Welcome to the JBoss World 2012 Redux!
Didn't make it to Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012? No problem! Check out these middleware sessions, including the JBoss World Keynote, recorded at Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012 and learn more about the Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio.
JBoss World Keynote:
Join Craig Muzilla, Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat's Middleware Business Unit, and Dr. Mark Little, Senior Director Middleware Engineering, as they demonstrate how JBoss Enterprise Middleware transcended it's beginnings as a rock-solid application infrastructure to become a strategic asset for enterprises to significantly improve their businesses. They will also discuss how Red Hat is attacking the challenges customers are facing today as they consider their next-generation enterprise architectures. And, there's a (recorded) live demo showing how JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.3, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 and Red Hat OpenShift PaaS can be used in concert with mobile devices to make a sales force more productive.
Sprint: Migrating to JBoss Enterprise Middleware in a Big Way:
In April of 2011, Sprint approved and funded a major program to replace legacy Oracle WebLogic and IBM WebSphere with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform. As of June 2012, Sprint expects to have migrated over 160 applications utilizing 1,000 CPUs of WebLogic and 100,000 PVUs of WebSphere. Within the scope of this program, Sprint also modernized its infrastructure, migrated stand-alone servers into virtual machines, replaced legacy web servers with Apache, and implemented an architecture that significantly increased IT application scalability, flexibility, and supportability at Sprint.
Come learn about this journey - the successes, failures, and lessons learned – from Sprint's IT director Jamie Williams. Attendees will:
- Learn why the cost savings justification for the program was a "no-brainer"
- Hear the secrets to winning battles of standardization and architecting for success
- Understand what it took to operate a migration factory and run a program of this magnitude
- Learn about the wide range of applications, from mission-critical to complex, that were migrated
- Understand how the opportunity was leveraged to increase the skill level of Sprint's developers and system administrators
- Join Sprint to learn the results of a significant open source win over the competition.
The JBoss Way... Explained:
In this session, Ray Ploski and Jason Porter will highlight how the JBoss Way and its technologies provide you with the toolkit to build your applications more quickly, productively, and easily. They will walk you through:
- Java EE 6, the JBoss Developer Framework, Seam 3's future - Apache DeltaSpike
- Various layers supported in the JBoss Way, including HTML5, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), RichFaces, and REST.
- How to use JBoss Forge to create projects in a matter of minutes
- How to use JBoss Developer Studio to craft your changes
- How the JBoss Way accommodates mobile with AeroGear and deployment to cloud within seconds
JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform Overview & Roadmap:
Who are users? Employees, customers on smartphones, business partners, those calling your service desk? All of the above? Way back when, it was OK to have your internal users using a portal, your external users using a content management system (CMS), and your customer service reps using a web app. However today, siloing your user experience is inefficient and overly complex.
Join Red Hat's middleware team in charge of delivering next-generation user experience products to learn how current and future Red Hat technologies can help your users' experience. And learn about how other Red Hat customers are changing their end user experiences.
What's the Big Deal About AMQP?:
Middleware messaging and integration plays a key part in the successful deployment of mission-critical systems and business processes. In this session, Kim Palko and James Kirkland will highlight the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), an open standard passing business messages between applications and organizations.
Kim and James will discuss:
- How AMQP came to be
- Problems that AMQP solves that legacy messaging systems and standards do not address
- Business drivers for AMQP and how using it in your organization can save time and money
- Key capabilities of AMQP
They will also present the additional features that Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging, Red Hat's standalone messaging system that implements AMQP, offer over and above the AMQP specification. Some real-world use cases will also be given.
Exceeding User Expectations with JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform:
Who are users? Employees, customers on smartphones, business partners, those calling your service desk? All of the above? Way back when, it was OK to have your internal users using a portal, your external users using a content management system (CMS), and your customer service reps using a web app. However today, siloing your user experience is inefficient and overly complex.
Join Red Hat's middleware team in charge of delivering next-generation user experience products to learn how current and future Red Hat technologies can help your users' experience. And learn about how other Red Hat customers are changing their end user experiences.
Big Data, Volume, Speed & Benefits with JBoss Data Grid:
In an increasing number of disciplines and industries, data volume and complexity has become both a challenge and an opportunity. Application developers are tasked with bridging the gap between challenge and opportunity and one tool in a developer's belt to help build that bridge is a data grid.
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid is a manageable, scalable, highly available, distributed, in-memory data store that lets you scale based on memory and distribution rather than relational database management system (RDBMS) licenses or database expertise.
In this session, Alan Santos and Manik Surtani will provide a high-level overview of Red Hat JBoss Data Grid, discussing its benefits, common use-cases, and specific features meant to address today's data challenges and opportunities. They will also provide a product roadmap.
Red Hat OpenShift: What's New and What's Next in Red Hat's PaaS:
Do you want to know where the PaaS market is heading? Do you want to get there in the leading pack? Join this super-charged "strategy and roadmap" session as Juan Noceda, OpenShift product manager, and Matt Hicks, OpenShift managing principal architect:
- Reveal the mechanics that placed OpenShift in a leading position in the PaaS market by driving innovation at high speed
- Explain why OpenShift's vision is qualified by market analysts and technical specialists as the the strongest PaaS strategy today
- Provide a look under OpenShift's hood to see how it accelerated from 0 to 4 in 3 (from zero to be identified in the top four PaaS solutions in only three calendar quarters)
- Give you the keys to leverage OpenShift's potential in your organization today to achieve cost savings and a dramatic acceleration in your projects
- Provide an exclusive as they disclose the next turns in the OpenShift roadmap, enabling you to get ahead of the curve in your own technology strategy
JBoss in the trenches:
How do some of the biggest IT departments around the world configure and manage their JBoss Enterprise Middleware installations? How do they deal with security and performance tuning of their application server tiers?
In this session, Ronak Mallik will introduce the industry-wide best practices that emerge time-after-time from the most effective enterprise environments. Ronak will review these best practices for the process of slimming, optimizing, and tuning your company’s application server profile.
Ronak will also discuss real-world procedures for versioning and deploying JBoss Enterprise Middleware to large-scale enterprise environments with multiple regions. The importance of these processes will become more evident as we discuss the techniques for running effective load and endurance testing.
Additionally, we will address proven methodologies for modifying configurations in live production environments.
In this session, attendees will learn:
- Industry-wide best practices for managing JBoss configurations in large-scale production environments
- How to slim, cluster, and optimize your JBoss Application Server configurations
- JBoss Application Server infrastructure security best practices
- Best practices for performance tuning and guidelines for running effective load tests
- Approaches for enabling high availability, redundancy, monitoring, and management
- Best practices for moving deployments through environments with logging, security, and messaging
- Standards for virtualization and dynamic provisioning in the cloud
BPM using your jBPM & Beyond:
A Business Process Management (BPM) suite offers you the capabilities and tools to better manage and streamline your business processes. JBoss jBPM continues its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes in pure Java, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire lifecycles. This allows not only developers, but also business users to manage your business processes more efficiently (using a combination of web-based and Eclipse-based tooling).
A lot has happened in the BPM area over the last few years with the introduction of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules, event processing, etc. In this session, Kris Verlaenen, the jBPM project lead, will give a high-level overview of how jBPM tackles challenges like flexible, domain-specific processes, human interaction, integration with external services, mobile BPM, and BPM in the cloud (e.g., Red Hat OpenShift).
Accelerate Your JBoss Part 1:
Accelerate Your JBoss Part 2:
In these sessions (parts 1 and 2), Andrig Miller, Red Hat's global platform director, will discuss how to optimize JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 for the best possible throughput and scalability. He will show results of various tuning parameters on the throughput of a real Java EE 5 application, and discuss Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-specific tuning for the JVM. Examples of some of the areas he will cover include:
- Thread pools
- Database connection pools
- Object/Component pools
- Logging
- Java Garbage collection
- 32-bit vs. 64-bit JVM performance and tuning options
- Large-page memory
Interested in getting the most from JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 in terms of performance and scalability? This is the session for you.
JBoss Enterprise BRMS: Combining the Power of Business Rules & Business:
JBoss Enterprise BRMS is business user-focused platform that enables the development of business rules, applying complex event processing (CEP) and building business processes. It brings the power of various artifacts from the JBoss Drools project and the JBoss jBPM project together.
Over the years, JBoss Enterprise BRMS has evolved much more than just rules management. The platform offers the same paradigm for using business rules, complex events, and business processes, enabling developers to use one set of APIs and tools to build their solutions.
In this session, Mark Proctor and Prakash Aradhya will discuss the evolution of the Drools JBoss Community project and the JBoss Enterprise BRMS enterprise product. They will cover the major functionalities and use cases supported by the product and the practical examples of using rules and processes together. They will also have the future roadmaps of the project and product.
