Hibernate Search 5.5 is now available, introducing integration with Apache Lucene 5.3 and several nice improvements.
• JGroups 3.6.6.Final released -  2 critical bugs in TCP_NIO2
• Infinispan 8.0.1.Final (and 7.2.5.Final) - We've just cooked two new point releases of Infinispan to address a number of issues.
• Keycloak 1.5.0.Final released - We've just released Keycloak 1.5.0.Final!

Unified KIE Execution Server

Maciej Swiderski gave us a three part series on the Unified KIE Execution Server.  He has more planned so stay tuned.

• Unified KIE Execution Server - Part 1 - Introduction to KIE Execution Server and installation notes
• Unified KIE Execution Server - Part 2 - KIE Server Client will be introduced and used for basic operations on KIE Execution Server
• Unified KIE Execution Server - Part 3 - Managed vs. Unmanaged setup of the environment

Javascript, Node, Aerogear and Keycloak

Barbora Suchanová discussed Windows 10 app with integrated Keycloak OAuth 2.0. Team Aerogear provides many useful libraries not only for Android, iOS and Cordova. They developed OAuth2.0 Nuget package for Windows Phone platform enabling user to easily authorized through Google, Facebook and even through Keycloak.

This week I discussed Node and Mobility at the Tech Exchange.  I provided a workshop where you can learn about Git, Javascript and Node along with an example of Node connecting to Cloud Data Services.

Infinispan in depth

Galder Zamarreño continued with the blog series on the experimental Functional Map API which was released as part of Infinispan 8.0.0.Final. In his blog post he focused on how to work with multiple entries at the same time.

Now that Infinispan supports Java 8, William Burns discusses taking advantage of one of the new features.  He introduces for Infinispan 8, the feature Distributed Streams!  This allows for any operation you can perform on a regular Stream to also be performed on a Distributed cache (assuming the operation and data is marshallable).

Real World Example with Data Virtualization (Teiid)

I walked through a real world example of combining Product Code and Name from Salesforce and Product Code and Price from MySQL in a Virtual Database.  We also use the WebUI to build the data services as well as use Red Hat Mobile (Feedhenry) as a consumer along with the dashboard. Although the demo is built on Openshift the same demo can be done on premise.  You can find the steps and references here.  Some of the material came from the excellent Mark Drilling gave on the WebUI.

This week in Integration

Thomas Qvarnström discussed Scalable Integration with JBoss Data Grid and Fuse and points to the demo he and Christina Lin have provided everyone. By combining the agile, lightweight, Enterprise Integration pattern (EIP) based integrations using open source technology with scalable in-memory storage, it’s possible to achieve near linear scalability and boost performance of your integration services. If you want to learn more Christina and Thomas published the demo using JDG both for Claim check and for Publish-subscribe on JBoss Demo Central here.

Christina Lin discussed process and integration routes.  People often confuse when they look at camel route and BPM process, although they do look very similar as connecting different nodes with conditions and passing objects or messages, the way they are structured and engineered to execute is a complete different story.

Christina also provided  an example on Invoking Process in JBoss BPM Suite using CXF-RS Client in Fuse.

BRMS and BPMS this week

Eric Schabell gave us the 7 Steps to Your First Process with JBoss BRMS Starter Kit. He has even scheduled the digital sign for the next few weeks.  The next time you are in a Red Hat office somewhere in the world, keep your eyes peeled for the digital signage that is displaying all manner of news.

Maciej Swiderski discussed a very powerful feature of BPMN2 in jBPM 6.3 which is signaling.  It is realized by throw (send signal) and catch (receive signal) constructs. Depending on which type of signal we need it can be used in different places in the process.

Looking forward to this coming week in the World of JBoss.........