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How about working on the productization of the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform or the upstream development of the JBoss Application Server project?

Check out our job openings and submit your resumes online:

• JBoss EAP Productization Engineer/Developer
• JBoss EAP Productization Engineer/Developer
• JBoss Application Server Core Developer

Cheers
/Dimitris

JBoss AS 5.2 and JDK support

Since JBoss AS 5 we have offered two different distributions of the application server. For example, you can download jboss-5.1.0.GA.zip which is build with jdk5 and can run under both jdk5 and jdk6 runtimes (with a few changes), or go straight for jboss-5.1.0.GA-jdk6.zip which is build with jdk6 and can run only under a jdk6 runtime. (For details look in the release notes.)

Now realizing that (a) Sun's JDK5 is reaching its End-Of-Life in a couple of weeks (although for paying customers it is going to be supported for quite some time) and (b) around 70% of JBoss AS downloads are of the jdk6 type, we've decided it's probably time to move onto a jdk6 only distribution.

So, going forward, although the AS 5.2 codebase can still be build with jdk5, we will not be supporting it.

Does that present a problem for you? Let's us know before any final decisions are made.

Cheers
/Dimitris

The Bilski case (and the war against software patent)

I must say I had to look it up on wikipedia to find out what Amicus Curiae stands for. This and other legal slang you have to deal with to understand the current state of the Software Patents Madness.

The Bilski case might prove to be a good chance to reverse some of the mishaps of the broken US Patent System and companies like Red Hat try to contribute to the process.

Read more about it:

• Redhat's brief
• FSF's brief