JBoss AS 5 is out, Hibernate Search 3.1, Devoxx is warming up and

Great news this week: JBoss AS 5 is out. Congratulations to Dimitris and the many people in and out of JBoss who contributed to it. Hibernate Search 3.1 is out. A lot of good stuffs like performance improvements at indexing and querying time and some cool new features like the analyzer declaration framework … [...]

Hibernate Search 3.1 RefCard

DZone has a nice Hibernate Search 3.1 6-pages ref card. It is packed with:The list of annotations and their descriptions Hibernate Search’s main APIs Lucene’s most useful query types Quick examples involving mappings and API usage (including the new analyzer declaration framework)It’s free but you need to register.Speaking of the devil. … [...]

Book review and NHibernate Search

Ayende, one of the active bees behind the NHibernate portfolio, has a nice review of Hibernate Search in Action on his blog.By the way, Ayende has ported Hibernate Search to .net : NHibernate.Search. I don’t think there is documentation specific to the project but the Hibernate Search documentation is just as useful.I don’t know … [...]

Hibernate Search book preview final review: hitting where it hurts for the better

We just had our third review of Hibernate Search in Action. Receiving this feedback has been a humble experience. Lot’s of good reviews (good) and some critical ones (even better). Every imperfection we left aside came back in the spot lights of our reviewers.Based on this feedback, we have been working hard the last … [...]

Remotely send and consume messages with JMS in JBoss AS 5.0

This tutorial will show you how to create a queue in JBoss AS 5 (which uses JBoss Messaging 1.4.1), send a message to a remote queue and listen to the queue using a Message Driven Bean.I have been playing with JMS queues and MDBs in JBoss AS 5 today to complete the clustering chapter … [...]

Why would you pay for JBoss products?

Andy posted some of the reasons why you would want to use the JBoss subscription based platforms rather than the .org projects. During this exercise, he hinted some of the reasons why JBoss moved from a model where the community version was supported to a model where an enterprise platform is supported. He did … [...]