My talk at the London JBUG in May 2013

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JBoss Enterprise Update
JBUG London
Jeremy Brown - @tenfourty
Manager, Solution Architects
May 2013

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JBOSS AS
GETS A NEW NAME

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JBoss AS Gets A New Name
● REDUCE CONFUSION
● JBoss Meant:
● JBoss AS
● JBoss Enterprise Platforms
● JBoss Community
● What Changes?
● JBoss AS Name, IRC, Forums, Issue Tracker
● Faster Release Cadence
● What Doesn't Change
● Governance, codebase, commitment to open source, community
● JBoss stays with the Red Hat JBoss Middleware
Platforms

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JBoss AS Gets A New Name
● Why WildFly?
● Election by the Community
● 1000+ Suggestions
● 5 finalists
● 250,000+ votes
● Announced April 2013
● Tentative Schedule
● Alpha1 of WildFly 8 expected next week
● Alpha2 – June 2013
● Alpha3 – July 2013
● Beta1 – August
● Beta2 – Sept
● CR's and Final – Fall 2013

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WildFly 8 Features
● Java EE 7
● Much Faster
● JPA/Hibernate improvements
● Significant Speed Boosts
● Expect SpecJ metrics this year
● Undertow
● Non-blocking web server with a Servlet implementation
● Allow java apps to write lightweight node.js style handlers that
perform async IO without any of the overhead of servlet
● Fast implementation
● HTTP Upgrade Support – multiplexing
● Enhanced Security SPI – allows multiple security mechanisms
to coordinate w/o being tied to Servlets

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RELEASE CYCLE CHANGES

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JBoss Community & Enterprise Delta
EXAMPLE ONLY - NOT A

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RED HAT JBOSS
DEVELOPER PROGRAM

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Red Hat JBoss Developer Program
● Allows enterprise developers to access
● Enterprise Binaries of JBoss Platforms
● Enterprise Developer Forums
● Exclusive Content – webinars, quickstarts, and
more
● Free of charge!
● Sign up at http://www.jboss.org
● Focused on developers being as productive as
possible at building new applications on Red Hat
JBoss Middleware
● Program intended for development purposes only.

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Benefits
● Access to Enterprise Binaries
● Build your apps on stable and certified codebase
● No need to migrate your applications from Community
● Access to Enterprise Developer Forums
● Collaborate with Red Hat experts and other enterprise
developers.
● Exclusive Enterprise Content
● Quickstarts, tutorials and webinars available only to
Developer Program members.

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The Fine Print
● Intended for Developer Use Only
● Obligated to purchase one or more subscriptions if used
outside of local development.
● No support or maintenance
● Major (x.0) and Minor (6.x) releases available with a
developer subscription
● Micro (6.1.x) and Security Errata available only to
commercial subscribers.
● Forums focused on development related topics
● No answers for production-focused topics

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Questions?