If You Missed JBoss World

Well, if you missed JBoss World, we now have a very nice video of one of the best keynotes ever at JBoss World.  It shows some of the innovation we are driving.

JBoss World 2011 Keynote

Check it out and enjoy!

Java Application Server Survey

Just wanted to pass along a survey that we are doing, on which Java Application Servers you are using.

Java Application Server Survey

Its should only take a small amount of your time.  It would be great to get a really big sample!

JBoss World Coming Soon!

As many of you know, we have an annual conference called JBoss World.  For the last couple of years this has been jointly held with Red Hat Summit.  Well, this is right around the corner, and if you haven't considered attending, then you should check it out.  Here is the link to the main site with all the information on sessions, speakers, etc.

JBoss World & Red Hat Summit 

Each year the show has grown, and its always a good time, with a lot of things to learn about.  As usual, I will be giving a performance oriented talk.  In past years, I have struggled to get in all the material I want to discuss, so we have made some changes.

First, I will be co-presenting with Bill DeCoste, who is currently a solutions architect within the middle-ware business unit.  Bill has been a long time JBossian and developer, and he will be discussing his experience with helping clients to prune, trim and slim down their JBoss EAP implementation, which helps things like management as well as performance.  I will discuss performance tuning, as I have for the last four years now.  Like always though, there are new things for us to discuss, as I have spent several months doing tests on lots of settings within the middle-ware and JVM.

The results of all of that work is not only a new presentation to give at JBoss World, but a new performance tuning guide, which will soon be a standard part of all EAP subscriptions!  I'm really excited about that, and all the new things I'm going to be able to talk about.

Well, you might be thinking, especially if you have attended my performance talk in the past, well, how are we going to cover all this new material in 50 minutes?

That's the other thing that we have changed.  We have a slot for an hour and a half this year, and in one of the larger rooms, so we can accommodate more people than we have in the past.  It's going to be great, because we will finally have time to have a good Q&A session, which tended to happen for long after the presentation time was over in past years.

So, if your interested, and who isn't interested in getting the best performance from their applications, come to JBoss World!  Here is the link to register:

Register for JBoss World/Red Hat Summit

See you there!

Hiring for the Performance Team

I just wanted everyone to know that inside the middle-ware business unit, JBoss, we have been building a performance team.  This team works upstream on projects, and on the products themselves as well, and our specific goal is to improve performance noticeably on our offerings.  Besides improving performance, we have internal goals on publishing industry standard benchmarks.

So, if you know how to build Java EE applications (necessary to work on industry standard benchmarks), and you have good experience with performance tuning Java code, at all levels, then were interested in having you join.  The following is a link to the job posting, where you can apply for the opening:

https://careers.redhat.com/ext/detail?redhat7016

Now, the posting says the location is London, Colorado, which is just a weird artifact of how the postings are generated, and doesn't even exist.  Basically, we will hire almost anywhere in the world, so you can safely ignore the location information on the posting.

So, if your interested in a team that is doing some amazing work, apply on-line!

Java EE 6 Webinar

If my last post regarding EE 6 and frameworks like Spring peaked your interest, Red Hat is having a webinar on EE 6 that you would be interested in.

Here is the landing page for our position on EE 6, and links to the webinar are on the right.


Java EE 6 for Standards Based Simplicity

For a short-cut here is a link where you can directly register for the webinar:

Java EE 6 Webinar - Java EE 6 and CDI: Moving away from clutter of Spring and other frameworks!

I think you will find this webinar informative and a must for moving to the future.

Enjoy!

Java EE 6 and Frameworks like Spring

It's been a while since I posted.  It's been very busy in my new role.  Today, I came across this TSS thread, and thought I would share it:

Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over

Here is also a direct link to the migration article referenced in the TSS thread:

Spring to Java EE – A Migration Experience

I found the article both intriguing, and informative.  The work that Red Hat has done with JSR-299, the CDI reference implementation is really becoming a water shed moment for enterprise developers.  Instead of having to work around all the anti-patterns and missing pieces of Java EE, you can now count on what you need being there, and a completely extensible model for development!

There is no longer a need for external frameworks to make your life easier.  That's indeed good news!

Announcing the JBoss Community Andiamo Social Group!

In my relatively new role within the middleware business unit of Red Hat (JBoss of course), I am in charge of coordinating/driving our usability efforts.  In that vein we have created a social group on the JBoss community site.

This new group, is a place for us to gather feedback, discuss pain points that you might have, talk about our progress and our goals.

It's just starting, although the Andiamo, or usability efforts, have been under way for awhile now. If your interested in usability of our middleware, whether from a developer or operational perspective, please join the group and contribute.  Any feedback is great, positive or negative.  Let's us know what you think, and where we need to improve!

The link to the community social group is as follows:

http://community.jboss.org/groups/usability