(Full Story: Head to Head – JBoss EAP v WebSphere ND, Total Cost of Acquisition)
Aerogear – JBoss Community
Covering all aspects of mobile application development! This includes the latest HTML5 technologies used in the mobile web, and in hybrid application frameworks like the Apache Cordova. All the way to JBoss AS based services, mobile RichFaces/JSF2, tooling, and native application support, and prototyping.
(Full Story: Aerogear – JBoss Community)
JBoss Tattletale – betraying your project’s naughty little secrets
The tool will provide you with reports that can help you
Identify dependencies between JAR files
Find missing classes from the classpath
Spot if a class/package is located in multiple JAR files
Spot if the same JAR file is located in multiple locations
With a list of what each JAR file requires and provides
Verify the SerialVersionUID of a class
Find similar JAR files that have different version numbers
Find JAR files without a version number
Find unused JAR archives
Identify sealed / signed JAR archives
Locate a class in a JAR file
Get the OSGi status of your project
Remove black listed API usage
And generate the same reports for your .WAR and .EAR archives
(Full Story: JBoss Tattletale – betraying your project’s naughty little secrets)
How JBoss Did It
One of the key points to understand about this model: instead of building a very expensive marketing process like their competitors BEA and IBM, JBoss used their R&D resources to build a free product that achieved the same goal: widespread product awareness, and high customer demand – all for zero marketing costs.
(Full Story: How JBoss Did It)
Migrating RESTful Transactions to OpenShift Express: Part 1 on Vimeo
Part 1 of two videos showing the process of how to migrate applications to the Red Hat OpenShift infrastructure. Part 1 describes the application and demonstrates how to deploy and run it locally. The application comprises two REST based services: a transaction coordinator which is deployed to a JBoss AS7 container and a simple service deployed into an embedded container. The client that interacts with the two services, written using javascript starts a transaction, makes transactional calls to two web services and then ends the transaction. Recovery from failures is also demonstrated.
(Full Story: Migrating RESTful Transactions to OpenShift Express: Part 1 on Vimeo)
Largest JGroups cluster ever: 536 nodes – Bela’s Blog
The setup was 130 celeron based blades with 1GB of memory, each running 4 JVMs with 96MB of heap, plus 4 embedded devices with 4 JVMs running on each. Each blade had 2 1GB NICs setup with IP Bonding. Note that the 4 processes are competing for CPU time and network IO, so with more blades or more physical memory available, I’m convinced we could go to 1000+ nodes !
(Full Story: Largest JGroups cluster ever: 536 nodes – Bela’s Blog)
Verizon Recognized for Technological Achievements and Innovation in Use of Open Source and Middleware Solutions
The award, announced during the Red Hat Summit and JBoss World on May 6 in Boston, recognizes Verizon for “the most successful migration from proprietary solutions to open source alternatives.”
Specifically, Verizon won the award for the company’s implementation of a new standards-based business process-management system for the company’s Integrated Management Platform for Advanced Communications Technologies automated platform, which monitors, troubleshoots and resolves network service interruptions.
(Full Story: Verizon Recognized for Technological Achievements and Innovation in Use of Open Source and Middleware Solutions)


April 5, 2012
