Happy New Year to all you JBoss users and developers out there! Welcome to 2012 and we have let a week slip by without a weekly editorial, if you were a sharp reader and paying attention you would have noted that a lot has happened in the last few weeks. So hold on to your hat, we are off and running with a heap of news that will get you back on track for a great start to 2012!

Events

Feb 4. 2012 there will a JBoss room hosting anyone who want to turn up at FOSDEM 12', lots of core developers will be there along and some pretty cool sessions. Talks on Drools Planner, jBPM, JBoss AS7, OpenShift and much more!

If you are in Luxembourg next week you can pop into the YaJUG event for some jBPM and OpenShift magicat their Java User Group on Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012.

Submissions to JBoss World 2012 is ongoing for a few more days, so get your thinking hat on and send in your proposal for a great session and we can then meet you in Boston this year! ;-)

Blogs / Articles

The jBPM Form Builder is heating up with an update report from Marian Buenosayres.

Michael Anstis reports that Guided Decision Tables now support BRL columns, "Work has been completed to allow BRL fragments to be used as both (or either) Condition and Action columns in the Guided Decision Table within Guvnor."

Want to get started with the BPMN2 native Eclipse visual editor? Eric D. Schabell posted a short how to online for integrating it into your Eclipse IDE.

Steve Ebersole discusses the changes to registering event listeners, "4.0 changes the way event listeners get registered to leverage some added capabilities, namely services and integrators."

Switchyard project shouts out to the world that they are the first to jump on the "Flux Capacitor" bandwagon in the blog by "Is it auspicious to say that SwitchYard now uses "Flux Capacitor"? Well, yes! Because that is the code name ofJBoss AS 7.1.0.CR1. The nightly builds of SwitchYard now uses Flux Capacitor. How cool is that?"

TorqueBox 2.0 now has its screencasts available on iTunes reports Lance Ball.

Heiko Rupp shows us some really awesome graphs that he has done using D3.js and the REST API in RHQ as he states, "Now that the RHQ REST api can expose raw numerical metrics for the last 7 days, it is possible to create additional graphs for numerics. As before I have used D3.js to create the following graphs." He will also walk you through analyzing your metrics with Rtoo!

Interested in how to configure Infinispan and all the changes to their configuration setup has you stumped? No worries, Pete Muir has sorted this out for you in his blog post!

Someone finally will be explaining multi-server management at JAX2012, that will be Serge Pagop if his abstract is accepted, "Domain mode is one of the most demanded application server architecture in today production environment. But some users mix in their daily jargon the multi-server management domain mode with high availability. In this session, we will learn about the domain mode and high availability in JBoss EAP 6, their differences and look at the ways in a high level how you can leverage high availability with JBoss EAP 6." He has also posted a starter episode on JBoss AS 7.1, JMS and EJB's for those wanting a quickstart.

Max Andersen spent some time sorting out the most round-about-way to deploy an application to OpenShift... it looks like he found it! A must read for all you coders out there with a tablet!

Finally, Mark Little of JBoss fame had some time on his hands and a new Android phone doing nothing in the corner of his desk, so he ported JBossTS to it... you gotta ask yourself... ;-)

Releases

• Ceylon IDE M1 released by Gaven King's crew, "The first official public release of the Ceylon IDE is out! You can read David's announcement here."
• Byteman 2.0.0 released by Andrew Dinn, "It includes a small number of bug fixes and new features and is available from the Byteman download page.

• Infinispan 5.1 'Brahma' CR released and Galder Zamarreno states, "This will be the last of the candidate releases and we expect to go final with the release very shortly, so your help now is crucial." Time to get testing!
  

• TorqueBox v2.0.0.beta2 released by "The entire TorqueBox team is proud to announce immediate availability of TorqueBox v2.0.0.beta2."
• Weld 1.1.5.Final released by Ales Justin, "It doesn't have many fixes, but a super pesky one with protection domains, which bugged us a lot for our EAP6 testing."
• jBPM Migration Tooling v0.10 and v0.11 released by Eric D. Schabell, the first was the release, the second was to get through the JBoss Nexus... don't ask! ;-)
  
• Teiid 8.1.alpha1 released by the Teiid Team, "This is the first release of Teiid that is based on JBoss AS 7 as host environment. It is also start of the next major revision for Teiid and departure from Teiid 7.x releases."

Showcases

• one of my favorite JBoss projects is starting to come out of its shell with success stories like How Byteman Squashed a Drools Bug, a very cool read so don't miss it!
  
• wanted to point out the site infoq.com is doing a call for articles, so if you have something to say about JBoss, get over there and submit your first 2012 article!

Have a great week, weekend and code onwards into 2012!

This week we've picked another set of notable changes in restless JBoss community. At a glance. For you.

Have a good week, a joyful christmas and a happy new year!

Events

Atlanta JBoss User Group

Last week the Atlanta JBUG had their first meetup.

Blogs / Articles

HTML 5 Development Methologies

Mike Brock, the Errai project lead shares some thoughts on the recent HTML 5 development trends.

Hybrid Reasoning Systems

Recent versions of Drools have started to show a direction towards a hybrid reasoning system, going beyond production rule systems. In 2011 the team introduced prolog style derivation trees, with reactive materialised views, aming with traits. Mark takes you on a journey into 2012.

Releases

Ceylon M1 "Newton"

Ceylon is a programming language for writing large programs in a team environment. This is the first official release of the Ceylon command line compiler, documentation compiler, language module, and runtime, and a major step down the roadmap toward Ceylon 1.0

Hibernate Core 4.0

Hibernate facilitated the storage and retrieval of Java domain objects. A lot of time and effort from many people went into this release. There are plenty of notable changes. Among them initial multi-tenancy support.

Modeshape Documentation

ModeShape is a JCR 2.0 implementation that provides access to content stored in many different kinds of systems. The modshape team has moved there documentation to the jboss.org ducmentation system. You’ll find documentation for the upcoming 2.7 release (look for it this week!) and the drafts for the 3.0 release at the new location.

Drools 5.4.0.Beta1

The business logic integration platform moves to 5.4.0.Beta1. This version finally introduces the simulation and testing work that has been talked about for so long. It will provide a unified environment for simulation and testing over time for rules, workflow and event processing.

Showcases

RHQ Driftmonitoring

The systems management suite added drift monitoring. Drift monitoring provides the ability to monitor changes in files and to determine if those files are in or out of compliance with a desired state. In other words, if I installed an application and someone changes files in that installation, I can be told when those changes occurred and I can analyze those changes. John Mazz has put together a demo to illustrate these concepts

Let's face it: we're engineers and we love numbers. This week, we have a particular fondness for 25, which is the number of issues that we've published so far. Yup, it's an important milestone, and we'd like to take a moment to thank you for your continued interest, hoping that you enjoyed reading our editorial as much as we enjoyed writing it.

And, after this brief ceremonial moment, let's get back to our main focus: delivering the freshest technical stories about the platform we love best.

JBoss Asylum - Forge Edition

Episode 23 of the JBoss Asylum has been released - featuring JBoss Forge, our own state-of-the art RAD tool. By listening to the podcast, you can learn more about it from Lincoln Baxter III, project lead, and Paul Bakker, JBoss Community member and tireless Forge contributor.

Impressions from Devoxx (and not just)

A couple of our JBoss colleagues have taken the time to write a bit about Devoxx and other events that they have spoken to on behalf of JBoss.

• Andrew's european grand tour: In his blog, Andrew Rubinger recounts his impressions from a month-long series of conferences in Europe. In the first part he is musing about about the fast pace of JBoss AS7 and Arquillian, recollects interesting discussions with JBoss team and community members, and a surprise encounter with Team Spring. That should be spoiler enough.
• Infinispan team at Devoxx: Sanne Grinovero writes about the Infinispan team participation at Devoxx, as well as the newest developments in Hibernate Search and Hibernate OGM. I'm personally enticed by the new integration layer offered by Hibernate OGM and its opportunities. If I'd be in Newcastle next week, I'd attend Sanne and Paul Robinson's JBUG talk on the 13th of December. But some of you may be there, so don't miss it!

More about Seam

Following last week's announcement on the future of Seam and the formation of the Apache DeltaSpike project, the Seam team has worked relentlessly on finalizing Seam 3.1, and the first release candidate is out. You can read more in Shane Bryzak's announcement. Jason Porter delivers some tips concerning the latest fixes.

In what concerns Seam 2 users, Marek Novotny has provided more details on the roadmap of Seam 2.3, which will allow Seam 2 users to fully enjoy the benefits of JSF2 and JBoss AS7.

JUDCon India agenda published

The agenda for JUDCon India (Bangalore, 24-25 January 2012) has been finalized, and can be found here - two days packed of presentations on state-of-the art technology.

Be at the JBoss World, and let your voice be heard!

We'd like to remind you that the Call For Papers for JBoss World 2012 is still open, and the deadline is next week (December 16). So, if you have something interesting to say, choose one of the tracks, and submit a talk!

Packt would like to know what you want to read about

Packt Publishing has an online survey, where they essentially want to make sure they are making the right offers to all JBoss users and are providing what they need and want.  Check some details that  Len DiMaggio provides here. Maybe it's time to show an interest in that particular book that you've been waiting for.

New releases

We also had a slew of new releases coming out:

• Switchyard 0.3
• Snowdrop 2.0.1.Final
• Richfaces 4.1.0.CR2
• Hibernate 4.0.0.CR7
• Torquebox 2.0.0.beta1
• Errai 1.3.2

This is all for this week. We wish you good luck with holiday preparations - which for many of us may begin with releasing all that stuff before that deadline in December. Come back next week for more news.

Another week and another update about the wonderful world of JBoss, with this week again we will highlight the latest, greatest JBoss project news!

JUDCon

JUDCon is coming to India in 2012!. Be sure to get your papers sumbitted, the deadline is fast approaching.

QCon

Mark Little and company where at QCon where he was speaking about JBossEverywhere again and with help from Kevin, also trying to reproduce the original JBoss World demo.

Devoxx

This last week was Devoxx in Antwerp, with a huge amout of talks on all things Java but also JBoss. Max Anderson posted his "Three Crazy Weeks" leading up to and including Devoxx.

Ceylon

We have some exciting news on Ceylon, the new JVM based programming language Gavin has been discussing on this blog. We now have a website, a blog and opened up all our source code.

It's official now: Ceylon is close to it's first beta and the team have launched the site at Devoxx. Of course we heard about Ceylon earlier this year but the curtain really came up last week. In great JBoss tradition, it's not just about the specification or implementation, but also about the thriving community that's built up in only a few short months!

Now it is up to you to pop on over there, install the Eclipse IDE plugin and get started providing feedback to the team!

Releases

There have been some new released in the following projects:

• Infinispan 5.1.0.BETA5 has just been the released with a few interesting additions and important fixes. As always, please keep the feedback coming. You can download the release from here and you get further details on the issues addressed in the changelog .
• JBossWS 4.0.0.CR1 has been released at the end of last week and is currently available for download in binary and source distributions. The release covers both Native and Apache CXF integration stacks and comes with ahuge number of improvements, new features and fixes compared to the previous 3.4.1 final release. Have a look at the news page and the release notes [1][2] for further details.
• It took a while to release it (due to other work that needed to be completed first), but the first release of our CDI Spring bridge, aka Seam Spring 3.1.0.Alpha1 is out. The details are on the module main page, and an explanation on how it works is on the documentation page.
• Weld 1.1.4.Final release is out! Full release notes can be found here: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310891&version=12318550.
• Seam 3.1.0.Beta5 released. This will be the last beta release for Seam 3.1, the next release will be CR1 and our plan is to have it available by the end of this month.

Showcase

This section is a weekly spotlight on one or two pretty cool items out there in the JBoss community, just to let you know what you might be missing in the shadows.

• an interesting rules project called Tohu
• wondering what JBoss does with OSGi support, check out the project
• Kosmos is a pretty neat looking monitoring suite
• finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention the jBPM Migration project which will get you up and running on jBPM5 ;-)

Have a great week, enjoy your weekend and hopefully you will find some time to code!

We're a little late with this editorial review, but then we have been fairly busy. For a start, we've just announced the dates for the first APAC JUDCon, in Bangalore!If you haven't been to a JUDCon before then you can check out the previous events we've held in the US and Europe. Hopefully these will convince you to either submit something for consideration of the program committee, or register to attend. If you're interested in JBoss, (and let's face it, if you weren't then you probably wouldn't be reading this entry!), then JUDCon is the place to come and hear what's happening and help shape it too.

Another hugely significant announcement this week was from Max and the JBDS team, with the aptly named Shift Happens, 3.3 M4 release.

As Max describes, when you first start it up you'll see the new JBoss Central "dashboard", which includes quick links to access common things such as the quickstarts, as well as the JBoss blog roll.

But probably the biggest addition to this release is integration with OpenShift, so now you can develop and deploy directly within JBDS. Other new things in this release include Richfaces 4, colourised Forge, and improvements to JBoss OSGi integration. Lots to check out!

We had a few new releases this week, with Weld 1.1.3.Final, quickly followed by SP1(!), Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR6 and Richfaces 4.1.0.M4.

There was quite a lot of transaction-based discussions this week too! First we had Galder from the Infinispan team talking about locking improvements in the 5.1.0.Beta4 release. As he puts it: "A hugely important lock acquisition improvement has been implemented that results in locks being acquired in only a single node in the cluster. This means that deadlocks as a result of multiple nodes updating the same key are no longer possible. Concurrent updates on a single key will now be queued in the node that 'owns' that key."

Then Mircea talked about the single lock owner feature in Infinispan: "The basic idea behind it is that, when writing to a key, locks are no longer acquired on all the nodes that own that key, but only on a single designated node (named "main owner")." If you read the entry from Mircea and the associated wiki page, you'll learn about how this can improve the performance of your Infinispan applications. He also wrote about how, if you're using pessimistic concurrency control, Infinispan will re-order your lock acquisitions to automatically avoid/reduce deadlocks. Very nice! In fact Mircea had a pretty busy week all told, with yet another blog entry on pessimistic transactions which were added in the 5.1 release.

Finally Jonathan had a few things to say about Spring and JPA configuration. In general people go to extremes to try to remove the need for transactions from their applications without actually understanding what it is that they're doing and how, at least in this case, they end up having done a lot of work for no good reason at all! I won't summarise the posting because it's well worth a read. However, it is worth quoting this: "You probably should not bother to invent a better mousetrap until you've determined that current mousetraps don't catch your mice. The imposed cost and complexity are definitively unnecessary."

OK, so that's it for this week. Hopefully you found this summary useful and we'll try and keep on schedule for next week

This was a quieter week, but interesting things still keep happening in the world of JBoss. Here are few:

A  shout from the JBoss Asylum inmates

Our favourite podcast, the JBoss Asylum, has recorded another edition, focusing on Java One. This edition's guest is Andrew Rubinger, tackling topics such as JBoss AS7, Arquillian as well as other recent developments from the enterprise Java world.

JBPM editor: On the web first, then in the cloud

We have announced last week the enhancements to the web-based JBPM editor. This week, Eric Schabell will show you how you can try it by yourself, by using the cloud-based version deployed in OpenShift. Indeed, all the nice web applications want to go there.

Pluggable encoding with TorqueBox

Torquebox provides now pluggable message encoding. What does this mean?  It means that Ruby applications that are deployed in TorqueBox may talk in a portable fashion to other applications via messages, regardless of what language are they written in. Learn how TorqueBox is  adding superior interoperability to the extensive list of advantages that the Java EE-based Ruby runtime provides from Toby Crawley's post.

Learn Switchyard with the workshop materials

The Switchyard team went on an Asian tour last month, giving a series of workshops. Keith Babo has published the workshop materials, so you can now learn more about using the new lightweight and powerful ESB from JBoss.

Content negociation in RHQ's RESTful API

Heiko Rupp has provided an overview of the latest enhancements of RHQ's RESTful API in the area of content negociation, providing an interesting example of avoiding code duplication when explicitly handling concerns that apply across content types, such as response codes and caching.

Unveiling MVEL

MVEL, a scripting language for the JVM, has been an integral part of Drools for a long time. In this article, published on The Server Side, Mike Proctor and Mike Brock provide an overview the main features of the language, arguing why it is, as they say, "JBoss' secret weapon".

New releases:

• Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR5 and 3.6.8
• Seam 3.1 Beta 4
• Drools 5.3.0.Final (including Expert, Fusion, Planner and Guvnor)
• Teiid 7.6 Beta 1
• Infinispan 5.1.0.Beta3
• RichFaces 4.1.0.M3

Upcoming Events

• Don't miss the London JUDCon on October 31st
  
• The JUDCon is scheduled at the same time with the JAX conference -  if you're at the conference, don't miss the JBoss day on November 1st
• The community webinar focusing on mobile JSF for the Java developer on November 2nd

Have a fun coding time, and join us next week for another round of news!

It's conference season, so there should be no surprise that some of the most important stories this week relate to the JBoss presence at various events. But not only that - we also have new releases, technical articles and many other  news from near and far.

We came, you saw, everyone won: Java One

As anticipated, the JBoss presence at Java One was massive and well-received, and our team on the ground has been kept busy by the packed audience at the sessions and at the booths (see the pictures).  Mark Little has been the first to publish his impressions - and there are more blogs to come.

Duke makes the right choice. Twice.

Besides the opportunity of talking about our latest technologies, there was another reason for the JBoss crowd  to enjoy their participation at Java One. We're talking about Duke's Choice Awards where two JBoss projects are winners this year:

• Arquillian for Innovative Integration Testing
• Netty for Innovative Network Programming

Fun fact about Netty: whenever you tweet about our weekly update, you are one of its users. Netty, a NIO-based asynchronous event-driven network application framework is a central component in Twitter's architecture.

Break your applications to make them better: Byteman

Andrew Dinn has published the 'Getting Started with Byteman' guide to DZone. Byteman is a Java bytecode instrumentation tool that allows the injection of code into applications (including running ones), using a simple yet powerful scripting language. This makes tracing and monitoring particularly easy, but it is fault injection - testing that your application is robust enough to handle unexpected failures - where Byteman proves to be uniquely useful.

Advanced Wizardry with SwitchYard and the Eclipse plugin

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Or, at least, so goes Arthur C. Clarke's quote. Be that as it may, a wizard's powers can be put to good use in either case. So, technology it is. Following Keith Babo's introduction of the SwitchYard plugin last week, Rob Cernich follows by describing its features in more detail, including the new wizards, XSD handling and m2e (Maven integration) configurations. SwitchYard is a premier lightweight enterprise integration framework, and tooling support (both through Eclipse and Forge) is another great addition to a great set of features.

BPM and rules management

In addition to the sessions at the upcoming RuleFest in San Francisco (October 24 - October 28), JBoss and Red Hat will organize a two-day Drools/JBPM BootCamp on October 27-28 (with a specific focus on healthcare on the second day).  For more details, read Mark Proctor's detailed announcement here.

On a related topic, Kris Verlaenen has published an overview of the service repository introduced by JBPM 5, which allows developers to create and share  services. This should make integration with well-known providers much easier. JBoss thrives first and foremost on the participation of its community, so you are encouraged to contribute to the repository with your own implementation.

JBoss AS7: as seen by the community

Adam Bien, Java Champion and Java EE expert has blogged about his experience of using JBoss AS 7.0.2 for more than a simple smoke test.

Hanneli Tavante, Seam community member has written about JBoss AS7 (in Portuguese).

New releases

• Hibernate Search 4 has published its first release candidate, which means that a final release is forthcoming
• Tattletale 1.2.0.Beta1 is out - it's even easier to check what the dependecies of a project are, since it supports WARs and EARs too now

JBoss sightings

Besides Java One, there were a couple of other events where JBoss was present:

• JBoss in Bossa in Brasilia (October 8) - you can find a list of participants as well as slides here
• JBoss One Day Talk in Munich (October 13)

Upcoming events

• JUDCon London - October 31-November 1
• JAX London (October 31-November 2) which features a JBoss Day

Was this a busy week? We cannot possibly know. A JBossian's work is never done, so we will keep working to deliver state-of-the art technology in collaboration with our enthusiastic community. Read us next week, for more news.

Yet another week has gone by and the high-octane train that is JBoss and its community continues at a blistering pace.  As usual we try to bring you the best of the best, an update on the activities in and around JBoss and its community.

JBoss at JavaOne

JavaOne is next week and the "JBoss Everywhere" motto has never been more evident than seeing the phenomenal number of JBoss speakers in attendance.  We have 20 presentations over four days (seriously, check out the schedule) and have had our very own Dan Allen highlighted on the Featured Speakers carousel.

Of course that is not all that we are doing during Java One. We have three full days of presentations in our mini-theater at the JBoss booth (#5502) where we will be covering numerous topics such as JBoss Application Server 7, OpenShift, Infinispan and more.  Checkout the full list to see what is on and remember, these presentations are given by the folks who are behind the many projects at JBoss.  If you have any questions that need answers, want to give feedback about any of the JBoss projects and/or platforms, or just want to chat with the people who know the details then take a trip down to the booth.

As if the presentations were not enough, we are also giving you the chance to win the latest fashion craze heading out of Milan.  That's right, you could be the proud owner of a limited edition JBoss soccer jersey .  Just head along to the booth and enter the raffle for your chance to win.

JBoss parties at JavaOne

As you know JBoss loves to party and this year is no exception.  We will be hosting the “Lightning in the Cloud” JBoss party on Tuesday, October 4th, starting at 5:30pm PST. The party will be held at the historic “Slide” at 430 Mason St (between Derby St and Geary St), adjacent to Union Square where we will have food, drinks, music and a great crowd.

Remember to reserve your party invitation by registering now, then go by the JBoss booth, #5502, to pick up the invitation.

Transactions within TorqueBox

One of the most exciting developments this week has to be the announcement from the TorqueBox team about their support for XA transactions within Ruby, further enhancing the integration between Ruby and the JBoss Application Server.  The team has come up with an elegant integration, something that is not easy to do when transactions are involved.

If you want to find out how this affects your MessageProcessors, JMS messages, Background tasks or manipulation of your ActiveRecords then take a look at Jim's excellent post.

Forge, EE6 and OpenShift Express

Are you interested in deploying EE6 applications to the cloud?  Do you think it is hard to achieve?  Think again!

In this video Lincoln walks us through the creation of an EE6 application using Forge and how this can then be deployed to OpenShift Express.

Lincoln starts with the generation of a simple web application then, having shown how to deploy this to the cloud, he continues to demonstrate the flexibility of Forge by extending the application to

• generate a persistent entity representing a user
• generate web pages to manipulate the entities
• generate a REST endpoint to expose manipulation of the entities

All of this is achieved using Forge, deployed to the cloud, takes less than 10 mins, and doesn't have an editor in sight.  Very impressive.

The Future of Seam

Seam has been going through a number of changes of late and, as a consequence, rumors are starting to circulate about its future.  Shane has written a wonderful article discussing Seam and its future direction, its goal of uniting the CDI developer community and its aim of fostering innovation through the encouragement and incubation of new ideas and improvements.

If you are interested in Seam then it is a must-read.

Modular Serialization

Jason has taken some time to describe the inherent problems of using Java Serialization within a modular environment.  He describes a number of common problem cases and covers a number of possible solutions.  It is a very good article and one that should not be missed.

JBoss Portlet Bridge passes JSR-329 TCK

Wesley has recently announced that, after a lot of effort, JBoss Portlet Bridge has passed the JSR-329 TCK and has been approved by Oracle.  Congratulations to all involved in the process.

If you want to judge Wesley's excitement then take a look at the video he provides by way of a comparison

RichFaces and Mobile Web Frameworks

If you are interested in mobile development and RichFaces then you will definitely want to follow Wesley's series on RichFaces development for mobile applications.  He continues the series with his second article, covering  bookmarkable URLs and how to use the back button from within AJAX driven pages.

Developer Notes on the JBoss AS7 Console

The JBoss AS7 management console, as many of you may know, is implemented using GWT.  In this article Heiko discusses the implications of the detyped model used within the application server and the strongly typed model required by the GWT components, introducing some of the building blocks used to convert between the two representations.

Envers in JBossAS

Envers is a hibernate core module which enables the auditing of modification to your persistent entities with the addition of a simple annotation, now bundled within JBoss AS 7.0.2.  Adam has written a post describing how to integrate Envers into your application and includes a small JSF/CDI application by way of a demonstration.

SwitchYard and Forge

Keith has created a great video showcasing the integration between SwitchYard and Forge.  If you are interested in either of these projects then check out his post for the video link.

OpenBlend and SIOUG

OpenBlend is a one-day OpenSource conference held at the beautiful Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia.  Having had time to recover from the celebrations, Ales has now found some time to blog about the conference and his subsequent “CDI and Arquillian” workshop, with Marko, at SIOUG.

New Releases

Always keen to bring you new and exciting developments, here is a round up of the project releases that have happened in the last week

September 29th - Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR4 is out, check out the release notes for details.

September 25th - Drools 5.3.0.CR1 is out, check the new and noteworthy changes.

As well as these candidate releases we also have

September 29th - Hibernate Search 4.0 beta 2 is released, removing the dependency on hibernate core.  Checkout Emmanuel's post and read the Migration Guide before updating.

Upcoming JBoss Events

The SoftShake IT conference will be happening in Geneva on October 3rd & 4th.  If you are attending then make sure to catch Galder's presentations on Data Grids.

JBoss In Bossa, the JBug:Brasil Conference, will be happening on October 8th.  Make sure to attend if you are in the region.

JUDCon 2011:London will be happening on October 31st and November 1st, leading up to the JAX London event.  If you are going to JAX, or will be in the area, then get yourself down to JUDCon. This is another great opportunity to learn from the source.

That's all for this week, please check back next week for more updates.  If you are attending Java One or SoftShake then have fun.