This Week in JBoss - 23 September 2021

Quarkus has really come a long way since the first release only a few years ago. A testament to the fact is certainly the compelling user stories released by the project’s team in the last weeks. First, we have How Quarkus Improved Logicdrop’s Developer Experience and Process, followed by Eclipse Adoptium Uses Quarkus for high volume Java SE distribution API. And we even have a nice retail business use case, with VCStream: a new messaging platform for DECATHLON’s Value Chain, built on Quarkus!

So, if you have yet to jump onboard the Quarkus train, it’s really time to do so! And, to help you do it, you can check out this nice tutorial on Quarkus for Spring developers: Getting started. Once you are hooked by Quarkus, go check out the Quarkus Newsletter #12!

Kogito and its ecosystem have been quite active lately. In the last two weeks, five different articles have been released, each covering very different aspects of the project:

After all this Quarkus and Kogito action, if you are still looking for even more technical nitty, gritty details, you should certainly check out this article on Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses.

As always, projects of the JBoss community have been quite active and released a few exciting new versions, including a beta of Wildlfy’s next major version!

In the past months, we’ve been doing some hard work to ensure that JBoss software can fit as neatly as possible within an Ansible playbook. There is a still a lot to be done, but we are already quite proud of to two Ansible collections we have released. The first one is called, JCliff, but will soon be renamed to WildFly, as it aims to integrate, as smoothly as possible, the app server into Ansible. The latest version (v.0.0.10) has already a few exciting features: * systemd integration, a reusable role to help set up WildFly as a systemd service * a reusable role to install JDBC driver and their module * and, of course, more fine-tuning of WildFly’s subsystem thanks to the JCLiff (embedded in the collection) which allows Ansible to configure mod_cluster, sockets, JMS queues and so many other features.

We are also very happy about the release of JWS Collection for Ansible (v0.0.2), which allows us to quickly set up Apache Tomcat or its counterpart, JBoss Web Server, but also provides some nice features, like integration with systemd and common criteria (partial) compliance checking. Please check our blog entry about this Ansible collection for Apache Tomcat / JWS for more details!

(Given that those are projects I work on, I fully assume that this entry is a shameless plug :) )

That’s all for today! Please join us again in two weeks for another installment of our JBoss editorial! Stay safe and healthy in the meantime.