From the 2008 Red Hat Summit in Boston...

I'm in Boston this week attending the Red Hat Summit in Boston. As I talk with people this week and attend sessions, I'll blog about interesting things that come up throughout the week.

Currently, I'm in a session titled JBoss Enterprise Platforms and Roadmap being presented by Rob Cardwell. This is an overview of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware platforms and frameworks.

• JBoss Developer Studio - June 2008: JBoss Developer Studio 1.1, updated with JBoss EAP 4.3, JBoss WS Tools
  Dec 2008: JBoss Developer Studio 2.0: Updated with JBoss EAP 5.0, SOA Platform pluggins


• Seam 1.2 - Seam integrates JavaSever Faces (JSF) and EJB3. It also provides a number of significant enhancements to JSF such as enhanced error handling, PDF generation, etc.


• JBoss Enterpirse Application Platform
  Q4 2008: JBoss EAP 5.0 - JEE5 Certification, JBoss Microcontainer: POJO - based kernel, new deployer architecture, new configuration API, new classloading architecture, Apache Portable Runtime, latest hibernate, Seam 2 with enhanced integration: JBoss WS, Hibernate search


• JBoss Operations Network
  JBoss ON 2.0 (May 2008) Advanced Configuration Management


• JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform
  2.7: Sept 2008 - Support for Portlet 2.0 specification, page parameters, administration tool support for portlet 2.0 spec
  2.8 Early 2009 - Pure AJAX platform similar to iGoogle


• MetaMatrix Data Services Platform
  What Does it do? Standards-based read/write access to distributed, heterogeneous enterprise data stores. Service-enable data to meet SOA demands. Transforms data structure and semantics. Consolidates data into a "single view" without the need to move data. Centralized access control, auditing through robust security infrastructure.
  5.5 SP3 - Sept 2008 - Designer usability Improvements, integration with other JBoss components - ESB & Hibernate, JON integration, Caching improvements, Salesforce.com support, Improved text output capability, SAP connector improvements, additional data source connectors (e.g. Oracle 11g, Netezza), provisioning via RHN, security accreditation.
  Version 6.0 - Dec 2008 - Transaction improvements, caching/staging improvements including use of distributed cache, DB drivers (specifically open source drivers).


• JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
  SOA P V4.3 - Sept 2008 - Transports - S-FTP, HTTPS, etc, Gateways - RMI, POP#, SQL, Web Services - .NET interoperability, Platform based security - SSO, Consolidate consoles, JON 2.0
  JBoss Dev Studio - Dec 2008 - ESB XML Editor, Drools and jBPM plug-ins
  BRMS Product - Dec 2008 - Add-on to JBoss Rules Framework and SOA-P
  SOA-P 5.0 - 3Q 2009 GA, EAP 5.0, MRG support, JBI, SLA/Policy management and enforcement, OEM BPEL or ODE
  JBDS SOA Tooling - 3Q 2009 GA, Updated web services, SCA, OEM BPEL or ODE