Red Hat is looking for a new name for the open source JBoss Application Server, a k a JBossAS, because the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform has gotten bigger than just Java. So it's staging a community election to rechristen the widgetry with a name that reflects polyglot programming and support for Java EE-alternative frameworks like Spring. In a press release issued Monday Red Hat said it is "embracing the evolution of transformational technologies such as dynamic service fabric, cloud, NoSQL, mobile and multi-language polyglot computing as part of its product strategy. To mark this evolution, Red Hat plans to enable broader developer access to the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform product, and will be holding an open election to select a new name for the JBoss Application Server community project." It's hoping for quicker evolution.

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We interrupt your regular JAXenter programming to bring you this special bulletin: it’s just over a week until the start of the fifth JAX London, our European conference, and a few tickets are still available. For those of you who won’t be able to make it - and I hope you have a very good excuse - Chris Mayer and myself will be providing extensive coverage both here on JAXenter and on Twitter @JAXenterCOM. We’ll be tweeting live from the conference floor, providing roundups of the major action and recording interviews with a few of the speakers. Hopefully it’ll be (almost) as good as actually being there. We’ve already featured a few of the big names speaking at the conference, including Doug Cutting and Martijn Verburg and Kirk Pepperdine, as part of our ‘Road to JAX’ series - and they’re just a tip of the iceberg of what you can expect. The fun begins on Sunday with a hackathon held in conjunction with Duke’s Choice-winning London Java Community and presented by Java 8 Lambda spec lead Brian Goertz. Unfortunately, it’s already fully-booked - but Brian will be giving two talks on Lambda later on in the conference, where he will showcase the capabilities of Java 8’s most anticipated feature. Then on Monday, we have three full-day workshops running in parallel. Githubber Tim Berglund will demonstrate the power of version control system, Git, Ted Neward will delve into some deep architectural discussion whilst Jason Gorman will oversee Team Craftmanship - teaching some core collaborative principles (TDD and continuous integration for example) and then putting the attendees into a Team Dojo. Points are awarded for passing acceptance tests and deducted for any dodgy code.   The next two days of the conference are stacked with talks from even more industry rockstars. As mentioned above, Hadoop creator Doug Cutting will be providing a keynote entitled ‘Unlocking the Power of Big Data’, while Martijn Verburg and Kirk Pepperdine explain in ‘Java and the Machine’ why Java and the JVM need to adapt in this new multicore age. Elsewhere, Patrick Debois provides a keynote on the importance of sharing within DevOps and Steve Poole will be speaking about the importance of the Java community. Personally, I’m most looking forward to Tom Wilkie’s exploration of real-time analytics in Cassandra, and seeing the Kinect being well and truly hacked by Dan Hardiker and Jon Mort. If all this is sounding too good to miss, it's not too late to snap up tickets. Hope to see you there!

JavaOne finished with a bang with the Community Keynote, which was light on announcements but heavy on big names - including a surprise appearance from Java father James Gosling. The keynote was opened by Oracle Principle Product Director Sharat Chander, who praised the community for their support of Java and JavaOne, then followed by Oracle Director of Product Management Donald Smith and Gary Frost of AMD with a discussion of upcoming GPU utilisation projects Sumatra and Aparapi. Next up was an expert panel of several prominent names, each pledging their allegiance to the big J, including Twitter Open Source Manager Chris Aniszczyk, who stated that the microblogging service is “built on the JVM”. Also present was Eclipse Director Mike Milinkovich, who produced the mind-boggling statistic that 99% of Eclipse projects use Java. Duke’s Choice Award winners London Java Community were congratulated once again, with co-leader Martijn Verburg joking to the San Francisco audience that “if the presidential elections don't work out... the queen has agreed to take you back as a colony”. However, the best was saved for last as the surprise guest turned out to be none other than ‘father of Java’, James Gosling. In his first appearance at JavaOne since leaving Sun Microsystems in the face of Oracle’s acquisition, Gosling spoke mostly about his work at his new employer, Liquid Robotics, Inc. The company are producing autonomous, wave-powered robots designed for marine data collection - a topic far removed from the majority of presentations at JavaOne. Keeping energy use and data transfer to a minimum are two of the largest challenges Gosling’s project faces: when in the “middle of a storm in the arctic”, there’s little opportunity for a robot to recharge, and not much of a 3G signal either: instead, satellite connections cost $1 per kb. “We don't have a Big Data problem,” said Gosling. Gosling hasn’t abandoned his own baby just yet, though. He also showed off a Java Swing application for detecting positioning of robots, adding: "One of the cool things about Java that most people don't really think about is it's really good at doing AI kinds of things." He also praised PaaS provider Jelastic and commented on the recent trend of moving logic to the client side, saying “I love jQuery. But some things shouldn't be done in HTML!”

Yakov Fain talks about the future of Java, the adoption of JavaScript, developing for the mobile space, and much more. By Yakov Fain

A pretty hectic week by Java’s standards, but we always knew it would be. As seemingly the entire developer community descended upon San Francisco for JavaOne, we saw the glitz and glamour of the keynotes, the ridiculously top-draw band lineup, a few grown men in mascot costumes and a lot of partying if the #javaone hashtag was anything to go by. There were a few noteworthy announcements, but nothing major as some expected. But we’re still in good spirits, here’s our particularly JavaOne themed Friday Five. 1. The Music Undercard  We get that musicians get paid a sizable chunk of money to appear at tech conferences, but Oracle really pushed the boat out this year for Oracle OpenWorld’s first music festival. On the diverse and international undercard, we had reggae royalty in Jimmy Cliff, songstresses Macy Gray and Joss Stone, and Swedish rockers The Hives wound things up. We had to select one of Jamaica’s finest however, with one of the tracks he's best known for... 2. The Headliners that weren't Mark Reinhold and James Gosling Great show in San Fran with Pearl Jam. Eddie came up and sang The Bucket with us. Always an honor to share the stage with them. #Heroes — Jared Followill (@youngfollowill) October 4, 2012 We’ve not even touched upon the two bands who headlined proceedings, Pearl Jam (save the jokes about them and Java last being relevant in the 90s) and Kings of Leon. Even the music press clocked onto Eddie Vedder joining the Nashville quartet for The Bucket. Perhaps that’s the sort of press Oracle were trying to get with their Music Festival. IDG claimed that most of the people they spoke to were too busy for the music festivities. Still looked like a packed house at Treasure Island for Mr Vedder and co. 3. Giving up on Eclipse Juno We’ve seen the blogposts and developer mailing lists about Eclipse’s 4.2 platform, most of which have been scathingly negative. The Eclipse Foundation in turn had urged the community to come forward and help contribute in whatever way they could. Here’s Dan Haywood’s views on the ailing platform and why he’s gone back to 3.x series. Let’s hope things improve in the coming months, or Eclipse might end up with more angry developers. 4. Boxing Bots thanks to Kinect It's always cool to see inventive ideas through hacking the Kinect (we'll be seeing a few more ways to do that at JAX London in a week's time). Here's an in-depth overview of one team's Kinect project for SXSW: creating lifesize rock'em sock'em robots that use the Kinect's motion sensors. Ok, you may be thinking of that Hugh Jackman vehicle Real Steel, but this is real! Well worth a read to see the challenges faced in hardware, software and interaction. 5. That Java Welcoming Video This opening video from JavaOne is bound to split opinion. Some will love the references to Runescape and Minecraft, as well as its jovial spirit. We suspect that many more will find it a cheesy music video that shouldn’t have seen the light of day. We think it’s quite cute and we should just enjoy James Gosling drinking a cup of coffee. Questionable ‘movements’ from others though. That was our irreverant lookback at the week that was - we hope it's helped you get over the post-gathering depression. Alternatively, listen to Pearl Jam some more.

As some speculated, Oracle have decided to appeal the ruling in the embittered patent and copyright Android battle with Google. Less probably expected Google to also appeal on the small matters. Late on Wednesday, the database giant first filed “a notice of appeal” to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, looking to overturn Judge William Alsup's trial findings that the Java APIs within Android were non-copyrightable. This move was largely expected after the ruling in May, which saw Oracle come out as the ultimate loser in the two-year legal wrangle over the 37 Java APIs in the Android platform. The jury initially delivered a partial verdict in Oracle’s favour, in which Google were found to infringe nine lines of Java code out of 12 million, under the assumption APIs were copyrightable. But Judge Alsup cleared Google of infringement, adjudging the company to have used the code under fair use. Alsup said at the time: "To accept Oracle's claim would be to allow anyone to copyright one version of code to carry out a system of commands and thereby bar all others from writing their own different versions to carry out all or part of the same commands." He continued: "No holding has ever endorsed such a sweeping proposition." In June, Oracle agreed to accept zero damages after conferring with Google, effectively putting an end to their lengthy spell in court for the time being. But as is the case with this trial, we shouldn’t expect a swift resolution. Especially if FOSS Patents’ opinion that Oracle could take this all the way to the Supreme Court is to believed. Separately, Google appeals the court's denial of a motion for a judgment as a matter of law. Both sides have yet to comment on the appeal at the time of writing. Whilst the two companies continue to duke it out in the courtroom, many in the Java community would rather see the two spending time and money on continuing to innovate instead.

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