OSC 2012 Amsterdam - Demystifying the path to a JBoss Intelligent, Integrated Enterprise

On December 14, I will be speaking at the Open Source Conference 2012 in Amsterdam.

This has grown into one of the premier events in EMEA for enthusiasts, customers and partners of Red Hat to gather and discuss topics such as JBoss enterprise middleware, enterprise open source, big data, cloud computing social media and mobile technologies.

It is being hosted at the Beurs van Berlage (Amsterdam Stock Market) and you can register at the OSC 2012 site. My session will be on the Intelligent Integrated Enterprise:

Demystifying the path to a JBoss Intelligent, Integrated Enterprise

Enterprises are dealing with exploding levels of business events and associated data. So how do you stay competitive and meet customer expectations in the midst of this growth? By connecting your IT infrastructure to respond to changing market conditions in real time. Without increasing agility and automation, you risk alienating customers and losing business due to poor service.

An integrated, flexible, adaptable IT infrastructure

The intelligent, integrated enterprise relies on:

• Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and data services to connect siloed information.
• A business rules management system (BRMS) to automate processes, control decision-making, and eliminate manual touch points. 
• Advanced messaging to extend its reach to mobile and field devices.
• Leveraging cloud infrastructure to adapt to changing resource needs.

The result? Less risk, better leverage of existing data assets, and happier customers.  This session will show you how you can achieve this vision with JBoss Enterprise Middleware integration products. You will learn what an intelligent, integrated enterprise is, how to build yours, understand the value derived and be given a tour of example real life scenarios that implement an an intelligent, integrated enterprise.

See you there?

UPDATE: This day was a huge success with over 1000 participants. Session went great, lots of discussion afterwards and interest in JBoss BRMS / BPM products. Slides here for your viewing pleasure.

JAX 2013: JBoss BPMS sneak peak, the future is now for your business processes

I have submitted this session to the JAX 2013 conference in Mainz, Germany through the call for papers. The conference is scheduled for April 22-26, 2013.

JBoss BPMS sneak peak, the future is now for your business processes

A Business Process Management System offers you the capabilities to better manage & streamline your business processes. 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 & adaptive processes, integration with business rules & event processing. We will show you how JBoss jBPM tackles these challenges.

JAX 2013: Building highly scalable process & rule-driven applications

I have submitted this session to the JAX 2013 conference in Mainz, Germany through the call for papers. The conference is scheduled for April 22-26, 2013.

Building highly scalable process & rule-driven applications

In this session we will discuss best practices for constructing both BRMS and BPMS applications that support large numbers of processes and rules operating on big data. We'll illustrate common use cases, provide practical tips and you’ll learn how to confidently scale out your rule applications to meet demanding enterprise needs and based on JBoss open source technologies.

JAX 2013: OpenShift - Advanced Java & JBoss in the Cloud

I have submitted this session to the JAX 2013 conference in Mainz, Germany through the call for papers. The conference is scheduled for April 22-26, 2013.

OpenShift - Advanced Java & JBoss in the Cloud

Join us for an action-packed hour of power! Bring your laptop & follow along as we help you get started with various JBoss components such as AeroGear, Drools Planner, Switchyard ESB, JBoss BRMS, & many more. Real world examples put on display with code you can access live during this session. Want to learn about how OpenShift changes everything you thought you knew about development in the cloud?

JBugNL kicks off in December with an JBoss OpenShift Primer

I was approached last week by the new organisers of the Netherlands JBoss User Group (JBugNL) to provide a session on something awesome. Well that is easy, with JBoss and OpenShift you can not miss.

I will be highlighting some of the content of my soon to be released OpenShift Primer e-book so hurry up and RSVP below before we run out of space for you.

OpenShift Primer - JBoss development in the Cloud

Join us for an action-packed hour of power! Bring your laptop and follow along as we help you get started with various JBoss components such as AeroGear, Drools Planner, Switchyard ESB, JBoss Business Rules Management System, and many more. Real world working examples put on display for you with code you can access live during this session.  Want to learn about how Red Hat OpenShift can change everything you thought you knew about developing Java apps in the cloud? This session is for you! Location:  Xebia offices Utrechtseweg 49 Hilversum, Netherlands

Time: 12 Dec 2012, 1800 - 2100 hrs

Sign up via meetup.

Red Hat Developer Day London 2012 - Advanced Java & JBoss in the Cloud summary

It was a fun day in London at the Red Hat Developers Day 2012 where I met up with others talking all things JBoss and OpenShift in some form or another. I arrived a bit later in the afternoon due to my travel schedule, but just in time to chat with Pete Muir before he went on stage for his talk.

He covered a large portion of the JBoss Way and highlighted OpenShift usage from his beloved ForgeTools integration with JBoss Developers Studio.

After his talk I went on with an overview of the OpenShift Primer story I like to tell. Then I dove deeper into the various JBoss projects and products that we have running right now in OpenShift. It was both a talk and a demo so I ended the session with web based, CLI and a bit of IDE magic around creation, deploying, setup and destruction of the various JBoss projects that you can find online in my Github repositories.

I also took time to highlight my upcoming book release on OpenShift, see cover posted here. It will be an e-book appearing soon to outlets near and far via developerpress.com.

Red Hat Developer Day London: Advanced Java & JBoss in the Cloud from Eric D. Schabell

JBoss EDS Platform - are you trying to connect to SAP?

Red Hat and SAP partnership is evolving and both are focused on bringing to market world-class open source and enterprise business solutions. Engineers from both companies are working together with a focus on developing new tools to further the integration of SAP Business Suite with enterprise Java applications running on JBoss Enterprise Middleware.

The aim of such integration, of course, is a more intelligent, integrated enterprise — one that can maximize the value of your data assets and accelerate business decisions.The intent is to provide capabilities that make it easier to consume SAP application data and business processes from the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform,JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform, or JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Solving interoperability problems is a complex task, and generally no single solution meets the need of every development project. For this reason, Red Hat plans multiple interoperability options to address different JBoss and SAP integration requirements — lightweight and data-centric Java applications that need to consume SAP data, SOAP Web services integration to support SOA solutions, and deep application integration that requires an API-based approach.

Follow along as Ted Jones demos how to access SAP data using SAP Netweaver Gateway.

Video JUDCon 2012 - OpenShift State of the Union

My talk this year at JUDCon 2012 in Boston was on the State of the Union with OpenShift in regards to JBoss projects. You can find the slides in a previous post.

Now we have a recording and it is available on YouTube.

JBoss One Day Talks - JBoss BRMS sneak peak at jBPM

This week I was at the JBoss One Day Talks event in Munich, Germany. It was a day packed with sessions on all things JBoss, both projects from the community and products from the supported JBoss line from Red Hat.

It was a nice group of local guys and some friends I know in the area that made the trip from outlying cities such as Stuttgart and Berlin. I had a session on JBoss BRMS with a focus on BPM by the jBPM component that you will find in the latest release.

I wanted to mention the OpenShift session given by Jurgen Buddy Hoffmann entitled OpenShift PaaS by Red Hat - Code, Deploy, Enjoy! This was a great update session that walked us through the various architectural components that make up the OpenShift PaaS, including a demo of deploying an application and a walk through the various new features that make up the goodness of OpenShift.

My session was pretty well filled and I ran through the following slides, ending with an extensive look at the demo BRMS Rewards Demo that you can find in my github: https://github.com/eschabell/brms-rewards-demo

JBoss BRMS sneak peak, the future is now for your Business Processes from Eric D. Schabell

GOTO Aarhus 2012 in Denmark summary

I was last week in Denmark at the awesome GOTO Aarhus 2012 conference. I was not sure what to expect, but leading up to the conference there was a lot of social media activity and we even were able to win a GOTO hoodie, thanks to the GOTO organization.

There were a lot of attendees and most were obviously enterprise developers interested in serious solutions and best practices. There were over 80 presentations and I gave mine on JBoss BRMS Best Practices, slides available online.

The organization had a dinner planned one evening for all attendees and it included a Viking show with  sword fighting and lots of laughter related to smashing Apple products. We hosted a few partners and there was beer available at our stand. Denmark is famous for its beer drinkers, in case you were not aware of that!

I received my session reviews inside of 30 minutes by email, which is something I really liked. I wish more conferences would do that.

My trip there involved a flight, a car ride and a boat ride to cross the ocean to the region holding Aarhus. This is fun as most travel today is fly to a conference and fly home. Below you find the link to the pictures I gathered in my time at GOTO Aarhus, but there is also an Instagram Feed available that shows you a much better impression of this great conference.

I am looking forward to attending another one in the future and suggest you either submit a talk or attend the next one in your area. They are listed on the GOTO site.

GOTO Aarhus 2012

JBoss BRMS - so you want to use Internet Explorer (IE) to design your processes

BRMS BRM in IE?

Occasionally we get a question about using the JBoss BRMS product, specifically the Business Rules Manager (BRM) component where you can design your business processes, in the Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

Yes, this is the Microsoft web browser, something that has never before been mentioned in any of my articles. The thing is, you can use this browser with some help to make use of the BRM component. Follow along and we will get you up and running in no time.

The following was tested with IE versions 6 through 9.

1. Open BRMS console go to knowledge Bases and try creating a new BPMN process or opening any existing BPMN2 process in the designer.
2. You will be redirected to the Chrome Frame download and install page. Follow the instructions to install Chrome Frame.
3. After installing chrome Frame you will be prompted to enable Chrome Frame BHO in the bottom of the IE browser enable that alternatively you can go to manage add-ons in the tools and enable Chrome Frame BHO from there.
4. Open Guvnor.jsp at $jboss_home/server/default/deploy/jboss-brms.war/org.drools.guvnor.Guvnor/Guvnor.jsp in any html editor make the following changes:
• Make the content value in the meta tag to “chrome=1” below after change it should look like the following :
• <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1" />
5. Close the browser and delete temporary pages from the history
6. Restart of the JBoss server is required for redeployment of the jboss-brms.war

Hope this helps you with JBoss BRMS in Internet Explorer!

GOTO Aarhus session slides: JBoss BRMS building large scale BPM and rule-driven applications

Today I presented my talk on building large scale BPM and rule-driven applications with JBoss BRMS at GOTO Aarhus. It was a well received talk with lots of interaction and questions at the end.

This was an audience filled with enterprise developers and the questions ranged from dealing with existing complex domain models to scaling out your BPM projects. I also enjoyed the evaluation process, which resulted in an email in my inbox within 30 mins after my session. 55% voted that it was a Great session, 45% that it was a Good session. Can't complain with those results.

Here are the session slides:

Red Hat Asian Pacific FY13 Partner Conference in Beijing China

I have just returned from a two week trip to Beijing, China. I was there the second week for the Red Hat Asian Pacific FY13  Partner Conference, an event setup for the Red Hat Partners from the Asian Pacific region.

It was filled with sessions on all things JBoss and Red Hat, with me giving two talks focused around the JBoss Way and demos for dummies with JBoss BRMS. The sessions were short but pretty packed with lots of different cultures, with translators provided in booths in the back of the room. It was strange to present to a group with headphones on and have them laugh at your jokes about 2 minutes after you told them!


I have included a link to the pictures of the event, including the cultural dances and shows that were part of the fun. With over 40% more attendees than last year it was a great success. I think the final count was 215 partners attending. I look forward to it next year!

APAC Red Hat Partner Conference 2012