1. Introduction to the
The JBoss.org Community
& Professional OpenSource
Dimitris Andreadis
Engineering Manager
JBoss Application Server
JBoss by Red Hat

2. Agenda
 What is JBoss
 JBoss.org Community and Projects
 JBoss.com and Red Hat

3. What is JBoss?

4. What is JBoss?
 An Open Source JavaEE* Server
 Founded by Marc Fleury in 1999
 Backed by a community of developers
 Yet Another Java AppServer (out of 40+)
*Java Enterprise Edition

5. Application Servers – The Modern Mainframes
 Provide a runtime for mission-critical applications
 Solve the Many (clients) to Few (resources) problem
 User code doesn't have to deal with
 Security
 Transactions
 Threading RDBMS
 Pooling
 Caching
 Connectors Back-end
Systems
 Messaging
 Clustering
 ...

6. Java Enterprise Edition (EE) Standards
 Web Server (HTTP/HTTPS)  Java Naming & Directory
Service (JNDI)
 Web Container (Servlet,
JSP, JSF, etc.)  XML Processing (JAXP,
StAX, etc.)
 Enterprise Java Beans
(EJBs)  Security (JASS / JACC, ...)
 Java Persistence API (JPA)  Web Services (JAX-WS,
JAX-RPC, JAXB, SAAJ,
 Java Connector JAXR, ...)
Architecture (JCA, JDBC)
 Management (JMX)
 Java Transaction API (JTA)
 Java Messaging Service
 RMI-IIOP / Java IDL (JMS)
 JAF / JavaMail  and more...

7. What made JBoss special?
 Open Source
Commercial Servers at $10k - $100k+
 LGPL licensed
 Freely Use/Distribute/Embed
 Change JBoss => contribute changes back
 Developer friendly
 Easy installation : unzip and run!
 Hot deployment, no pre-compilation steps, etc.
 Innovative design
 Lightweight, modular, dynamic

8. JBoss.org

9. JBoss.org
 Provides the infrastructure for the community projects
 CVS/SVN/Git repositories
 Continuous Builds (Hudson/Jenkins)
 Bug Tracking / Task Mgmt (JIRA)
 Mailing Lists
 Forums / Wikis
 Website / Blogs
 Documentation
 JBoss User Group (JBug) support
 JBoss User Developer Conferences (JUDCon)

10. JBoss.org: 70+
Community Projects

27. JBoss.com

28. JBoss.com – The Company
1999 :
EJB-OSS Project
2000 :
Training & Consulting
2001 :
Documentation for sale
2002 :
JBoss Group LLC & Support
2003 :
Expansion with new OSS projects JBoss Network
2004 :
JBoss Inc, Venture Funding,
Enterprise
& J2EE 1.4 Certification JEMS
2005: : JEMS, JBoss Network, … Partners
Production Support
Tactical
Developer Support
Consulting JBoss, Inc.
Professional Open Source
Documentation
Developer
Training JBoss Group
Small Consultancy
10/00 6/01 1/02 9/02 9/03 1/05 6/05

29. JBoss Professional Open Source
 Brand Protection
 JBoss Subscription
 Updates, Patches, Security fixes
 Production Support up to 24x7 with 1h response
 Long term stability
 Legal Assurance
 Training, Consulting, Certification
 ISV / OEM
 Most core developers are full-time JBoss employees
 Hire elite OSS contributors from the community

30. Red Hat acquisition of JBoss (2006)
 JBoss formed the Middleware division of Red Hat
 An Open Source stack
for the Enterprise

31. Community JBoss Application Server (AS)
vs. Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
• Community Project (JBoss AS)
- JBoss As We Know It
- Sponsored by JBoss/Red Hat
- Allow innovation at a faster pace
• Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- Forks the community project at stable points
- Integrates with JBoss Developer Studio / JBoss Operations Network
- Rigorously tested (performance, scalability, SpecJ, etc.)
- Certified on multiple OS, JVM, DBs combinations
- Cumulative Patch cycles
- Supported for 5 + 2 years.

32. JBoss Enterprise Middleware/Platforms
 Application Platform
 SOA Platform
 Business Rules Management System
 Web Server
 Web Platform
 Messaging
 Portal Platform
 Data Services Platform
 Developer Studio
 Web Framework Kit

33. Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers
(Source: Gartner April 2008)

34. Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Application Servers
(Source: Gartner September 2011)

36. GR-JBUG – Greek JBoss User Group
http://groups.google.com/group/gr-jbug
Java Hellenic User Group – jhug.gr
http://groups.google.com/group/jhug
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