Francois, the guy who leads up the support group for JBoss, let us know that his excellent team is expanding even further. If you've got the chops to support customers, write tutorials, and maybe even fix some bugs, JBoss is looking for you.

Two different jobs are available.

There's the SEG position:

Our JBoss Expertise Team consists of J2EE/JEE architects who deliver Developer-to-Developer Assistance as well as Production Technical Support. This team is the connection point between Customers and R&D. As such, you will be in contact with our customers' top developers and architects. You will also assist our front line Support Engineers when dealing with complex issues. Last but not least, your daily contacts with our R&D team will allow you to work with some of the best J2EE/JEE developers in the world. You will also be expected to prepare sample code and write technical tutorials. Therefore, excellent Java coding skills are required. In addition to writing original code, the position requires the ability to read and understand JBoss middleware code. You should also be able to fix bugs and submit features to the JBoss code base if time and interest allow.

And the Senior TSE position:

You will experience every day how we do support differently, by working hand-in-hand with our team of Middleware Support Experts as well as with R&D and Engineering. This day-to-day cooperation will offer a great opportunity to learn beyond regular training. Primary responsibilities will include providing Production Technical Support as well as Developer-to-Developer Assistance for the JBoss and MetaMatrix products. This position offers the opportunity to support enterprise Java applications delivering middleware solutions to customers of all sizes. It is a very fast paced position offering nearly endless learning and growth opportunities.

If this sounds like a good opportunity for you, head over to the Red Hat careers page. This is a chance to see many of the JBoss enterprise middleware projects used by a variety of customers in a stunning array of configurations and deployments.

Note: The careers page does not yet have a listing for these openings. They should be posted by Monday, so that gives you time to brush up your resume and make it sparkle.

Gavin King recently gave a talk down in Canberra, Australia. The kindly folks from Red Hat down there organized some filming. Many thanks to our upside-down friends with the Queen Mother on their money.

Gavin provides an exceptionally nice walk-through behind not just how Web Beans works, but why it works the way it does. He provides comparison to AOP features, and even demonstrates the recursive nature of Web Beans functionality being used to define Web Beans functionality. Meta-annotations are cool. Meta-meta-annotations are even cooler.

We've broken the talk into 3 easy-to-digest chunks:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3

Tonight, the fine folks on the JBoss.org team managed to reach a significant milestone. In fact, JBoss.org is now actually hosted at http://jboss.org/. Imagine that! We'd been satisfied living at http://labs.jboss.com/ for quite a while, so this is a nice change.

Additionally, http://wiki.jboss.org/ has been moved off the old Nukes wiki and onto a more modern wiki. Along with being merged with the wiki that used to live at http://labs.jboss.com/wiki. Like many organizations, we'd ended up with too many. We probably still have too many. But now we have one fewer. You can thank Tomek for that.

Probably the coolest bit of tonight's update is the new feeds subsystem created by Adam. You can check it out, and notice that you can now submit a blog for inclusion in our aggregator. Project leads have more control over their project's aggregator, and we're archiving everything we touch, now.

Today is the day to make sure you've filed your GSoC application if you're a student hoping to participate in this year's Google Summer of Code.

We've got our ideas page up still, or feel free to invent some great project of your own related to JBoss. We're open to new ideas.

Just a couple of quick notes:

Max and the JBoss Tools team have released version 2.01. What I personally find exciting is that this release sees bundles for OSX. The JBoss Tools project is what ultimately feeds into the JBoss Developer Studio, so you know it's good stuff.

Also, Tom, Koen and the jBPM team (with the assistance of the .org designers) have published an updated site that includes a fancy new logo and some diagrams to help you get your footing in the world of BPM.

Google selected the combined Fedora+JBoss.org group as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008.

The JBoss guys have started gathering project ideas. If you're hoping to participate in the GSoC, take a look, and maybe you'll see something that'll inspire you.

If you're a student, the GSoC is a great way to spend your summer and get some bonafide open-source work under your belt. While being paid. Plus, you'll get to work with top-shelf Java developers like Manik Surtani, Ales Justin and Tim Fox, amongst others.

So, get thinking about your projects, because the student application window is about to open.

JBoss World kicked off today around noon, with people pouring in to pick up their badges, bags and thumbdrives.

The first sessions of the day were packed and standing-room-only. People were spilling out of the JBoss Clustering talk presented by Bela Ban and Brian Stansberry. Greg Hinkle presented the JBoss Operations Network (JBoss ON), which, as announced previously, is working with Hyperic to create an awesome open-source systems-management system. Ales and Scott presented about Microcontainer's new OSGi facilities. Ales also spoke about the OSGi bits of MC earlier this month with Mark Newton.

The afternoon sessions were wrapped up with the conference keynote. Emceed by Craig Muzilla, we heard from Jim Whitehurst, the new CEO of Red Hat for the last 42 days. He reaffirmed Red Hat's commitment to invest in the JBoss division, its technology and its community.

Sacha Labourey reflected on our past, and spoke about the future of JBoss, including the Enterprise Acceleration initiative. Enterprise Acceleration aims to make JBoss as ubiquitous in production environments as it is in development environments.

Then, Sacha lead into an ultimately ill-fated demo. It was awesome while it lasted, but then, as is typical, the demo demons took over, and cut it short. Before that happened, though, Max Andersen demonstrated the power of JBoss Developer Studio by going from 0-to-60 in about 3 seconds. JBDS makes it simple to start a new project skeleton, complete with everything you need, and automatically deployed within an instance of AS managed by the IDE. The integrated Exadel WYSIWYG tooling significantly reduces the code/compile/test cycle. He expects another spin of JBDS this quarter to include the 4.3 version of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (JBEAP).

Following that nicely, Julien Viet of the JBoss Portal team jumped up and did a quick demonstration of integrating JSF/Seam within Portal using the new JBoss Portlet Bridge project. He also was able to point out support for remote portlets using WSRP before the demo demons killed the power to the stage. The Portal team released Portal 2.6.4 just last week, and expect 2.7 sometime in the 3rd quarter of this year.

The keynote was followed by a festive cocktail hour in the exhibitor hall.

And all of that was followed by the BoFs and Hackathon. The BoFs were well-attended, the Hackathon was not, alas. Manik Surtani, Ales Justin, Mike Brock, and a few others dropped by the Hackathon for a while. Mark Proctor demonstrated the nice visualization, traceability and breakpoints provided by Drools Eclipse tooling during his BoF.

Overall, it was an excellent day, and at 4am, I'm simply worn out. An even fuller day awaits us tomorrow.

I've started streaming up photos from JBoss World to Flickr.

JBoss reached a nice milestone in time for JBoss World. At the keynote today, Craig Muzilla, the co-GM of JBoss Division, let us know that we've seen over 20,000,000 downloads, now. That breaks down to about 10 million before the acquisition (5 years), and about 10 million since then (20 months).

If this were a constant stream of downloads, that'd be over 8000/day, for over 6 and a half years. Over 300 and hour, or 5 a second.

But it wasn't linear. Since the acquisition, it's been more like 16.5k downloads a day, across our product lines.

Started today in Georgia, I think, as I was still en route to Orlando. Arrived around 4am.

Awoke and joined the JBoss Developer's Conference (the conference for JBoss developers, before JBoss World) this morning. Met the normal assortment of JBoss guys you'd expect to find at such a gathering. In addition to the developers, there were some non-developers present. This included Patrick MacDonald discussing our approach to the build and release process, and Andrig Miller addressing the differences between community and enterprise versions.

JBoss World itself cranks up at noon on Wednesday, and should prove to be exciting.

To help organize your attendance, you can subscribe to the agenda iCal we've put together. I suggest subscribing to it, instead of importing it, so that you can pick up any changes we make during the course of the conference. Go ahead and sync it to your Blackberry, or iPhone, or Android handset.

And don't forget the Hackathon on Wednesday night. I know it conflicts with the BoFs, but the Hackathon runs until "late" and we'll welcome stragglers.

Update: Max Andersen asked for the actual root gCal. Here it is.