If so, join me in a webinar next Wednesday where we'll explore you build elastic applications using CDI and Java EE 6. There will be a super cool demo :-D

• Date: Wednesday, October 5, 2011
• Time: 17:00 London, 12:00 Noon Boston, 9:00 San Francisco, 12:00 Midnight Singapore
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This autumn I'm speaking at JavaOne (2nd - 6th October in San Francisco), JUDCon London (31st October, 1st November) and Devoxx (14th - 18th November).

• Introducing Contexts and Dependency Injection 1.1 - technical session in which I'll overview some of the changes coming in CDI 1.1
• CDI Today and Tomorrow - panel session on CDI with David Blevins, Arun Gupta, Sivakumar Thyagarajan and Reza Rahman
• Making Java EE Cloud-Friendly: JSR 347, Data Grids for the Java Platform - BOF with Manik Surtani

• Java EE in the Cloud - a technical session in which I'll show you how to use Java EE in the cloud, using Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service
• Using Infinispan as a remote data store - a technical session with Galder Zamarreño in which we'll show you how to use Infinispan as a remote data store on Red Hat's OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service, with a client app written using CDI.

JUDCon is the official JBoss Users and Developers Conference, and is great value at £100 for a day - so if you near London, I recommend registering today!

• Real-world deep-dive into Infinispan - the open source data grid platform - university talk with Manik Surtani and Mircea Markus in which we'll deep dive into Infinispan
• The Java EE BOF series - 3 hours of discussions on Java EE, CDI and Seam with people such as Emmanuel, Dan, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine's and Nigel Deakin - and I know more will be confirmed later!

Enjoy!

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past week, then you'll have seen that Red Hat just added support for JBoss AS 7 on OpenShift (both Express and Flex).

Why should you care?

• OpenShift is the first PaaS to offer Java EE 6 support
• OpenShift Express is 100% free, and allows you to run as many non-clustered applications you want on JBoss AS 7
• OpenShift Express offers neat management of your apps via Git, including a source compilation mode
• OpenShift Flex gives you much more freedom, including the ability to run clustered applications, and offers monitoring and automatic scaling.
• OpenShift Flex is free, but you need to provide the EC2 instances. However Red Hat is offering a free 1 month/30 hour trial, so there is no reason not to check it out right now
• JBoss AS 7 implements the Java EE 6 web profile, with all the benefits of the excellent CDI-based programming model it offers. It's very snappy to use, so deploying apps is quick

How can you learn more?

This week we've been pushing out material like crazy. If you want to give Java EE 6 in the cloud a try check out these resources:

• Getting Started with OpenShift Express [Windows | Fedora | Mac ]
• Using Java EE 6 on OpenShfit Express
• Mobile to Cloud in 4 minutes using OpenShift Express
• Use Seam in OpenShift Express [ Blog | Screencast ]
• JBoss on OpenShift Overview
• JBoss AS 7 on OpenShift Express
• Using Infinispan with CDI on OpenShift Express

To find out more, check out jboss.org.

Quick maven tip for you. If you want to generate a META-INF/LICNSE.txt and META-INF/DEPENDENCIES.txt for your jars (very useful for libraries so users can quickly build an understanding of any licensing implications), here's how.

Create a licensing bundle, a bit like this one. The magic happens in src/main/resources/META-INFDEPENDENCIES.txt.vm; we explore the transitive dependencies of the project, and for each one, print out the project name and it's license.

You can then use the licensing bundle in your parent pom, with a snippet a bit like this:

         <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-remote-resources-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.1</version>
            <executions>
               <execution>
                  <id>attach-license</id>
                  <goals>
                     <goal>process</goal>
                  </goals>
                  <inherited>true</inherited>
                  <configuration>
                     <resourceBundles>
                        <resourceBundle>org.infinispan:infinispan-license:1</resourceBundle>
                     </resourceBundles>
                  </configuration>
               </execution>
            </executions>
         </plugin>

If you missed our webinars on JBoss AS7 then never fear, because we've already got the recordings uploaded!

First, watch Jason introduce you to what's new and cool in JBoss AS 7, then, you can watch Dan and myself show you how to write apps for JBoss AS 7. Next up was Brian, showing you the JBoss AS 7 domain model and how to manage your subsystems, finally we have Paul and Bela showing you how to cluster JBoss AS 7.

This was a great series of tutorials, full of live demos, so check it out.

If you are looking to get started with JBoss AS 7, you might want to take a look at the 5 ways to deploy an application to JBoss AS 7 screencast I recorded yesterday.