MIDDLEWARE INSIGHT - C2B2 Newsletter Issue 3

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Dear Middleware User, Welcome to the third issue of Middleware Insight – a newsletter that brings you only the most recent, most important and most interesting news from the middleware industry. The last few weeks were all about the conferences – JavaOne 2012, Oracle Open World and VMworld – have a look at the selection of news we picked for you to find out more about most important announcements, keynotes and presentations. The next few weeks are also bringing us a number of other important events including JaxLondon, Devoxx and UKOUG Conference . In this issue we give you the usual general overview of what vendors are up to; we bring you some interesting posts about the new Red Hat’s strategy and plans for JBoss AS, new Apache TomEE release, in-memory data grids and the ‘big data’ hype. If you have any questions, feedback or suggestions about the newsletter – please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@c2b2.co.uk Many thanks, C2B2 Consulting Team JBOSS & RED HAT Red Hat’s new technology strategy and next steps for JBoss AS Red Hat CEO emphasizes middleware, storage and cloud opportunities as revenues continue to grow - read more on Datamation Red Hat embraces evolution in cloud, emerging trends, and NoSQL collaboration with 10gen,read more here  Red Hat's Next Steps for JBoss App Server – read the article by Steve Yi  JBoss AS is going to get a new name - the community is encouraged to submit name suggestions, voting starts on the 21st of October: for more details read the article by Elliot Bentley on Jaxenter website  ; to submit the name idea and to vote go to JBoss.org  Red Hat & SwitchYard Red Hat makes a switch: SwitchYard project to replace JBoss ESB – read more on TechTarget and The Server Side  Red Hat & Polymita Red Hat builds in more business process management functionality into its JBoss middleware after it purchased Spanish software company Polymita's platform. Find out more on ZDNet andBusinessWire  Other JBoss & Red Hat News New RHQ 4.5.1 has been released on the 4th of October – see here  Manik Surtani and Francesco Marchioni introduce the Infinispan Data Grid Platform and show how you can configure and develop applications using Infinispan API on a JBoss AS 7 server:read the article here  ‘JBoss EAP 6– JBoss for the Enterprise’: Matt Brasier’s presentation from the August London JBUG is now available online  ORACLE Oracle Open World Highlights – click here  Videos – click here Keynotes – click here  On the first day of the conference Oracle CEO Larry Ellison announced that Oracle is now in the cloud infrastructure business, both public and private – find out more  Other Oracle News Oracle introduced The Make the Future Java Program – the initiative to inspire future technologists to learn more about Java and the opportunities it brings. The program offers resources and promotional items you can use for Java outreach within your local community – find out more on the official website  Marina Vatkina’s blog lists a number of changes in the latest EJB 3.2 draft   On the 25th of September Oracle announced Oracle Java Embedded Suite 7.0: a new, packaged offering that facilitates creating applications across a wide range of systems – find out more  Security Alert for CVE-2012-4681 - release here  Oracle made a free, cut-down version of their Java EE based Application Development Framework (ADF) available to download, find out more  Do Coherence Aggregators Failover? - read the blog post by Mark Addy on C2B2 Blog  VMWARE VMworld 2012 Europe  Day 1 Highlights - see here   Day 2 Highlights - see here  Day 3 Highlights - see here   Online sessions - see here  VMware Directory – see here   Heterogeneous Cloud Management – see here   Other news by VMware 5 Ways IT Benefits from The New Cloud Operating Model – read the blog post by the vFabric team  OPEN SOURCE Apache TomEE refined with 1.5 release, read more on Jaxenter  and C2B2 Blog  50 Tips in 50 Minutes for GlassFish Fans - read the wiki here  Java EE Security in practice with Java EE 6 and GlassFish – see the video here  The Decline of Spring? – read the blog post by Vineet Sinha  Could Cassandra be the first breakout NoSQL database? Read Chris Mayer’s article  New ActiveMQ Failover and Clustering Goodies – read Dejan Bosanac’s brief recap of what’s coming in 5.6 release  ‘Programming WebSockets with GlassFish and Grizzly’ – JavaOne 2012 tutorial and code by Steve Millidge are now available online  JAVA JavaOne 2012 SearchSOA - JavaOne conference coverage 2012  The voice of JavaOne? Simplicity! – read the article on The Server Side  C2B2 Director Steve Millidge and Senior Consultant Nick Wright presented at JavaOne 2012 – you can read their thoughts on the conference on C2B2 blog  ‘Martijn Verburg: The worst advice ever spoken at JavaOne’ : read the article by Cameron McKenzie and have a look at the comments to see Martijn’s and other readers’ responses  JavaOne 2012: Improving ALM workflow with automation in Oracle PaaS  - watch the video here  Other Java News Oracle pushes cloud features back to Java EE 8 - find out more Hinkmond Wong & Gary Collins of Oracle introduce you to developing for the Raspberry Pi using Java Embedded technology – watch the video here  Raw Power – Understanding the Tools That Come with the JVM – see the C2B2 technicalwebinar recording here  Understanding the internals of the JVM can help you write better applications, find faults, and fix them faster. Matt Brasier’s post on the C2B2 blog is covering key aspects of the Java Virtual Machine  Java University snapshot: Achieve service elasticity with IaaS - As a part of TheServerSide.com's Java University, C2B2 Director Steve Millidge discussed service elasticity, how to perceive it and how to achieve it – read the article on SearchSOA website  DATA GRIDS In memory data grid (IMDG) vendors chase 'big data' – read more on The Server Side  ‘In memory data grids put NoSQL to shame when you look at the majority of customers’ – read the article by Nikita Ivanov  EVENTS  JaxLondon – C2B2 is speaking - 15-17 October 2012 - find out more  JBUG London – ‘Arquillian: Integration Testing Made Easy’, 24th October – find out more and register here  Devoxx – C2B2 is speaking – 12-16 November – find out more and register here , you can also read the Devoxx Newsletter  UKOUG Conference – C2B2 is speaking – 3-5 December – find out more and register here  C2B2 is running a series of monitoring and troubleshooting webinars in November; covering JBoss, vFabric, Spring Insight, Oracle Weblogic and JRockit Mission Control – find out more and register here