eXo Platform has announced the merger of its eXo Portal project with Red Hat’s JBoss Community Portal to create a comprehensive, standards-compliant, open source portal platform that will serve as the underlying technology for eXo’s portfolio of content, collaboration, and social networking enterprise solutions.

JBoss Developer Studio 2.0 – Portfolio Edition is now available. The development environment not only enhances the Eclipse-based toolset, but also adds JBoss Enterprise Application, Portal, SOA and Data Services Platforms. It builds on Eclipse – Java developer toolset and includes a set of tools developers need to quickly develop highly interactive applications and services using technologies like Seam, Java EE, AJAX and Portlets as part of standards-based Service Oriented Architectures.

‘Business Process Management with JBoss jBPM’ shows business analysts how to model business processes in JBoss jBPM and use these models to generate a fully-functioning workflow application. In this chapter from the book, author Matt Cumberlidge builds the end user part of the BPM system, a prototype user interface which proof-of-concept testers will use to interact with the process definition.

Think of open source and most of us have visions of developers doing selfless work in their free time and contributing only because of their passion for the technology and a burning desire to learn.

In this interview, we speak to Anil Saldhana, Senior Developer at JBoss Inc. Anil talks about J2EE applications servers, open source, aspect oriented programming and particularly about the JBoss range of products. He also shares his views on what is special about JBoss and what the company has to offer to the enterprise Java community.

An interesting bit for our readers from India is that JBoss will soon have an office in Bangalore and will be conducting JBoss training sessions in India.

In this interview, we speak to Satish Talim, a well known IT name in India. Satish has been working with Java for almost a decade.  Here he shares his Java experiences, his views on open source and also has some useful advice for those starting off with Java.