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Red Hat Launches New JBoss SOA Assessment Tool

Posted on 2008-10-07 09:21:51.0 by Pierre Fricke [ View original post ]

Along with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.3 , Red Hat is helping enterprises understand where they are in their SOA strategy development with a new JBoss SOA Assessment Tool . The JBoss SOA Assessment Tool is designed to help companies assess their current SOA Optimization and determine their best path for SOA success. It will analyze them in any one or more of 6 capabilities:

  1. Business process understanding
  2. IT assessment
  3. SOA design
  4. SOA enablement
  5. Infrastructure
  6. Orchestration

The tool was developed jointly by Red Hat and the experts at Alinean, Inc. Their database of more than 20,000 organizations allows us to provide you with a complete, customized analysis of your SOA readiness. Your personalized report will explain how you compare to your peers, the risks of not addressing the identified SOA capabilities and recommended next steps including resources to help you along the way.

This is a great way to get a different view point, based on a lot of other companies' experiences, of where you stand on your SOA journey to business automation and agility.
Link to the JBoss SOA Assessment Tool
Link to the JBoss SOA Resource Center


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Back to Your Regularly-Scheduled Program

Posted on 2008-09-24 19:07:19.0 by Andrew Rubinger [ View original post ]

Along with JEE Compliance comes a host of architectural restructuring intended to speed EJB3 development. Now that the dust has settled, I've taken a few moments to outline some of the changes we've made over the past months, and explain why you should care.

Admittedly, this entry is not as humorous as some of my past articles, but there's nothing funny about being awesome.

S,
ALR
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Resteasy JAX-RS 1.0 Beta 6 Released!

Posted on 2008-09-10 10:53:00.0 by Bill Burke [ View original post ]

A lot of changes in this release. The specification is basically done and going final any day now. The spec lead just needs to finish the TCK and it will go to a vote with the JCP EC and become final. We are up to date with the specification. Click here for more details...
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JBoss EAP: Java SE 6 support, Mainframes & more

Posted on 2008-08-25 12:26:53.0 by Aaron Darcy [ View original post ]

The latest Cumulative Patch release for both JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) v4.2 & v4.3 are now available . Cumulative Patches (CPs) are incremental updates that fix all known issues and are typically made available on a quarterly basis to all customers.

Java SE 6 Support
With today's release, we're please to announce official support for Java SE 6 for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform v4.3 using the Sun JDK. Congratulations to the JBoss team for making this happen! We've updated our list of Compatible & Certified Configurations to reflect this.

More Certified Configurations
You'll also notice that we've now extended the number of Certified operating system, chip architectures & JVM combinations from 16 to 29. Since we can't possibly test every combination, we continue to support any configuration that runs on a JVM that we've certified to, no matter the OS/Chip/JVM combination; we call these Compatible Configurations as we rely on the compatibility of the underlying JVM. We try to be transparent and we want you to know what we've officially fully tested against, hence the distinction between 'Certified' & 'Compatible' configurations.

IBM Mainframe Support
Are you running your Java application on a mainframe? Looking for an alternative application server? We've supported JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on mainframes as a Compatible Configuration for some time, and now, based on customer requests, we've officially added mainframes to our list of Certified Configurations with IBM System z running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you're looking for reasons to switch, whether you're a mainframe user or not, we've conveniently listed them for you here .

Are these the only configurations we test? Nope. This isn't our complete list, but it does represent the list we run our full battery of quality, integration and performance tests on for every release. If you're wondering what we test, we cover the topic in this whitepaper about the making of JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Also, Andy Miller, one of our JBoss Engineering VPs, provides detail in this blog post from earlier this year.

If you have configurations that you'd like us to add or are interested in learning more about what tests we run, just let us know by sending a note to jbossquestions@redhat.com .


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JBoss EAP: Java SE 6 support, Mainframes & more

Posted on 2008-08-25 12:26:53.0 by Aaron Darcy [ View original post ]

The latest Cumulative Patch release for both JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) v4.2 & v4.3 are now available . Cumulative Patches (CPs) are incremental updates that fix all known issues and are typically made available on a quarterly basis to all customers.

Java SE 6 Support
With today's release, we're please to announce official support for Java SE 6 for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform v4.3 using the Sun JDK. Congratulations to the JBoss team for making this happen! We've updated our list of Compatible & Certified Configurations to reflect this.

More Certified Configurations
You'll also notice that we've now extended the number of Certified operating system, chip architectures & JVM combinations from 16 to 29. Since we can't possibly test every combination, we continue to support any configuration that runs on a JVM that we've certified to, no matter the OS/Chip/JVM combination; we call these Compatible Configurations as we rely on the compatibility of the underlying JVM. We try to be transparent and we want you to know what we've officially fully tested against, hence the distinction between 'Certified' & 'Compatible' configurations.

IBM Mainframe Support
Are you running your Java application on a mainframe? Looking for an alternative application server? We've supported JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on mainframes as a Compatible Configuration for some time, and now, based on customer requests, we've officially added mainframes to our list of Certified Configurations with IBM System z running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If you're looking for reasons to switch, whether you're a mainframe user or not, we've conveniently listed them for you here .

Are these the only configurations we test? Nope. This isn't our complete list, but it does represent the list we run our full battery of quality, integration and performance tests on for every release. If you're wondering what we test, we cover the topic in this whitepaper about the making of JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Also, Andy Miller, one of our JBoss Engineering VPs, provides detail in this blog post from earlier this year.

If you have configurations that you'd like us to add or are interested in learning more about what tests we run, just let us know by sending a note to jbossquestions@redhat.com .


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JBoss Portal Wins Over Another Developer!

Posted on 2008-08-08 15:02:47.0 by Pierre Fricke [ View original post ]

I couldn't say it better myself. Check out a developer's experience with Liferay V5.1 and JBoss Portal V2.7.
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JBoss Wins InfoWorld Bossie Awards - SOA Platform/ESB and Drools

Posted on 2008-08-04 17:31:17.0 by Pierre Fricke [ View original post ]

Congratulations to the JBoss ESB and Drools teams and communities and the SOA Platform teams overall as well!

Best open source developer tools - Drools - Business Rules Management System .

Best open source plaforms and middleware - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform - ESB .


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Is JBoss really insecure?

Posted on 2008-07-25 22:56:50.0 by Anil Saldhana [ View original post ]

Answer is No. JBoss is as secure as you want it to be.

Well, according to a recent study by Fortify Software (that has been widely reported everywhere in media), Open Source software poses security risks. The report has considered a set of factors to come to their conclusion.

According to Fortify, JBoss scored very well in security aspects (except that we lacked an email address to privately report security vulnerabilities). That is fixed with basically modifying the html of appropriate pages on the web to display the email address.

In a nutshell, if you have a security vulnerability to report to JBoss, then send an email (privacy guaranteed) to (security AT jboss DOT com) or (security AT jboss DOT org).

Continue to read my thoughts here.

References: http://www.jboss.org/security/
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SOA World Magazine - Awards - Please Vote!

Posted on 2008-07-24 09:27:43.0 by Pierre Fricke [ View original post ]

Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise Middleware has entries in these categories:
  • Best App Server
  • Best BPM Engine
  • Best OSS SOA Tool
  • Best Portal Plaform
  • Best SOA Platform
Please vote here!
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Daiwa Securities America Improves Performance and Reduces Costs with JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform

Posted on 2008-07-16 14:12:59.0 by Pierre Fricke [ View original post ]

Daiwa Securities is featured as a JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform and JBoss Rules customer in this Red hat press release. They migrated away from an expensive and inflexible proprietary solution for an internal B2E (employee) portal supporting about 120 applications. In addition to featuring JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform,, JBoss Rules is used as an embedded framework (one of the great strengths of JBoss Rules) to provide intelligent alerts to portal applications. Daiwa Securities mentions an immediate $300,000 savings due to the JBoss enterprise open source subscription model.
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