BlackTie3 M2 Released

Hi,

Just to let you know that we have released M2 of BlackTie3. The release notes are available from: http://www.jboss.org/blacktie/release.html and the download is available from: http://www.jboss.org/blacktie/downloads

In this release we have added XA support for our enqueue and dequeue operations which is pretty slick. Plus we have also added support for a new buffer type: NBF.

This new buffer type is particularly cool as it allows you to access the content of XML structured data through a mapping API. On the wire, the data is transmitted as XML which will hopefully mean that we can use JBossESB to route this content for us.

Tom

BlackTie 3.0.0.M1 Released!

Guys,

I have some particularly great news this for today, we have just release the first milestone from the 3.0 stream of BlackTie.

As always we have the release notes available on the web from: http://www.jboss.org/blacktie/release.html

Some of the main features we have introduced are:
1. HornetQ transport - we have finally upgraded to HornetQ for increased performance and resilience in our underlying messaging provider, this is particularly good as we can now take advantage of the HornetQ InVM transport between stompconnect and the message broker for super efficient messaging!
2. AIX support - with some excellent work by a few of our community members we have managed to get Blacktie building and running on AIX!
3. Java stomp usage - we have simplified our Java client library so that it now utilises stomp rather than raw JMS for messaging, this greatly simplifies the administration of deployed clients
4. Extended buffer support - we have introduced the ability to describe the X_C_TYPE and X_COMMON buffers in XSD rather than the btconfig, this is the first part in extending these buffers for SOA style usage
5. Greatly enhanced queueing support - I will add a blog entry on this later today or this week

This last point is truly a step forward for us, the blog will have more details but we have added two new (non-XATMI) operations which allow messages to be enqueued with the scope of a TX transaction! Finally you can send messages from C code within the scope of an XA transaction in an open source project!

We look forward to hearing your feedback!

Tom

PS Download the release from here: http://www.jboss.org/blacktie/downloads

JUDCon on reflection

So, here we are three days after the event that was JUDCon Berlin. And what an event it was!

For myself, I attended some extremely interesting presentations on RHQ, Wise, Infinispan, a whole host of cloud related ones (including an impromptu BoxGrinder one), HornetQ and more.

As is usual for a JUDCon, the quality of the presenters was very high. I have to give particular kudos to the community presenters who were (at least in every talk that I attended) very interesting and able to give some quite unique perspectives.

Thanks to everyone who attended my BlackTie presentation, the slides are due to be uploaded to the JUDCon Berlin page soon.

Tom

BlackTie 2.0.0.Final Released!

The team is very proud to announce the availability of BlackTie 2! It has been almost a year since version 1 and things have certainly moved on considerably since then. The major features we have provided in this release are:
1. Full XATMI compatibility
2. Full TX compatibility
3. Administration with RHQ
4. Support for true asynchronous service invocation
5. Full suite of examples
6. Fully tested (coverage, leaks, compliance)
7. Simplified configuration

I would like to thank all the team for their considerable effort in getting this released and to everyone who provided feedback on our blog and forum.

Of course, we wont be resting on our laurels and work is already underway on version 3, which will provide the following major pieces of functionality:
1. XATMI wire protocol interoperability
2. An XML buffer format to assist users migrating from other XATMI implementations

If you are interested in getting started with BlackTie, take a look at our 2 minute quickstart or head straight to the download page and you will be ready to go!

Tom

JUDCon Abstract: Migrating to JBoss from Oracle Tuxedo using the BlackTie project

Hi guys,

Here is a reprint of the abstract to my presentation on the 7th October at JUDCon Berlin:

"The presentation takes a look at the overall steps that a user would need to take in order to migrate their applications from Oracle Tuxedo to JBoss AS using the newly released BlackTie 2 project. It will discuss some of the difficulties involved and walk through examples of how these may be addressed using BlackTie today and some of the features that are being worked on for BlacktTie 3. A comparison of the features offered by Tuxedo and those provided by JBoss AS with BlackTie will also be provided."

To find out what others will be speaking about, take a look at the agenda.

Tom

BlackTie returns to JUDCon this October!

We just received great news that BlackTie will be presenting at JUDCon Berlin on the 7th October! We are going to be discussing how to go about migrating from another XATMI implementation to BlackTie and JBoss, so it should prove to be a useful introduction for those about to take the plunge and upgrade to JBoss.

We will also be making using of the 2.0.0.Final version of BlackTie for this presentation - a little hint to another blog post I will be making over the next few days ;)

I am really looking forward to seeing some of you there on the Thursday!

Tom

BlackTie 2.0.0.CR2 released!

Hello BlackTie fans,

Well, its a Friday so that must mean its time to serve you up the latest CR of BlackTie!

We havent had to alter too much for this release so if you have been using CR1 there isn't much changed beyond a slight re-organization of the extracted distribution, plus we have the Jars in the maven repo this time

As always you can download the release from: http://www.jboss.org/blacktie

Thanks to all our avid followers for downloading it!

Tom