With so many Java developers enjoying their Mac OS X machines, JBoss Developer Studio is now available for Mac OS X. Product Manager Bryan Che writes:
… now you can get all the benefits of fantastic certified tools and an integrated JBoss Enterprise Application Platform with native Mac support. Many JBoss developers use Macs, and we know that many in our community use Macs, so we’re excited to make this available. And, of course, if you’re a Windows or Linux user, JBoss Developer Studio has been available for those platforms as well.
Bryan also explains why this release only supports Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.x until the next update:
… due to an issue in Eclipse, we are only supporting JBoss Developer Studio on Mac OS Tiger 10.4.x and earlier right now. There is a workaround available for Leopard, but this isn’t a supported configuration. We’ll add formal Leopard support in our next update.
RichFaces 3.2.0.GA is out, requiring JSF 1.2 and JDK 5.0 or above. A demo of new components is available, and the announcement includes a list of the new components, including Combo Box, Progress Bar, File Upload, and Pick List. Enhancements include DataTable Sorting, DataTable Filter, and standard component skinning.
The candidate release 2 of the JBoss Portlet Container project is available. This completes the first milestone for JBoss Portal 2.7, as Project Lead Julien Viet details. Following this, the 2.7 work is focused on integrating the controller module of the JBoss Portlet Container and providing a “JSR 286 Portlet runtime meta data overview through the administration portlet.” The project’s main JIRA page has a roadmap for 2.7.
In reference to the Portlet CR2, Julien writes:
Since the candidate release 1 we added an administration portlet that can manage the life cycle of the deployed applications and containers.
We have also added a very useful event debugger that can help developers to understand the event flow distributed among the different portlets during the interactions an event phase.
Mark Proctor at JBoss World on video talking about how Drools/JBoss Rules fits in to the SOA infrastructure handling business logic. While covering a lot of basics and ground, Mark provides a vision of a fully integrated and tooled platform that includes authoring, service side management, deployment, and a runtime:
Download this video: [Ogg Theora]
(Updated to include more details about the JBoss Portal 2.7 status.)
This morning I attended Thomas Huete’s introduction to JBoss Portal while capturing the full audio of Mark Proctor giving an Introduction to JBoss Drools and the Business Rules Management System (BRMS). Then before the morning break I sat in and captured Introduction to Web Services by Heiko Braun.
In general, the sessions continue to follow a similar format. Full room, interested attendees, and questions regarding their real world situations. Lot’s of usage of JBoss Tools/JBoss Developer Studio for demonstrations. Speakers who really know their subject material, pulling together really great presentations, with real learning. Let’s not talk about the technical difficulties, m’kay?
During Heiko’s talk on web services, I took some notes that I’ll post here. (Any mistakes are my error or ignorance.) Later, when the audio and slides are available, this session will be one of a handful that we post the full audio. I’m very interested in how useful these full audio sessions are to you all. For one thing, that helps me in planning for future JBoss Worlds, knowing what you are interested in and what to skip.
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