Book review: JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni

I’ve been reading JBoss AS 5 Development by Francesco Marchioni published by Packt Publishing. I must say that I quite enjoyed the book because it is complementing my knowledge perfectly. I know Java EE 5 and 6 quite well, I’ve been working on it, promoting it, yada yada yada. But when it comes to details … [...]

Hit the road Jack

Now that I am done with my what took a lot of my time recently, I will be on the road for pretty much the whole month of november all over Europe to spread the word.First and foremost, I will inaugurate the new MarsJUG (in Marseille) on October 15th. I will be talking about … [...]

JBoss Community Asylum – a new podcast with bits of me in it

Remember my French podcast Les Cast Codeurs? (Doing well, thank you for asking) Well apparently, I did not have enough and started a new one. In English this time.JBoss Community Asylum. A podcast on, by and about the JBoss Community and its gazilllllllion projects and ideas. It’s available here and the iTunes link is … [...]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: EE edition

I came across some figures regarding downloads of Glassfish and JBoss AS that really puzzled me. Basically Glassfish was downloaded 700.000 times a month (end of ’08) while JBoss AS was only downloaded around 115.000 times a month at the same. My first reaction was “Well done to you, Sun!” and then I realized … [...]

Les Cast Codeurs Podcast is born

I have just started a new podcast with a few French open source activists. All about Java, all in French. If you know French, read on ; otherwise, well… learn :) Les Cast Codeurs Podcast est dans les bacs!Le podcast en français dans le code sur Java par Emmanuel Bernard (JBoss, Hibernate), Guillaume Laforge (SpringSource, … [...]

Podcast on Bean Validation lastest PFD

I have recently been interviewed by Kenneth Rimple for the Chariot TechCast. In this podcast, we speak to JBoss’s Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validation using JSR-303, the Bean Validation framework. JSR-303 aims to provide an annotation-driven mechanism to mark plain old java beans with annotations, such as @NotNull, @Min, @Max, and … [...]

Go us

I am usually not the kind of person that likes patting one another on the back. I am always prompt to point out what’s left to be done rather that what has been done. But reading Sacha’s newsletter to our customer made me proud.JBoss AS 5 has had record downloads. People were eager to … [...]

JBUG Munich: Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation

Next week, I will be at the JBug in Munich presenting Java Persistence 2 and Bean Validation. If you are around Monday 2nd, come swing by. The JBug Munich website is here for details. [...]

DevNexus: human friendly conference March 10-11 in Atlanta

I will be speaking at DevNexus. This small conference is a spin off the Atlanta Java User Group.Here are a few things I like about the conference personally: There is around 10 presentations over two days, so you will be able to see all / most of them. The price is very … [...]

Answering questions at JavaRanch + free books

I am doing a session on Hibernate Search all this week at JavaRanch. Manning will give away free books of Hibernate Search in Action for the occasion.If you have questions on Hibernate Search, express yourself :) [...]