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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to the pre-Summit JBoss Weekly Editorial! I’m sure you all know that Red Hat Summit is happening next week, we’re looking forward to seeing you there! Many of us will be giving talks or hanging around at the booth, please stop by and say hi.

As you might have guessed, a lot of the information for this week’s editorial will be about Summit. That isn’t to say that there hasn’t been some other stuff that has happened. Let’s get into it!

Releases

Byteman has pushed out a couple of new releases: 3.0.10 and 4.0.0-BETA5 to be exact. 3.0.10 is a bug fix release and intended for JDK8 and earlier. 4.0.0-BETA5 contains the same bug fixes as 3.0.10 and some others targeting JDK9. Of course, you can checkout the release notes for the version you’re interested in.

 

Teiid 9.3-Beta1 was released last Friday. You can read the release on the blog for more information. This release includes support for LEAD/LAG/FIRST_VALUE/LAST_VALUE functions. There’s also been some initial work done for Couchbase connectivity and SQLAlchemy/Superset. The team would appreciate any feedback you have if you’re using any of those data stores.

 

The Infinispan group released Hotrod clients C++/C# 8.1.0.Final earlier in the week. There are a number of feature requests and enhancements that went into this release, as well as a good helping of bug fixes. Read more about them in the release notes.

Apache Manifold 2.7 was released earlier in the week. It includes a brand new UI, SharePoint 2016 support and improved connectors for a number of different data stores. 40 improvements and issues have been resolved in this release. Congratulations to the team on a job well done!

Conferences

Of course, there’s all the stuff happening at Red Hat Summit. Quite a bloggers projects being showcased at Summit. This is turning out to be a spectacular event this year, you certainly won’t want to miss it!

 

There’s also the Great Indian Developer Summit wrapping up this week. Galder Zamarreño is there speaking about Infinispan of course! His talks touch on Big Data and reactive applications using Infinispan. Both wonderful topics!

It’s a busy week for us coming up, hoping to see you there!

Other goings on

We’ll finish up this editorial with some general happenings within the community.

 

Those of you following Debezium will already know, but Randall Hauch has stepped down from running the project and has taken a position with Confluent! We wish him the greatest of success in his new position! To fill the void, Gunnar Morling has stepped up and will be filling Randall’s place. Gunnar is no stranger to open source and data. He’s worked for a number of years on Hibernate, Bean Validation as well as other. We’re looking forward to great things coming from Debezium and Gunnar!

 

In keeping with the data theme, Guillaume Smet wrote about Simple Query String on the Hibernate blog. The feature came out with Lucene 4.7.0 and support in Hibernate Search version 5.8.0.Beta1. It is a powerful way of building up a query without having to wade through all the Lucene query documentation. Hibernate Search has a DSL for it and the team is looking for feedback. If this is something you’re using, or looking at using, please give them your feedback.

 

In the Vert.x camp, Benoit Hediard blogged about creating an application using Angular on the front-end and Vert.x on the back end. He goes through reasons to use this stack and also walks you through a basic proof of concept to get you going.

 

Corinne Krych blogged about debugging Karam tests over on her blog. If you’ve been using Karma it may not always be that easy to get things working. Head over and read Corinne’s example and setup for getting started debugging those tests!

 

Have you thought about securing your containers? Eric Schabell certainly has. In fact, he wrote a post about getting all those things secured. It’s certainly worth the read if you’re using containers and need to make sure everything is on the up and up!

 

Our last entry this week comes from Christian Posta about calling your services and why it’s difficult. Microservices isn’t easy, and getting them right is even more difficult. Christian continues talking about the most difficult parts of microservices.

 

Thank you all for reading and again, we’re looking forward to seeing you all at Red Hat Summit!

We're back after a couple of weeks break and where to start? The obvious candidate is BPM because the team seem to be dominating the feeds recently! The BPM product architect and jBPM project lead, Kris Verlaenen, has been prolific with a series of articles about the bpmNEXT conference he is presenting at. Take a look because there are some interesting perspectives on where BPM in general is going in the future. Kris has an introductory article here too. And related to BPM, Maciej has written about a fairly common requirement, how to send emails from within a process with a nice worked example. In an earlier article, Maciej also took the time to show the new Case Management Showcase application in the BPM workbench.

 

Not to be outdone, the Hawkular team have a few important announcements. They had a talk at CloudNativeCon in Berlin.

 

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But then there was the announcement that we are getting involved with the Jaeger project!

 

"This new version of Jaeger provides very similar functionality to Zipkin, which is focused on visualising individual traces. It does not have the aggregated views currently supported in Hawkular APM - however from discussions with the Jaeger project, they are keen to be able to provide aggregated views. Therefore we have made the decision that, rather than refactor the Hawkular APM project’s model to be more OpenTracing compatible, it makes more sense to collaborate on the Jaeger project."

 

Keep watching this space for further updates!

 

A few more noteworthy announcements and articles in the last couple of weeks include:

 

 

There were the usual flurry of project releases, such as WildFly Swarm, Arquillian, Infinispan and ByteMan. Well done to those teams!

 

OK, that's it for this week. See you next time!

It has been a few weeks since we last provided an update on the activities within our Communities and for that we apologise.  With this edition of our Weekly Editorial we are hoping to rectify this mistake and take you on a trek through not one, not two but three weeks full of news.  I hope you enjoy the experience and find something of interest.

 

New Foray into Serverless

 

Emmanuel recently wrote a post describing some of the efforts taking place within the Fabric8 Funktion project to explore serverless architectures.  In their experiments they discovered a remarkable performance improvement when replacing 'if' branches within serverless functions with invocations to an 'if' method, something they are calling IF as a Service (IFAAS).  While not part of the current MVP they have also been experimenting with defining 'else' statements as functions although 'for' loops are proving problematic.  If you are interested in learning more about this initiative then head over to ifaas.io or look for advice beside the date on the original article.

 

Hawkular Monitoring and Alerting

 

This week we have a number of articles on Hawkular technologies, a set of OpenSource projects focussing on Monitoring and Alerting solutions of applications and deployments within standalone, on-premise and Cloud environments.

 

In the first article of the week we investigate the trade-offs we need to consider when determining how best to adjust the sampling rates for applications being traced within a distributed environment.  Should this be an application driven decision or an infrastructural driven decision?  Should this be driven through static configuration or dynamic configuration?

 

Our second article continues the distributed tracing theme by discussing how the OpenTracing standard will be supported within the upcoming Apache Camel 2.19 release and covers how to explicitly instrument a camel application, how to achieve the same using the Spring Boot annotations, how to integrate the OpenTracing java agent and examples demonstrating the distributed tracing functionality in action.

 

The third article introduces a new tool for monitoring java applications, the hawkular java agent, while our fourth article introduces the Hawkular OpenShift agent which can retrieve metrics from pods exposing Prometheus or Jolokia endpoints.

 

Our final article introduces Hawkular Alerting, a component which enables the querying of Elasticsearch servers with results emitted as Hawkular Events.

 

Bean Validation 2.0 Alpha2 is out

 

The Alpha2 version of the Bean Validation 2.0 API and Spec is now available including improvements and clarifications related to the validation of container elements, new constraints based on feedback from the Community and an updated TCK.  If you wish to try out these features within your tests then Gunnar demonstrates how this can be achieved using WildFly 10.

 

Google Summer of Code

 

JBoss is again taking part in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentoring organisation, GSoC is an initiative lead by Google to encourage participation in OpenSource.  The deadline for submitting proposals has now passed and we have moved on to the second phase, evaluating proposals to determine which to accept.  Good luck to all of you who are involved!

 

Pushing Notifications with Red Hat Mobile Application Platform

 

Delivering notifications to clients using the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform is a very simple task with the platform allowing for notifications to be sent to all devices which are subscribed to a particular 'category' as well as to an explicit set of specified users.

 

Integrating Keycloak with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services

 

One of the interesting capabilities of Keycloak is the ability to use external services as brokered identity providers, for many this will mean integrating with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services.  Setting this up is not as daunting a task as it may sound, Hynek has provided details for all the steps for both Keycloak and Active Directory.

 

Accessing the BRMS Internal Git Repo within a Container

 

When running BRMS in a standalone, on-premise environment you may have accessed the BRMS internal Git repository using your development tooling, if you have tried to do the same when running within OpenShift then you will have quickly realised this feature is not enabled by default.  Rectifying this is straight forward as Eric demonstrates in his Tips & Tricks series, allowing you to once again gain access to that internal repository via your tooling.

 

Get Ready to Migrate, jBPM 7 is Coming

 

With the upcoming release of jBPM 7 it is now time to understand the necessary steps for migrating from your current jBPM 6.5 installation.  The migration is a reasonably simple process but will involve migrating your workbench, database and updating the configuration of the new KIE server.

 

Scala Support in Vert.x

 

The Vert.x team have recently added support for Scala as a language binding, providing support for all Vert.x modules.  The team also provide a quickstart showing the integration in action, discuss testing using ScalaTest and demonstrate how to make asynchronous invocations using Scala Futures.

 

Hibernate News

 

This week we are fortunate to highlight two issues of the Hibernate Community Newsletter.  In Newsletter 6/2017 you will find articles discussing the differences between first and second level caches, how to implement the soft delete pattern, integrating Hibernate Search with Spring Boot, DTO projections when using JPA and many more.  In Newsletter 7/2017 you will find articles discussing how to identify statements which lead to a failure during batch processing, integrating with CockroachDB, mapping one-to-many relationships, implementing multitenancy and more.

 

C++ Clients for Infinispan

 

When integrating clients with Infinispan it is natural to think in terms of what can be done through the Java clients but did you know that Infinispan 8.1.0 added the ability for C++ hotrod clients to receive and process events?  Not only can you register a client listener with the hotrod server but you can also reference filters and converters deployed within the server.

 

Apache Camel is 10 years old!

 

On March 19th 2007 James Strachan submitted the very first commit to the Apache Camel codebase, originally created as a sub-project of ActiveMQ.  The first release of the project was made on July 2nd of the same year and it looks as if we can expect some celebrations to coincide with the anniversary of the release.

 

JBoss Out and About

 

Red Hat Summit 2017 will soon be upon us, taking place in Boston from May 2nd to May 4th.  This year we are trying something new, a Taste of Summit, through which you will get free access to many of the sessions from the conference and early access to session previews.  While there you should also check out the AppDev and DevOps labs.

 

Eric Schabell is attending a number of conferences to give his presentation entitled "App Dev in the Cloud".  His first appearance was at Codemotion Rome 2017 (slides available) and will be followed by QCon New York, June 26th to 30th, and All Things Open, Raleigh, North Carolina from October 23rd to 24th.

 

The Drools, jBPM and Optaplanner teams will soon be hitting the road to present at bpmNext, Santa Barbara from April 18th to 20th, and Red Hat Summit.  If you are interested in these technologies then check out the schedule of their presentations, especially the talk on Case Management given by Kris and Maciej.

 

The Hibernate OGM team will be presenting at Devoxx UK, taking place in London from May 11th to May 12th, while the Infinispan team will be presenting at Devoxx France, taking place in Paris from April 6th to April 7th.

 

Bilgin attended CloudNativeCon and KubeCon Europe 2017 where he gave his talk on Cloud Native Patterns (video and slides included) and listened to many other speakers giving their own presentations.

 

New Releases

 

 

That's all for this week, please join us again next week when we will resume our normal schedule for our Weekly Editorial releases.

As Spring gets closer, the JBoss community is certainly not getting its head of code. Indeed, on top of a large batch of releases in the last ten days, the community also produced a dozen of interesting articles, ranging from the nice little trick or hack, one is always happy to learn about, to for more high level discussion on microservices or data management. And of course, all the shades of grey in between. So buckle up, and please enjoy this somewhat belated new edition of our editorial !

 

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In depth...

Most JBoss Developers loves to dig in into deep, technical articles, to learn and understand as much as possible of inner working of the project they are involved with. Lucky for them, last week has seen released one of such "in-depth" articles. The first one to caught my eye is certainly this one on External materialized views demystified in Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization and Red Hat JBoss Data Grid. Indeed, Teiid (JBoss Data Virtualization) is very powerful tool and seeing it leveraged along with Infinispan (JBoss Data Grid) is certainly quite fascinating - and ground breaking. Still

 

Tech Bytes

 

Let's first start by a couple of nifty tricks that may make your day easier, like learning how to debug WildFly Arquillian test, or How To Access JBoss BPM Internal Git Repo in a Container ? (And if you have no idea about thelater, why not Get Started with JBoss BPM Today ?)

 

Then let's move to critical topics of nowdays IT - securtiy. First let's take a look at this article called "Why mechanisms twice?" expliciting some intricate configuration regarding authentification in Elytron. Then, let's also see how to some

Basic Camel routes with HTTPS.

 

Last, let's dwelde into some source code with Infinispan and look at JDBC Migrator (How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Buckets and Utilise the JdbcStringBasedStore!). If it's not enough for you maybe this last article on http://www.schabell.org/2017/03/how-to-access-jbossbpm-internal-git-repo-in-container.htmlData-driven Apps made easy with Vert.x 3.4.0 will finally quench your thirst.

 

Evangelist's Corner

 

First of all, let's talk about books. Indeed, Eric D. Schabell made a short introduction on his upcoming book Effective Business Process Management with JBoss BPM, but also, Emmanuel Bernard took the time write a very interesting entry on his blog on

Microservices, data and patterns to introduce the book of our coworker Edson Yanaga published by O'Reilly (but given away for free by Red Hat).

 

In case you missed it, Corinne Kynch took the time to wrap up a nice recap' of her attendance at the DevNexus 2017 in Atlanta : Sharing the fun of DevNexus 2017. And if this makes you want to attend a conference, don't forget to join us at Red Hat Summit !

Last, but definitely not the least, last week saw the release of the usual - but pretty neat, Hibernate Community Newsletter 5/2017. If you want to know everything about the latest installment and progress of the Hibernate community, this newsletter is for you !

 

Releases, releases, releases...

 

 

Decaf'

 

After all this Java code pouring down your computer screen, maybe you want a little flavor of something else ? Maybe something very trendy, like NodeJS, to give free range to your inner "developer/hipster" ? Wait! What about doubling down, and adding an extra slide of Docker with it ? Here you go, enjoy Node, S2I and Docker !

 

And you know what, as long as we are mentioning Docker, maybe you should also take a look at this artcile, certainly aiming also at the Java commuity :Java inside docker: What you must know to not FAIL.

 

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.

Welcome to this week's editorial!

 

This week we've seen a strong theme around the continual convergence of containers, microservice architectures, middleware and cloud. Christian Posta provides an interesting write-up of how how he's seeing the microservices space evolving and maturing. Whilst Eric Schabell explains how you can create your own containers based cloud on Windows using the Openshift Container Platform (OCP). Once you have your container platform, you are going to want to run some microservices in it. Ladislav Thon has you covered with a post on how to run Java EE 7 Samples with WildFly Swarm. Node.js more your thing? Lucas Holmquist can help you out with his explanation of how to Dockerize Node.js Apps. Finally, if you are using an Infinispan cluster running with Kubernetes/OpenShift, you will probably want to monitor it. Find out how!

 

We've also seen some activity around the Hibernate project this week with Marko Bekhta explaining how to add custom constraint definitions via the Java service loader with Hibernate Validator.

 

We are (always) Hiring!

Red Hat is always hiring. But in particular, if you want to work on cool open source projects like Apache Camel and fabric8 you should check out this recent opening.

 

New Releases

OK so this is an editorial meant to cover many things happening in the JBoss/middleware space for Red Hat. And whilst we'll get to a summary of some of the other things going on in  this space, I wanted to start with a reference to a recent announcement by our xPaaS Product Manager. In this article we're announcing that efforts like Vert.x, WildFly Swarm and even Spring Boot will now also be available on OpenShift. Now I kinda see this as good and there was no intention to give the impression anything else we're doing and have built up a huge user/developer base around, such as EAP or Fuse, is somehow being neglected or reduced in priority. Far from it: the EAP 7 series is a key part of xPaaS and we've worked closely with the OpenShift team to ensure it runs well there. Same goes for other Java stacks, such as Fuse or BRMS/BPMS. But some folks have perhaps read too much between the lines here and think otherwise, so I wanted to take the opportunity to make it clear that enterprise Java, in many varieties of implementation, remains our focus and priority. Whether you're interested in the established approaches such as Java EE or some of the newer efforts, like Vert.x or WildFly Swarm, Red Hat is the home for your (hybrid) cloud deployments.

 

With that said, onwards! Following on from the above, which is also at the heart of our microservices efforts, Bilgin has something to say on the topic as he attempts to apply psychology motivational theories to microservices - and not before time And of course no good microservices effort can ignore OpenShift, so Eric's demo of the new OpenShift 3.4 release is good timing! Now whilst Hawkular Metrics isn't microservice specific, I do expect to see it have a significant positive impact there so you should take a look at Michael's post about Pandas

 

Speaking of the importance of Java EE, as we were earlier, the Community Asylum this time around talks to Gunnar about Bean Validation 2.0. Separately, Ramesh talks about how the 9.2 release of Teiid now supports the SQL-MED specification.

 

Let's finish with some project releases, including JGroups 4.0.0, Keycloak 2.5.4, and Hibernate Search 5.7.0. Another worthy mention is the latest Node.js client release for Infinispan's Hot Rod protocol which supports cross-site client failover!

 

Well that's enough for this week. See you next time!

Image result for abraham lincoln memorialThis past week was the birthday of one of the greatest men in American history.  We can learn alot from great men and women in history.  There are probably not many people, nationally and globally, who have not heard the 16th US Presidents name.  Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865, was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th US President from March 1861 until his assassination in April,1865.  Lincoln led the United States through the US Civil War.  He preserved the Union, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.  The Lincoln memorial is a great place to visit in Washington, DC.  His most famous speech, The Gettysburg Address, is inscribed at the memorial.  Excerpts include,

 

..conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...

....and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

 

This coming week the US honors the Presidents with the Presidents Day Federal Holiday, February 20th.  

 

 

 

Now on to the happenings in our open source community!

 

Releases

 

 

 

The Past Weeks Highlights

 

 

Thanks for being a part of the JBoss Community and stay tuned for the next Weekly Editorial!

 

Kenneth Peeples, Shadow-Soft Director of Technical Services

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Welcome back everyone! We’ve been busy this past week. A number of new releases have been completed this past week, a considerable amount of news, and all topped with a generous amount of content to boost your programming chops! We’ll dive in first with the new releases, follow-up with news, then look at the other content.

 

Releases

 

There were nine releases last week! We’re really tearing it up out there with the release trains. Projects seeing releases this past week include Byteman, Wildfly Swarm, Hibernate Search and Validator, Teiid, and Hawkular Services. Listed below you can see the various release blog announcements below.

News

 

Some very exciting things happened last week, and our engineers were there to capture and blog about it!

First up is CDI 2.0, which is now in Public Review. Go through and read all the changes and how it will change CDI in this next version.

Eric Schabell and many others, possibly including you, have received acceptances to Red Hat Summit 2017. You can read about what Eric will be talking about in his blog entry: Upcoming Red Hat Summit session

A couple of entries from the Hawkular universe came in last week. Hawkular APM: Comparing performance of service versions discusses how you can compare the performance of different versions of a service as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. Display custom events in Grafana discusses using and displaying Grafana Annotations as points in time on your charts.

In a blog post and demo, Windup 3.0 for Eclipse IDE, Ondrej Zizka showcases the Windup 3.0 eclipse plugin. It’s still in development but is progressing along nicely. Lastly, and somewhat off the beaten path, Martin Sebor recaps his ISO C meeting that happened in October: Trip Report: October WG14 Meeting. For those doing development in C, you’ll want to read up about work being done in C11 and also a review of proposals for C2X, the next "major" revision of C.

Tricks of the Trade

 

These don’t come up on our editorials all the time, but we have a number of entries that simply aim at giving you more tools and tricks to pull out of your box. Most of the titles speak for themselves:

 

Every week, the JBoss community releases some new software, but a lot of those releases are often framework or just bricks of more complex software (on this note, surprisingly, not Arquillian related release this week, for instance!). But this last week was different, because most of the releases where about products. Software you can run and deploy - and more importantly, use to implement solution to your problem. So, with new releases for Infinispan, Teiid, Keycloak, and even Windup, I'm calling it : it's raining (good) software !

 

Evangelist's Corner

 

As always, the JBoss evangelist have been busy releasing interesting content in the last days. The ever prolific Eric D. Schabell wrote an interesting article on how to add complex business logic to processes with JBoss BPM, but also took some time to discuss the upcoming Devoxx France 2017: Ready for AppDev, Cloud and a Circus? And while on the topic of BPM & BRMS, an excellent technical article on how the KIE Server Router integrated with workbench has also been released.

 

On her side, Christina Lin discussed Applying API Best Practices in Fuse on the RHD Blog. Given the importance of API, and their importance, in ensuring that business runs smoothly, it is most definitely a crucial topic.

 

Explore new territories with Infinispan & Keycloak

 

Last week saw the release of both new Infinispan version (with Infinispan 9.0.0.Beta2 and 8.2.6.Final are out!) and Keycloak (Keycloak 2.5.1.Final Released), but also the release of a couple of interesting articles discussing their new feature or architecture changes. The first one is actually the second part of an ongoing article regarding Data Container Changes in Infinispan (Part 2). Just behind this one, an other article covers the JDBC Store Improvements made in Infinispan 9.x. On the Keycloak side of the action, Administer Keycloak server from shell with Admin CLI was released, documenting quite neatly how to managed and automate easily, regular operation - such as creating use or changing a password, with a Keycloak server.

 

Technical bytes

 

On top of the previous articles, there was two noteworthy articles released last week. The first one discussed how to use Vert.x conjointly to AMQP to Build services and APIs (Vert.x, AMQP). The other one is actually a series of articles, as this is the now regular Hibernate Community Newsletter 2/2017. If you have any interest in a project (or several) from the Hibernate community, this newsletter is going to be a treasure trove for you.

 

Releases, releases, releases...

 

As mentioned above, there was certainly some very interesting releases last week - not just update of frameworks, but releases of products - so a lot of things to look at and explore :

 

Decaf'


As always, after binging on Java for a little while, it also nice to get one head out of coffee cup, and take a look at what is happening around it. So, for the JavaScript enthusiasts out there, I'm pretty sure the following article on  Data Encapsulation vs. Immutability in Javascript – RHD Blog will be a treat ! If you are more into Docker these days - who is not ? - take a look at how ManageIQ might make your life easier :Container Images Compliance – what we built at ManageIQ to remove a security pain point – part 1 – RHD Blog

Welcome to another edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial, our regular trek through the JBoss Communities to catch up with their news

 

Microservices are Here to Stay

 

With many applications moving towards Microservices architectures we are seeing an explosion in the number of services being developed and deployed, something proving hard to manage with our pre-existing tools and techniques.  In order to handle these new architectures we need to begin looking at alternative environments especially Cloud Native Platforms, such as Kubernetes, which are better suited to handle the deployment and management of these services with minimal interaction.

 

Having explored  the environment and tooling  needed to support Microservices  it is time to focus on how we adapt our existing processes and applications.  Eric was recently invited to give a presentation entitled "Using Containers to Build a Microservices Architecture" in which he concentrates on the journey you will follow when switching over to Microservices, his slides are now available and a recording of his presentation can also be obtained by signing up to the event.

 

The next problem you will likely face when deploying Microservices relates to the monitoring of those services and collation of the metrics, a task greatly complicated by the number of services being deployed and the distribution of those services over many nodes.  To address this requirement the Hawkular team have introduced the Hawkular OpenShift Agent, an infrastructural service responsible for monitoring all the pods deployed on each node and sending metrics to Hawkular Metrics.  Hawkular OpenShift Agent is not the only option for providing metrics however as Hawkular Metrics can integrate with other tools such as Dropwizard Metrics, a popular metrics framework used within java applications.

 

Bean Validation 2.0 Progress

 

JSR 380, the Bean Validation 2.0 Spec, began its journey through the JCP a few months ago however there has already been significant progress.  With a focus on updating the existing specification to take advantage of Java 8 features the Expert Group has begun its work by adding support for JSR 310, the Data and Time API, and taking advantage of the additional locations for annotations to enhance the validation of Collections and other containers.  Gunnar Morling, the Red Hat representative on the committee, has more information on these new features and where the EG is heading next.

 

Pluggable Task Assignments with jBPM 7

 

Nearly all Business Processes will, at some point, involve user interactions and the assignment of tasks to ensure the job is completed however there are numerous options for how this assignment can be handled.  Tasks are traditionally assigned to a specific actor, multiple actors or groups however each has their issues.  In order to better handle this situation  jBPM 7 also provides a pluggable mechanism for handling task assignment along with two potential strategies which can be used.  Maciej has more information for those of you who are interested in learning more about the benefits of this approach and some of the issues you may face if using traditional assignment.

 

New Releases

 

 

Thank you for joining me in this week's Editorial, please come back next week when we will bring you more updates from the JBoss Communities.

I am looking forward to a great 2017 with the JBoss Community Projects and Red Hat Products.  As always the community continues to provide great technologies and projects.  This week provided some great Releases and Articles.

 

Now on to the happenings in our open source community!

 

Releases

 

  • Hibernate Validator 5.4.0.CR1 Provides some improvements and fixes:
    • We improved the javax.money support with a new annotation @Currency
    • Marko Bekhta finished his work on the annotation processor: we are now on a par with the Hibernate Validator engine features
    • We also fixed a possible overflow issue in java.time validation reported by Stanislav Bashkyrtsev
  • Immutant 2.1.6 includes the following changes:
    • Update to Ring 1.5.1 to address a security vulnerability. This vulnerability only affects applications that are running from the filesytem, not from an uberjar or war, so most users aren't affected.
    • Remove our dependency on Potemkin. This was a common source of collision with other application dependencies, so we now use an internal copy of Potemkin under different namespaces so it doesn't conflict.

    • A minor update of the version of tools.nrepl on which we depend (0.2.11 -> 0.2.12)

  • Arquillian Cube Extension 1.0.0.Alpha16 includes alot of enhancements and bugfixes.

  • Byteman 4.0.0-BETA2 is a early access release for JDK 9
  • Hybernate Search 5.5.6.Final contains alot of bugfixes
  • Teiid 9.2 Beta1 includes highlights since Alpha2:
    • TEIID-4627 Source Triggers to handle source change events.
    • TEIID-4643 Encrypt/decrypt functions were added for 128bit AES.
  • Arquillian Core 1.1.12.Final includes dependency updates and some improvements
  • Arquillian Tomcat Container 1.0.0.CR9 contains Arquillian Tomcat Adapters

 

Business Processes and Rules Highlights

 

 

Fuse Highlights

 

  • Christina Lin shared her recommendations on API best practices:
    • Intuitive-  It must be easy to understand and use without documentations.
    • Stable-  Not only it should be running but with good performance too.
    • Demands -  Creating useful functionally, no matter how nicely your API is documented, how easy it is to use, it people don't need it, they won't call it.
  • Claus Ibsen shared a podcast from Java Pub House posted on 7th of January 2017 where Freddy Guime and Bob Hollin talk about Apache Camel.

 

Additional Highlights

 

 

Thanks for being a part of the JBoss Community and stay tuned for the next Weekly Editorial!

 

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Kenneth Peeples, Shadow-Soft Director of Technical Services

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To those of you in a geography that recently incremented its year counter: Happy New Year! This week much of the JBoss community is returning refreshed from the holiday break. And on their return we've seen the usual flurry of releases and useful tutorials and demos...

 

Getting Started with Fuse Integration Service 2.0 Tech preview

In this post Christina Lin walks us through the steps needed to get started with Fuse Integration Service 2.0 (Tech preview). There’s even a video to make it easier to follow along.

 

App Dev in the Cloud - HR Employee Rewards Application on OpenShift

In this Blog post, Eric presents an update to his "HR Employee Rewards Application” demo application. In this update he’s fully containerized the application and shown how it can be ran on the OpenShift Container Platform.

 

Releases

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This has been a tough year for the passing of some great actors and actresses.  On December 27th "Princess Leia" passed away, and her mom, Debbie Reynolds, passed away the day after.  I was 9 years old when Star Wars came out and have enjoyed the movie franchise since the moment I saw Carrie Fisher.  About 30 years separated the releases of Return of the Jedi and the Force Awakens, but it was well worth the wait.  I think Mark Hamill said it perfectly, Carrie was one-of-a-kind who belonged to us all- whether she liked it or not. She was OUR Princess, darn it, & the actress who played her blurred into one gorgeous, fiercely independent & ferociously funny, take-charge woman who took our collective breath away. Determined & tough, but with a vulnerability that made you root for her & want her to succeed & be happy. Carrie will be in Episode VIII and it will be interesting to see how they handle her absence in Episode IX.  Carrie, Thanks for taking our breath away on and off the big screen! 

 

 

Now on to the happenings in our open source community!

 

Releases

 

Apache Camel

 

Vert.x

 

Thanks for being a part of the JBoss Community and stay tuned for the next Weekly Editorial!

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Kenneth Peeples, Shadow-Soft Director of Technical Services

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Holiday season have officially started and we certainly wish you are all off to your familly and friends - if you actually are, please, stop reading this, close your phone or laptop and pay attention to your relatives for once ! Have a merry christmas !!!

 

Coffee Shop Christmas Village

 

Microservices are commodity

 

Before jumping into some in-depth, technical articles, let's take a short step back, and look at things from higher vintage point with this excellent article on Microservices are Commodity.

 

Riding a camel for Xmas ?

 

Camel are certainly not the first animal one associates with Christmas, but this should certainly prevent anyone to enjoy this cool article on Camel Live Reload of XML routes. An if you are looking for more in depth information on Camel itself, you probably want to check out the Status of Camel in Action 2nd edition book. Or, if not, at least take a peak, at this article on Red Hat JBoss Fuse - Automate integration CI/CD processes. In any case, after that, you'll be ready to cross any desert...

 

Techbytes - Treat yourself a Xmas gift - dwelve into Infinispan 

 

As the holiday season generally means finally a bit of time to do some long due exploring of some cool, new technologies, so the Infinispan and the Hawkuler one have both though of you, and released some pretty neat articles. On the Infinispan side, a first article, Infinispan: Spring Boot Starters, walk you through setting up Infinispan as part of a Spring Boot app - certainly an efficient way to start using Infinispan, if you are already familliar with Spring Boot (otherwise, did you heard of JBoss Forge ? ).

if you are already an Infinispan user, the second article might be more up your alley. It's a more in depth introduce some major changes, coming in 9.0 : Data Container Changes Part 1. Be prepare for the next big thing coming in Infinispan !

 

Fiddle for Drools and CLI for Hawkular

 

If you, like me, have to play around with Drools on a regular basis, i'm pretty sure you'll find this nugget very useful: Introducing the new Drools Fiddle. Along those lines, a brief introduction to a pretty neat CLI tool for Hawkular - Hawkinit will probably be equally useful(ok, i'm partial, I just love CLI tools...).

 

Releases, releases, releases...

 

As always, the JBoss Community projects have released many new version - especially a first CR for Keycloak 2.5 and for an exciting new version of Hibernate Search using Elasticsearch !

 

 

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Already to jittery for Java ? Time for something else ? Well, then I could not pass anyway this opportunity to mention this article from last week describing

How to get started with Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ! SQL Server on Linux ? Aren't we living interesting times !

 

Also, a bit more closer to the Java root of the JBoss Community, the third part of a very interesting series about using Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization on OpenShift: Part 3 – Data federation. Certainly take a look at it, especially if you are not familiar with JBoss Data Virtualization (or its Open Source pendant, Teiid). It think it may pick your interest...

 

https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/12/14/red-hat-jboss-data-virtualization-on-openshift-part-3-data-federation/

Welcome to another edition of the JBoss Weekly Editorial! We are excited to bring you another packed week of JBoss and Red Hat Middleware news. The end of the year is nearly here, but that doesn’t mean we’re slowing down.

Releases

Let’s start with the new bits during the week, shall we?

Teiid continues to move closer to it’s 9.2 release with 9.2 Alpha2. Hashing functions, including md5, sha1, sha2-256 and sha2-512 have been added along with a number of issues being closed with this release. Just over 70 issues have been closed on the road to the 9.2 release currently slated for early to mid February.

Wildfly Swarm has recently released version 2016.12.1. A number of issues have been closed with this release including improvements to UberJar and war cleaning, fewer boot-time warnings, significant improvements to Windows support and JavaDocs! Wildfly Swarm is a slimmed down version of Wildfly Java Application Server for use with Microservices.

Changes to the JDK9 have necessitated another release of Byteman. Andrew Dinn released version 4.0.0-BETA1 earlier this week addressing those changes. Byteman is an invaluable tool for tracing, monitoring and testing Java application JDK runtime code.

On the product side of things, Red Hat Single Sign-on recently released version 7.1 Beta. Included in Red Hat Single Sign-on are features for OpenID connect, Red Hat JBoss Fuse integration, a Node.JS client adapter, SSSD integration, user storage SPI and more! If you’re in need of an SSO solution, look no further.

Notable Blog Entries

This past week includes a number of notable blogs done by the community.

To kick things off, Jason Green blogged about Jigsaw’s Missing Pieces. He includes links to the various issues in the OpenJDK project. Jason breaks down the "missing pieces" into three categories: Reflection issues, dynamic introduction and alteration of modules, and interoperability with alternative module system. He remains hopeful suitable solutions can be found and implemented.

Next, we have Ken Finnigan’s post about whether to WAR or JAR with Wildfly Swarm. Ken briefly describes how to obtain a JAR and a WAR using Maven. He also discusses pros and cons of both approaches. The recommended approach is to us a war with Wildfly Swarm, however, that isn’t a hard rule.

Juraci Paixão Kröhling talked about the recent improvements to Hawkular APM for OpenShift this week. He included steps to get everything setup on Fedora 25. There are also examples to follow along that Juraci mentions!

Vlad Mihalcea discusses what has happened within the Hibernate Community recently in his Hibernate Community Newsletter post. There are many blogs, issues, releases and Q&A posts he links to and are well worth the read if any of them apply to your particular Hibernate usage.

Back in November a number of Red Hat employees spoke at Devoxx Morocco. Galder Zamarreño recapped his trip to Morocco and Geneva over on the Infinispan blog. Galder spoke about building reactive applications using Infinispan, Node.js and Elm.

To round out the Java related news, John Clingan wrote about MicroProfile being adopted into the Eclipse community. MicroProfile has moved quickly since it was announced back in June at DevNation. If you’re interested in joining the discussion, head over to the forums.

Todd Mancini has a somewhat lengthy, but concise blog post about porting .NET Framwork to .NET Core. You’ll want to read through that if you’re currently thinking about migrating to .NET core, or even using it for the first time!

Lastly this week, we have a piece written by Takayoshi Tanaka about getting started with Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Microsoft has a simple seven step install document which Tanaka-san builds upon. He describes how to connect to the database using Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio and the command line.

We’ve had a fantastic week here at Red Hat and are looking forward to another one coming up!

 

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