MIDDLEWARE INSIGHT - C2B2 Newsletter Issue 2

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Welcome to the second issue of Middleware Insight – a newsletter that brings you only the most recent, most important and most interesting news from the middleware industry. There have been a lot of things happening lately in the middleware world, especially for Red Hat who have recently announced the release of JBoss EAP 6. Following this announcement, many articles and blog posts about JBoss have been published - you can find the links to the most interesting ones below.   In this issue we also give you an overview of what other vendors are up to; we bring you some interesting posts about Infinispan, present our view on Oracle and Red Hat debate (WebLogic vs JBoss) and remind you about conferences and other events you may want to attend. We hope that you will find this newsletter interesting and informative. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions – please do not hesitate to contact us at info@c2b2.co.uk Many thanks C2B2 Consulting Team JBOSS & RED HAT   JBoss EAP 6 Interview with Mark Little, JBoss CTO - read more  JBoss EAP 6 as light as Raspberry PI? See the article  C2B2 run a series of live webinars about JBoss EAP 6, you can now have a look at the recordings:  JBoss EAP6 First Look  & JBoss EAP6 Domain Mode Features  Red Hat Summit & JBoss World Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 took place in Boston between 26th and 29th of June. To see the information about the events including keynotes, presentations and gallery click here   For the JudCon Boston 2012 presentations and event gallery visit JBoss website . You can also readthe report from the event written by Mark Addy, C2B2 Senior Consultant, who presented at JUDCon this year.  Other JBoss/Red Hat News: Apache Camel celebrates 5 years in development with 2.10 release - find out more JBoss Tools 3.3 and Developer Studio 5.0 final releases are now available - find out more There's been a lot of articles published about Red Hat's recent acquisition of  Fuse Source:  The Register: Red Hat snaps up open source SOAer FuseSource  SearchSOA: Red Hat buys FuseSource to gain added application integration skills and tools  Steve Millidge, C2B2 Director, also expressed his view on the Red Hat's Fuse Source acquisition in the blog post  Infinispan: The last two months brought us some interesting news and posts and about Infinispan: Infinispan 5.1.5 goes FINAL! Read more Infinispan Event push over Tomcat Websocket via HornetQ: read the blog post here Mark Addy presented his talk about Infinispan at JUDCon Boston in June, you can have a look at his presentation here  ORACLE Oracle is getting ready for JavaOne 2012 - the conference will take place between 30th of September and 4th of October in San Francisco  The company has also announced the Java Embedded conference that will run at JavaOne 2012 - more information can be found in the press release  C2B2 Director - Steve Millidge and Senior Consultant Nick Wright will be speaking at JavaOne 2012 - you can find more information about their talks on our blog  In June Oracle released the Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory, find out more on the Oracle website  The article Introducing Groovy by Jim Driscoll, published in July, can help you master the basics of Groovy, a general-purpose scripting language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) - see here  Oracle has recently published a blog post about why you should choose WebLogic 12c instead of JBoss EAP 6. We did not have to wait long for JBoss to respond - see the post here. The articles make a very interesting reading - Matt Brasier, C2B2 Head of Consultancy, expert in both WebLogic and JBoss expressed his view on this debate - see our blog to read more.  VMWARE RabbitMQ gets significant upgrade from VMware - find out more on Jaxenter website   VMware Explains Em4J - Get More Java Apps Per Server ,read more here  Beth Brown's post, published on the vFabric Blog, gives you an overview of the 10 features of an Agile App Platform - click here to find out more  IBM WebSphere Application Server V8.5 - including the lightweight Liberty Profile - became generally available in June, read more at the WASdev website and Web Age Dev Zone blog OPEN SOURCE GlassFish Server 3.1.2.2 is Now Available - find out more  SpringSource founder Rod Johnson leaves after a decade at the helm - read the article here   EVENTS  London JBoss User Group next meetup announced - 22nd of August 'JBoss EAP 6 - JBoss for the enterprise' by Matt Brasier, click here to find out more and register  Data Grids Explained - free hands-on technical workshop by C2B2 - 4th of September - London -register here  VMworld 2012 - San Francisco (August) and Barcelona (October) - register here  SOA, Cloud Computing & Service Technology Symposium - C2B2 is speaking! - London (September) -register here  JavaOne 2012 -San Francisco (September & October) - C2B2 is speaking! - register here  Jax 2012 - London (October) - C2B2 is speaking! - register here  SpringOne 2GX 2012 - Washington (October) - register here   Devoxx 2012 - Antwerp, Belgium (November) - register  here  UK Oracle User Group Conference - Birmingham (December) - C2B2 is speaking! - register here