Eric D. Schabell

A tour of OpenShift - Rise Above the Cloud Hype

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 15 May 2012 06:10:10 PDT

Early in 2012 I put together an article that was to be published in a Dutch Java magazine in Feb 2012 but the magazine company when bankrupt before that could happen. That left me with no choice but to push it out via my blog at the end of Jan 2012 (it is now a bit out dated as the OpenShift crew moves fast with their releases).

In the time since I posted this, I was approached by the nice people over at JAXenter.com who wanted to use this in their Cloud issue of the Java Tech Journal. I submitted it and you can find it in the April 2012 issue titled Above the Cloud Hype.

The same line was taken as in the initial article, but it was cleaned up and brings you up to speed on the latest OpenShift Origin project at the time of writing. You can find it on pages 19-22.

You need to provide an email address and you will then be sent the download link for the PDF.

NLUUG Spring 2012 conference shocked by the Cloud

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:36:54 PDT

NLUUG Spring 2012

I gave my talk today on OpenShift that was rather enlightening for myself. This was due to the fact that the topic of this conference was Operating Systems. I was really wondering what they would be interested in with regards to a PaaS by Red Hat, given in the form of an OpenShift Primer which is basically targeting a developer audience and getting them started with the project.

As I waited for the room to fill up I notices the audience was very clearly more directed towards system administration types and that they really do love fiddling with the stack (especially the OS). This is something that a PaaS is trying to eliminate from the daily life of a developer. I took a deep breath, laid out the OpenShift t-shirts I brought and dived into the primer session with a goal of making it both interesting to admins and get them interested in helping their developers to stop hanging out at their desks when they need to fiddle with their stacks. We also dug into the new concept of Gears for the first time.

It went over quite well I think, with good interaction, some laughs and the t-shirts were snapped up like hot cakes! I spent time chatting with a few attendees and one organizer that wants to expand the following NLUUG conference to include a Cloud track. I hope to be back at the next one and tantalize the attendees with the latest update on the OpenShift project. Maybe we can even install and use it locally by that time? ;-)

Note: I received a note from one of the attendees the next morning after the conference, timestamped at 1930hrs the night after my session. This attendee went home and dived right into the OpenShift experience and wanted to let me know that he was now trying to come up with that billion dollar idea now that he has the PaaS to host it on. Mission accomplished I would say!

NLUUG Spring 2012 - OpenShift Primer

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

NLUUG Spring 2012 - OpenShift Primer

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:38:31 PDT

I have been invited to provide a session at the NLUUG Spring 2012 conference to be hosted at NBC in Nieuwegein, Netherlands on the 11th of April.

I will be talking about the Platform as a Service (PaaS) project OpenShift.

OpenShift Primer - Get your Business into the Cloud today
Ever wondered about the new Cloud offerings out there? What is a PaaS? What is this thing called OpenShift?

Whether your business is running on applications based on Java EE6, PHP or Ruby, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing your business.

There are plenty of clouds and platform-as-a-services to choose from, but where to start? Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we'll show you how to deploy your existing application written in the language of your choice - Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice - EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes.

All this and without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work.

You can have your business applications running in the cloud on OpenShift Express in seconds, while also making use of the web browser do the heavy-lifting of provisioning clusters, deploying, monitoring
and auto-scaling apps in OpenShift Flex.

If you want to learn about OpenShift PaaS and see how investing 45 mins of your time can change everything you thought you knew about putting your business applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

Use the following promotional code when signing up to try out OpenShift: NLUUG

Red Hat Cloud Tour 2012 in Amsterdam - an amazing day in the Cloud

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:31:31 PDT

Yesterday I was lucky enough to speak at the Red Hat Cloud Tour's latest stop here in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was an amazing day with around 350 attendees and the location was fantastic, Pakhuis de Zwijger.

The image here of the location will lead you to the collection of photos I took to give an impression of the day as I experienced it.

It started with the keynotes and after lunch we hit the breakout sessions. I talked about JBoss in your Cloud Infrastructure and finished up the day with an OpenShift Primer where I show cased a mobile registration demo application (online for awhile if you want to look: cloudtour-inthe.rhcloud.com) based on the JBoss AeroGear project.

Here are the slides for both presentations and thanks to the attendees who were engaged, inquisitive and actively participating in the sessions. It was a great time and I got invited to speak at two upcoming events in the Netherlands in the near future!

Leverage An Intelligent Application Infrastructure for Competitive Advantage.

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

OpenShift Primer - get your business into the Cloud today!

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

Red Hat Cloud Tour 2012 in London - a birds eye view from the Clouds

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:32:23 PDT

View of London from the Clouds

I was on site at the Red Hat Cloud Tour in London at the Millbank Tower location. Wow, what a view you get from the 29th floor above the centre of London! I have put some impression pictures in the link behind the photo, it was great weather and around 160 attendees making it a good day for all to catch up on Red Hat's thoughts and ideas around implementing your Cloud strategies.

I gave a session on JBoss in your Cloud infrastructure, slides posted below. This also dived into the topics around JBoss EAP6 and OpenShift, with some t-shirts being passed out among the attendees.

Leverage An Intelligent Application Infrastructure for Competitive Advantage.

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

JUDCon 2012 Boston - talk accepted OpenShift state of the Union

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:33:14 PDT

I previously submitted several talks to JBoss World and JUDCon hoping to drop in on the largest JBoss conference in the world. They have accepted the following OpenShift talk, so see you in Boston on 25-26th of June 2012.

OpenShift State of the Union, brought to you by JBoss

It has been a marriage made in heaven. JBoss has brought the enterprise application platform and JEE to the OpenShift PaaS for all of your development tasks. It is much more than a simple application server though, JBoss provides a multitude of projects that cover everything from mobile, business process management, web development, support tooling to inter connectivity with other development languages like Ruby.

This session will take you through an overview of what OpenShift has to offer right now, how to get started, and then provide some highlights of the various projects that you can now access within the JBoss community. Bring you laptop and follow along as we help you get started in mobile development with Aerogears, Ruby Java connectivity with TorqueBox, process development with tooling from jBPM and much more. These will all be real world projects put on display for you with code you can access live during this session!

Codemotion 2012 Rome OpenShift Primer Adventure

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:12:06 PDT

I am in Rome, Italy this week giving my OpenShift talk at Codemotion 2012. This conference was a very large (I was told, the largest in Italy) and had over 3000 attendees. Being in Rome must have helped if you take a walk through the set of pictures I took of not only the conference but of the city.

I arrived a day early as I had some work to do at the local Red Hat offices, giving a JBoss BRMS 5.3 preview session to the local Solution Architects and Consultants. The office is located a stones throw from Vatican City. Nothing like that view out the window of your office to distract you, I don't know how anyone gets any work done! Enjoy the pictures I put together here.

I discovered that OpenShift released not only a new website and logo, but also a new version with some interesting features (DIY and Node.js cartridges). Damn, now all my session slides included screenshots that were outdated. Back to the drawing board and I worked out the new slides to showcase OpenShift logo and new site look. While I was at it, I decided to demo the HTML5 mobile demo based on the JBoss AeroGear project, but then tailored a bit to become the Codemotion 2012 mobile registration application. You can view it as long as it is available on codemotion-inthe.rhcloud.com.

Codemotion 2012 Rome - An OpenShift Primer

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell.

Friday the conference started at the University and was very busy. The wifi was not working very well if you were not a student so I was a bit worried about my chances to demo OpenShift live. It turned out to work fine if you were in a presentation room.

My talks had around 60 attendees and they were some of the most enthusiastic participants I have yet had in a session. We had a lively discussion, many questions, a mobile registration application demo and they were even cheering the results.

I have decided I will be submitting every year to the Codemotion conference in Rome. I hope to see you all again next year!

Computable.nl - Open Cloud is a Blessing for the User

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 05:41:07 PDT

My Dutch language Cloud article was published over on computable.nl with the title translated to English for this post. Here is the text for posterity.

Open cloud is zegen voor de gebruiker

Openheid in software en architecturen is een grote zegen voor gebruikers, beheerders en budgethouders. Deze waarheid is zo erkend dat veel leveranciers `open' als een soort mantra gebruiken, alhoewel ze dat vaak helemaal niet zijn - enkele uitzonderingen daargelaten. Dit gaat nergens meer op dan bij cloud computing.

Het hebben van een open architectuur en een open aanpak is bij het opzetten en het bouwen van een cloudoplossing van groot belang. Alleen met een open cloud kunnen it-organisaties verschillende infrastructuren beheren door ze samen te brengen onder dezelfde cloudarchitectuur. In tegenstelling tot het creëren van cloudsilo's of het weer opnieuw opbouwen van it-structuren, biedt een open cloud voordelen voor de gehele it-infrastructuur, waaronder grotere efficientie, flexibiliteit en controle over de technologie roadmap. Bovendien hebben organisaties zo de toekomst van hun it in eigen hand.

Maar wat betekent `open' in de context van cloud? Het begint en eindigt zeker niet met de onderwerping van een standaard format of met de acceptatie door partners van specifieke technologieplatformen. Als we kijken naar een open cloud bezit hij in ieder geval de volgende kenmerken:

- Is open source. Hierdoor hebben gebruikers controle over hun specifieke implementatie en worden ze niet beperkt tot de technologie en business roadmap van een bepaalde leverancier. Ze kunnen clouds bouwen en beheren waardoor ze zelf controle hebben over hun eigen koers evenals inzicht krijgen in de technologie waarop ze hun business baseren. Het biedt de flexibiliteit om workloads naar keuze, inclusief proprietaire, uit te voeren in hun cloud. Dankzij open source is samenwerking met andere communities en bedrijven eveneens mogelijk om innovatie te stimuleren op juist die vlakken die voor die organisatie belangrijk is.

- Heeft een onafhankelijke community. Open source gaat niet alleen over de softwarecode, licenties, hoe het gebruikt en uitgebreid wordt. Minstens zo belangrijk is de community die verbonden is aan de code en hoe het wordt bestuurd. Als men zich hiervan het enorme samenwerkingspotentieel realiseert en de innovatiekracht, dan impliceert dat wel dat men de structuren en organisatie op orde moet hebben om er volledig van te kunnen profiteren.

- Is gebaseerd op open standaarden, of protocollen en formaten die zich ontwikkelen naar standaarden en onafhankelijk zijn van leveranciers en platformen. Standaardisatie in de zin van officiele cloud standaarden met standaard bodies bevindt zich nog in een vroege levensfase. Benaderingen voor interoperabiliteit die niet onder controle staan van leveranciers en die niet verbonden zijn aan specifieke platformen bieden belangrijke flexibiliteit. Hierdoor kan de API specificatie zich verder ontwikkelen zonder beperkingen en dat biedt mogelijkheden om varianten te ontwikkelen die tegemoetkomen aan individuele technische en commerciele wensen en
eisen.

- Biedt eigenaren van intellectuele eigendomsrechten volledige vrijheid om de technologie te gebruiken. De recente geschiedenis heeft herhaaldelijk aangetoond dat er geen garanties zijn dat intellectual properties (IP) toegankelijk blijven voor iedereen. Om erop te kunnen vertrouwen dat je toegang behoudt tot die IP-assets waarvan je hebt besloten afhankelijk van te zijn, moet er toestemming worden gegeven dat die technologie open en toegankelijk blijft voor gebruikers. Zogenoemde 'de facto standaarden' die vaak uitsluitend 'standaarden' zijn bij de gratie van de grote leveranciers, schieten in deze test tekort.

- Kan worden ingezet op een infrastructuur naar keuze. Hybride cloud management moet een extra abstractielaag bieden bovenop virtualisatie, fysieke servers, storage, netwerken en publieke cloud leveranciers. Dit vereist dat cloudbeheer onafhankelijk is van virtualisatie en andere basistechnologieen. Dit is een fundamentele reden dat cloud verschilt van virtualisatiebeheer. Hierdoor zijn hybride clouds mogelijk die fysieke servers, meerdere virtualisatieplatformen en een breed scala van publieke (top) cloud leveranciers overspant.

- Is plugbaar en uitbreidbaar met een open api. Hierdoor kunnen gebruikers functionaliteiten en technologieen toevoegen van een verscheidenheid aan leveranciers en andere bronnen. De api zelf kan niet onder beheer staan van een specifieke leverancier of gebonden zijn aan een specifieke implementatie maar moet onder toezicht staan van een derde partij die bijdragen en uitbreidingen mogelijk maakt op een open en transparante manier. Deltacloud, een api die de verschillen tussen clouds abstraheert, is een goed voorbeeld. Het staat onder toezicht van de Apache Software Foundation en is niet een project dat door Red Hat wordt gecontroleerd of is gebonden aan een bepaalde implementatie van cloud management.

- Maakt overdraagbaarheid naar andere clouds mogelijk. Een cloud benadering die heterogene infrastructuren ondersteunt, impliceert dat investeringen die gedaan zijn in het ontwikkelen van een open cloud overdraagbaar moeten zijn naar andere clouds. Overdraagbaarheid kan op verschillende manieren waaronder programmeertalen en frameworks, gegevens en de applicaties zelf. Als een applicatie voor een cloud wordt ontwikkeld, zou het niet nodig moeten zijn het in een andere taal te herschrijven of andere API's te gebruiken om het ergens anders naar toe te verplaatsen. Bovendien betekent een consistente runtime omgeving binnen verschillende clouds dat nogmaals testen en kwalificeren niet elke keer nodig is als je wilt redeployen.

Een open cloud vereist een breed scala aan attributen om de omslag te maken van compleet gesloten naar helemaal open. Het hebben van een aantal attributen is beter dan helemaal niets. Maar enkel met het volledige gamma kunnen organisaties maximaal profiteren van cloud computing.

Red Hat Cloud Tour 2012 London - JBoss and OpenShift in London

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 01:50:00 PDT

I am going to be speaking at the Red Hat Cloud Tour on the stops in London and Amsterdam.

You can catch the London stop on the 28th of March at the Millbank Tower where I am giving a breakout session.

Leverage An Intelligent Application Infrastructure for Competitive Advantage
Realizing the benefits of cloud requires new thinking in how you build and deploy applications and how you architect an intelligent infrastructure to deliver agility, efficiency, and portability across a variety of on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. The requirements range from delivering world-class user experiences across millions of devices, form factors, and client platforms, to collecting data from what analysts refer to as “the internet of things” - billions of connected devices and appliances across globally distributed networks to feed the analysis of big data for better business decisions.

In this session, you'll learn how JBoss is the best choice to future-proof your application and systems infrastructure and take advantage of the latest innovations to deliver an agile, intelligent and integrated enterprise across on-premise and public clouds.

Red Hat Cloud Tour 2012 Amsterdam - JBoss to future-proof your Clouds

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:50:00 PDT

I will be in Amsterdam on 3rd of April 2012 talking at the Red Hat Cloud Tour 2012. We will be covering a legion of Cloud related topics, but I will be focusing on both JBoss in the Cloud and OpenShift as your PaaS of choice for your business application in the Cloud.

Leverage an Intelligent Application Infrastructure for Competitive Advantage

Realizing the benefits of cloud requires new thinking in how you build and deploy applications and how you architect an intelligent infrastructure to deliver agility, efficiency, and portability across a variety of on-premises, public cloud, and hybrid environments. The requirements range from delivering world-class user experiences across millions of devices, form factors, and client platforms, to collecting data from what analysts refer to as “the internet of things” - billions of connected devices and appliances across globally distributed networks to feed the analysis of big data for better business decisions.

In this session, you'll learn how JBoss is the best choice to future-proof your application and systems infrastructure and take advantage of the latest innovations to deliver an agile, intelligent and integrated enterprise across on-premise and public clouds.

Red Hat Cloud Tour 2012 Amsterdam - An OpenShift Primer

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:43:00 PST

Whether your business is running on applications based on Java EE6, PHP or Ruby, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing your business.

There are plenty of clouds and platform-as-a-services to choose from, but where to start? Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we'll show you how to deploy your existing application written in the language of your choice - Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice - EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes.

All this and without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work.

You can have your business applications running in the cloud on OpenShift Express in seconds, while also making use of the web browser do the heavy-lifting of provisioning clusters, deploying, monitoring and auto-scaling apps in OpenShift Flex.

If you want to learn how the OpenShift PaaS and investing an hour of your time can change everything you thought you knew about putting your business applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

Getting started with the OpenShift Express Web Management Console

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:00:01 PST

This week the newest release of OpenShift brought two really great features to an already awesome PaaS Cloud provider. First, JBoss AS has been upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 and the all new Express Web Management Console has been released as a preview. In this article we examine how to use this new console and will help you create and then destroy an application.

Overview

Figure 1: follow link to launch
the Express Console

In this section we assume you have already registered as an OpenShift user and are logged into the OpenShift Express start page. In figure 1 the Express landing page is shown and if you follow the Express Console link you will be brought to a page that currently shows the old administration console and includes a link to Preview the new OpenShift Management Console. Follow this link to the preview as shown for my user in figure 2.

Figure 2: preview Express
management console

It provides an overview of the users existing application, with a Details button for each application. My user has two application already created, one a jBPM web editor project based on JBoss and a second PHP twitter project that makes use of mongodb as a backend, see figure 2. At the top of the applications list, you have a button to Create a New Application. We will be using this button to create an existing project called kitchensinkhtml5, a mobile application from the JBoss project Aerogear. The nice thing about this demo project is that you can view it both in your desktop browsers and in your mobile devices.

Figure 3: choose a type
of application

Create application
Since this user already has created a domain and has existing applications setup, we just need to start by using the Create a New Application button. This takes us to the first of three steps where we will choose a type of application, which will be the JBoss Application Server 7.1 chosen by the Select button shown in figure 3.

Figure 4: create application

The next step is to configure and deploy the application, done by filling in an application name in the provided text box and clicking on the Create Application button. We will be calling this application kitchensinkhtml5, so we fill in that name in the text box and submit to create our new application as shown in figure 4.

Figure 5: next steps

Once we submit our creation request, the OpenShift Express magic is started to setup our new instance with JBoss AS 7.1 started. We are presented with a final screen that is labeled Next Steps which provides information on accessing your application, making code changes, how to manage your application and how to start adding capabilities. As shown in figure 5, we will be pulling in a git clone of our Express application repository so that we can setup our kitchensink application code. As stated in the section making code changes we will clone the repository locally from a shell command line:

git clone ssh://8df3de8e983c4b058db372e51bfe5254@kitchensinkhtml5-inthe.rhcloud.com/~/git/kitchensinkhtml5.git/
cd kitchensinkhtml5/

Once that is done we need to pull in our existing kitchensink code base:

cd kitchensinkhtml5
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/eschabell/kitchensink-html5-mobile-example.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

Finally, we push this back upstream to our Express instance as follows:

git push

We can now view the application at the URL assigned to our Express instance:

http://kitchensinkhtml5-{$domainname}.rhcloud.com

You should see the mobile member registration application as shown here in figure 6.

Figure 6: mobile application

Destroy application
A final action that you can do with the new OpenShift Express Web Management Console is to destroy your application. As we only get five instances at a time, you will soon find yourself creating and destroying Express instances with ease.

Figure 7: delete application

After logging in as described above and starting the preview of the web management console, you will see your list of existing applications. By selecting an applications Details button you will be shown an overview of the application, see figure 7 for our example editor application we will be destroying.

Figure 8: application deleted

You will notice a Delete button in the right top corner of the application overview screen, see figure 7. When selected, you will be asked to confirm that you really want to destroy this application. If you confirm this decision by clicking on the Delete button, your application and Express instance will be cleaned up. You will be returned to the application overview screen, see figure 8, and are ready for your next interaction with the Express Web Administration Console.

Summary
In this article we have covered the very basics of the newly released OpenShift Express Web Administration Console. We have shown you how to view your applications, create a new application and how to free up an Express instance by destroying one of your applications.

Codemotion 2012 - Get your code into the Cloud with OpenShift

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:30:02 PST

My talk on helping you get your code into the Cloud with OpenShift has been accepted for Codemotion 2012 in Rome, Italy.

My session will be on Friday, 23 March 2012 from 1410 hrs. I will be wandering around all day and have some pretty cool t-shirts to pass out if you can show me your code running in OpenShift!

If you want to get the most out of this session, please bring your laptop and sign up for an account at OpenShift begin sure to use the promotional code: CODEMOTION.

See you there!

Video Recording: An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:57:30 PST

The great group over in Luxembourg (YaJUG) put up a recording on parleys.com of the OpenShift session I gave in January 2012.

I cover lots of OpenShift, so enjoy!

Video Recording: JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 09:53:54 PST

The great group over in Luxembourg (YaJUG) put up a recording on parleys.com of the jBPM5 session I gave in January 2012. This took place after a previous talk and I have just changed 'uniform' to put on the JBoss shirt.

I cover BPM, jBPM and the jBPM Migration project. Enjoy!

Portugal JUG (PTJUG) - a night of jBPM and OpenShift

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 04:32:46 PST

As previously posted, I was in Lisbon last week to meet with the Portugal Java User Group (PTJUG) and present on the jBPM5 project followed by OpenShift.

The flight into town is worth mentioning as you come into the city itself, making for some really spectacular views of castles, old churches and just beautiful Portugese architecture stacked against the hills of Lisbon. It was also great to come from the colder Netherlands into a summer temperature of 16 degrees (for my home location, that is summer)!

Bull fighting ring

The location was the Instituto Supirior Technico, situated right close to the center. I had a bit of time to get ready so on the advice of my hotel I walked two blocks down the road in the lovely summer like sunshine to view a bull fighting ring. Set the mood for the event session!

I arrived at the event location to be greeted by a group from the PTJUG and we got settled in the room. Before we started they made sure I met each and everyone that was attending, from consultants, engineers, developers, analysts, managers and even a professor. It was a very relaxed and sociable group of guys (not to forget, the single lady that showed up to claim the first ever OpenShift Ladies T-shirt!). We had a total of ~30 people show for the talks, but I forgot to actually count. I did notice that the 40 OpenShift t-shirts I brought did not survive the end of the event!

jBPM 5
We talked jBPM first, with quite a bit of interaction as there were users with experience in jBPM3 in the audience. We demo'ed the round tripping, jBPM console, the diverse IDE tooling support and looked extensively at the web designer. I also provided a peak at the early access bits of the upcoming JBoss Business Rules Management System product that will contain the newer jBPM5 components.

There were some questions around the various integrations and an interesting request to provide an open source evaluation of the new jBPM5 to place along side the existing one on the Workflow Patterns site. We also spent time discussing and digging into the jBPM Migration project as a preview of what the migration possibilities might be moving forward.

JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes (PTJUG)

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

OpenShift
After a short break we moved on to the OpenShift session. This talk was about getting the audience into the session, so I pushed actually from the start of the entire event to have them sign up for an OpenShift account with their laptops and to follow along. We walked through the Express setup, client tools and focused a lot in the demo section on the Java tooling provided by JBossTools project. This was enforced by doing the demo through both Eclipse with JBossTools and with JBoss Developer Studio 5. This early release version integrates the OpenShift wizards and tooling to get you started.

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud (PTJUG)

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

The event concluded with a nice discussion around the possibilities of clustering Express instances, how to interact between two nodes of Express and what the advantages of Flex would be. Some of the audience had already used OpenShift for personal projects. I was asked if I wanted to come back before the end of the year to talk about OpenShift updates as the Open Sourcing and exposing the cartridge API will be of great interest for this group.

It was a great time with experiences Java users, jBPM users and the interaction was nice during both talks. I really enjoyed this event and look forward to meeting up with the PTJUG anytime in the future!

JUDCon 2012 Boston - OpenShift State of the Union / OpenShift Primer

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:15:29 PST

Boston, June 25-26

The call for papers is open, but not official on the website yet. I thought I would submit my sessions before I get snowed under (really, it is below zero here in NL all week, skating on the canals, snow today...). Hope to get accepted and see you all there!

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud

Whether you're a seasoned Java developer looking to start hacking on EE6 or you just wrote your first line of Ruby yesterday, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing applications in just about any modern language or framework. There are plenty of clouds and platform-as-a-services to choose from, but where to start?

Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we'll show you how to deploy an application written in the language of your choice - Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice - EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes. And without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work.

If you want to learn how the OpenShift PaaS and investing an hour of your time can change everything you thought you knew about developing applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

OpenShift State of the Union, brought to you by JBoss

It has been a marriage made in heaven. JBoss has brought the enterprise application platform and JEE to the OpenShift PaaS for all of your development tasks. It is much more than a simple application server though, JBoss provides a multitude of projects that cover everything from mobile, business process management, web development, support tooling to inter connectivity with other development languages like Ruby.

This session will take you through an overview of what OpenShift has to offer right now, how to get started, and then provide some highlights of the various projects that you can now access within the JBoss community. Bring you laptop and follow along as we help you get started in mobile development with Aerogears, Ruby Java connectivity with TorqueBox, process development with tooling from jBPM and much more. These will all be real world projects put on display for you with code you can access live during this session!

JUDCon 2012 Boston - Getting your migration on with jBPM Migration Project

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:15:57 PST

Boston, June 25-26

The call for papers is open, but not official on the website yet. I thought I would submit my sessions before I get snowed under (really, it is below zero here in NL all week, skating on the canals, snow today...). Hope to get accepted and see you all there!

Getting your migration on with jBPM Migration Project

With the release of jBPM 5 in the Red Hat product JBoss BRMS 5.3 it is time to closely examine your existing legacy jBPM 3 projects for migration. What does the future bring?

This session will take a look at the background of jBPM 3 process projects and present how we plan to help you make the jumpt to jBPM 5. We will provide you with a plan for positioning your existing Enterprise jBPM projects and examine some of the architectural layers involved. We will take a closer look at the tooling being created for this and steps you can take to ensure a smooth transition moving into your jBPM future.

Finally we will demo the existing tooling on an actual existing enterprise jBPM project. This will provide you with a real life scenario to take home as an example for your own BPM projects.

Rise above the Cloud hype with OpenShift

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:13:23 PST

Rise above the Cloud hype

Are you tired of requesting a new development machine for your application? Are you sick of having to setup a new test environment for your application? Do you just want to focus on developing your application in peace without 'dorking with the stack' all of the time? We hear you. We have been there too. Have no fear, OpenShift is here!

In this article will walk you through the simple steps it takes to setup not one, not two, not three, but up to five new machines in the Cloud with OpenShift. You will have your applications deployed for development, testing or to present them to the world at large in minutes. No more messing around.

We start with an overview of what OpenShift is, where it comes from and how you can get the client tooling setup on your workstation. You will then be taken on a tour of the client tooling as it applies to the entry level of OpenShift, called Express. In minutes you will be off and back to focusing on your application development, deploying to test it in OpenShift Express. When finished you will just discard your test machine and move on. When you have mastered this, it will be time to ramp up into the next level with OpenShift Flex. This opens up your options a bit so you can do more with complex applications and deployments that might need a bit more fire power. After this you will be fully capable of ascending into the OpenShift Cloud when you chose, where you need it and at a moments notice. This is how development is supposed to be, development without stack distractions.

Dorking with the stack?

Introduction
There is a great amount of hype in the IT world right now about Cloud. There is no shortage of acronyms for the various areas that have been carved out, like IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. OpenShift is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) from Red Hat which provides you with a platform to run your applications. For you as a developer, you want to look at the environment where you put your applications as just a service that is being provided. You don't want to bother with how that service is constructed of a set of components, how they are configured or where they are running. You just want to make use of this service that they offer to deploy, develop, test and run your application. At this basic level, OpenShift provides a platform for your Java applications.

First let's take a quick look at where OpenShift comes from. It started at a company called Makara that was based in Redwood City, Calif., providing solutions to enable organizations to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their applications on both private or public clouds. Red Hat acquired Makara in November of 2010, and in the following year they have merged Red Hat technologies into a new project called OpenShift[1]. They launched a first project that initially provides two levels of service[2], a shared hosting solution called Express and a dedicated hosting solution known as Flex. What makes this merging of technologies interesting for a Java developer is that Red Hat has included the next generation application platform based on JBoss AS 7 in OpenShift[3]. This brings a lightning fast application platform for all your development needs.

OpenShift Express

The OpenShift website states, “Express is a free, cloud-based application platform for Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby applications. It's super-simple—your development environment is also your deployment environment: git push, "and you're in the cloud.” This peaks the interest so lets give it a try and see if we can raise our web application into the clouds. For this we have our jBPM Migration web application[4] which we will use as a running example for the rest of this exercise.

Getting started in Express is well documented on the website as a quick start[5], which you can get to once you have signed up for a Red Hat Cloud (rhcloud) account. This quick start provides us with the four steps you need to get our application online and starts with the installation of the necessary client tools. This is outlined for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Fedora Linux, generic Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows. For RHEL and Fedora it is a simple package installation, for the rest it is a Ruby based gem installation which we will leave for the reader to apply to her system.

Once the client tooling is installed, there are several commands based on the form rhc-<command>. There is an online interface available but most developers prefer the control offered by the command line client tools so we will be making use of these. Here is an overview of what is available with a brief description of each:

rhc-create-domain – used to bind a registered rhcloud user to a domain in rhcloud. You can have maximum of one domain per registered rhcloud user.
rhc-create-app - used to create an application for a given rhcloud user, a given development environment (Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP) and for a given rhcloud domain. You can create up to five applications for a given domain. This will generate the full URI for your rhcloud instance, setup your rhcloud instance based on the environment you chose and by default will create a local git project for your chosen development environment.
rhc-snapshot – used to create a local backup of a given rhcloud instance.
rhc-ctl-app – used to control a given rhcloud application. Here you can add a database, check the status of the instance, start, stop, etc.
rhc-tail-files – used to connect to a rhcloud applications log files and dump them into your command shell.
rhc-user-info – used to look at a given rhcloud user, the defined domains and created applications.
rhc-chk – used to run a simple configuration check on your setup.

Create your domain
To get started with our demo application we need to do a few simple thing to get an Express instance setup for hosting our Java application, beginning with a domain.

# We need to create the domain for Express to start setting up
# We need to create the domain for Express to start setting up
# our URL with the client tooling using 
# rhc-create-domain -n domainname -l rhlogin
#
$ rhc-create-domain --help

Usage: /usr/bin/rhc-create-domain
Bind a registered rhcloud user to a domain in rhcloud.

  NOTE: to change ssh key, please alter your ~/.ssh/libra_id_rsa and
        ~/.ssh/libra_id_rsa.pub key, then re-run with --alter

  -n|--namespace   namespace   Namespace for your application(s) (alphanumeric - max 16 chars) (required)
  -l|--rhlogin     rhlogin     Red Hat login (RHN or OpenShift login with OpenShift Express access) (required)
  -p|--password    password    RHLogin password (optional, will prompt)
  -a|--alter                   Alter namespace (will change urls) and/or ssh key
  -d|--debug                   Print Debug info
  -h|--help                    Show Usage info

# So we setup one for our Java application. Note that we already have 
# setup my ssh keys for OpenShift, if you have not yet done that, 
# then it will walk you through it.
#
$ rhc-create-domain -n inthe -l [rhcloud-user] -p [mypassword]

OpenShift Express key found at /home/[homedir]/.ssh/libra_id_rsa.  Reusing...
Contacting https://openshift.redhat.com
Creation successful

You may now create an application.  Please make note of your local config file
in /home/[homedir]/.openshift/express.conf which has been created and populated for you.

Create your application
Next we want to create our application, which means we want to tell the OpenShift Express which stack we need. This is done with the rhc-create-app client tool.

# Let's take a look at the options available before we setup a Java 
# instance for our application.
#
$ rhc-create-app --help
Contacting https://openshift.redhat.com to obtain list of cartridges...
 (please excuse the delay)

Usage: /usr/bin/rhc-create-app
Create an OpenShift Express app.

  -a|--app   application     Application name  (alphanumeric - max 16 chars) (required)
  -t|--type  type            Type of app to create (perl-5.10, jbossas-7.0, wsgi-3.2, rack-1.1, php-5.3) (required)
  -l|--rhlogin  rhlogin      Red Hat login (RHN or OpenShift login with OpenShift Express access) (Default: xxxxxxxxx)
  -p|--password  password    RHLogin password  (optional, will prompt)
  -r|--repo  path            Git Repo path (defaults to ./$app_name)
  -n|--nogit                 Only create remote space, don't pull it locally
  -d|--debug                 Print Debug info
  -h|--help                  Show Usage info

# It seems we can choose between several but we want the jboss-as7.0 
# stack (called a cartridge). Provide a user, password and location 
# for the git repo to be created called 'jbpmmigration', see the 
# documentation for the defaults. Let's watch the magic happen!
#
$ rhc-create-app -a jbpmmigration -t jbossas-7.0 -l [rhcloud-user] -p [mypassword] -r /home/[homedir]/git-projects/jbpmmigration

Found a bug? Post to the forum and we'll get right on it.
    IRC: #openshift on freenode
    Forums: https://www.redhat.com/openshift/forums

Attempting to create remote application space: jbpmmigration
Contacting https://openshift.redhat.com
API version:    1.1.1
Broker version: 1.1.1

RESULT:
Successfully created application: jbpmmigration

Checking ~/.ssh/config 
Contacting https://openshift.redhat.com 
Found rhcloud.com in ~/.ssh/config... No need to adjust 
Now your new domain name is being propagated worldwide (this might take a minute)... 
Pulling new repo down 
Warning: Permanently added 'jbpmmigration-inthe.rhcloud.com,50.17.167.44' (RSA) to the list of known hosts. 
Confirming application jbpmmigration is available 
  Attempt # 1 

Success!  Your application is now published here: 

      http://jbpmmigration-inthe.rhcloud.com/ 

The remote repository is located here: 

    ssh://1806d6b78bb844d49378874f222f4403@jbpmmigration-inthe.rhcloud.com/~/git/jbpmmigration.git/ 

To make changes to your application, commit to jbpmmigration/. Then run 'git push' to update your OpenShift Express space .

If we take a look at my given path to the repo we find a git-projects/jbpmmigration git repository. Note that if you decide to alter your domain name you will have to adjust the git repository config file to reflect where the remote repository is, see above the line with 'ssh:.....'. Also the page is already live at http://jbpmmigration-ishereon.rhcloud.com/. It is just a splash screen to get you started, so now we move on to deploying our existing jBPM Migration project.

First lets look at the provided README in our git project which gives some insight to the repository layout.

Repo layout
===========
deployments/ - location for built wars (Details below) 
src/ - maven src structure 
pom.xml - maven build file  
.openshift/ - location for openshift specific files 
.openshift/config/ - location for configuration files such as standalone.xml (used to modify jboss config such as datasources) 
../data - For persistent data (also in env var OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR) 
.openshift/action_hooks/build - Script that gets run every push, just prior to starting your app

For this article we only will examine the deployments and src directories. You can just drop in your WAR files, remove the pom.xml file in the root of the project and they will be automatically deployed. If you want to deploy exploded WAR files then you just add a file called '.dodeploy' as outlined in the README file. For real project development we want to push our code through the normal src directory structure and this is also possible by working with the provided pom.xml file. The README file provided gives all the details needed to get your started.

Our demo application, jbpmmigration also comes with a README file that provides the instructions to add the project contents to our new git repository, so we will run these commands to pull the files into our local project.

# placing our application into our express git repo.
#
$ cd jbpmmigration 
$ git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/eschabell/openshift-jbpmmigration.git 
$ git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master 

# now we need to push the content.
#
$ git push origin

[jbpmmigration maven build log output removed]
...
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
remote: [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS 
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
remote: [INFO] Total time: 3.114s 
remote: [INFO] Finished at: Mon Nov 14 10:26:57 EST 2011 
remote: [INFO] Final Memory: 5M/141M 
remote: [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
remote: ~/git/jbpmmigration.git 
remote: Running .openshift/action_hooks/build 
remote: Running .openshift/action_hooks/deploy 
remote: Starting application... 
remote: Done 
remote: Running .openshift/action_hooks/post_deploy 
To ssh://1806d6b78bb844d49378874f222f4403@jbpmmigration-inthe.rhcloud.com/~/git/jbpmmigration.git/ 
   410a1c9..7ea0003  master -> master

As you can see we have now pushed our content to the rhcloud instance we created, it deployed the content and started our instance. Now we should be able to find our application online at http://jbpmmigration-ishereon.rhcloud.com/jbpmmigration_upload-0.4/.

The final step would then be that you are finished working on this application and want to free it up for a new application. You can then make a backup with the rhc-snapshot client tool and then remove your instance with rhc-ctl-app client tool.

# Ready to get rid of our application now.
#
$ rhc-ctl-app -a jbpmmigration -l eschabell -c destroy 
Password: ********

Contacting https://openshift.redhat.com 
!!!! WARNING !!!! WARNING !!!! WARNING !!!! 
You are about to destroy the jbpmmigration application. 

This is NOT reversible, all remote data for this application will be removed. 
Do you want to destroy this application (y/n): y 

Contacting https://openshift.redhat.com 
API version:    1.1.1 
Broker version: 1.1.1 

RESULT: 
Successfully destroyed application: jbpmmigration

As you can see, it is really easy to get started with the five free instances you have to play with for your application development. You might notice that there are limitation, with no ability to use specific integrated monitoring tooling, auto-scaling features are missing and control of the configuration is limited. For those needing more access and features, take a look at the next step up with OpenShift Flex[6].

This completes our tour of the OpenShift Express project where we provided you with a glimpse of the possibilities that await you and your applications. It was a breeze to create your domain, define your applications needs and import your project into the provided git project. After pushing your changes to the new Express instance you are off and testing your application development in the cloud. This is real. This is easy. Now get out there and raise your code above the cloud hype.

References

OpenShift,https://openshift.redhat.com.
Project overview OpenShift, https://openshift.redhat.com/app/platform.
JBoss AS7 in the Cloud, http://www.jboss.org/openshift.
jBPM Migration project web application, https://github.com/eschabell/jbpmmigration_upload.
OpenShift Express Quick Start, https://openshift.redhat.com/app/express#quickstart.
OpenShift Flex Quick Start, https://openshift.redhat.com/app/flex#quickstart.

Final note: I was asked at the end of 2011 to put together and introduction article to OpenShift, the Red Hat Platform as a Service (PaaS) open source project. It was to be published in a Dutch language magazine at the beginning of 2012. I wanted to post the English language version here for the rest of the non-Dutch speaking population.

Portugal Java User Group (JUG) - on tour with jBPM and Openshift

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:49:45 PST

I will be in Lisbon, Portugal on Feb 16 at the Portugal JUG with sessions on jBPM and OpenShift. The abstracts are below and will soon be published on their JUG site, but it is in Portuguese so you might need some translation help!

JBoss jBPM Brings More Power to your Business Processes

A Business Process Management System (BPMS) offers you the capabilities to better manage and streamline your business processes. JBoss jBPM continues its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire life-cycles. This allows not only developers but also business users to manage your business processes more efficiently.

A lot has happened in the BPM area over the last few years, with the introduction of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules and event processing, case management, etc. In this session, we will show you how jBPM5 tackles these challenges, discuss migration to this new platform and give you an overview of its most important features.

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your code into the Cloud

Whether you're a seasoned Java developer looking to start hacking on EE6 or you just wrote your first line of Ruby yesterday, the cloud is turning out to be the perfect environment for developing applications in just about any modern language or framework. There are plenty of clouds and platform-as-a-services to choose from, but where to start? Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we'll show you how to deploy an application written in the language of your choice - Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with the framework of your choice - EE6, CDI, Seam, Spring, Zend, Cake, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes. And without having to rewrite your app to get it to work the way the cloud provider thinks your app should work.

Check the command-line fu as we leverage Git to onboard apps onto OpenShift Express in seconds, while also making use of the web browser do the heavy-lifting of provisioning clusters, deploying, monitoring and auto-scaling apps in OpenShift Flex.

If you want to learn how the OpenShift PaaS and investing an hour of your time can change everything you thought you knew about developing applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

The schedule is shaping up like this:

17h30 - Welcome and registration
18h00 - JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes
19h00 - An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud
20h00 - Drink and Networking

Location will be at Instituto Superior TA(c)cnico (IST), see you there? ;-)

Luxembourg Java User Group (YaJUG) - OpenShift and jBPM session recap

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:19:38 PST

Room filling up, ~50 attendees!

Last night I was on site for an evening with the YaJUG, hosted in the Tudor building which was a very nice venue in downtown Luxembourg.

There were around 50 participants and the interaction was rather lively, I think I got something like ~20 questions around just the OpenShift session! The questions ranged from the obvious to the more cunning where participants not only want to be able to tinker with apache configurations but also auto scale their Express instances or even try to cluster the 5 free instances we offer them. I love that kind of ingenuity!

His first app on OpenShift
by end of the
session!

I wanted to emphasize the ease with which anyone can get their applications running in the OpenShift Express cloud instances. I challenged the group from the start by asking anyone with a laptop to get it open and try to deploy their first application into the OpenShift cloud by the end of the evening. As you can see in the picture, Weber Phillipp (I think it was actually his little brother if I am not mistaken...) came up to me at the end to show his results, well done!

Later I followed up with a look at OpenShift Flex where most of the more Enterprise type of questions were answered. Check out twitter tag #yajug for their comments, but be aware, some of the feedback is in French.

The second session was an overview of the status of jBPM 5 and included a rather in depth discussion of the upcoming BRMS 5.3 as there was some real interest in the JBoss product that are supported. There were several jBPM 3.2 users in the crowd, so spend some time demo'ing not only jBPM5 but the web designer and jBPM Migration Project tooling that has been integrated there.

The sessions were recorded so the YaJUG members will be provided a link to them soon via their site and a photographer was also enthusiastically taking lots of pictures! We planned to record my session desktop for the demo's, but the recording failed to start.

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

JBoss jBPM, the future is now (YaJUG session)

View more presentations from Eric D. Schabell

UPDATE: The session had a photographer that was busy snapping away:

Codemotion 2012 - submissions for jBPM and OpenShift

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:19:37 PST

I am again submitting proposals to Codemotion 2012, this year in Rome. I have pushed out two talks, one on jBPM and another on OpenShift:

JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes
A lot has happened in the Business Process Management area over the last few years, with the intro of the BPMN 2.0 standard, the increasing interest in more dynamic and adaptive processes, integration with business rules and event processing, case management, etc. In this session, we will show you how JBoss jBPM tackles these challenges, discuss migration to this new platform and give an overview of its most important features.

Get your code into the Cloud with OpenShift

Whether you're a seasoned Java developer looking to start hacking on EE6 or you just wrote your first line of Ruby yesterday, the cloud is perfect for developing apps in any modern language or framework. Join us for an action-packed hour of power where we'll show you how to deploy an application written in a language of your choice - Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl or Python, with a framework of your choice - EE6, CDI, Seam, Zend, Rails, Sinatra, PerlDancer or Django to the OpenShift PaaS in just minutes.

Fingers crossed and hope to talk to you in Rome, Italy in March! ;-)

jBPM5 - add native Eclipse BPMN2 Visual Editor to Eclipse or JBoss Developer Studio

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:03:53 PST

Eclipse Native BPMN2 Editor

Interested in using the Eclipse native BPMN2 editor when designing your jBPM processes? Here is how you can pull in the project that is now hosted within the Eclipse Foundation.

Figure 1: Name the update site.

First you need to add the update site at Help -> Install New Software -> Add as shown in Figure 1. Then you give it a name as shown in Figure 2.

http://download.eclipse.org/bpmn2-modeler/site

Figure 2: Watch install.

This will pull up the BPMN2 Editor check box that you can select to install the editor. Just select this box and select Next + Next + Accept agreement + Finish.

Figure 3: Open with Visual Editor

Watch the software install, see Figure 2 and a restart will give you the option to use the Eclipse Native BPMN2 editor. Select a process.bpmn2 file, right mouse click, select Open With and you should see the menu entry BPMN2 Visual Editor.

Note:
A note about the processes to be displayed. If you do not have any location information in the file, such as a default generated jBPM Migration Tool conversion output file, then it will not display in this editor. The jBPM Migration Tool relies on the BPMN2 Process Editor and its Arrange buttons to generate this information.

Enjoy! ;-)

Taking screenshots on an OS X Macbook

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:42:12 PST

I was looking for the various ways to make a screenshot on my macbook and wanted to log these for future reference.

Each capture sequence below saves a file to your desktop, unless you add a Control key to any sequence which will give you the capture as a copy to the clipboard.

Also see the Grab utility for more complex captures, including recording desktop activities.

Entire desktop - Cmd + Shift + 3
Specific area - Cmd + Shift + 4, gives crosshairs that can be positioned for click and drag
Single window - Cmd + Shift + 4 + Spacebar, gives a camera that highlights windows to be captured

YaJUG event - an evening with OpenShift and jBPM

eric@schabell.org (eric@schabell.org) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 23:59:43 PST

I will be in Luxembourg next week to present a few interesting technologies for the Java User Group, called YaJUG. The abstracts are below and you can find the details if you happen to be in the area online at their site:

An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud: Eric D. Schabell (Red Hat)

If you want to learn how the OpenShift PaaS and investing an hour of your time can change everything you thought you knew about developing applications in the cloud, this session is for you!

JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes: Eric D. Schabell (Red Hat)

A Business Process Management System (BPMS) offers you the capabilities to better manage and streamline your business processes. JBoss jBPM continues its vision in this area by offering a lightweight process engine for executing business processes, combined with the necessary services and tooling to support business processes in their entire lifecycles. This allows not only developers but also business users to manage your business processes more efficiently.

17h30 - Welcome and registration
18h00 - An OpenShift Primer for Developers to get your Code into the Cloud
19h00 - JBoss Brings More Power to your Business Processes
20h00 - Drink and Networking

See you there? ;-)