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- <td
class="pageheader"><b>Current News</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader"><b>December 11
- December 17 2000: ZOAP, Documentation, JMX Services</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>caca prout</b>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader"><b>December 11
- December 17 2000: ZOAP, Documentation, JMX Services</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>caca prout</b>
- <tr>
-
- <td class="newsheader"><b>December 25-
December 31 2000: JBossMQ 0.8, EJB 2.0 MDB, Documentation</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
-
- <p><b>JBossMQ 0.8 released:</b> Under Hiram
Chirino leadership, JBossMQ is reaching API compliance. With the ASF in place, with
few JMS 1.0.2 features needed, 1.0 version is just around the corner.
- <p><b>EJB 2.0 Message Driven Beans
fully supported</b> MDB is now fully supported in JBoss. Thanks to the ASF
implementation in JBossMQ, Peter Antman finished this EJB 2.0 feature, bringing JBoss
a step closer to 2.0 compliance. Open Source Works and Peter earns stripes.
- <p><b>Documentation</b> MDB is
now fully supported in JBoss. Thanks to the ASF implementation in JBossMQ, Peter
Antman finished this EJB 2.0 feature, bringing JBoss a step closer to 2.0 compliance.
Open Source Works and Peter earns stripes.
-
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>December 18 - December 24 2000: Monitoring, Dumbo, ASF</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>Monitoring in JBoss: </b> Monitoring in
JBoss is now a interceptor in the core container. JBoss comes with advanced capacities
to monitor the usage of a particular container. Using JMS, these facilities publish
their statistics for you to monitor. Simone Bordet and Juha Lindfors lead the way
- <p><b>The Dumbo problem:</b> Dr Jung raises an
interesting problems and has the developers community up in arms. The problem of
deployment of very large application is addressed on jboss-dev. No one in the
industry knows how to do this. JBoss-dev proves it is a research grade list.
- <p><b>Application Server Facilities:</b> ASF
was needed by the Message Driven Beans and it is now integrated into JMS under the
impulse of Hiram Chirino. Work is going on and a final version expected soon.
- <p><b><font face="Times New
Roman, Times, serif">Oh yeah... and a merry Xp-mass to you too </font></b>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader"><b>December 11
- December 17 2000: ZOAP, Documentation, JMX Services</b></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>ZOAP:</b> A new version
of the SOAP protocol in CVS, courtesy of Dr Jung and the folks at infor.
- <p><b>Documentation:</b>
Pinto, Vladimir and others tackle the "DocBook" problem and work on updating the
documentation with the latest CVS and all in an easy docbook format so we can ship a
book at once. Please help them with this effort if you have some time.
- <p><b>JMX and deployer:</b>
A new Deployer and series of JMX services are being discussed. The management of JBoss
is built from the ground up on JMX and will closely follow the famous group 77
specification from SUN ("J2EE administration").
-
-
- <tr>
-
- <td class="newsheader"><b>December 4 -
December 10 2000:Configuration, Caches, JB vs WL 1:0, J2EE too much?</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>Configuration:</b> We
streamline the configuration of JBoss and unify the JMX administration as well as the
service configuration. It is all in one big file now and the server is easier than
ever to configure for your particular needs.
- <p><b>Caches:</b> Simone puts
some work behind the cache and the lock implementation. Fast and stable in CVS now.
Coming with JBoss 2.1.
- <p><b>Documentation:</b>
Pinto, Vladimir and others tackle the "DocBook" problem and work on updating the
documentation with the latest CVS and all in an easy docbook format so we can ship a
book at once. Please help them with this effort if you have some time.
- <p><b>1:0:</b> JBoss beats
WebLogic in a users evaluation. A lenghty discussion follows on the relative merits
of both servers and of OpenSource and Proprietary server infrastructure.
- <p><b>J2EE too much?:</b>
Flame wars is what keeps us alive! Someone posts "is J2EE too much" and a good
technology discussion starts on jboss-user. Get your flame vest and join the fun.
-
-
- <tr>
-
- <td class="newsheader"><b>November 27 -
December 3 2000: Press, Benchmark, IRC</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>Press:</b> The success
of JBoss reaches the ears of the press. JBoss gets coverage in many publications as
our FINAL version is out. Check out the Press and Testimonials page.
-
+
+ <table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td class="pageheader"><b>Current News</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>December 25- December 31 2000: JBossMQ 0.8,
+ EJB 2.0 MDB, Documentation</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody">
+ <p><b>JBossMQ 0.8 released:</b> Under Hiram Chirino leadership, JBossMQ
+ is reaching API compliance. With the ASF in place, with few JMS
+ 1.0.2 features needed, 1.0 version is just around the corner.
+ <p><b>EJB 2.0 Message Driven Beans fully supported</b> MDB is now
+ fully supported in JBoss. Thanks to the ASF implementation in
JBossMQ,
+ Peter Antman finished this EJB 2.0 feature, bringing JBoss a step
+ closer to 2.0 compliance. Open Source Works and Peter earns stripes.
+ <p><b>Documentation</b> MDB is now fully supported in JBoss. Thanks
+ to the ASF implementation in JBossMQ, Peter Antman finished this
+ EJB 2.0 feature, bringing JBoss a step closer to 2.0 compliance.
+ Open Source Works and Peter earns stripes.
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>December 18 - December 24 2000: Monitoring,
+ Dumbo, ASF</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody">
+ <p><b>Monitoring in JBoss: </b> Monitoring in JBoss is now a
interceptor
+ in the core container. JBoss comes with advanced capacities to
monitor
+ the usage of a particular container. Using JMS, these facilities
+ publish their statistics for you to monitor. Simone Bordet and Juha
+ Lindfors lead the way
+ <p><b>The Dumbo problem:</b> Dr Jung raises an interesting problems
+ and has the developers community up in arms. The problem of
deployment
+ of very large application is addressed on jboss-dev. No one in the
+ industry knows how to do this. JBoss-dev proves it is a research
+ grade list.
+ <p><b>Application Server Facilities:</b> ASF was needed by the Message
+ Driven Beans and it is now integrated into JMS under the impulse
+ of Hiram Chirino. Work is going on and a final version expected
+ soon.
+ <p><b><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Oh yeah... and a
+ merry Xp-mass to you too </font></b>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>December 11 - December 17 2000: ZOAP,
Documentation,
+ JMX Services</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody">
+ <p><b>ZOAP:</b> A new version of the SOAP protocol in CVS, courtesy
+ of Dr Jung and the folks at infor.
+ <p><b>Documentation:</b> Pinto, Vladimir and others tackle the
"DocBook"
+ problem and work on updating the documentation with the latest CVS
+ and all in an easy docbook format so we can ship a book at once.
+ Please help them with this effort if you have some time.
+ <p><b>JMX and deployer:</b> A new Deployer and series of JMX services
+ are being discussed. The management of JBoss is built from the ground
+ up on JMX and will closely follow the famous group 77 specification
+ from SUN ("J2EE administration").
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>December 4 - December 10 2000:Configuration,
+ Caches, JB vs WL 1:0, J2EE too much?</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody">
+ <p><b>Configuration:</b> We streamline the configuration of JBoss
+ and unify the JMX administration as well as the service
configuration.
+ It is all in one big file now and the server is easier than ever
+ to configure for your particular needs.
+ <p><b>Caches:</b> Simone puts some work behind the cache and the lock
+ implementation. Fast and stable in CVS now. Coming with JBoss 2.1.
+ <p><b>Documentation:</b> Pinto, Vladimir and others tackle the
"DocBook"
+ problem and work on updating the documentation with the latest CVS
+ and all in an easy docbook format so we can ship a book at once.
+ Please help them with this effort if you have some time.
+ <p><b>1:0:</b> JBoss beats WebLogic in a users evaluation. A lenghty
+ discussion follows on the relative merits of both servers and of
+ OpenSource and Proprietary server infrastructure.
+ <p><b>J2EE too much?:</b> Flame wars is what keeps us alive! Someone
+ posts "is J2EE too much" and a good technology discussion starts
+ on jboss-user. Get your flame vest and join the fun.
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>November 27 - December 3 2000: Press,
Benchmark,
+ IRC</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody">
+ <p><b>Press:</b> The success of JBoss reaches the ears of the press.
+ JBoss gets coverage in many publications as our FINAL version is
+ out. Check out the Press and Testimonials page.
<p><b>Benchmarks:</b> We bench JBoss on various configurations. JBoss
can take 2000 clients without problems on small PCs with windows
- 2000.
+ 2000.
<p><b>IRC #jboss.org:</b> So JBoss works 24/7 all around the world.
The army of developers now has an IRC chat channel to spend more
time on and talk real time with each other. The channel can be found
at #jboss.org on IRC. Refer to the lists page for more information.
Thanks you to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for setting it up
and hosting it. We appreciate it Markus!
- <tr>
-
-
+ <tr>
<td class="newsheader"><b>November 20 - November 26 2000: WebWorks,
MessageBeans, TheServerSide, "One for JBoss"</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <p><b>WebWorks:</b> Rickard
puts up "webworks" on sourceforge. Go help him develop the web publishing
framework
- <p><b>Message Beans:</b> EJB2.0 compliance is
in the wings right on the heels of the FINAL release. Peter Antman started working on
Message driven beans. First implementation expected soon.
- <p><b>TheServerSide:</b> Someone
jumped the gun and leaked news of our release to TheServerSide.com. Positive feedback
follows.
-
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody">
+ <p><b>WebWorks:</b> Rickard puts up "webworks" on
sourceforge.
+ Go help him develop the web publishing framework
+ <p><b>Message Beans:</b> EJB2.0 compliance is in the wings right on
+ the heels of the FINAL release. Peter Antman started working on
+ Message driven beans. First implementation expected soon.
+ <p><b>TheServerSide:</b> Someone jumped the gun and leaked news of
+ our release to TheServerSide.com. Positive feedback follows.
<p><b>"One For JBoss":</b> more people are switching to JBoss from
their proprietary application servers. "One for JBoss" is a message,
like many others we recieve, where folks relate their positive
experience
in trying our open source software for the first time. Find out
for yourself why many IT professionals are tuning in and dropping
out of commercial implementations and making JBoss their platform
- of choice. Peace, Love and good Code (PLgC).
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>November 13 - November 19 2000: FINAL, EJB2.0, New Look</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody">
- <b>FINAL:</b> The final
version of JBoss 2.0 is online. We feature preconfigured JBoss standalone,
JBoss+Tomcat, JBoss+Jetty. 18 month of development into JBoss. Come find out why
people every day switch to JBoss products.
- <p><b>EJB2.0:</b> Rickard
Oberg puts the first version of EJB home methods in CVS.
- <p><b>New Look:</b> JBoss is
now in the big leagues and folks need a streamlined site with information for IT
departments readily available. We now feature a "developers" site and a "business"
site. Still the same address www.jboss.org
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>November 6 - November 12 2000: BETA-PROD-04, Jetty</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>BETA-PROD-04: </b>A feature freeze release. We are running
the last tests before FINAL. This release includes: Updated JNDI implementation,
JNDI and security integration for Tomcat, JMS (spyderMQ) now available by default, New
layout for configuration files, to allow multiple jboss instances on the same machine,
Improved J2EE deployer: just drop your jar/war/ear in the deploy directory!
- <p><b>Jetty:
</b>Julian Gosnell finishes the integration of Jetty, a servlet/JSP/HTTP engine in
Open Source. The J2EE deployer integration is done as well so that users can
just use Jetty or Tomcat transparently and just use the deployer to manage the
applications life cycle.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>October 30- November 5 2000: LGPL, Optimizations, Success
stories</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>LGPL: </b>A license change is evaluated for the
FINAL release of JBoss. The reason is the fear some people have about the GPL.
Moving to LGPL will enable a wider diffusion of the JBoss technologies. JBoss
can now be embedded in any product as a Library. Authors vote on the issue.
- <p><b>Optimizations:
</b>Preparing for FINAL, the last optimizations of the codebase are done.</p>
- <p><b>Success Stories:
</b>People write in saying "we replace WebSphere by JBoss", a thread of
"me-too" happen on JBoss-user. Visit the "testimonials" page
for some accounts and experiences with our product suite.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>October 23- October 29 2000: Tomcat inVM Done,
J2EE Deployer, BETA-PROD-03</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Tomcat: </b>The Optimized version of Tomcat is done. The
speed increase is dramatic and invocations run well below the millisecond barrier
(0.3ms to be precise). The full J2EE stack can live embedded and in Open
Source.
-
<p><b>J2EE Deployer: </b>Daniel Schulze and Sebastien Alborini post the first
version of the integrated J2EE deployer with full web application support.
Developers can now deploy on the integrated JBoss/Tomcat stack and work with
Enterprise Application Resources (EAR).</p>
-
<p><b>BETA-PROD-03: </b>A new refresh of the binary before FINAL, Passivating
Cache, Fixed memory leaks, Integration with Tomcat done, J2EE deployer, Stabilization
Improved instance locking, Security based on JAAS. The code is stable and fast, apart
from J2EE deployer this is a feature freeze 'en route' to FINAL.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>October 16- October 22 2000: Databases, Speed, JBoss on
SUN</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Oracle, DB2, Interbase, PostgreSQL, Sybase: </b>Aaron Mulder fine
tunes the SQL mappings for JAWS. These databases run the tests of JBoss with no
problem. New Mappings will ship with binary version.
-
<p><b>Speed: </b>After many days of intense tress testing we narrow down the
choke points of JBoss. The Open Source feedback is fast at finding the
"hot-spots" in our codebase and tremendous progress is done on the speed
front. JBoss runs faster by the day.</p>
- <p><b>SUN: </b>3 top
developers of JBoss go down to one of the benchmark centers of SUN microsystems
in Silicon Valley and benchmark JBoss on high-end hardware and heavy loads. JBoss
scales to 5000 clients on a 10 CPU E4500. Fine-tuning of JBoss is done in these
extreme conditions and hotspots are revealed. From 1CPU linux boxes to 10-way
enterprise class machines, JBoss scales on a large variety of hardware.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>October 9- October 15 2000: Jetty, Security, Large Apps on
JBoss, Cache</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Jetty: </b>Julian Gosnell post an integration of
JBoss/Jetty. Jetty is a servlet/JSP/HTTP container and the integration in JBoss is a
breeze. For users of JBoss this means more choice in the front end server they can use
for their web applications. We welcome this addition and hope the future collaboration
will go well.
- <p><b>Security</b>: 2
board members are tackling the security implementation of JBoss. Dan O'Connor
and Oleg Nitz work on CVS to bring a full fledged JAAS based implementation
to life.</p>
- <p><b>Large
Apps: </b>As we stress test JBoss people already run JBoss in production with
Large Applications. Several hundred classes, several thousand bean instances, Sandeep
describes his succesful experience migrating from WebLogic to JBoss.</p>
- <p><b>Passivating
Caches: </b>Simone Bordet puts a final version of caches in CVS. These are fast and
scalable taking JBoss further. Final testing and Debugging of JBoss takes
place.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>October 2- October 8 2000: Catalina, BETA-PROD-02, Stress
Tests</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Catalina: </b>Catalina, the next generation JSP/Servlet
container from Apache is integrated with JBoss. Sebastien Sahuc posts a first
implementation in CVS
- <p><b>BETA-PROD02</b>:
A refresh of the BETA version, early version of locking improvements, New cache
with improved performance, Better inVM integration with Tomcat, Integration with
CastorJDO, CocoBase (in the contrib module), Enhanced Transaction management,
Implemented UserTransaction</p>
-
<p><b>StressTests: </b>As JBoss is now PROD ready we fine tune the kernel
and stress our server. A series of complete tests is designed. They look for
leaks, stress points, hot points, deadlocks, scalability bottlenecks and other parts
of the server we want to eradicate as we reach stability. Thanks to Sebastien
Alborini and Daniel Schulze for the implementation of tests.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>September 25- October 1 2000: Production Sites, $50k, Manual,
Todos for FINAL</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Production sites: </b>jboss beats Weblogic and Websphere as
the preferred production server for a start-up Company. A start-up Company ,called
"Liquidwit", selling online creativity prefers us over our mammoth
competitors. Liquidwit CTO, Caskey sends us a feel good message reporting the
successful launch of his website. Runs all on java and jboss for EJB. A large
production site is handled by jboss in BETA-PROD. We are very proud and it is always
good to hear successes since we are so much into the code we tend to believe we do
crap :) so we like when people send us "amazing-work-guys" messages as we
continue working down here in the mine. Thanks for the buzz.
- <p><b>OpenJODA</b>:
XO3 bundles jboss in their application server and target the Fortune 1000 companies.
They kick off with a $50k contest of development on a framework with tomcat+jboss.
Distribution of jboss increases.</p>
- <p><b>Manual:
</b>Aaron and Richard spear head the "manual" effort. We are putting all the
available documentation under one framework. The user manual will be final stone as we
reach FINAL</p>
- <p><b>FINAL: </b>
Marc Fleury announces that the date for the FINAL version will be October 31st.
Rickard and Marc take a first pass a the design of a clustering solution for jboss
based on JINI. It looks simple enough that we will deliver it for FINAL. The
Production quality for jboss means clustering and we will do it, by popular demand!
There are also a few outstanding issues we want to adress before the
FINAL jboss2.0 release. A biggy we want to do in the coming weeks is the IN-VM
integration of Tomcat so that we can offer a full stack of j2ee apis in VM (read
speedy).</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>September 18 - September 24 EJX, Catalina, Daemons</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>EJX: </b>Mad Andy! Good doco. Andreas updates the manual with
EJX howto and documentation for newbie users. We are betting heavily on our ease of
use and the manual comes in handy, andy...
- <p><b>Catalina:
</b>Sebastien Sahuc posts the much expected Catalina integration. The Apache folks are
seeing the interceptor route as the way to go and it makes future integration a breeze
for us. JMX still comes in handy in multifaceted integration and the next
generation Tomcat is already in :)</p>
- <p><b>Daemons: </b>As
some folks go in Production with jboss they want to run it as daemon in Linux.
Instructions as to how to do this in Linux and NT are posted to the lists and
integrated in the doco.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>September 11- September 17 2000: Doclets, Minerva,
Castor JDO, BETA-PROD-01 ONLINE</b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Doclets</b>: So Rickard comes up with the doclets. You can now
generate all the code you need including Home and Remote classes from a simple tag
based language in your Bean class (based on Taglib). We can extend it to help in CMP
2.0. Cool company, cool code.
-
<p><b>Minerva: </b>Aaron Mulder makes Minerva the standard connection manager for
jboss. XA is still a web aberation but that doesn't scare us! Ah legacy, legacy!</p>
- <p><b>Castor
JDO: </b>From Russia with Code! Oleg Nitz finishes the Castor
JDO integration. As we continue the best of breed integration we needed to offer
Java Data Object to our developers. Oleg uses the ease of integration of
JMX to offer yet another valuable plugin to jboss.</p>
- <p><b>BETA-PROD-01
IS ONLINE: </b>Ok the much anticipated PRODUCTION release of jboss is
finally online. Yes, put it online, give it a spin, and you'll realize that we've
reached production quality.. Thank you to all those that have helped (updates to the
team coming soon)</p>
- <p><b>Marc Fleury
writes:</b> "In no particular order I want to thank, Dan O, Juha, AaronM,
Rickard, Sebastien, NorbertL, Sylvain, Pierrick, AhmedB, Oleg, Ole, Justin, JoeS,
AndreasS, robc, jon*, Vladimir, EdwinD, VincentS, XavierF, kenJ, michealJ, RichardB,
VaughnV, JeremiahJ, Kunle, Thierry, Sandeep, Carlos, ChristophJ, Hugo, PeterB, RonC,
Simone, GregP, Andy, JelleW, StephanG, BruceP, Holger, SebastienS, WolfgangW, Vadim,
IngoB, CedricB, PeterB, Daniel, LennartP, SteveK, danch, roman, AdiL, Thor, Pedro,
Jason, TommyH, JohnK, IngoB, heitzso, Kenneth, and apologies to the thousands I must
be forgetting, my memory and adress book have some issues...</p>
- <p><trumpets>
long live our ass kicking </trumpets><br>
- PLgC<br>
- marc<br>
- </td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader">September 4 - September 10 2000: JMX Connector, Stubless RMI,
JAWS MetaData</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody"><b>JMX
Connector: </b>Good code! Mad Andy!<b> "</b>Mad" Andy post a final
implementation of the JMX Connector. We now offer remote access to the bare
administration of jboss. The way this is going is that we can now offer more high
level tools for the administration of all jboss and the bare API access offers most
flexibility.
- <p><b>Stubless RMI:
</b>Look Ma! No stubs!. The coolest sheit is always coded here first. That's right
officer we code the future and where we are going we don't need no stubs!. Rickard
Oberg keeps on keeping and prototypes a stub-less future that can work without
compilation of any kind or the daily craziness most WebLogic developers put up with
:). Ease of use is still what we need and what we want. Go read his book (when it
comes out).</p>
- <p><b>JAWS MetaData:
</b>Discreetly and with deadly accuracy, Sebastien Alborini rewrites the
JAWS metadata so that it can work from standard configurations.
Differential MetaData enable users to specify "nothing" :) ease of use
comes with fancy words, but what it means is that the mappings are provided by default
for all standard commercial databases and you only provide what you want to overwrite
which means zippo most times !</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsheader"><b>August 28 - September 3 2000: give us time!, 4% market share,
new <b>DOCO </b></b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody"><b>Time
is money: </b>Give us time! We are sorry but BETA-PROD is delayed. We want
to make sure that everything is kosher as we know people are going to go into
production with this. Ok so we promised it for September 1st and our deadline is
slipping...so sue us! better yet, help us!
- <p><b>EJB Pool: </b>we
just received a notification of a post on ejb-interest pooling the usage of app
servers, we are very happy that people are using the alpha release so massively...
hehe the BETA release should even increase these numbers. The following numbers
are on a total of 310 votes</p>
- <p>BEA Weblogic
(33.5%), Orion Server (14.2%), Inprise Application Server ( 8.7%), IBM Websphere (
8.4%), Pramati Server ( 7.4%), IONA iPortal ( 7.1%), Sun/Netscape iPlanet ( 4.2%),
<b>JBoss ( 3.9%), </b>Gemstone/J (3.2%), Allaire JRun ( 2.6%), Jonas ( 2.3%), Oracle
IAS ( 1.0%), Persistence PowerTier ( 1.0%), Sybase EAServer ( 1.0%), Silverstream (
0.1%), OrCAS Enterprise Server ( 0.6%), ObjectSpace Voyager ( 0.6%), Unify eWave (
0.6%).</p>
- <p>We know where we
want to be next year ;-)</p>
- <p><b>Doco: </b>We
have completely updated the documentation. It now features beginners and advanced
trails. It covers the differential metadata and takes you by the hand for all
sorts of database madness. Using jboss is as simple as a walk in the park, well at
least that is what the doco claims. Go check it out and thanks to the many
contributors who have helped put this massive effort in place.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader"><font
size="4" face="arial,helvetica"><b>August 21 - August 27 2000: Transactions and
caches</b></font></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>Transactions and caches</b>: Real life bugs appear as we release
the BETA version. Some are deep some are shallow, the important thing is that the flow
of bug fixes is a crazy as ever! BETA-PROD here we come, we will be on time!</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader"><font
size="4" face="arial,helvetica">August 14 - August 20 2000: <b>API
Compliance</b>,<b>SPEED</b>, <b>BETA Binary Release </b>, FreeBSD</font></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody"><b>API
Compliance</b>: Bug fixes and "Not Yet Implemented" are done. As Marc Fleury
and his crew work on it, the API compliance of jboss is now almost 100%. We are
finishing the latest callbacks on the container and making it complete for the
production release.
- <p><b>SPEED</b>: Our
favorite Jndi Knight, Rickard Oberg, has blasted the performance bottlenecks in
RMI/JMX. The stuff flies now ! Give it a spin and hear those engines roar...</p>
- <p><b>BETA
Release</b>: We are ahead of schedule with the Production release. The latest binary
release is a real beta now that the spec compliance is there and speed is good. Let's
move on to real life bugs shall we? get your PR4-BETA release today</p>
- <p><b>FreeBSD</b> We
recieve news that jboss happily runs under FreeBSD... great news! jboss is meant to be
used in ISP settings for those that want to offer "application hosting" and
jboss is leading the way with ease of use and deployment. Seems the dream is coming
true, don't you think?</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader"><font
size="4" face="arial,helvetica">August 7 - August 13 2000: <b>DEADLINE SEPT 1ST</b>,
<b>New Metadata</b>, Case Studies, New Transaction Manager</font></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td
class="newsbody"><b>DEADLINE SEPT 1st</b>: Marc Fleury says "I announce that we
will be done with alpha by the end of this month. That means that by September 1st we
will put out a real beta with all the features and QA done so that folks can use this
in development and production with the ease of mind that must come with it.". So
there you have it jboss2 will be in BETA-PROD by Sept 1st!
- <p><b>New
Metadata</b>: In order to simplify the use of jboss xml files, Sebastien Alborini has
rewritten the metadata package for jboss. It features ease of use stuff such as
"differential" xml files which means that when advanced configurations of
the container are needed you specify only what you need and nothing else. Making your
deployment life easy with jboss is our number 1 goal!</p>
- <p><b>Case
studies</b>: Following a mail posted on jboss-user, everybody goes into sharing their
experiences with J2EE technology, a lot of good some bad, but all in all a varied
mosaic of how people use J2EE, great feedback!</p>
- <p><b>New Transaction
Manager:</b> Marc Fleury posts an advanced JTA compliant implementation for the stand
alone jboss. The transaction implementation is inVM for this version. The
implementation is also pluggable so we can go to distributed stuff when we need
to.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsheader">August
28 - September 3 2000: give us time!, 4% market share, new <b>DOCO </b></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="newsbody"><b>Time
is money: </b>Give us time! We are sorry but BETA-PROD is delayed. We want
to make sure that everything is kosher as we know people are going to go into
production with this. Ok so we promised it for September 1st and our deadline is
slipping...so sue us! better yet, help us!
- <p><b>EJB Pool: </b>we
just received a notification of a post on ejb-interest pooling the usage of app
servers, we are very happy that people are using the alpha release so massively...
hehe the BETA release should even increase these numbers. The following numbers
are on a total of 310 votes</p>
- <p>BEA Weblogic
(33.5%), Orion Server (14.2%), Inprise Application Server ( 8.7%), IBM Websphere (
8.4%), Pramati Server ( 7.4%), IONA iPortal ( 7.1%), Sun/Netscape iPlanet ( 4.2%),
<b>JBoss ( 3.9%), </b>Gemstone/J (3.2%), Allaire JRun ( 2.6%), Jonas ( 2.3%), Oracle
IAS ( 1.0%), Persistence PowerTier ( 1.0%), Sybase EAServer ( 1.0%), Silverstream (
0.1%), OrCAS Enterprise Server ( 0.6%), ObjectSpace Voyager ( 0.6%), Unify eWave (
0.6%).</p>
- <p>We know where we
want to be next year ;-)</p>
- <p><b>Doco: </b>We
have completely updated the documentation. It now features beginners and advanced
trails. It covers the differential metadata and takes you by the hand for all
sorts of database madness. Using jboss is as simple as a walk in the park, well at
least that is what the doco claims. Go check it out and thanks to the many
contributors who have helped put this massive effort in place.</p>
- <p><a
href="news082000.htm">OLDER NEWS</a></td>
- </tr>
- </table>
+ of choice. Peace, Love and good Code (PLgC).
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>November 13 - November 19 2000: FINAL, EJB2.0,
+ New Look</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"> <b>FINAL:</b> The final version of JBoss 2.0 is
+ online. We feature preconfigured JBoss standalone, JBoss+Tomcat,
JBoss+Jetty.
+ 18 month of development into JBoss. Come find out why people every
+ day switch to JBoss products.
+ <p><b>EJB2.0:</b> Rickard Oberg puts the first version of EJB home
+ methods in CVS.
+ <p><b>New Look:</b> JBoss is now in the big leagues and folks need
+ a streamlined site with information for IT departments readily
available.
+ We now feature a "developers" site and a "business" site. Still
+ the same address www.jboss.org
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>November 6 - November 12 2000: BETA-PROD-04,
+ Jetty</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>BETA-PROD-04: </b>A feature freeze release.
+ We are running the last tests before FINAL. This release
+ includes: Updated JNDI implementation, JNDI and security integration
+ for Tomcat, JMS (spyderMQ) now available by default, New layout for
+ configuration files, to allow multiple jboss instances on the same
+ machine, Improved J2EE deployer: just drop your jar/war/ear in the
+ deploy directory!
+ <p><b>Jetty: </b>Julian Gosnell finishes the integration of Jetty,
+ a servlet/JSP/HTTP engine in Open Source. The J2EE deployer
+ integration is done as well so that users can just use Jetty or
+ Tomcat transparently and just use the deployer to manage the
applications
+ life cycle.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>October 30- November 5 2000: LGPL,
Optimizations,
+ Success stories</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>LGPL: </b>A license change is evaluated
+ for the FINAL release of JBoss. The reason is the fear some people
+ have about the GPL. Moving to LGPL will enable a wider diffusion
+ of the JBoss technologies. JBoss can now be embedded in any product
+ as a Library. Authors vote on the issue.
+ <p><b>Optimizations: </b>Preparing for FINAL, the last optimizations
+ of the codebase are done.</p>
+ <p><b>Success Stories: </b>People write in saying "we replace
+ WebSphere by JBoss", a thread of "me-too" happen
+ on JBoss-user. Visit the "testimonials" page for
+ some accounts and experiences with our product suite.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>October 23- October 29 2000: Tomcat inVM Done,
+ J2EE Deployer, BETA-PROD-03</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Tomcat: </b>The Optimized version of Tomcat
+ is done. The speed increase is dramatic and invocations run well below
+ the millisecond barrier (0.3ms to be precise). The full
J2EE stack
+ can live embedded and in Open Source.
+ <p><b>J2EE Deployer: </b>Daniel Schulze and Sebastien Alborini
+ post the first version of the integrated J2EE deployer with
+ full web application support. Developers can now deploy on the
integrated
+ JBoss/Tomcat stack and work with Enterprise Application
Resources
+ (EAR).</p>
+ <p><b>BETA-PROD-03: </b>A new refresh of the binary before FINAL,
+ Passivating Cache, Fixed memory leaks, Integration with Tomcat done,
+ J2EE deployer, Stabilization Improved instance locking, Security
+ based on JAAS. The code is stable and fast, apart from
J2EE deployer
+ this is a feature freeze 'en route' to FINAL.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>October 16- October 22 2000: Databases, Speed,
+ JBoss on SUN</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Oracle, DB2, Interbase, PostgreSQL, Sybase:
+ </b>Aaron Mulder fine tunes the SQL mappings for JAWS. These
+ databases run the tests of JBoss with no problem. New Mappings will
+ ship with binary version.
+ <p><b>Speed: </b>After many days of intense tress testing we
+ narrow down the choke points of JBoss. The Open Source feedback
+ is fast at finding the "hot-spots" in our codebase and
+ tremendous progress is done on the speed front. JBoss runs faster
+ by the day.</p>
+ <p><b>SUN: </b>3 top developers of JBoss go down to one of the
benchmark
+ centers of SUN microsystems in Silicon Valley and benchmark
+ JBoss on high-end hardware and heavy loads. JBoss scales to 5000
+ clients on a 10 CPU E4500. Fine-tuning of JBoss is done in these
+ extreme conditions and hotspots are revealed. From 1CPU linux boxes
+ to 10-way enterprise class machines, JBoss scales on a large variety
+ of hardware.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>October 9- October 15 2000: Jetty, Security,
+ Large Apps on JBoss, Cache</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Jetty: </b>Julian Gosnell post an
integration
+ of JBoss/Jetty. Jetty is a servlet/JSP/HTTP container and the
integration
+ in JBoss is a breeze. For users of JBoss this means more choice in
+ the front end server they can use for their web applications. We
welcome
+ this addition and hope the future collaboration will go well.
+ <p><b>Security</b>: 2 board members are tackling the security
implementation
+ of JBoss. Dan O'Connor and Oleg Nitz work on CVS to bring
+ a full fledged JAAS based implementation to life.</p>
+ <p><b>Large Apps: </b>As we stress test JBoss people already
+ run JBoss in production with Large Applications. Several hundred
+ classes, several thousand bean instances, Sandeep describes his
+ succesful experience migrating from WebLogic to JBoss.</p>
+ <p><b>Passivating Caches: </b>Simone Bordet puts a final version of
+ caches in CVS. These are fast and scalable taking JBoss further.
+ Final testing and Debugging of JBoss takes place.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>October 2- October 8 2000: Catalina,
BETA-PROD-02,
+ Stress Tests</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Catalina: </b>Catalina, the next generation
+ JSP/Servlet container from Apache is integrated with JBoss.
Sebastien
+ Sahuc posts a first implementation in CVS
+ <p><b>BETA-PROD02</b>: A refresh of the BETA version, early
version
+ of locking improvements, New cache with improved performance, Better
+ inVM integration with Tomcat, Integration with CastorJDO, CocoBase
+ (in the contrib module), Enhanced Transaction management, Implemented
+ UserTransaction</p>
+ <p><b>StressTests: </b>As JBoss is now PROD ready we fine
+ tune the kernel and stress our server. A series of complete
+ tests is designed. They look for leaks, stress points, hot points,
+ deadlocks, scalability bottlenecks and other parts of the server
+ we want to eradicate as we reach stability. Thanks to Sebastien
+ Alborini and Daniel Schulze for the implementation of tests.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>September 25- October 1 2000: Production Sites,
+ $50k, Manual, Todos for FINAL</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Production sites: </b>jboss beats Weblogic
+ and Websphere as the preferred production server for a start-up
Company.
+ A start-up Company ,called "Liquidwit", selling online
creativity
+ prefers us over our mammoth competitors. Liquidwit CTO, Caskey sends
+ us a feel good message reporting the successful launch of his website.
+ Runs all on java and jboss for EJB. A large production site is handled
+ by jboss in BETA-PROD. We are very proud and it is always good to
+ hear successes since we are so much into the code we tend to believe
+ we do crap :) so we like when people send us
"amazing-work-guys"
+ messages as we continue working down here in the mine. Thanks for
+ the buzz.
+ <p><b>OpenJODA</b>: XO3 bundles jboss in their application server
+ and target the Fortune 1000 companies. They kick off with a $50k
+ contest of development on a framework with tomcat+jboss. Distribution
+ of jboss increases.</p>
+ <p><b>Manual: </b>Aaron and Richard spear head the "manual"
+ effort. We are putting all the available documentation under one
+ framework. The user manual will be final stone as we reach FINAL</p>
+ <p><b>FINAL: </b> Marc Fleury announces that the date for the
+ FINAL version will be October 31st. Rickard and Marc take a
+ first pass a the design of a clustering solution for jboss based
+ on JINI. It looks simple enough that we will deliver it for FINAL.
+ The Production quality for jboss means clustering and we will do
+ it, by popular demand! There are also a few outstanding issues
+ we want to adress before the FINAL jboss2.0 release. A biggy
+ we want to do in the coming weeks is the IN-VM integration of Tomcat
+ so that we can offer a full stack of j2ee apis in VM (read speedy).
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>September 18 - September 24 EJX, Catalina,
+ Daemons</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>EJX: </b>Mad Andy! Good doco. Andreas
updates
+ the manual with EJX howto and documentation for newbie users. We are
+ betting heavily on our ease of use and the manual comes in handy,
+ andy...
+ <p><b>Catalina: </b>Sebastien Sahuc posts the much expected Catalina
+ integration. The Apache folks are seeing the interceptor route as
+ the way to go and it makes future integration a breeze for us.
JMX still
+ comes in handy in multifaceted integration and the next generation
+ Tomcat is already in :)</p>
+ <p><b>Daemons: </b>As some folks go in Production with jboss they
+ want to run it as daemon in Linux. Instructions as to how to do
+ this in Linux and NT are posted to the lists and integrated
+ in the doco.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>September 11- September 17 2000: Doclets,
+ Minerva, Castor JDO, BETA-PROD-01 ONLINE</b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Doclets</b>: So Rickard comes up with the
doclets.
+ You can now generate all the code you need including Home and Remote
+ classes from a simple tag based language in your Bean class (based
+ on Taglib). We can extend it to help in CMP 2.0. Cool company, cool
+ code.
+ <p><b>Minerva: </b>Aaron Mulder makes Minerva the standard
connection
+ manager for jboss. XA is still a web aberation but that doesn't
+ scare us! Ah legacy, legacy!</p>
+ <p><b>Castor JDO: </b>From Russia with Code! Oleg Nitz finishes
+ the Castor JDO integration. As we continue the best of breed
+ integration we needed to offer Java Data Object to our
+ developers. Oleg uses the ease of integration of JMX to offer
+ yet another valuable plugin to jboss.</p>
+ <p><b>BETA-PROD-01 IS ONLINE: </b>Ok the much anticipated
PRODUCTION release
+ of jboss is finally online. Yes, put it online, give it a spin,
+ and you'll realize that we've reached production quality.. Thank
+ you to all those that have helped (updates to the team coming
soon)</p>
+ <p><b>Marc Fleury writes:</b> "In no particular order I want
+ to thank, Dan O, Juha, AaronM, Rickard, Sebastien, NorbertL, Sylvain,
+ Pierrick, AhmedB, Oleg, Ole, Justin, JoeS, AndreasS, robc, jon*,
+ Vladimir, EdwinD, VincentS, XavierF, kenJ, michealJ, RichardB,
VaughnV,
+ JeremiahJ, Kunle, Thierry, Sandeep, Carlos, ChristophJ, Hugo, PeterB,
+ RonC, Simone, GregP, Andy, JelleW, StephanG, BruceP, Holger,
SebastienS,
+ WolfgangW, Vadim, IngoB, CedricB, PeterB, Daniel, LennartP, SteveK,
+ danch, roman, AdiL, Thor, Pedro, Jason, TommyH, JohnK, IngoB,
heitzso,
+ Kenneth, and apologies to the thousands I must be forgetting, my
+ memory and adress book have some issues...</p>
+ <p><trumpets> long live our ass kicking </trumpets><br>
+ PLgC<br>
+ marc<br>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader">September 4 - September 10 2000:
JMX Connector,
+ Stubless RMI, JAWS MetaData</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>JMX Connector: </b>Good code! Mad Andy!<b>
+ "</b>Mad" Andy post a final implementation of the
JMX Connector.
+ We now offer remote access to the bare administration of jboss.
+ The way this is going is that we can now offer more high level tools
+ for the administration of all jboss and the bare API access offers
+ most flexibility.
+ <p><b>Stubless RMI: </b>Look Ma! No stubs!. The coolest sheit is always
+ coded here first. That's right officer we code the future and where
+ we are going we don't need no stubs!. Rickard Oberg keeps on keeping
+ and prototypes a stub-less future that can work without compilation
+ of any kind or the daily craziness most WebLogic developers put
+ up with :). Ease of use is still what we need and what we want.
+ Go read his book (when it comes out).</p>
+ <p><b>JAWS MetaData: </b>Discreetly and with deadly accuracy, Sebastien
+ Alborini rewrites the JAWS metadata so that it can work from
+ standard configurations. Differential MetaData enable users
+ to specify "nothing" :) ease of use comes with fancy words,
+ but what it means is that the mappings are provided by default for
+ all standard commercial databases and you only provide what you
+ want to overwrite which means zippo most times !
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><b>August 28 - September 3 2000: give us time!,
+ 4% market share, new <b>DOCO </b></b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Time is money: </b>Give us time! We are sorry
+ but BETA-PROD is delayed. We want to make sure that
everything
+ is kosher as we know people are going to go into production with this.
+ Ok so we promised it for September 1st and our deadline is
slipping...so
+ sue us! better yet, help us!
+ <p><b>EJB Pool: </b>we just received a notification of a post on
ejb-interest
+ pooling the usage of app servers, we are very happy that people
+ are using the alpha release so massively... hehe the
BETA release
+ should even increase these numbers. The following numbers are on
+ a total of 310 votes</p>
+ <p>BEA Weblogic (33.5%), Orion Server (14.2%), Inprise Application
+ Server ( 8.7%), IBM Websphere ( 8.4%), Pramati Server ( 7.4%), IONA
+ iPortal ( 7.1%), Sun/Netscape iPlanet ( 4.2%), <b>JBoss ( 3.9%),
+ </b>Gemstone/J (3.2%), Allaire JRun ( 2.6%), Jonas ( 2.3%), Oracle
+ IAS ( 1.0%), Persistence PowerTier ( 1.0%), Sybase EAServer ( 1.0%),
+ Silverstream ( 0.1%), OrCAS Enterprise Server ( 0.6%), ObjectSpace
+ Voyager ( 0.6%), Unify eWave ( 0.6%).</p>
+ <p>We know where we want to be next year ;-)</p>
+ <p><b>Doco: </b>We have completely updated the documentation. It now
+ features beginners and advanced trails. It covers the
differential
+ metadata and takes you by the hand for all sorts of database madness.
+ Using jboss is as simple as a walk in the park, well at least that
+ is what the doco claims. Go check it out and thanks to the many
+ contributors who have helped put this massive effort in place.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><font size="4" face="arial,helvetica"><b>August
+ 21 - August 27 2000: Transactions and caches</b></font></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Transactions and caches</b>: Real life bugs
+ appear as we release the BETA version. Some are deep some are shallow,
+ the important thing is that the flow of bug fixes is a crazy as ever!
+ BETA-PROD here we come, we will be on time!</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><font size="4" face="arial,helvetica">August
+ 14 - August 20 2000: <b>API Compliance</b>,<b>SPEED</b>, <b>BETA Binary
+ Release </b>, FreeBSD</font></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>API Compliance</b>: Bug fixes and "Not
+ Yet Implemented" are done. As Marc Fleury and his crew work on
+ it, the API compliance of jboss is now almost 100%. We are finishing
+ the latest callbacks on the container and making it complete for the
+ production release.
+ <p><b>SPEED</b>: Our favorite Jndi Knight, Rickard Oberg, has blasted
+ the performance bottlenecks in RMI/JMX. The stuff flies now ! Give
+ it a spin and hear those engines roar...</p>
+ <p><b>BETA Release</b>: We are ahead of schedule with the Production
+ release. The latest binary release is a real beta now that the spec
+ compliance is there and speed is good. Let's move on to real life
+ bugs shall we? get your PR4-BETA release today</p>
+ <p><b>FreeBSD</b> We recieve news that jboss happily runs under
FreeBSD...
+ great news! jboss is meant to be used in ISP settings for those
+ that want to offer "application hosting" and jboss is
+ leading the way with ease of use and deployment. Seems the dream
+ is coming true, don't you think?
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader"><font size="4" face="arial,helvetica">August
+ 7 - August 13 2000: <b>DEADLINE SEPT 1ST</b>, <b>New Metadata</b>,
+ Case Studies, New Transaction Manager</font></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>DEADLINE SEPT 1st</b>: Marc Fleury says "I
+ announce that we will be done with alpha by the end of this month.
+ That means that by September 1st we will put out a real beta with
+ all the features and QA done so that folks can use this in development
+ and production with the ease of mind that must come with it.".
+ So there you have it jboss2 will be in BETA-PROD by Sept 1st!
+ <p><b>New Metadata</b>: In order to simplify the use of jboss xml
+ files, Sebastien Alborini has rewritten the metadata package for
+ jboss. It features ease of use stuff such as "differential"
+ xml files which means that when advanced configurations of the
container
+ are needed you specify only what you need and nothing else. Making
+ your deployment life easy with jboss is our number 1 goal!</p>
+ <p><b>Case studies</b>: Following a mail posted on jboss-user,
everybody
+ goes into sharing their experiences with J2EE technology, a lot
+ of good some bad, but all in all a varied mosaic of how people use
+ J2EE, great feedback!</p>
+ <p><b>New Transaction Manager:</b> Marc Fleury posts an advanced JTA
+ compliant implementation for the stand alone jboss. The transaction
+ implementation is inVM for this version. The implementation is also
+ pluggable so we can go to distributed stuff when we need to.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsheader">August 28 - September 3 2000: give us time!,
+ 4% market share, new <b>DOCO </b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="newsbody"><b>Time is money: </b>Give us time! We are sorry
+ but BETA-PROD is delayed. We want to make sure that
everything
+ is kosher as we know people are going to go into production with this.
+ Ok so we promised it for September 1st and our deadline is
slipping...so
+ sue us! better yet, help us!
+ <p><b>EJB Pool: </b>we just received a notification of a post on
ejb-interest
+ pooling the usage of app servers, we are very happy that people
+ are using the alpha release so massively... hehe the
BETA release
+ should even increase these numbers. The following numbers are on
+ a total of 310 votes</p>
+ <p>BEA Weblogic (33.5%), Orion Server (14.2%), Inprise Application
+ Server ( 8.7%), IBM Websphere ( 8.4%), Pramati Server ( 7.4%), IONA
+ iPortal ( 7.1%), Sun/Netscape iPlanet ( 4.2%), <b>JBoss ( 3.9%),
+ </b>Gemstone/J (3.2%), Allaire JRun ( 2.6%), Jonas ( 2.3%), Oracle
+ IAS ( 1.0%), Persistence PowerTier ( 1.0%), Sybase EAServer ( 1.0%),
+ Silverstream ( 0.1%), OrCAS Enterprise Server ( 0.6%), ObjectSpace
+ Voyager ( 0.6%), Unify eWave ( 0.6%).</p>
+ <p>We know where we want to be next year ;-)</p>
+ <p><b>Doco: </b>We have completely updated the documentation. It now
+ features beginners and advanced trails. It covers the
differential
+ metadata and takes you by the hand for all sorts of database madness.
+ Using jboss is as simple as a walk in the park, well at least that
+ is what the doco claims. Go check it out and thanks to the many
+ contributors who have helped put this massive effort in place.</p>
+ <p><a href="news082000.htm">OLDER NEWS</a>
+ </td>
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+ </table>
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