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Articles & Whitepapers

If you're interested in hearing about JBoss projects in the press or academia then this page lists many links to articles and whitepapers available online.

JBoss Related Articles

Apache Tomcat

You can find a lot of articles and book references on the Apache Tomcat documentation page.

JBoss Application Server

You can find a lot of articles and book references on the JBoss AS documentation page.

• Dynamic Deployment of IIOP-Enabled Components in the JBoss Server. Published in the proceedings of the 2nd International Working Conference, Edinburgh, UK, May 2004.
• The JBoss Extensible Server. In proceedings of Middleware 2003, Brazil, June 2003.

JBoss Cache

You can find a lot of articles and book references on the JBoss Cache documentation page.

• JBoss Cache as a POJO Cache by Ben Wang, published by OnJava, Nov 2005.

JBoss EJB3

• Lightweight Java Enterprise Application Frameworks by Michael Yuan, published by Java Developer's Journal, Feb 2006.
• Spring and EJB 3.0 in Harmony by Ales Justin, published by Java Developer's Journal, Feb 2006.
• Annotations, Friend or Foe? by Michael Yuan, published by Java Developer's Journal, Jan 2006.
• Simplify Enterprise Java Development with EJB 3.0 (Part I | Part II) by Michael Yuan, published by JavaWorld, September 2005.
• POJO Application Frameworks: Spring Vs. EJB 3.0 by Michael Yuan, published by OnJava, June 2005.

JBoss jBPM

You can find a lot of articles and book references on the JBoss jBPM documentation page.

Design Patterns

In this series of articles, various JBoss developers and users share their experiences with JBoss and develop a set of Design Patterns that you may find useful in your own work.

• The JBoss Clustering Patterns Library describes a collection of reusable clustering architectural patterns and configurations.

JBoss Portal

• What's New in JBoss Portal 2.2? by Roy Russo and Julien Viet.
• Are Portals the "magic bullet" of web application development? by Roy Russo and Julien Viet.

JBoss Remoting

• Introducing JBoss Remoting: published by ONJava in February 2005.

JBoss Rules

• What is a rule engine?
• Rule exection flow.
• A declarative alternative to Java.

JBoss Seam

• Seam: The Next Step in the Evolution of Web Applications by Norman Richards, published by Java Developer's Journal in Feb 2006.
• An introduction to SEAM: a version of this was published at JavaPolis in December 2005.

JBoss Transactions

You can find a lot of articles and book references on the JBossTransactions documentation page.

• What are end-to-end transactions and can JBossTS support them? An abridged version of this paper was published in the Java Developers Journal, 2001.
• The evolution of a transaction processing system. Presented at the High Performance Transaction Systems workshop, 2005.
• JTA and JTS Transactions (refers to Total-e-Transactions, a previous name for the JBoss Transaction Service).
• Web Services Transactions support.

Non-JBoss Related Articles

Transaction Processing

• Why do you need (distributed) transactions? An overview of the things you should consider when deciding if you need transaction management in your architecture.
• A framework for implementing extended transactions. A paper on the OMG's Extended Transaction framework, for the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, 2001.
• Full circle for Web services transactions? A paper on the evolution of Web Services , for the High Performance Transaction Systems Workshop, 2003.
• Transactions and recoverability: what they mean to your applications. Mark Little's Blog, Java.net, May 11, 2005.

Web Services

• Introducing WS-Coordination. Web Services Journal, April 2003.
• Introducing WS-Transaction, Part 1. Web Services Journal, May 2003.
• Introducing WS-Transaction, Part 2. Web Services Journal, June 2003.
• Introducing WS-CAF: more than just transactions. Web Services Journal. December 2003.
• Introducing BPEL4WS. Web Services Journal, June 2003.