JBoss In Action - JBoss version

[Paul Michael]

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.



Thanks.

[Peter Johnson]

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'.

[Paul Michael]

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.

[Peter Johnson]

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.

[Paul Michael]

Thanks Peter!

[Chinababu Illa]

Hi,

I am eagerly waiting for this book. When do we get this book in India?

[Javid Jamae]

Chinababu, please don't piggy back off of somebody else's thread. If you are asking a new question, please start a new topic.