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