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At JavaOne in May 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.
At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun announced that the work was largely completed and so OpenJDK was launched. What was less newsworthy was the fact that on release - OpenJDK still relied on code that was encumbered - between four and five percent of the code was closed, non free source that Sun didn’t own.
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This morning, we announced that the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform has become the first supported Java application server available on Amazon EC2, joining Red Hat
Enterprise Linux.
While we’re excited to offer the first cloud-based Java application server, the real value of the announcement lies in the wide variety of customer uses and benefits that it can generate. Developers, enterprises and startups can now use JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Amazon EC2 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux for their Java applications when they need:
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JBoss.org recently announced the release of Seam 2.0.2.GA, the latest generation of the JBoss Seam 2 project. The first iteration of Seam 2 launched in November 2007, and has seen over 70,000 downloads since then. You can download the newest release here.
Seam is an application framework used to build next-generation Web 2.0 applications and is designed to eliminate complexity. Seam is the open source community project, based at JBoss.org. It feeds the JBoss Seam Framework, a fully integrated and supported component of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
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JBoss Seam is an application framework that is used by our customers to build next-generation Web 2.0 applications and is designed to eliminate complexity. JBoss Seam, along with JBoss Hibernate, is one of the many fully integrated and supported components in our JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.
Recently, JBoss Seam was recognized by The Great Indian Developer Awards as a finalist in the “Frameworks – Libraries, Components and Frameworks” category. The Awards, which include 15 varied categories, will announce the winners during the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008 in Bangalore, India, taking place May 19-23.
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The JBoss DNA project is building an enterprise repository to capture, version, manage and understand the numerous kinds of metadata used in software systems.
Why an enterprise repository? Plain and simple: there’s so much information and metadata going into software systems that it’s difficult to get a handle on exactly it and to understand what it means for the system. What components, services, schemas, data sources, policies, and subsystems do I have? What are the relationships between them? How does my production system differ from my development and test environment? What’s the impact of a proposed change? How has the system changed over time? What do I need to know to manage and govern the system?
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Red Hat was recently among the select companies that Forrester Research invited to participate in its Q1 2008, Forrester Wave Report, Information-As-A-Service. In its evaluation, Forrester recognized Red Hat as a leader in IaaS, citing MetaMatrix as an asset to the company.
From the report:
“Red Hat: Strong offering and good momentum. Last year, Red Hat acquired the assets of MetaMatrix, which was already a key IaaS player. Red Hat is aiming to deliver a comprehensive IaaS solution that can meet all possible use cases. MetaMatrix has in the past executed an effective IaaS strategy, which is why it already has credible customer deployments that span various industries, including financial services, telecommunications, government and retail.”
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On Tuesday January 8, our awesome JBoss development team released JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.3. Kudos to the entire team for another great effort!
JBoss EAP 4.3 was a customer-driven release. The top two requests from our JBoss EAP 4.2 customers were to upgrade our messaging and web services technologies, and the team delivered. JBoss Messaging provides a high-performance messaging infrastructure and is a fantastic upgrade over the prior JBossMQ component. While JBossMQ has served us well over the past few years, JBoss Messaging is now the messaging architecture for JBoss EAP 4.3, 5.0 and beyond. JBoss Web Services now fully supports JAX-WS which will really satisfy many of our customers. This also further rounds out our Java EE 5 capabilities.
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Contribution by Bryan Che, Product Manager at Red Hat
We’re pleased to announce today the general availability of JBoss Developer Studio 1.0 for Windows and Linux. JBoss Developer Studio provides a certified open source development environment that includes and integrates:
Developer Studio provides a host of powerful features, such as Seam tools, powerful Ajax capabilities, a Visual Page Editor with WYSIWYG editing of JSF pages and RichFaces Ajax components, robust Hibernate capabilities and much more.
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Red Hat has always supported Sun’s efforts to build an open source community around Java. We helped start the IcedTea project earlier this year, and we’re excited to see its inclusion in Fedora 8, available soon.
Today, we made our support a little more official, by signing Sun’s broad contributor agreement that covers participation in all Sun-sponsored open source projects by all Red Hat engineers. We’re excited, and looks like Sun’s Mark Reinhold, Simon Phipps and Barton George are too.
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This week is important for the JBoss division. We’ve released our first Enterprise Platform. A few months back, we blogged about how we had decided to split our release work into two “branches”: the JBoss.org releases (i.e. JBoss as you always knew it) and the Enterprise releases (the only ones we will sell support for).
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