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JBoss training next week

conny.lundgren — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:47:17 +0000

Next week I will be attending a training session on Jboss in Stockholm (JBoss for Advanced J2EE Developers), the course details looks promising and hopefully it will dwelve into some gory details.

CI server comparison

conny.lundgren — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:51:53 +0000

Found out that IBM developerworks has posted an article comparing CI (Continuous Integration) servers. The products tested are CruiseControl, Luntbuild, and Continuum. Sadly I miss a feature-by-feature comparison of the product. I have used CruiseControl and Luntbuild in the past (the later just very briefly). I’ve been hoping to take Continuum for a spin, and perhaps it’s about time.

The IBM article

Sun on the Open source plans

conny.lundgren — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:42:51 +0000

According to different sources (blogs and news.com) something similar to a release plan in forming.

According to this javac and hotspot will be open sourced at the end of this year. They also say they will open source the complete Java ME stack (this was the real surprise for me).

The complete stack of Java SE will be available at beginning of 2007, and as suspected some part will remain closed source due to licensing.

The actual license is unclear at this point, but seeing that Glassfish CDDL (Community Development and Distribution License) it would be a logical step.

For more information visit the official site over at java.net

RedHat aquires JBoss

conny.lundgren — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:37:20 +0000

The time of doubts are over, there has been some speculations about presumable buyers. But today the Redhat entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss. I guess time will tell if this is a good move or not.

More information & Q&A available here

Java EE 5 preview and NetBeans pack.

conny.lundgren — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:55:43 +0000

Sun has released a preview version of the Java EE 5 SDK, and on the same time an Enterprise Pack for NetBeans.

From what I can tell the Java EE 5 SDK is just a frozen version of the open source Glassfish appserver rebranded to “Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 9″ which includes features such as EJB3, JSF 1.2, JAXB 2.0, Java Persistance, JSTL 1.2, Streaming API (StAX), Webservice Metadata.

The SDK is still branded beta, since the spec hasn’t reached final yet.

At the same time Enterprise Pack for NetBeans has been released, and includes some new features such as support for the above SDK, UML and Visual Design Tools for SOA Architects (whatever that is) and the appserver bundled.