JBoss BRMS (Drools and jBPM) Workshops

Drools 5, the upstream for JBoss BRMS, is a Business Logic integration Platform, and provides a unified and integrated platform for Rules, Workflow and Event Processing. It's been designed from the ground up so that each aspect is a first class citizen, with no compromises. Drools may be easily used with jBPM, a flexible business process management suite.

Want to learn more?

Join us for one of two complimentary full day, hands-on workshop on Drools and jBPM, where we will cover:

The ecosystem that encompasses the Drools open source project and the JBoss BRMS
Benefits of rules systems, business workflows, and specific challenges
The history of rules systems, where they are going, and the current state of the art
Various features of the BRMS via a hands on demo
BPMN 2.0 and the future of Business Process Management
Be prepared to work hands-on with the tools, meet the team behind the engine, and have your questions answered. This event will give you unparalleled access to industry-recognized leaders in the rules community.

There are two dates to choose from:

Tuesday, June 19 2012 in New York City
Thursday, June 21, 2012 (Government focus) in Washington DC

JBoss Drools + jBPM Festival

Yes, it is like a festival of Drools and jBPM with series of JBoss Drools Workshops across east coast.

2 full weeks of Drools technology feast. Choose the location that is closest to you.
Come and socialize with other Drools adopters.

For those who are not familiar with JBoss Drools, visit, www.jboss.org/drools
Drools is an open source community that develops Business Rules and Reasoning technologies.

Meet us at JBoss World / Red Hat Summit : May 3rd to 6th.
There are 7 sessions related to JBoss Drools

Do not forget JUDCon. on May 2nd and 3rd.It is loaded with many Drools and jBPM sessions.

Meet us in NYC for full day of Drools Workshop on May 10th

If you are near Washington DC, then the Workshop in DC would be the closest one for you.

JBoss Developer Studio 3.0 is now available

JBoss Developer Studio 3.0 is now available for JBoss Customers.

It is the 3rd major release in the last 3 years. It is a long way since JBoss worked with Exadel in open sourcing Exadel Studio and started to build all the developer tooling to support various JBoss runtimes.
It is a significant achievement for the team.

It is built on popular eclipse platform and includes JBoss Tools project from JBoss.org. JBoss Tools includes productivity enhancing tools for all of JBoss platforms and technologies. JBoss Tools is one of the most downloaded binary from JBoss.org.


Some of the key features of JBDS 3.0 are:
- Deployment support coverage for all of JBoss Middleware platforms such as EAP, EWP, EWS, SOA-P, EPP
- Updated Eclipse 3.5.2 Platoform
- Advanced tools for SOA-P 5 Platform. Includes Data transformation tools, improved ESB tools etc
- Preview tooling support for major EE6 features such as JSF 2, CDI (Context Dependency Injection) etc.
- Improved product stability.

Red Hat is one of the Gold sponsors of EclipseCon. We will be showcasing JBDS at this event and hosting many promotional activities.

For more information on JBDS visit - http://www.jboss.com/products/devstudio/

Not a good day - 2 flat tires on the same day !!!!

This is has never happened to me. It was a crazy day.
I still dont understand how this happened, but it did happened.

Started my day 5.30 in the morning. Headed out for the first time to catch up with some pick up ball racketball games at NAC. As soon as I started driving my MB 350, it beeped... 'check tire pressure'. I thought it will be OK. I can air them later. Came back home after my game.
My wife was heading out for her swim class. She took my car instead of her SUV.
She drove for 1/2 a mile, boom... tire busted. Interestingly the tire that busted was a different than the one that had low air.
As usual called AAA to change the spare tire. Done. He also inflated the other tires aswell.
Drove to office (15 miles). Evening, I saw an email from a collegue that my car has a flat tire.
This time it is that same tire that had low air in the morning.
Shooooooooot !!!!
Now I dont have another spare to work with. The only viable option was to get it towed to a nearby tire shop. Thought I could get the tire inflated and drive it up to home and then figure out getting it fixed tomorrow....
Nope, it was not an option. AAA mechanic found that the tire will not hold the air for long. I could hear the air leaking sound at one corner where it was ripped out.
Thankfully, a collegue of mine had "FixAFlat" solution. Booom..... that solved the problem. It fixed the air leakage. I still didnt want to take a chance. I called a friend to follow me until my home, just incase.

Now, I am back home. Now I need to figure out how to get these two tires replaced tomorrow.

Application Server Container Usage

It appears the Java EE application container adoption landscape has changed quite a bit in the last one year.
Obviously the macro economy has a lot to do with the swift in adopters thinking.
Here is a link to a survey conducted by one of the independents.

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/java-ee-container-heaven-hell-survey-results/

In all my previous conversations with customers and prospects I used to highlight the fact that Tomcat is the number one with a lion share in usage. It is still no 1, but its share has come down quite a bit. JBoss used to be distant number 2 with a significant edge on WebSphere and Weblogic. The new survey reveals that JBoss still maintains no 2 (about 25%) spot and is a close contender for no. 1 position.

Way to go JBoss !!!!!

This keeps reminding me of the underneath theme of RedHat adopted from M.K. Gandhi - First they will ignore you, next they will laugh at you, later they will fight you, in the end you will WIN

Been a while ....

Have been active mostly on Twitter - http://twitter.com/prakasharadhya

Time to blog some real stuff....

A good resource for Seam

DZone has released a relly nice RefCard for Core-Seam.
Here is the link the refcard.

http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/core-seam

It is free to download. You would need to be a registered Dzone user, which is really simple to register.