Mobicents Team released SIP servlet v1.1

Mobicents’ SIP servlet is the first open source certified implementation of the SIP Servlet v1.1 (JSR 289 Spec).

It deploys in Tomcat & JBoss containers and delivers high performances and security.

It fosters innovation and develop interoperability standards between Sip Servlets and JSLEE so that applications may exploit the strengths of both.

Resources:
http://www.dzone.com/links/mobicents_sip_servlets_11_released_.html
http://twitter.com/mobicents/status/6314988576
http://digg.com/software/Mobicents_Sip_Servlets_Mobicents_Sip_Servlets_1_1_released

HornetQ 2.0.0.CR1 is out!

HornetQ 2.0.0.CR1 is a candidate release for the forthcoming HornetQ 2.0.0.GA release that will be out in a couple of weeks!

Java EE 6 receives official approval and JBoss AS 6.0.0 M1 is out!

It didn’t take long after the EE6 announcement to the JBoss AS team to release this first incarnation.

You can read all about it in Dimitri’s blog or download it right now.

While you wait for the download to finish, I recommend Rich Sharples’ very good Blog on The Evolution of Enterprise Java

AS6 clustering features are now based on mod_cluster. Don’t miss Brian’s blog, if you plan to enable clustering.

Have Fun! and share your feedback on the forums.

JBoss ESB 4.7 released

Kevin Conner and the JBoss ESB Team announced  the next project release of ESB 4.7.

There are many updates to the codebase, including a number of major additions.  The most notable of these are:

• the inclusion of a UDDI 3 registry through the Apache jUDDI project,
• implementation of a new, servlet based, HTTP gateway
• support for SAML tokens
• XPath based routing
• regexp based routing
• an eventing mechanism to monitor the server.

you can download the JBoss ESB release here.

If you are using the JBoss ESB for the first time I recommend to have a look at the quickstarts, they are located under samples/quickstarts/ directory in the distribution. You will save a lot of time as these examples are implementations of the well known Enterprise Integration Patterns and it is very easy to build on top of them.

The JBoss Tools folks created some eclipse plugins that will help you create, debug and deploy these services on the ESB. You can access those here.

If you have already been using JBoss ESB and want to experiment with new features and improvements of 4.7 then I recommend David Ward’s blog entry: Proxying SOAP Web Services in JBossESB 4.7

Have Fun!

Creating JBoss Appliances in the Cloud – reduce cost and complexity and decrease time to market

One of my favorite quotes from the JBoss days back in 2006 was Marc Fleury’s:  “Digital Foundation == (Virtualization + SOA + Web2.0)^OSS”

In this blog, not much words, rather one picture trying to show where we stand since and position JBoss in the cloud and what it means from an IaaS, PaaS and SaaS perspective.

First let’s define cloud. Bob Mc Wirther gave a simple, yet good answer to this:

• OS-level virtualization
• Not “grid” like Google App Engine or Sun Grid Engine
• Virtual Hardware + OS and we built-up from there

Everyone has their own definition or opinion on what a cloud is. Often people sees it as 3 layers or levels of abstraction:

• IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service), then
• PaaS (Platform As A Service) and then way up high, we have
• SaaS (Software As A Service).

Now to the picture:

IaaS is where Red Hat’s Virtualization RHEV lives, PaaS is where JBoss Offering lives, SaaS is where ISV’s service lives

Note: JBoss on Amazon EC2 (in the cloud), just completed the Beta program. GA offering would be by January.

If you want to find out more, please check the references below:

•http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/redhat/

•http://www.redhat.com/solutions/cloud/

•http://biztech2.in.com/india/news/open-source/red-hat-jboss-platform-to-be-available-on-amazon-ec2/28081/0

•http://www.jboss.org/stormgrind

The GateIn team released 3.0.0-Beta03!

Since the announcement of the GateIn project at JBoss World 2009 in Chicago, the folks from Exo and JBoss Portal have been working actively at building the next foundation of the JBoss Portal Platform.

Come and get it!
It’s deployed in Maven:
Here: http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/exoplatform/portal/
and here: http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/org/gatein/

And the packages are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/files/GateIn/Portal/3.0.0-Beta03

Allianz will save more than $500,000 in middleware licensing costs as it moves from WebSphere to JBoss.

This week’s great announcement revolves around Allianz’s $1M saving going Open-Source. The theaustralian.com.au article not only mention huge cost reductions by moving to Linux, but Alllianz’s substential savings are also coming from their move from IBM’s Websphere Application Server to JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Encouraged by the economic conditions and the growing mindshare around middleware Opensource, we see this trend accelerating accross the world and especially in Asia/Pacific, Japan.

There is 2 ways to start a migration to JBoss middleware.

1. Outsource – Contact our experts and services team, they offer migration assessment and pilot services
2. DIY – JBoss is contributing back the tools and methodology to assist you when migrating.

Resources: Migration Guide(PDF), JBoss Migration assistance project

If you want to read about success stories in your region or your industry, please check Red Hat Success Stories here.

JBOSS == JOBSS. Open Source middleware certification

Red Hat APAC just launched a new offer for JBoss Administrators who take the JB336 course this month.

Free JBCAA certification exam if you enroll in the JBoss Administration course in November

This training and certification combination packs quite a punch. JBoss training builds on your existing administration experience so that you can get the most out of your application stack. Having JBCAA certification will give you ability to install, configure, monitor, ..

Now, don’t wait, go online to benefit from this promotion!

 

Already 2 Quarters in APAC/Japan

This week JBoss will close its 2nd FY10 Quarter here in Asia Pacific / Japan. The Opensource wave is growing stronger daya by day in this region and no wonder why I haven’t been blogging . I have been busy meeting with the community, our partners, customers accross India, Japan, Australia, China, Korea and Singapore.

Well, I can’t resist any longer, there are too many cool stuff happening at JBoss to keep it quiet. I will be flying to JBoss World, Chicago next week and will blog about what’s new and exciting.

If you missed us or couldn’t attend our booth at Java One, you can visit the booth presentation here.

Before I go, I’d like to mention some important new projects:

• Gert Franz and the Railo Team releaseed the Open Source version of Railo, the fastest CFML OSS engine
• Tim Fox and the messaging team’s new project HornetQ a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.
• Trustin Lee and the remoting team released JBoss Netty 3.1.0 which is used by HornetQ  for the low level socket IO.
• Manik Surtani released Infinispan is a highly scalable platform for distributed data grids in Java.

See you next week.

Finally settling in with the family in Singapore

The last few months have been very busy. The boxes are almost empty, my daughter started in her new school, we are getting used to the heat and humidity and I am getting used to the huge diversity of culture in the APAC/Japan region. This is all so exciting.
Now that we have broadband installed, computer sorted, I can resume blogging about open source and JBoss.