The past week hasn't seen any major event (which is to be expected, given that we are amid vacations seaso). That doesn't mean that there's nothing to report - in fact we have quite a number of interesting news.

The future of RichFaces: stability over innovation

Brian Leathem, the RichFaces project lead, has shared an outlook on the future of the project, considering its place in a world where client-side frameworks and single-page applications have started to become the dominating trend, at the expense of server-side rendering. JSF remains an integral part of the Java EE specification, and will continue to have a well-determined role in certain classes of projects, and the RichFaces project will continue to evolve to meet the demands on the new JSF specifications, without necessarily focusing on innovation, as it did so far.

A little about Fuse Service Works

Kenneth Peeples has published a couple of articles about Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works, the first outlining the main components and services of the product. The second, more technical, focuses on using Docker with BPM-Suite and FSW.

Infinispan Security: Authorization and Auditing

Tristan Tarrant provides a few updates on the Infinitispan authorization model, and the main changes as of 7.0.0.Alpha5, as well as new features such as auditing.

Keep learning about jBPM

One great thing about jBPM is the large number of learning resources - and we're not talking only about articles and tutorials. One of the latest available options is Mariano De Maio's new book, "jBPM 6 Developer Guide", to be published soon by Packt Publishing. Or, you can attend the session at BPM Openhouse 2014, a virtual event  to take place between September 22-26. And if you want to know why, Eric Schabell is giving you all the good reasons.

Also, on the BPM front, an interesting example developed by Eric and Maciej Swiderski showcases a document-based BPM process, using jBPM and a CMIS-compatible content management system (Apache Chemistry in this case).

Help improving the JBoss and WildFly UX!

Heiko Braun's blog post calls for all WildFly and JBoss users to participate in a survey, with the goal of improving the UX of the web administration interface. As good administration tools are a critical component of a successful project and product, please make sure you get involved!

JBoss Fuse Tooling: get started and set it up

Lars Heinemann has published a series on articles on how to get JBoss Tooling and set it up, including particular instructions for Kepler and Luna.

Logging with Docker

Marek Goldmann provides an extensive overview on setting up logging for Docker containers, with a practical example using JBoss WildFly.  The crux of the matter is a practical introduction to data containers, the preferred option for logging in production.

Arun's tech tips

Arun Gupta continues providing Java EE 7 tips with part 6 and part 7 of the series dedicated to enhancing JBoss Forge with Batch job support. This week: template support, upgrades, and test fixes.

Social integration with Kia Uberfire

The Rich Client Platform Uberfire has a new extension: Kia Uberfire Social Activities, that allows enhancing workbench-style applications with social-related features. Eder Ignatowicz's blog provides an in-depth view of the feature, showing how your application can react to events in your social networks by leveraging Uberfire's event driven model.

New releases:

• On behalf of the ActiveMQ team: ActiveMQ-CPP 3.8.3
• On behalf of the RichFaces team: RichFaces 4.5.0.Alpha3
• On behalf of the Teiid team: Teiid Web Console 1.2
• On behalf of the JBoss Forge team: JBoss Forge 2.7.2.Final
• On the product side: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 6.3

This weekend sees the end of the FIFA World Cup 2014 competition in Brazil with the game for Third Place, between Brazil and the Netherlands, occurring on Saturday and the Final, between Germany and Argentina, taking place on Sunday.  If you are not a fan of Football then the following articles from the JBoss Community may help you to while away the hours until the competition finishes.

Arun's Tip Corner

Arun continues his  series with the publication of two additional tips on Java EE 7.  In his first Tech Tip of the week Arun provides a brief introduction to the Batch capabilities that have been added to Java EE 7 through the inclusion of JSR 352 and suggests a number of  answers to a question that has been asked on the forums, namely how can you execute batch jobs on a schedule.  In his second Tech Tip Arun covers a number of important changes to the default behaviour of a number of  features  within Java EE 7 including CDI, Data Sources, JMS Connection Factories and Executors.

Eric's Tips & Tricks

Eric and John have combined forces to write a series of articles describing the various deployment architectures that can be used for deploying rules and events within BRMS.  In the first article in the series Eric and John describe the first two architectures, the deployment of rules within an application and then a slightly different architecture that monitors an external repository and automatically deploy those rules and events within the application.

JBoss Projects as Docker Images

Marek has written a great post describing the work that is taking place to create Docker images for JBoss projects.  The creation of these images is supported by an automated process ensuring that the images always contain the latest versions of the projects.

Cordova Simulation within JBoss Tools

Ilya has published an article describing the work that is going on within JBoss Tools to support the development and testing of hybrid mobile applications.  The article includes a short video demonstrating the capabilities and instructions for how you can try these out within your own environment.

M2E improvements within JBoss Tools

The Eclipse m2e plugin has suffered from a number of issues when dealing with the import of large projects however these have now been addressed through the release of the m2e 1.5.0 plugin.  If you are interested in finding out what has changed, and how this would benefit you, then take a look at Fred's article discussing the many significant changes that have been added for performance and usability.

JBoss Data Grid, EAP modules and CDI

Thomas has recorded a video demonstrating how to use JBoss Data Grid in Library Mode when deploying as modules within JBoss EAP.  As an added bonus the video also demonstrates how to make use of the CDI integration within the product.

Camel and Microservices

If you are interested in Microservices then head over to Bilgin's blog where he introduces an article giving you 10 good reasons for using Camel to create Microservices.

Upcoming events

This year's Devoxx BE will be taking place in Antwerp from November 10th to November 14th.  During last year's conference Eric delivered a session on OpenShift however he has decided to take a different approach this year and has submitted two hands-on labs, each lasting three hours, on the subjects of xPaas and JBoss Rules/BPM.

New Releases

The AeroGear team have announced the release of UnifiedPush Server 0.11, incorporating a fully rewritten UI and now based on Keycloak.

The Byteman team have announced the release of Byteman 2.2.0.1, addressing a couple of issues related to testing with BMUnit and TestNG.

The Teiid team have announces the release of Teiid 8.8 CR1.

That's all for this week, join us again next week to catch up with what is happening within the JBoss Community.

JBoss Tools Community Acceptance Testing aka CAT

As you may be aware, the internet is often described as the "electronic cat database" as much of "the action" on it appears to be around cute pictures or videos of ... cats. There is already quite a good chance that you are no longer reading this blog entry - as some relative may have notified you of the latest cat-video-you-must-look-at....

Anyway, it was time that the JBoss community joined the game , and therefore we are proudly announcing the release of JBoss Tools Community Acceptance Testing (CAT) ! Probably the most useful cat from the internet !

On top of this launch, the JBoss Tools community has also published the following releases:

• JBoss Tools  - JBoss Tools Integration Stack 4.1.5.Final / JBoss Developer Studio Integration Stack 7.0.2.GA
• JBoss Tools  - Beta2 for Luna - JavaScript, Monitoring and Early Access!

Byteman 2.2.0 is out  !

The Byteman project has just released a new version, 2.2.0, filled with patches and bug fixes, along with one major feature - annotation-based configuration for BMUnit tests (more on how to use it quite soon). If you have never tried this awesome tool, this new release is the perfect excuse to go do so !

Teiid & ModeShape

Both part of the Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization product, Teiid and ModeShape are getting quite close to their next release, so checkout out this week beta to have a nice preview in the coming features:

• Teiid 8.8 Beta 2 is out - the final release is plan for mid July, so go download and test this one and help the community make it even better before then !

• ModeShape 4.0.0.Alpha4 is out - try the "simple cluster" feature along with the integration with Wildfly8.

Other releases

As always, the JBoss community is a thriving one and a very share of project did some prereleases last weeks:

• Keycloak Beta 3
• jBPM 6.1 first release candidate
• Arquillian Core 1.1.5.Final
• TorqueBox 3.1.1

Evangelist's Corner - tutorial, demo, blog and video

If you follow the JBoss Community activity regularly, you most likely have noticed that our evangelists (Eric Schabell or Arun Gupta, for instance) are producing a large amount of interesting content, almost everyday. But, if for some reason you are not yet familiar with all of them, take a look at "Introducing your JBoss Technology Evangelist".

And to give you an idea of the excellent work they are doing, you can already check out what they have released just in the last days :

• Arun Gupta - Wildfly and JEE
  
  • Going the extra miles with CDI - DeltaSpike
  • Using Netbeans with Wildfly
  • Wildfly & JEE7 lab
• Eric Schabell - all thing BRMS/BPM
  • A new lab in the ongoing BPM Suite Online Workshop series
  • BPM as Paas ? Confused ? Look this "HR employee reward"  demo and the "customer evaluation" one and see what happens when BPM meets Openshift !
  • At last, but not the least, some handy tips on using BRMS with Git
• Kenneth Peeples
  • Continues his workshop on Fuse Services Works - time to learn anything Switchyard and Camel !

If Max Katz is not one of our evangelist, he did nonetheless produce a very compelling video http://maxkatz.org/2014/06/26/learn-how-to-debug-appery-io-mobile-apps-video/ that is worth mentioning here.

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ManageIQ is open source !

Outside the JBoss universe, Red Hat just released the source code of ManageIQ, a cloud management product (EVM, which became CloudForms at Red Hat). People inside the company have worked toward this goal for a little over two years and it is with great joy and pride that we relay the announcement, full filling the commitment done in 2012.

OpenSource Architect blog launched !

My team, the Red Hat EMEA architect just fire a new blog, Opensource Architect in order to give us a place to share our experience, as architect, both with, of course, Red Hat products, but also other Opensource software - and we leverage all of them to build our solutions. Malcolm Herbert just published an interesting article on the level of adoption of DevOps in enterprise - go check it out !

Hopefully you have found something in this week's editorial to pique your interest and give you something to explore while waiting for next week's installment.  Join us here next week for more news from the JBoss Community.

Arun's Tip Corner

In his first Tech Tip of the week Arun continues the work he began in Tech Tip #25 by introducing a second Raspberry PI and showing how to configure a WildFly Managed Domain controlling servers on both devices.  He continues this work in his second Tech Tip by introducing a third Raspberry PI, running mod_proxy, and using this to balance the incoming load between the WildFly servers running in the Managed Domain.  Arun's third Tech Tip takes us through the WildFly patching mechanism, introduced in WildFly 8.0.0, and demonstrates how this can be used in either offline or online mode.  Arun finishes the week with the next installment in his series on developing a Java EE 7 Batch Addon for JBoss Forge.

Eric's Workshops

Now that Eric has finished the BRMS portion of his workshops he has created a bundle that allows you, with a single command, to install the completed workshop to your OpenShift account.  Eric also continues the BPMN segment of the workshop by walking us through the creation of the domain model and follows that with another episode showing the creation of the Rewards Process.  Eric's last post discusses many of the configuration properties that can be used to tailor an installation of BRMS or BPMS and how they can be used in a local installation or through the OpenShift cartridge.

Performance Improvements in Infinispan

The Infinispan Team have made some significant performance improvements between Infinispan 6 and Infinispan 7 and these improvements have recently been tested in their performance lab with the results showing that, certainly in in some scenarios, there is a four to six fold improvement in performance.

jBPM on WildFly

Maciej has written a good article showing how to deploy the latest jBPM 6 snapshots on WildFly 8.1.0.  There are still some known issues with the codebase however these will give you a good taste of what is to come in their upcoming 6.1.0.CR1 release.

Monitoring Application JMX Beans on WildFly

Thomas has written an article describing the changes that have been necessary to enable the monitoring of application JMX beans on WildFly 8.1.0.  This feature is now available in the master branch, give it a try and provide some feedback to the RHQ team.

JBoss Out and About

Claus recently presented at  gr8conf where he discussed the integration of Camel and Groovy.  His talk also covered the hawtio console and demonstrated the ease of which a new plugin can be written by developing a plugin to embed a groovy shell within the console.

Marek recently gave a presentation on Docker to the Warsaw JBoss Users Group, Boleslaw has posted a few photos of the event.

Upcoming Events

The date for JUDCon Boston 2014 has been set and it is coming up fast, taking place on June 28th.  JUDCon has reverted to its original format, a one day event associated with the project team meetings, and If successful this format may be duplicated at other team meetings around the world.

New Releases

• The AeroGear team have announced two releases associated with Push, UnifiedPush Server 0.10.4 and Java Sender client 0.7.0
• The Errai team have announced the release of Errai 3.0.0.Final
• The Arquillian team have announced the 2.0.3.Final release of the Arquillian Graphene component
• The Immutant team have announced the release of Immutant 1.1.2
• The Keycloak team announced their beta1 release followed quickly by a beta 2 release to address some important bugs
• The JDG team have announced the release of JDG 6.3 Beta

Hopefully you have found something in this week's editorial to pique your interest and give you something to explore while waiting for next week's installment.  Join us here next week for more news from the JBoss Community.

What's coming up in JBoss EAP 6.3?

The ability to incorporate bleeding edge technical advancements developed by the community in a robust, commercially supported product is quintessential characteristic of JBoss EAP. So, features such as WebSockets support or Aamore comprehensive security API with PicketLink, or even better domain recovery support (as well as many more other), are also new features in JBoss EAP 6.3. As the release draws nearer and nearer, many would be interested to see what's coming up. So, to their benefit, this week both Ray Ploski and Arun Gupta have blogged about it, providing a detailed overview of JBoss EAP 6.3 Beta, which you can grab right away, here.

Scheduling in Immutant 2 (The Deuce)

Immutant is one of the projects that shows how open-source can do great things to technical innovation, especially in the polyglot space, by combining powerful paradigms with specific applications, such as functional programming, with the well-tested reliability and performance of Enterprise Java. We're happy to see the project advancing towards it's second major release, and in this blog entry, Jim Crossley illustrates one of it's upcoming features - scheduling jobs.

Towards a Configuration JSR in Java EE 8

One of the proposals for standardization in the upcoming Java EE 8 is for application configuration, with the goal of simplifying the deployment and configuration process, which is currently still greatly dependent on the individual implementations, as well as providing API access through standard mechanisms such as CDI. In fact, you can read about Anatole Tresch's proposal here. In regards to that, Arun Gupta has published his own thoughts, inviting for a debate. So, if you take an interesting in the topic (and in our opinion, you should), feel free to contribute.

DevNation is coming! (on a screen near you)

And now we're going to flash back to our pre-DevNation edition. Back then, we advised you to follow our postings, since recordings of the sessions will be posted not long after the conference. Glad that you did, because this way we can point you to Andrew Rubinger's announcement (the title of which we borrowed), and where you will find all the details. And also, you should start following the DevNation blog.

Gluecon 2014: There and back again

Gluecon is a developer conference focusing on modern topics such as Cloud, DevOps, Mobile, Big Data. Max Katz has attended and gives us a pretty nice rundown on it.

Errai 3's New Features (continued)

Continuing the series of articles on the new features of Errai 3, Christian Sadilek introduces some of the smaller (yet, as described) powerful ones, such as: improved HTML form support, test generation, WildFly 8 support, and so much more. Read the entire post for details.

CODiE awards for Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and Openshift

Congratulations to Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio and Openshift who won 2014 CODiE awards (given by the Software and Information Industry Association) in the categories of Best Mobile Development Solution and Best Cloud Platform as a Service, respectively! A well-deserved recognition for two amazing products! And for a more detailed account of how Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio won, read Max Andersen's blog post!

From BRMS 5 to BRMS 6 - what has changed, what is new

Eric Schabell continues his excellent series of articles about Red Hat JBoss BRMS by proving a detailed account of the major differences between the two versions - an important summary for everyone who considers upgrading.

Releases

• From the AeroGear team: Unified Push Server 0.10.3
• From the RHQ team: The Maven RHQ Agent Plugin Plugin 0.6
• From the ModeShape team: ModeShape 3.7.4.Final as well as ModeShape 4.0.0.Alpha3

Welcome to this week's editorial where we bring you the latest musing from the JBoss communities.

Eric’s Workshops

Eric has been busy this week, developing workshops to demonstrate the capabilities of the BRMS and BPMS platforms.  He begins the week with the final lab covering the BRMS portion of the Cool Store demo, showing how to run the parts that have been developed to date, before releasing a video that shows one of the most impressive capabilities within BRMS, the ability to dynamically update the ruleset.  The series continues with the beginning of the BPMS portion of the workshop, lab11, that shows how to install the BPMS Suite in preparation for the remainder of the series.

Eric has also spent some time revisiting his Generic Loan Demo, a necessity as the process was not strictly compliant with the BPMN2 specification, and has published a video showing how easy it is to deploy the demo onto OpenShift.

Arun's Tips

Arun has also been busy publishing two further tips in his series, #21 and #22.  In Tip #21 Arun introduces the first part of a multi-part video series that he is creating in collaboration with Lincoln Baxter.  The aim of the series is to show how easy it is to create a new Addon for Forge 2 and they have chosen to demonstrate this by developing an Addon for the Java EE7 Batch capabilities.  In Tip #22 Arun introduces the new WebSocket capabilities present in EAP 6.3 Alpha, describes how it can be enabled and where you can find a number of examples to test the functionality.

PicketLink Deep Dive Part 2

Shane continues his Deep Dive series into PicketLink by introducing the notion of Partitions, describing how they can be used by walking us through some requirements from a fictional paper company.

Bayesian Belief Networks within Drools

Mark continues his series describing his ongoing work to integrate Bayesian belief networks into Drools.  He now has the functionality working end-to-end and is now working to integrate this capability into the belief system.

Embedding task forms within jBPM

Kris has written a post describing new capabilities that are being introduced into jBPM, the ability to design forms using a WYSIWYG editor and have them embedded within the process definition.  These forms can be used when starting a process or completing a task within the process.

What’s new in Errai 3?

Max continues the "What's new in Errai" series by covering the changes that have been introduced to handle Roll Based Access Control and PicketLink integration.  The integration is declarative, specified through the use of annotations, and enabled the restriction of access to specific pages, specific DataFields and remote services.

Immutant 2 and the web

Jim has written a post describing the significant changes that have been introduced to the web library within Immutant 2.  The changes cover the web API and also the underlying technology, Undertow, which has resulted in a significant increase in performance and support for Web Sockets.

Micro Services

James has produced a screencast showing a new capability that has been introduced into Fabric8 1.1.0.Beta5, the ability to deploy simple java applications, called micro services, using the new support for Java Containers.

Thoughts on Developing a Netty Server

Heiko recently had an opportunity to develop his very first Netty server for RHQ, an experience that he decided to share.  Heiko has also make his source available for those who are interested in investigating further.

Interrupting an “Infinite” Java Regular Expression

Lincoln has written a very interesting post describing how to mitigate the issue of catastrophic backtracking when evaluating regular expressions, a condition when the regular expression engine has to calculate permutations with exponential complexity.

On the Road

The video from Kris' Red Hat Summit session, Deep Dive into jBPM 6, has now been posted online.  In this session Kris provides a quick introduction to jBPM6, demonstrates the tooling and then dives into some details of the new jBPM execution server.

The Red Hat Tech Exchange in Asia Pacific will be taking place in Bangkok, Thailand from June 9th to June 13th.  Eric Schabell and Kenny Peebles will be present with Eric giving sessions on BRMS, xPaas and OpenShift and Kenny giving sessions on Data Virtualisation, Fuse Service Works and Fuse.

New Releases

• The RHQ team have announced the release of RHQ 4.11.
• The ModeShape team have announced the release of ModeShape 3.7.3.Final.
• The Arquillian team have announced the release of Arquillian AngularJS 1.2.0.Alpha1.
• The Teiid team have announced the release of Teiid 8.8 Alpha 1.

That's all for this week, joins us again for more news from the community.

Summit is over but the work goes on and the positive fallout from our annual event continues to grow! xPaaS was the highlight of the JBoss Keynote and Arun has written a nice piece on the topic - though he failed to mention the defunct laptop that we killed on stage to demonstrate the fault tolerance capabilities of the stack we showed!

Eric also managed to find tim in his schedule to write up some of his experiences at Summit around xPaaS and jBPM/BPM Suite. He had a very busy time with demos, sessions and booth duty, so check it out! And he even managed to find time to produce his regular instalment in the Online Workshop Series.

As usual Arun Gupta's been busy. As well as being at DevoxxFr he's written about the new NetBeans and WildFly integration a couple of times, the work done of the Java EE7 reference card, and of course the WildFly 8 and JBDS screencast!

OK so those are the highlights for this week. Onward!