Hey, look ! It's me again ! And so, here I am again to welcome you to this brand new JBoss Weekly Editorial. Certainly a rich one, as the quiet work of the JBoss Community over the holiday period is paying off, and many blogs, articles, and releases have been done in the last week. Ready for some tech action ? Here we go...

On the architecture side of life...

Before diving into code and low level considerations, let's take a look at some high-level topics that were discussed last weeks within the community. The he interesting notes of Markus Eisele on Coding in a cloud-based enterprise - designing for distributed architectures ~ Enterprise Software Development with Java are certainly a good start, and will probably led you naturally to read Thomas Qvarnström"s JBoss Tech Blog entry on "How to add JBoss xPaaS images streams to OpenShift Enterprise V3".

Once those read, you'll be ready for the next, more gritty items coming right now !

And the developer's corner

You are back for holiday, you did not good, hack together and tinker with anything for a little while, and both your mind and heart are hurting for a new, interesting challenge. Well, you're in for a threat as the community has delivered many intriguing litte tutorial and "tips and tricks" for you in the last week:

• Processes, Rules and Events: New feature: JavaScript as process dialect - JavaScript is going everywhere these days, so why not into rules and processes ?
• Hawkular - Monitoring Rails App using Hawkular Metrics - oh come on, you always wanted to add your own metrics to Wildfly WebConsole, you know it !
• Infinispan: Functional Map API: Working with single entries - and maybe a nice opportunity to check out the new release
• Vert.x3 real time web apps - yep, you read well, one can do "real time app" with Vert.x3 ! How ? Well, go see it by yourself !
• Keycloak: Service accounts support in Keycloak - have your application authentificate for you with Keycloak !
• Minecraft Modding at Schools and Libraries - want your kids to learn programming ? Well check this out and learn about more how Devoxx4kids is doing it (amazingly well, may I add...)

Learning JBoss Fuse with BPM & BRMS

The potential power of using both a powerful integration tool such as JBoss Fuse with a business rules engine (BRMS) along with Business process management (BPM) is certainly attracting for anybody who has dwelved a bit in either technologies. Issue is, seldom people have managed to tackle both.

Fortunately this week, Christina の J老闆 is offering you a very Getting Started Home Loan Demo version 6.2, followed by JBoss Fuse - JBoss BPM Microservices Integration. Of course, if you are already familliar with Fuse, you might not know yet BPM. Not an issue,   Eric D. Schabell is here for you with his new starter kit : Launching Digital Sign for JBoss BPM Suite Starter Kit. And once you'll be done with this one, guess what ? You'll get one for BRMS too : 7 Steps to Your First Rules with JBoss BRMS Starter Kit ! Isn't that swell ? 

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

To kickoff September as well as we could, the Jboss Community has released a lot of new version, including quite a lot of very important ones (in bold, if you want to be a bit picky, and only look at those):

• Belas Blog: JGroups 3.6.5 released - if you don't know what JGroups is and how it is important, well, be embarassed and check it out right away !
• Infinispan: Infinispan 8.0.0.Final - it's here and it's ready for Java 8 !
• TorqueBox: TorqueBox 4 Beta2 Released - last chance to find (and get fixed) some bug before 4.0 is released !
• Teiid 8.12 Beta2 and 8.11.3
• Immutant | Immutant 2.1.0 Release
• Arquillian Core 1.1.9.Final Released · Arquillian Blog
• JBoss Forge 2.19.0 Final "Spectre" is here - at least some of us are ready for the next James Bond movie !
• First bug-fix release for ORM 5.0
• JBossWS: JBossWS 5.1.0.Final is available!
• and, not really a release (yet), but quite related: Hibernate Search now ready for Hibernate ORM 5 !

Events

A couple of upcoming events are worth mentioning this week. First, Eric D. Schabell's description of Red Hat Forum UKI 2015 in London

will probably make anyone closed enough to attend, so check it out. Also in Europe, but a tidbit more later on the EMEA Partner Conference, in Frankfurt, Germany, from 4th to 7th October, where I will be delivering (shameless plug) a lab on JBoss Data Grid (Infinispan).

That's all for this Editorial, and if you want more, well, it's impressive, because there is already quite a lot ! Please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from the communities surrounding the JBoss projects.

Welcome to another edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial, this week bringing you a double dose of news as we try to catch-up on a selection of Community news that has been published over the last two weeks.

BRMS, BPMS and Fuse with Christina and Eric

In a continuation of her series discussing her Home Loan Demo Christina extends the demo to retrieve some information relevant to the appraisal through the integration of a SaaS service that returns the number of schools close to the property, expands on this to perform the appraisal of the property and store the result within a database then provides a REST service to return this information to interested parties.  Christina did not stop here however, she also has some advice for those of us who are interested in creating microservices and what we need to consider when making a trade-off between the amount of data we are processing and the time it takes to process it.

In his first article Eric takes us through the updates that have been made to an example written by Christina that demonstrates how Camel routes can be integrated with jBPM to initiate business processes in response to events.  In his second article Eric switches to the topic of Complex Event Processing, specifically looking at a paper that has been published comparing the performance of drools with other correlation engines.  In his final article Eric announces an update to the BPMS Mortgage demo, a public, open source example that you can also be involved with.

Limiting Requests with APIMan

In the sixth article in his series on the JBoss API Management framework, Len introduces us to the management policies that are designed to limit the behaviour of client requests.  As of APIMan 1.1.6 we have access to the Rate Limiting policy, a Quota policy and a Transfer Quota Policy, each of which can be employed individually to throttle requests or combined to provide a solution with greater flexibility.

Improved LDAP Integration within KeyCloak

If you have been paying attention to the work taking place within KeyCloak then you are likely aware of the existing LDAP integration.  With the release of KeyCloak 1.3.1 this integration has been greatly improved through the inclusion of LDAP mappers, providing you with greater flexibility in specifying which data can be synced to KeyCloak and written back.

Hawkular Alerts

One of the most interesting aspects of the  Hawkular project is the alerting service provided by  Hawkular Alerts, a component that provides the ability to define flexible triggers based on complex reasoning over events raised within your application.  In order to demonstrate these capabilities Lucas has created a video that covers the installation, configuration and use of Hawkular Alerts and has combined this with an introductory post covering some of the details that are of interest when watching the video.

Asynchronous Processing with jBPM

The release of jBPM 6.0 saw the inclusion of the jBPM Executor component, responsible for handling the background, asynchronous processing within the jBPM process flows, and is a capability that has been enhanced as part of the jBPM 6.3 release.  In the first of two articles Maciej covers the jBPM Executor, describing its capabilities and how it works, and then follows this with his second article where he discusses some of the enhancements that have recently been made to jBPM 6.3 through a real use-case.

Infinispan's Functional Map API

The Infinispan 8.0.0.Beta3 release introduced a new experimental map-like API that uses lambdas to interact with data, allowing you to take advantage of the new functional programming and asynchronous capabilities that are now available through Java 8.  In the first part of a series covering this new API Galder takes us through the motivation that led to its creation, answering some key questions and setting the scene for the remainder of the series.

Server Side JavaScript

One of the more interesting new additions to  WildFly  is the introduction of Server Side JavaScript support, an experimental feature enabling the internal Nashhorn JavaScript engine to be used within your deployments.  By way of an introduction to this feature Stuart his written a tutorial showing how to write a simple HTTP endpoint, how to extend it and return JSON, how to inject resources from JNDI and CDI and how to integrate the Mustache templating engine.  Now is the time to provide feedback on this feature so please take time to go through the tutorial and provide feedback to the team.

JBoss Out and About

Arun will be travelling throughout September, October and November to deliver his Docker and Kubernetes Workshops, visiting nine countries in four continents.  He will also be involved with the Silicon Valley Code Camp, a community event taking place on October 2nd, 3rd and 4th where developers and children can learn from other developers.

November 16th through to November 18th will see the inaugural Devoxx Morocco event taking place in Casablanca, an event previously known as JMaghreb.  Markus was fortunate to attend last year's event and has since joined the program committee selecting the best talks for this year's event.

New Releases

The Hibernate team have released Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final, Hibernate ORM 4.3.11.Final and Hibernate ORM 4.2.20.Final.

The RichFaces team have released RichFaces 4.5.8.Final.

The JBoss Forge team have released JBoss Forge 2.18.0.Final.

The Infinispan team have released Infinispan 8.0.0.CR1, Infinispan 7.2.4.Final and Infinispan Spark connector 0.1.

The JBoss Tools QE team have released RedDeer 0.8.0.Final.

The Hawkular team have released Hawkular Business Transaction Management 0.3.0.Final.

The Errai team have released Errai 3.2.0.Final.

The Teiid team have released Teiid 8.12 Beta1.

The WildFly team have released WildFly 10.0.0.Beta1.

The Arquillian team have released Arquillian Drone Extension 2.0.0.Alpha5 and Arquillian Spring Framework Extension 1.1.0.Alpha1.

The WildFly Swarm team have released WildFly Swarm 1.0.0.Alpha4.

The Hibernate Search team have released Hibernate Search 5.5.0.Alpha1.

The Teiid Designer team have released the next milestone release of VDB Builder.

That's all for this extended update from the Editorial, please join us again next week when we will bring you more news from the communities surrounding the JBoss projects.

If you are not already on holiday, you'll probably be soon (or you are already back from them) - in any case, the JBoss communities are never on the break, and this week, last the ones before, comes a fair of exciting and interesting news (and yes, stuff about Docker).

Monitoring Wildfly and your Vert.x apps

In the last year, with the emergence of the DevOps initiative and the adaption of Java since the early 2000s, the topic of monitoring (and handling operation) of JEE server has been under an increasing focus. Especially because many administrators had an hard time grasping JVM related concept

and integrate the available JMX metrics inside their own tools (or scripts). However, if all metrics and operation on Wildfly

Monitoring DevOps Style With WildFly 9 And Jolokia ~ Enterprise Software Development with Java

Along those lines, the new project Hawkular, which aims at replace the previous RHQ as monitoring and operations managements tool for Wildfly, has made an interesting demo on Monitoring a Vert.x Application using Hawkular BTM, go check it out !

Data Virtualization and Hadoop

Kenneth Peeples, one of our very own Evangelist, has been diving deep into the integration between DataVirt  and Hadoop, in Connecting to Cloudera Quickstart Virtual Machine from Data Virtualization and SQuirreL. He also took the time to do a thorough inventory of supported environment and products in the latest version of the Data Virt: Tested Integrations for Data Virtualization.

Note that Data Virt is the name of the Red Hat supported version of Teiid. Whatever you read in those article obviously applies to the associated version of the community project Teiid.

On the applications side

Along the lines of the previous section on monitoring, the following article discuss how to configure a Vert.x Application and it is certainly worth the read ! And if you are not (yet) using Vert.x to develop your latest webapp, chances are you are still going to be deploying some (or more probably a lot of) Javascript. In this case, you'll be delighted to hear that Bower support is coming to JBoss Tools !

BRMS and jBPM -  Processes, Rules and Events for everyone !

BRMS and jBPM are all over the place, and, as you'll see in this section, and you are bound to find something here that interest you ! Obviously, the first item is this new book on the topic: Processes, Rules and Events: Book: Mastering jBPM6. Certainly an excellent starting point, wouldn't you agree ?

Then, if you are use of Fuse, you'll be delighted to read this new blog entry from Christina on Enterprise application architecture with JBoss Fuse and JBoss BPM suite.

If you read this editorial on a regular basis, you must be aware by now that Eric Schabell has published a lot of workshop around JBoss BRMS. Well, now he even show you how to use it to build your own workshop or event on JBoss BRMS Workshop in a Can Getting Worldwide Love !

Last, but certainly not the least, Drools & jBPM: Validation and Verification for Decision Tables Update

Arquillian

As always, the Arquillian ecosystem has come with his share of releases ! Please check'em out, as they are both adressing quite difficult (and crucial) topics :

• Arquillian Cube Extension 1.0.0.Alpha7 Released - Control lifecycle of Docker images as part of the test lifecyle, either automatically or manually !
• Arquillian Container Chameleon 1.0.0.Alpha3 Released - Test against several containers (JBoss AS / JBoss EAP / WildFly) or even switching between different modes (Managed, Remote, Embedded) painlessly (finally !) !

Dockerland

It maybe Summer, but it's still 2015, and no week should go by without at least mentioning Docker ! Rest assure, our famous Arun Gupta brilliantly took care of that by discussing Kubernetes Design Patterns. Go read it, it comprehensive overview of the high concept of Kubernetes and how it would apply to your software architecture.

Decaf'

Quite unknown in the Java universe, the Red Hat Software Collections are very practical and provide an excellent environement for developers to work on. Last week article on Red Hat Developer Blog on Using Software Collections Toolset For Your Own Applications offers a nice overview if you wish to learn a bit more about those...

That's all for this week, please join us again for the next installment of the JBoss Editorial where we will endeavour to bring you more interesting articles written by members of the JBoss communities.

For those of you in the US reading this a day late ... Happy 4th of July

We've a lot to cover this week as despite the fact many people have been recovering from the hectic week at Summit/DevNation, life and work must go on! So for a start let's look at something not necessarily associated with JBoss: Minecraft. For those of you in the know, however, you'll understand that not only is Minecraft based on Java but it also relies on Netty! A while back we announced that we had joined the Devoxx4Kids community; well this weekend our very own Arun Gupta and his son will be running the Devoxx4Kids Minecraft Modding Workshop at Minecon in London (helped by yours truly!).

We all know that last week was Summit, but it turns out that a new conference was also kicked off in Barcelona. JBCNConf was attended by several of the Fabric8 team and Claus gives a great overview of what happened there. Which ties in quite nicely to the release of Fuse 6.2, which Christina writes about. As Christina states, one of the important new features is RBAC: "Another important new feature is the Role Base Access Control. Powered by JAAS implemented. Many enterprise needed this in real production environment, what this does, it authorized user's right on access the Fuse console, JMX, command line mode and the service allowed in OSGi." Claus also has a great article on getting up and running with Fuse 6.2 quickly.

Now of course we have the usual flurry of entries summarising Summit and DevNation. Including one from Eric with his usual BPM focus, Mark Proctor talks about his presentation (with more related here), Arun (again) has a nice piece on Summit with lots of photos, and of course there's the Summit Keynote demo to watch again!

Some releases to note include 0.1.0 of the Hawkular Business Transaction Management project, which Gary discusses along with how you can monitor SwitchYard applications with it. Hot on its heels is Heiko talking about the Alpha2 release of Hawkular. JBoss Data Grid 6.5 is out!

If you're a LiveOak fan then you should take a look at the latest entry from Ken talking about its future.

And last but by no means least, WildFly 9 Final is out!!

OK that's it for this week. And I'll be on holiday soon, so it'll be down to the other editors to take you through the summer

This week has been busy for alot of folks getting ready for DevNation and Summit.  With more than 170 sessions and labs, 8 keynotes, parties, and receptions, Red Hat Summit has something for everyone as shown in the infographic to the right. From business and technical sessions to hands-on labs to 1:1 conversations, there's something for each level of interest and need during Red Hat Summit. 

For Developers, in addition to Summit, this year's DevNation event will have four general sessions to capture our imaginations, inspire our work, and spark the conversations that move us forward. Our keynote speakers are ready to bring it.

Here’s what you can look forward to.

- Freedom of choice. With 5 tracks, including sessions, panels, and labs, learning opportunities abound. Or you can hang out in our developer zone and charge up on coffee and electricity.

- Freedom of speech. You don’t have to network, but if you do, you’ll never find a cooler group of people.

- “Free as in beer.” Can you really know what “free” means if you don’t have a free beer in your hand? (But seriously, we have a few fun social events planned, and the hops will be freely flowing.)

- Freedom to break and create. We’re going to hack like hell over 4 full days. We’re dedicating 2 evening events to it, and you might win prizes even into the wee hours of the next morning.

- Freedom to roam. DevNation is co-located with Red Hat Summit, so you don’t even have to leave the building to attend both conferences. Do both at once in the shared track.

Developer Position Available

The Fuse team is looking for an Eclipse Developer to primarily work on JBoss Tools Fuse tooling.

Win Prizes at DevNation Code Challenge!

Join us Monday, June 22, 6:00pm-11:00pm in Room 200 at DevNation in Boston!  Show off your coding skills and win prizes at the DevNation Code Challenge! Using showcased technologies from cloud, mobile, and data services--plus your creativity--you’ll build an extraordinary project with friends (or on your own). Judges will choose winners from the projects built and presented during the session. The winners will walk away with awesome prizes and bragging rights (until next year).

Summit by Day, Party By NIght

Visit the Red Hat booth in Hall D at Red Hat Summit where you can see our awesome line up of demos and pick up a card with the party details which is being brought to you by the Application Platforms Business Group.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Conferences, Meetups and Webinars

• Eric Schabell and Kim Palko presented A Guide to Modern BPM Data Integration.  They provided us the Webinar information plus additional collateral such as Videos and Slides
• Claus Isben provided details of the Microservices Architecture Services Day.  Marc Savy describedpresenting on apiman at the recent Microservices Architecture Developer Day, with our colleague Kurt delivering a short demo of our software running within Fabric8.
• Corinne Krych described the RiveriaDEVhttp://planet.jboss.org/post/rivieradev_is_over_see_you_all_next_yearconference made by developers for developers with the theme "we're not only coders".
• Christian Posta describes his upcoming sessions at Summit and DevNation on Microservices, Apache Camel and CI/CD.

Mobile, Microservices, and More...

• I posted details on how to show your Android device screen on Fedora with some simple instructions.
• Arun Gupta posted details on Zookeeper for Microservice Registration and Discovery.
• Eric Schabell posted details on the JBoss BRMS Cool Store Demo Update.
• Lars Heinemann posted details on theupcoming changes for JBoss Fuse Tooling 7.3.0
• Roger Martinez describes Dockerized Drools and jBPM.
• Mark Proctor and team are looking for a meeting space in Barcelona for Drools and jBPM.
• Marc Savy describes protecting services with Mutual Auth.
• Ioannis Canellos describes injecting Kubernetes Services in CDI managed beans using Fabric8.

This week's Releases:

Infinispan 7.2.3.Final - A few bugs have been found and fixwd in the Infinispan 7.2 branch.

Drools 6.3 SNAPSHOT - The team has rewritten the internal parts of our code that deal with multi-threading to remove a large number of synchronisation points and to improve stability and predictability.

Wildfly Swarm 1.0.0.Alpha3 - The team has fixed some things, enhanced others, written some tests, and generally knocked it together a little sturdier.

Keycloak 1.3.1.Final Released | Planet JBoss Developer - The team has done alot of improvements with this release.

Arquillian Container Chameleon 1.0.0.Alpha2 - In Alpha1 the definition for the JBoss AS / WildFly containers were hard coded. In Alpha2 we’ve externalized the configuration.

Bean Validation TCK 1.1.4.Final - BVTCK-68, which is about the removal of two tests from the TCK which could not be tested in a portable manner across containers. Check out the issue itself for the complete story.

Forge 2.16.2.Final - JBoss Forge 2.16.2.Final is now available

Welcome to another edition of the  Weekly Editorial where we take a quick spin through the JBoss Communities and highlight some of the interesting work that has been taking place over the last week

Data Mapping within the Camel Editor

Strong data mapping tooling is a capability that has been missing from JBoss Tools suite for some time however a recent effort to improve the tooling has had this as its focus.  In the first part of a series to cover this work Brian introduces us to some of the underlying technologies that are being used within transformation, explains how to obtain the new tooling capabilities and finishes this first part by demonstrating how these capabilities are being integrated into the Camel tooling in order to handle data transformations as part of an existing camel route.

NoSQL with Hibernate OGM

In the third installment of the tutorial series "NoSQL with Hibernate OGM", Gunnar demonstrates how to use Hibernate OGM from within a Jave EE application.  This installment extends the entity models created in the previous installments and introduces additional functionality showing how to expose those models through JAX-RS endpoints.

Java EE deployment within Docker Containers

Interest in the containerisation of applications has grown over recent times with many of us exploring how this impacts the way in which  we package our applications and deploy them into production environments.  If you are still investigating this technology then you may find this post by Markus to be of interest, in which he covers some of the major advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

Type Functions within Ceylon

The Ceylon team have recently been experimenting with a new feature to introduce type functions into Ceylon, technically known as higher order generic types and higher rank generic types, and are looking for feedback from the community to determine whether this is a capability that should be included in the language specification and officially supported.  Gavin has a post covering the experimental feature, including a very good explanation of what is being proposed, and there are already some very good conversations happening within the comment section.

Dependent Joins with Teiid

If you have been using Teiid to join disparate data sources then you may have come across a number of scenarios where the Teiid planner cannot determine a good plan using statistical analysis.  If this is the case then Ramesh has an answer for you, introducing an optimisation that can be used to reduce the impact of your statements through the inclusion of hints.

Camel and IoT

IoT is garnering a lot of attention these days and, with its support for MQTT, the Apache Camel project is well placed to help provide solutions.  Claus has found one such project where Camel is being used to help gather air quality metrics from IoT devices all over France.

JBoss Out and About

With  Red Hat Summit  starting in a few weeks many people are busy preparing for their presentations or going through the Agenda to sign up for interesting sessions.  If you are attending Summit, and interested in BPM, then you may wish to check out a couple of labs being hosted by Eric Schabell and others, Racing Camel with BPM and JBoss Fuse and Choose Your Own Adventure with JBoss BPM Suite.

New Releases

• The Hawkular team have announced the release of Hawkular Metrics 0.3.4 and Hawkular 1.0.0.Alpha1.
• The Teiid team have announced the release of Teiid 8.11 Beta3.
• The HornetQ team have announced the release of Apache Artemis 1.0.0, the initial release based on the HornetQ codebase that was donated to the ApacheMQ community last year and now usable from within Immutant.
• The Hibernate team have announced the release of Hibernate OGM 4.2 Final and Hibernate Search 5.3.0.CR1.
• The RichFaces team have announced the release of RichFaces 4.5.6.Final.

That's all for this week's editorial, please join us again next week when we will bring you more exciting news from our communities.

I feel very lucky to be a part of JBoss.  It is great to see global diversity in the JBoss Community.  I wanted to wish everyone a Happy World Day for Cultural Diversity which is celebrated on May 21st and supported by the United Nations.  They have setup a Community Facebook page for "Do One Thing For Diversity and Inclusion".  The campaign aims:

• To raise awareness worldwide about the importance of intercultural dialogue, diversity and inclusion.
• To build a world community of individuals committed to support diversity with real and every day-life gestures.
• To combat polarization and stereotypes to improve understanding and cooperation among people from different cultures.

Our JBoss Community is a large global community and I enjoy reading all the wonderful articles, news, blogs, etc that are published during the week.  This week was another great week of news, new releases and articles.  So let's jump into This week in JBoss.

New Releases

To see the specific Release notes go the the Homepage or Website for the project from the links below.

jgroups-raft 0.2 - The jgroups-raft project is a Raft implementation in JGroups. It is currently in its own repo because it'll move much faster than JGroups and I wanted to have the freedom to release versions in quick succession.

byteman 3.0.0 - Byteman is a tool which simplifies tracing and testing of Java programs.

immutant 2.0.1 Patch Release - Immutant is an integrated suite of Clojure libraries backed by Undertow for web.

infinispan 8 - This actually isn't a release yet but the codename for infinispan 8 was voted upon and is, Infinite Darkness.

forge 2.16.1.Final (Club) - Forge is the Fastest way to build Maven-Based Java EE projects.

keycloak 1.2.0.Final - Integrated SSO and IDM for browser apps and RESTful web services.

Hibernate OGM 4.2.0.CR1 - Hibernate is an Object/Relational Mapper tool.  OGM is the Domain model persistence for NoSQL datastores.

Hibernate ORM 4.3.10.Final - Hibernate is an Object/Relational Mapper tool. ORM is the Domain model persistence for relational databases.

Events

• Microservices Architecture Developer Day June 11th London - Claus Ibsen discusses the event.  We are hosting a full day event, in central London on June 11th 2015, where we will present the latest stuff we hack on our day time job - that is fabric8, hawtio, kubernetes, openshift, Camel, and more.  The event is organized with the help from Red Hat and therefore the naming is a bit out of our hands so it was named - Microservices Architecture Developer Day.

• DevNation 2015 - June 21 - 25, 2015 | Hynes Convention Center | Boston, MA | USA - AN OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE, BY AND FOR DEVELOPERS ACROSS THE GLOBE. DevNation is a full stack development conference featuring the best in open source! Learn how industry leaders use open source. Hack with some of the most innovative new projects including Docker, Hadood, Vert.x and more. See what new innovations are coming out of open source for DevOps, mobile and application development.

Microservices and Integration

• Syed Rasheed wrote an excellent article on JBoss Integration Products, explaining Application Integration and Data Integration, Ultimate Guide: When to use which JBoss Integration Products.  In The Bottom Line he indicated that In the end, application integration platform like JBoss Fuse are best suited for the functional integration of independent applications to implement a multi-step business process. Data virtualization platforms are best suited for the creation of data services where one is attempting to present a holistic view of the business data for analysis or operational visibility. Both technologies have different primary use cases and they are not interchangeable, however they can be used together.
• Christina Lin continues her Microservices migration story with the Integration Demo Series with Fuse and BPMS. 
  •   Part Three: Retrieving Data with JDBC
  •   Part Four: Persistence with JPA
  •   Part Five: Migrating Web Service
• Stian Thorgersen discussed Securing Microservices with Keycloak and OpenID.  As microservices is all about having many smaller services each that deal with one distinct task the obvious solution to security is an authentication and authorization service. This is where Keycloak and OpenID Connect comes to the rescue. Keycloak provides the service you need to secure micro services.
• Mark Little highlights XA and Microservices. I'm not suggesting that XA doesn't have a role to play within microservices and between microservices. At least in the short term it most definitely does for some (small) set of applications. But really when I'm suggesting transactions have a role I'm looking well beyond XA.

Data Services with Teiid and Data Virtualization

• I started our Data Virtualization Primer and Series 1 on the basics of virtualized databases.
  • Part 1 Introduction
  • Part 2 The Concepts (SOAs, Data Services, Connectors, Models, VDBs)
• Ramesh Reddy shared the information for the types of training available - Workshop and Red Hat Training course.

Business Processes and Rules

• Eric Schabell continued with another JBoss BPM Suite online workshop focused on building a travel agency.  This week he covers Lab 01 and 02.
  • Part 2 Installing JBoss BPM Suite.
  • Part 3 Creating a new project.
• Eric also published an article originally done by Stefano Picozzi on a JBoss BPMS Quick guide on Weight Watching with a Realtime Decision Server.
• Mark Proctor highlighted a paper which is a Comparative Study of Correlation Engines for Security Event Management.

And More.....

• Markus Eisele posted a featured post writtem by Tonya Rae Moore, My Toddler Knows more about computers than I do. Help?
• Thomas Qvarnstrom shared a screen cast with us on Securing JBoss Data Grid
• Thomas also shared Installing Red Hat Container Development Kit on Mac OS X
• Rich Lucente was a guest blogger for me this week and discussed Geo-spatial processing capabilities with Open Source Products
• Eric Schabell also provided videos around the BPM Travel Agency migration story.
• Christina Posta Shared Immutable Infrastructure, hotdeploys, and the JVM

This weekend is a holiday weekend in the US to honor those that have died while serving in the armed forces.   Be safe if you are in the US as alot of people will be traveling on the highways.  On to another week in the community.....

April's month is over and May begins with a new edition of the Weekly editorial containing great news around the JBoss Technology World. Take a break, a cup, seat down and take the time to review what has been done by the developers, projects this week. They continue to open the horizons by providing infinite possibilities to design and develop Middleware, Front & back end solutions.

Red Hat, a strategic Eclipse member

Red Hat has officially announced that they have upgraded their membership to Strategic Developer at Eclipse. This has been announced at Eclipse.org

Strategic Members are organizations that view Eclipse as a strategic platform and are investing developer and other resources to further develop Eclipse Foundation technologies. Strategic Developers commit to assign at least eight developers full time to develop Eclipse technology, lead Eclipse projects and contribute annual dues up to 250.000 $.

At Red Hat we already have more than eight developers doing development Eclipse technology, both at and around the base Eclipse distribution. As a new strategic member, Red Hat will take a seat on the Board of Directors of the Eclipse Foundation, strengthening its support of the Foundation.

Red Hat is an active member of the Eclipse open source community. Red Hat employees participate in 27 Eclipse Projects, including as project leaders for Vert.x, m2e-wtp, THyM, BPMN2, BPEL, SWTBot, Linux Tools, ...

Red Hat delivers Eclipse-based solutions to their developer communities, including:

• Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio, built on the popular Eclipse-based developer tool JBoss Tools, allows Eclipse Java users to develop applications for Red Hat JBoss Middleware, such as Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and JBoss Fuse.
• Red Hat Developer Toolset, based on Eclipse Linux Tools and CDT, allows C/C++ developers to quickly build Red Hat and Fedora based solutions.

Red Hat also plans to join the Eclipse Internet of Things (IoT) Working Group, an open source community for the Internet of Things. Red Hat's participation in the Eclipse IoT community will focus on enabling enterprise middleware for IoT solutions.

Introducing to Vertx.3

Thanks to Tim Fox to take the time to communicate around the new Vert.x 3 architecture. This v3 will introduce lots of changes and improvements and should become 3.0.0-final release on 22 June.

A new web site has been created to support this platform and is already available : http://vert-x3.github.io/.

One of the big things in V3 is Apex which is a set of components for building webapps with Vert.x and is already proving to be quite popular even before the final release. More info about Apex can be find on the web-site.

You can use Apex for all sorts of web applications - e.g. "traditional" server side rendered web apps, client side rendered web apps, but a key focus is for lightweight HTTP/REST micro-services.

Apex has built in support for content negotiation and various other features -most of things you'd find in JAX-RS, but 100% async, and usable from any of the languages that Vert.x supports.

We've also made great efforts to make V3 super embeddable and it has a minumum of dependencies. Here's a Maven hello world app:  https://github.com/vert-x3/vertx-examples/tree/master/maven-simplest

V3 also aims to create a full async (where possible) stack, so we've also included components for database connectivity (JDBC, Mongo, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis), email, messaging (AMQP 1.0, RabbitMQ), and we hope to increase the number of components over time.

V3 contains some sophisticated code generation technology which means we only have to maintain Java versions of our APIs and examples, the other language APIs, documentation and examples are auto-generated at build time from the Java stuff. This makes it much easier to maintain than Vert.x 2 where we manually had to maintain each language API.

V3 also has some pretty cool Rx support (https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxJava) - if you're not familiar with Rx, it's all about doing operations on asynchronous streams of data using functional style operations. It's one way of mitigating against "callback hell" which can occur when using event based APIs. We provide "Rx-ified" versions of all our APIs - so you now have a choice of whether to use the standard callback-based API (node style) or an Rx-style version.

V3 also reactive streams support - this is about interoperability with other reactive systems (e.g. Akka, project reactor etc) !

Hot Stuffs of the week

• IoT Eclipse Gateway & Apache Camel

OSGI is not death and looks like a promising technology for the IoT Gateway platform developed by Eclipse under the code name Kura for the field devices (RaspberryPi, ...). By combining this platform with the Integration Java Framework Apache Camel and its messaging routing engine, we expend the possibilities to interconnect everything, everywhere.

Thx to Henryk Konsek to record this video and share its presentation.

• Red Hat Taste of Training - Configuring Cache Stores with JDG by Eric Schabel
• Red Hat JBoss xPaaS - When xPaaS meets DEVOPS - Part Four by Christina Lin
• Application Server are dead. Apparently by Marc Little
• Freedom rings at DevNation - We're brining opensource to Boston by Markus Eisele
• Basic Authentication with Node.js by Kenneth Peeples
• Hibernate Search 5.2.0.Final brings full multi-tenancy support by Sanne Grinovero
• Persistent grants in Keycloak by Marek Posolda
• Docker Maschine on Windows - How To Setup You Hosts by Markus Eisele
• Integration Project- Micro Services Migration Story with JBoss BPM Travel Agency - Part One by Christina Lin
• Continuous Delivery demo using JBoss EAP and OpenShift by Thomas Qvarnström
• JBoss BPM Suite Quick Guide - Getting Started with the Realtime Decision Server by Eric Schabell
• A Micro Services Migration Story with JBoss BPM Travel Agency by Eric Schabell
• Lambda expression in JBoss EAP 6.4 by Thomas Qvarnström
• How can I benefit from Java 8 in JBoss EAP 6.4? by Thomas Qvarnström
• Create your Data Services easily by Kenneth Peeples
• JBoss Fuse - Automating your environment with Fuse CLI by Christina Lin

Released

• Infinispan 7.2.0.Final
  • JCache (JSR-107) support over Hot Rod
  • Listeners can be registered using DSL queries
  • The performance of bulk operations (getAll, putAll) in both embedded and remote mode has been improved by an order of magnitude
  • The clear operation is now non-transactional and lock-free
  • Eviction : New design based on the ConcurrentHashMap from JDK 8
  • It is now possible to deploy cache stores to the server
• Eclipse Docker Tooling
  
• Hibernate Search 5.2.0.Final
• Jolokia 1.3
• Apache Camel 2.15.2
• RichFaces 4.5.5.Final
• WildFly Swarm initial release
• WildFly 9 CR1
• AeroGear UnifiedPush Server 1.1.0-alpha.2
• Keycloak 1.2.0.CR1
• Openshift v0.5
  • Docker 1.6 is now required for OpenShift, which allows us to use pull-by-id in the new...
  • Integrated V2 Docker registry for OpenShift
  • New osc commands (deploy, new-project, new-app)
    
• JBoss Web Server 3.0 is GA
  • This major version release updates Apache httpd and the versions of Apache Tomcat to recent versions
  • Include updates to all of the mod* extensions for httpd, and the version of Hibernate for the JWS Plus product
• JBoss Data Grid (JDG) Version 6.5 Beta!
  • Remote Events and Listeners for the Java Hot Rod client enhanced
  • Enhancements to JBoss Fuse integration (camel-jbossdatagrid component). Can receive and process events from remote caches over the Hot Rod protocol
  • Adds support for JSR-107 (JCache) API in Library mode
  • Can be used as a shared, in-memory index (Infinispan Directory) for Hibernate Search queries on a relational database

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