NEWS FROM THE FOUNDER:
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Hello folks, finally found some time to write the july newsletter. A
lot of things are going on in JBoss land and we want to keep you updated
on the latest.
First and foremost, the technology. The adoption of JBoss 4.0 is
fantastic. We are seeing a great uptake in the OEM/ISV channels,
advanced IT shops, as well as outright standardization by the academic
community. I recently went to RIO de Janeiro to give the keynote at
Middleware 2003, the academia's conference on middleware technology. Pr
Reverbel (JBossIIOP lead) and I were overwhelmed by the pervasive use of
JBoss. It is obvious that AOP technology has found it's first killer
application in Middleware and JBoss in particular. The bottom line to
you? You will see a lot more innovative aspects being shipped under the
JBoss banner, ready to be assembled in your own containers with a few
XML tags. Some of them engineered by the JBoss Group others developed
in the academic community and productized by the JBoss Group.
Already NRMI, a pass by copy restore semantic for invocations has been
aspectized in JBoss and available as a configuration option. It was
developed at Georgia Tech and a reference implementation made on JBoss.
Others at Standford and Berkeley are working on new algorythms for high
availability and recovery oriented computing for JBoss (cover of
Scientific American). Others still in Germany have developed advanced
UML driven generation of XML tags for JBoss custom containers. It is
all excellent and relevant research work that is productized and
supported by the JBoss Group. So expect JBoss and the JBoss Group to
accelerate the pace of innovation while our competition tries to play
catch-up. JBoss is the INNOVATOR and we are still "coding the future".
On the production support front, we have updated our production support
offering. Many of you on this list are already customers of our
standard support but we are specifically talking about a targeted
production support. By popular demand we have engineered an offer with
UNLIMITED production support. This means that for all JBoss bugs that
you encounter, you have a direct line and insurance with the JBoss
Group. Conveniently priced on a per application basis, our production
support starts at 8K for small installations and will scale with your
need and usage.
JBossing will change your development life as you know it, and now with
the insurance of our production support offerings you can go to
production and be fully covered for your support needs.
Already recent customer wins in June include New Century mortgage,
Moody's, US South, AMD, Glaxo Smith-Kline and many others on our new
production support program. If you are interested in hearing more about
our new PRODUCTION SUPPORT OFFERINGS and why JBoss Group is the best
service available for JBoss, please contact sales@jboss.org.
On the partners front, we recently signed on APPLE as a OEM vendor. MAC
OSX bundles JBoss as the application server of choice. We are proud
about this product endorsement and adding such a prestigious and
innovative vendor to our roster of software partners.
Until next time, be sure to come to one of our trainings in New York and
Washington, or the best seller JBoss BootCamp in Atlanta and to buy
JBoss Group support since that is what keeps us going and enables us to
give you the best technology for FREE, this is what we call
"Professional Open Source"
Peace, Love and good Code,
Marcf
ATLANTA BOOTCAMP AUGUST 16-17
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Location: Atlanta Swissotel.
SESSION PRICE $500, buy 5 get 6th FREE:
Content: We introduce you to all that JBoss has to offer in hour-long
sessions throughout the weekend. The weekend is broken down into hour
long-presentations on all the framework services. We cover what is
currently offered by the services' production versions as well as give
you roadmaps for the future development of JBoss. Get your Source
knowledge directly from the JBoss developers.
More information and Faxable Registration Form are available at
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=html&op=userdisplay&id=services/t
raining/bootcamp#atlanta
NEW YORK JBOSS ADMIN TRAINING AUG 11-12
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Location: New York Marriott Marquis. 1535 Broadway, located at Broadway
and Times Square.
Instructor is Bill Burke, Chief Architect of JBoss.
TRAINING PRICE: US$1650 for those who pay by July 15, 2003; after that
date US$1750.
Target Audience: Our admin training is targeted at advanced
administrators who will be running JBoss in production.
Content: You will learn how select build and install a version of JBoss
that fits your requirements. You will also learn how to configure it in
both a development environment and a production environment. You will
discover how to configure the JBoss fundamental services (JNDI,
scheduler, mail service, invokers, JBossWeb, JBossMQ) and how to
correctly package and deploy your services and applications. The Netboot
and Farming features will be covered in detail. You will learn how to
use the jmx-console to learn more about your server.
More information and Faxable Registration Form are available at
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=html&op=userdisplay&id=services/t
raining/schedule#nyc-admin
WASHINGTON DC ADVANCED JBOSS TRAINING August 11-14
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Location: JW Marriott Hotel Pennsylvania Avenue 1331 Pennsylvania
Ave.Washington, DC 20004
Instructor is Juha Lindfors, author of JMX.
TRAINING PRICE: US$3000 for those who pay by July 15, 2003; after that
date US$3250.
Target audience: This class is not recommended for beginning Java
programmers.
Content:You will learn how to fine tune JBoss in production, what
advanced J2EE architectures are suited for JBoss, you will go deep into
the architecture of JBoss from the JMX base to the MBean Containers, to
the invokers to the smart proxies. You will learn the deep integration
points in JBoss and how to extend development to fit into your own
solutions. The goal is for you to understand the super-server theory and
how JBoss applied it to the JBoss core server. From this point it is
fairly trivial for you to understand how to build your own real-life
strand of EJB that fits your particular need. From client side cache to
clustering and real-world security, we teach you "beyond J2EE" and how
to quickly and simply solve your own middleware problems by using JBoss
and the super-server theory in this practical, example oriented,
hands-on presentation. The advanced class is targeted at consultants who
will provide JBoss Group services to end clients as well as internal IT
developers and ISV developers. Come meet your peers and the JBoss core
people, in an intense, unique and challenging experience.
More information and Faxable Registration Form are available at
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=html&op=userdisplay&id=services/t
raining/schedule#washdc
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