Latest Packt Publishing Java EE 7 books are all around performance and tuning. I had the pleasure to review another book, the " Java EE 7 Performance Tuning and Optimization " by Osama Oransa. Abstract With the expansion of online enterprise s…
Continue ReadingIn one of my last posts I explained how you get started with SwitchYard on WildFly 8.1. In the meantime the project was busy and released another Alpha2. A very good opportunity to explore the quickstarts here and refresh your memory about it. Beside the vers…

In my evening hours I had the chance to talk to Jeff Genender ( @jgenender ) which resulted in a new episode of my developer interviews. We talked about all things Apache and integration and also a bit about Java EE and microservices and what today's cust…
Continue ReadingRed Hat, Inc.today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire FeedHenry , a leading enterprise mobile application platform provider. This will expand Red Hat’s portfolio of application development, integration, and Platform-as-a-Service (P…

Everybody heard the news probably. The first WildFly 9.0.0.Alpha1 release came out Monday. You can download it from the wildfly.org website The biggest changes are that it is built by a new feature provisioning tool which is layered on the now separate core …
Continue ReadingJBoss Fuse combines several technologies like core Enterprise Service Bus capabilities (based on Apache Camel, Apache CXF, Apache ActiveMQ), Apache Karaf and Fabric8 in a single integrated distribution. The best part is, that no matter what your skill level…

I gave a brief introduction about the Overlord project family yesterday. Today it's time to test-drive a bit. The API Management sub-project released a 1.0.0.Alpha1 two days ago and introduces the first set of features according to the 18-Month roadmap . …
Continue ReadingWe're living in a more and more distributed world today. Instead of having individual, departmental projects running on some hardware below a random desk, today's computer systems run at large scale, centralized or even distributed. The needs for moni…
Continue ReadingAlready the fourth edition of my pod- and screencast crossover. Today it was Red Hatter Stan Lewis ( @gashcrumb ) who took some time to talk about his work and about the hot web-console which is the new front-end for all things JBoss Fabric8 / Fuse . He is a …
Continue ReadingThis is another blog the ongoing series about the Red Hat xPaaS solutions, where I am trying to demystify the acronyms a bit and give you more information about the projects and products composed around it. After the initial overview this post focuses on th…

I recently came across KeyBox . This is a Apache licensed SSH console for applications in an OpenShift Domain. The cool thing is, that it is completely web-based. And by far cooler: The client is completely written in JavaScript (using term.js ) connecting to…
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