It's been a little quiet this week, because many JBoss folks did attend or speak at JavaOne this year. If you didn't make to JavaOne yourself, make sure you pick one the upcoming dates to meet us:
- Java & JBoss User Group Meetings around the globe
In the meantime, we picked some notable updates for this week.
Project Updates
TorqueBox benchmarks released
If you are into Ruby development, then you should definitely take a look at TorqueBox. TorqueBox provides an all-in-one Ruby environment that runs on JBossAS. Ben Browning did reveal some interesting benchmarks.
JAX-RS in GWT with Errai
Errai provides integration of JBoss technologies with GWT applications. The latest addition does simplify the integration of REST-based services with GWT client applications.
CDI specification Updates
The CDI specification get's some notable updates. Pete did already speak about it at JavaOne. The slides can be found here. He's also submitted an early draft of the Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1 specification.
Drools & jBPM Updates
Eric Schabell put a version of the jBPM migration tooling in the cloud. Tihomir has released a new version of the web-based designer. The jBPM form designer is coming along nicely! A new video, showing some of the more advanced UI components, is available here.
New Releases
IronJacamar 1.1.0.Alpha2
The second developer snapshot of our JCA container implementation has been released.
Teiid 7.6 Alpha1
Our data virtualization system does get plenty of new features: Support for procedure language, File enhancements, TEXTTABLE Enhancements, Temp table transactions, Buffering Improvements and support for the GSSAPI.
Seam 3.1.0.Beta3
Seam adds a number of new modules with this release: JCR, JMS, Social, Mail.
Infinispan 5.1.0.Beta1
Along with a number of small improvement the most notable change is the redesign of the transaction layer. As explained by Mircea.