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IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder Develop OpenBuilt, a Platform for the Construction Industry
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder recently announced a collaboration to develop OpenBuilt, a platform for the construction industry supply chains built on the hybrid cloud platform Red Hat OpenShift and running on IBM Cloud.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 29th, 2021
This week’s Java roundup features news on: the proposed JDK 17 proposed release schedule; Confluent providing early access to KIP-500, an internal metadata store for Apache Kafka that will ultimately remove its dependency on Apache ZooKeeper; Red Hat and AWS announcing the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS; and point releases for Quarkus, Micronaut and Spring Data.
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How Rocky Linux Aims to Fill the Gap Left by Red Hat’s CentOS Setback
Gregory Kurtzer, founder of CentOS, started the Rocky Linux project in Dec 2020 to fill the gap created by RedHat when they changed direction for CentOS Linux. This shift, from a stable operating system to a stream for testing pre-release code, left many organizations without a Linux distribution that suits their needs. InfoQ interviewed Kurtzer about the goals for the project going forward.
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Java News Roundup - Week of March 15th, 2021
A roundup of smaller stories in the Java ecosystem from the week of March 15th, 2021, featuring the release of Java 16, JEPs advancing from Draft to Candidate status, and news from Hibernate, Red Hat and Spring.
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Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Join the Open Source Security Foundation
Supported by The Linux Foundation, the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) aims to create a cross-industry forum for a collaborative effort to improve open source software security. The list of initial members includes Google, Microsoft, GitHub, IBM, Red Hat, and more.
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Thorntail Reaches Tail End
The Thorntail project has come to an end, as more Java frameworks add support for embedding application server capabilities into applications.
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Red Hat Mandrel Makes Java Native
Red Hat has introduced a new Java distribution, Mandrel, that compiles Java applications directly to native code. As a fork of GraalVM, this decreases startup time and memory usage.
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Red Hat Releases WildFly 18 Featuring Support for Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
Red Hat has released version 18 of their WildFly application server featuring support for Jakarta EE 8 and MicroProfile 3.0. Other features include alignment with the Jakarta EE APIs, support for JDK 13, and enhancements to security, clustering and EE subsystems, especially in the areas of EJB and RESTEasy.
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Red Hat Becomes Steward of Java 8 and 11
RedHat has taken a leadership position in Java 8 and 11, leading its first April release.
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Quarkus Java Framework: Q&A with John Clingan and Mark Little
After initial coverage on Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot was recently released by Red Hat. Now it is time for a Q&A with John Clingan and Mark Little.
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Wildfly 16: Improvements to Messaging and Clustering
Continuing with its quarterly delivery model, Wildfly 16 was released last month, closing or resolving almost 200 issues, feature requests, and bugs. Included in this release was Galleon, a provisioning tool for constructing custom-tailored Wildfly servers, compatibility with JDK12, as well as several enhancements to messaging, and clustering support.
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Quarkus, a Kubernetes Native Java Framework
Red Hat has released Quarkus, a Kubernetes native Java framework tailored for GraalVM and OpenJDK HotSpot. Quarkus aims to make Java a leading platform in Kubernetes and serverless environments, offering developers a unified reactive and imperative programming model.
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OperatorHub.io, a Public Registry for Kubernetes Operators
Red Hat, in collaboration with Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Amazon Web Services, recently launched OperatorHub.io. OperatorHub.io is designed as a public registry for finding services backed by Kubernetes Operators.
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RedHat Releases JBoss 7.2 With EE 8
RedHat has released JBoss 7.2, with full support for the EE 8 specification. This release brings another application server into the Jakarta EE, post-Oracle environment. It also provides support for modern web technologies such as Servlet 4.0 with HTTP/2 capabilities.
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IBM to Acquire Red Hat for $34 Billion
IBM announced this afternoon that it will acquire open-source software company Red Hat for $34 billion, the largest deal IBM has ever done, according to Reuters. The deal will help IBM expand its reach as an enterprise cloud computing provider.