It has been an amazing year for me. With 31 trips to 13 countries and a total of 110k miles traveled, I have seen a lot of places and spoken at many conferences and user groups. I had the pleasure to talk to many many people and learned a lot about technolo…
Continue ReadingNow, that the beta of latest Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform7 is out, it is about time to explore the available Java EE 7 quickstarts and deploy your first application with JBoss Developer Studio (JDBS). The quickstarts demonstrate JBoss EA…
Continue ReadingThis is the second part in my little Java EE 7 refresher series. After a first introduction with a brief overview, I decided to ask Arjan Tijms to write about his favorite new backend features in Java EE 7. You will know Arjan if you're following the …
Continue ReadingA little over a month after we made the alpha version available , the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 Beta - Early Access was released last Friday. For a complete list of new features, refer to my older blog-post and the official release-…
Continue ReadingJust a few days ago I had the chance to give a webcast with O'Reilly . This webcast is now available on demand and you can watch it for free after registration. Java EE Architectures - Evolving the Monolith With the ascent of DevOps, microservices, c…

You can create and manage OpenShift applications in Eclipse with the latest version of the OpenShift Plugin for JBoss Tools. They are either pre-bundled with the latest JBoss Developer Studio (9.0.0.GA) or you can install them into an existing Eclipse Mars.…
Continue ReadingJust a short information about an interview I did with Daniel Bryiant at Devoxx Belgium. We set together and talked about the recent microservices hype and how enterprises will be able to adopt it. This interview touches some basics from my recent O'Rei…

As the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (EAP 7) is looming on the horizon and even the WebLogic server just recently got Java EE 7 certified, I thought it might be about time to give you a little refresher about the Java Enterprise Edition 7 fe…
Continue ReadingJust a couple of days ago, the new JBoss EAP 7 ALPHA version was released. And I already blogged about how to get started with it . One very interesting part is the HTTP/2 support which has been added as a technical preview. It is provided by the new webser…
Continue ReadingRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP 7) is a middleware platform built on open standards and compliant with the Java Enterprise Edition 7 specification. Built on top of innovative and proven open source technologies like WildFly, it will…

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP 7) is a middleware platform built on open standards and compliant with the Java Enterprise Edition 7 specification. It integrates WildFly Application Server 10 with high-availability clustering, mes…
Continue ReadingIt is Devoxx Belgium time! Finally. Everything kicks off today with the University Sessions and the conference itself starts tomorrow morning. We're all pretty excited, as this is the major event in Europe. And Red Hat is proud to be a sponsor again th…
Continue ReadingØredev is just a couple of days away, and I was invited to give two presentations. One of them is about my favorite topic: Security and Java EE. It is designed to fulfill two goals. On the one side to introduce the typical Java EE developer to the overall …
Continue ReadingI got off the stage at WJAX in Munch just a couple of minutes ago. And while my co-worker Jan was talking about this amazing customer success story AMADEUS , I had the pleasure to base his thoughts and ideas a bit and talk about how DevOps can be done with Op…

JavaOne has been a blast for all of us. The biggest community gathering for all Java ecosystem enthusiasts. And there's been a lot of networking plus great content. Red Hat had a packed schedule for the mini theater sessions on the booth and I wanted to…
