Apologies for the gap in the jbug series. We've had a problem getting speakers at the start of the year. However we start with a bang, with two talks and two remote speakers.

The session on the raspberry pi is introductory but will cover a range of possibilities, If you have pi experience we would love to hear about your favourite libraries and utilities.

Jesper is coming across from Boston to talk about IronJacamar. As well as giving interesting talks, Jesper is involved in the Boston JBUG.

The rest of the year is looking promising with a lot of talks covering a wide range of subjects. We will also be doing some hands on lab sessions for those who want to get their

hands dirty. If you have an urge to give a talk or if you would like a talk on a psecific subject then let me know and I'll try my best.

Trev

It was nice to see so many new faces last night, hope you enjoyed it. As promised here is the link to the keynote . This page also contains links to the blogs about the technology behind the keynote demo.

The Developers Conference, JUDCON preceeded JBoss World. Several of the presentations were recorded, if you are interested the slides and videos can be found here .

Pete Muir gave a great talk on Java EE 6 and CDI last night. I've had requests for the example he used during the talk, so here are the details:-

The pastebin example that Pete used to demonstrate the features of CDI can be found at

https://github.com/weld/core/tree/3918032c3434d27ba4dc1559e24fc7f8c75d0270/examples/jsf/pastecode

If you are wanting to run it on AS7 then use the version at https://github.com/weld/core/tree/3918032c3434d27ba4dc1559e24fc7f8c75d0270/examples/jsf/pastecode  instead. These changes will be merged into the main version once  timer support is added to AS7

For those who want to look at Weld it can be found at http://www.seamframework.org/Weld

Next months talk will  be about the JBoss World keynote demo. We will recreate the demo and discuss the technologies used to build it. The demo went down a storm at jboss world so it should be another good session.

The slides for Febs talk  have been attached to the Feb agenda if anyone wants them.

For those of you who asked me questions at last months meeting   here are some answers.

1) What is happenening with JBPM?

JBPM5 is out in the community and there is a nice webinar  about it   here

There is an interview with Kris about jbpm5 and what it  provides available here and Mark Little

discusses the future of jbpm here

2) Is there a new SOA release coming out ?

      There will be an announcement on Wed March 9th.

3) What happened to the Metamatrix products, are they available still ?

The MetaMatrix products are being superceded by the Enterprise Data    Services Platform. Teiid and Modeshape

are the open source projects    providing data virtualization and metadata repository capabilities  and are available

in the JBoss community.   

Teiid appears in the Enterprise Data Services Platform product.        ModeShape appears in both EDS-P and BRMS.