Dev Fu: Bowler Hat strikes back

November 4th, 2007 Radim Marek Posted in jboss |

World of open source has changed drastically and so has one of the most iconic company behind it – RedHat. Open source reached enterprise. Enterprise reached open source. The share price is becoming more important than latest kernel version.

If there wasn’t the acquisition of JBoss by RedHat last year, I would probably forget about RedHat for once and for all. But things went in the rather different direction. Let’s hope it’s for good in the longer term. Lately the some negative changes emerged. For example in the last couple of months, alterations to the JBoss website made it quite hard to distinguish the open source projects and commercial enterprise middleware. The separation of jboss.com and jboss.org (labs.jboss.com) hasn’t been promoted as much as it would be needed. The constant questions I’m facing related to this topic are bitter evidence of this problem. I have to ask myself, if it is so difficult to separate both domains completely? I don’t think so.

But to switch to positive note, I would like to dedicate this post to RedHat’s new developers’ portal called Dev Fu. Recently it seems to receive the attention and new articles are being published frequently. Hopefully it will help to improve perception of identity of the RedHat’s open source projects and that’s the reason why I’m happy to promote it. The other question is the mixture of Linux and JBoss articles, but we shall see how this rather difficult combination is going to settle down.

Link: Dev Fu [http://developer.redhatmagazine.com/]

Personally I would like to recommend article Continuing the Conversation – Understanding Seam Nested Conversation. Because the conversations are one of the most important parts of JBoss Seam, this article should provide you enough information to understand the concept behind it and therefore understand the framework a little bit more.