Enterprise Messaging News (July 2011)

GlassFish 3.1.1 released – now supporting Java 7 and AIX

July 28, 2011 – GlassFish 3.1.1 (the reference implementation of Java EE 6) supports Java 7 and it’s now available, it also adds support for additional platforms (AIX, 64-bit load-balancer), upgrades the versions of the product components such as Weld, EclipseLink, Jersey, etc and includes hundreds of fixes.

GlassFish includes OpenMQ as Java Message Service (JMS) provider, a message oriented middleware which also supports non-Java clients, including Delphi and Free Pascal.

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JBoss AS 7 Application Server released

July 12, 2011 – Six months after the release of JBoss AS 6, Red Hat has now released version 7 of the open source Java EE application server. The new version is based on a new micro services container with better startup times – according to the product page, JBoss AS 7 offers a 10-fold reduction in startup time over previous versions.

JBoss AS includes HornetQ as Java Message Service (JMS) provider, a message oriented middleware which also supports non-Java clients, including Delphi and Free Pascal.

HornetQ: 8.2 million messages / second with SpecJMS

July 13, 2011 – A new blog entry on the HornetQ page shows impressive performance test results for the open source JMS message broker HornetQ. HornetQ is an open source project from the JBoss Community to build a multi-protocol, embeddable, very high performance, clustered, asynchronous messaging system.Through its Stomp acceptor, non-Java clients can use HornetQ for application integration, including Delphi and Free Pascal applications.