By: Dharmesh Aegis
Submitted: 2012-02-22 03:18:42 | Word Count: 505
JBoss inventor of JBPM which is a classic workflow engine has released its 7th version of opensource and free Java EE based application server. As stated by its lead technical director that it has taken them while to get here and they have taken pretty drastic and innovative steps along the way to release it. An innovation out of many related to this release is integration of Arquillian that is aiming in simplifying in-container testing for speeding up the Jboss application development or JBoss Portal Development. Some features of this release are:
" Start-up time is blazingly fast and up to 10 times faster.
" Java EE 6 -leading the pack again
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" This release is very light weight especially for small footprint and aggressive memory management means you can run it everywhere.
" Elegant management allowing you with more simplified APIs and console.
" Domain management allowing to manage servers similarly as groups
" Testable by design allows more simplified in-container testing which helps in speedy development.
You can get more information on JBoss Application Server 7 from webinars, articles, and downloads that are available from the official JBoss website.
Spring and Spring Roo are also here with its new releases
Spring again an open source framework based on powerful Java has come with its release of new version of 3.1.0M2 and it includes features like:
" Equivalent codes for Spring's XML namespaces
" For enabling code-based hibernate configuration it offers builder-style APIs
" For support for @configuration class and bean definition profiles it offers Test Context
In addition with this release Spring Roo has also brings an update with its new release of 1.1.5 that has about 95 of new improvements and buf fixes while also allows full enterprise applications development in minutes.
JBoss Portal Development, JBoss customization and JBoss application development is latest buzz in most businesses that deal with workflows in their business processes. Even after the release of the application server 7 all these developments are demanded high because of its amazing features like:
" Blazingly fast with super start up speed: With its super fast speed you can immediately start with your work and avoid those unnecessary waits wasting your time.
" Lightweight: By keeping an aggressive approach to metadata indexing as well as memory management this version has small footprint making it lightweight and fit to run on small devices too.
" Modular Core: Modules when come from Jboss offers a true isolation of applications as it hides server implementation classes while only loading the classes that are needed by applications.
" Parallel Deployment: It offers quick start and fast turnaround so that deployment is also quick, concurrent and able to edit static resources.
" Elegant administration: It offers polished, user-friendly web console to HTTP APIs and Java thus you get consistent and powerful administration that is user-focused.
" Domain Management: It offers two modes for launching. Domain mode enables to run and manage multi-serve topology while standalone mode runs a single server instance.
" First class components: It offers some superb components that can be classified as first class ones helping to build on some best breed of standalone OSS projects.
