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Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 (JBoss EAP 7) – final release

| Heinz Wilming

A few days ago, Red Hat released the major version 7 of the open source Java EE application server, Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP).

Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBoss EAP) is the supported and quality assured version of the WildFly application server from the JBoss community.

jboss-eap-wildfly-upstream-history

The JBoss EAP 7 is based on the version 10 of the WildFly application server. In 2013 Red Hat renamed the JBoss AS community project to WildFly to avoid confusion with the JBoss brand which referred to several different things at once, the application server, the JBoss Community, and a range of other JBoss Products.

The main improvements and highlights of the JBoss EAP 7 release

This article focuses on the following main improvements and highlights of the new major release of the JBoss EAP 7:

  • implementation of the new specifications of the Java Enterprise Edition 7
  • enhanced modularity
  • management improvements
  • component updates
  • compatibility and interoperability

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Starting Android application development with Apache Maven

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Despite of not being in widespread use in the Android world, Apache Maven is a great tool to develop Android applications. Maven has a lot of advantages relevant for Android application development:

  • It can be integrated on a continuous integration server, allowing continuous testing and nightly-build delivery
  • It provides a strict release process avoiding errors and inconsistencies. The resulting APK are ‘marketplace-ready’
  • It also provides a common way to build and package the applications
  • It supports modular-development allowing the integration of classes and resources from others projects

This post explores how to quickly start developing Android applications using Maven. It presents three archetypes allowing getting a running application in less than 2 minutes!
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