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Hi Javid and Peter! Welcome to the Ranch.

I noticed that your book covers the recently released JBoss 5.

What were the major improvements that you saw from version 4 to 5 while you were writing the book?

I know there are release notes available in JBoss 5, but I wanted to get your personal opinion on this.



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Here are a few off the top of my head:

  • It includes JBoss Messaging (instead of JBossMQ)
  • Support for client-side annotations for EJB (or perhaps I should say full EJB3 support))
  • The virtual file system, which provides a unified mechanism to access files, particularly for class loading and deployment (yeah, it still has bugs to be ironed out, but once they are things will be much cleaner)
  • The move to POJOs (instead of MBeans) for much of the configuration. (This will also have growing pains, but will be cleaner in the long run.)
  • The new administration console (Embedded Jopr). Though I am still waiting word from the Embedded Jopr team when it will officially support 5.0
  • The 'web' configuration. Finally you no longer have to create your own web container by paring down 'default'.
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    Peter Johnson wrote:Here are a few off the top of my head:

  • Support for client-side annotations for EJB (or perhaps I should say full EJB3 support))



  • This has got to be my favorite! I was actually surprised when I tried client annotations in version 4 and they didn't work.

    Peter Johnson wrote:Here are a few off the top of my head:

  • It includes JBoss Messaging (instead of JBossMQ)
  • The virtual file system, which provides a unified mechanism to access files, particularly for class loading and deployment (yeah, it still has bugs to be ironed out, but once they are things will be much cleaner)
  • The move to POJOs (instead of MBeans) for much of the configuration. (This will also have growing pains, but will be cleaner in the long run.)
  • The new administration console (Embedded Jopr). Though I am still waiting word from the Embedded Jopr team when it will officially support 5.0
  • The 'web' configuration. Finally you no longer have to create your own web container by paring down 'default'.


  • The virtual file system sounds like a competitor to JCR/Jackrabbit? Or are they completely different technologies?

    I must say that I'm going to miss seeing those numerous Mbeans in the administration pages.

    I definitely need to try out that new administration console and web configuration.

    Anyway, thanks Peter for the very quick reply and good luck with your new book.
     
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    The virtual file system sounds like a competitor to JCR/Jackrabbit? Or are they completely different technologies?



    Completely different, VFS is not a content management system, rather it is more like an abstraction layer over the java.io (or nio) packages.
     
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    Thanks Peter!
     
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    Hi,

    I am eagerly waiting for this book. When do we get this book in India?
     
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    Chinababu, please don't piggy back off of somebody else's thread. If you are asking a new question, please start a new topic.
     
    Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs.
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