MARCH 2007
Welcome to 2007's first edition of "Extra from Exadel". Our online newsletter provides the open source community with news about our products, industry trends, and upcoming events.
COMPANY NEWS
RED HAT AND EXADEL PARTNER TO BRING RICH DEVELOPER TOOLS TO RED HAT'S JBOSS PLATFORM
Exadel Open Sources Commercial Products Under JBoss.org, Working With Red Hat To Jointly Develop Projects
ECLIPSECON, SANTA CLARA, CALIF. (Mar. 5, 2007) – "Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, and Exadel, the leader in providing rich application components for creating a new generation of enterprise solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that will add mature, Eclipse-based developer tools for building service-oriented architecture (SOA) and rich, Web 2.0 applications to Red Hat's integrated platform, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. This move marks the first time that a high caliber set of Eclipse-based developer tools will be available in open source.
Exadel will open source all of its products, including Exadel Studio Pro and RichFaces, as well as consolidate its Ajax4jsf project under JBoss.org, the community behind open source projects that roll up into JBoss Enterprise Middleware. In turn, Red Hat will work jointly with Exadel to drive development of the projects and their integration with JBoss platform technologies such as JBoss Seam. Hibernate and JBoss Seam founder Gavin King will take a prominent role in leading the direction of the new projects within JBoss.org."
The whole press release is available here.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES:
EXADEL ANNOUNCES MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO OPEN SOURCE WITH RICHFACES
The Leading AJAX Development Platform For Rich Enterprise Applications Moved To Open Source
RichFaces, the leading rich component library for JSF, enables the easy integration of AJAX capabilities into business application development to produce Rich Enterprise Applications.
This powerful framework includes:
- "skinability" functionality - allows users to quickly meld the power of AJAX with the design flexibility in JSF applications
- a rich set of components that come ready to use out-of-the-box - saves time, reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Time To Market
- totally Java EE compliant
"Moving RichFaces into an open source model further enables Exadel to foster collaboration and communication in the development of RichFaces projects. Our goal is to promote the open source community and dramatically change the way Rich Enterprise Applications are developed" said Fima Katz, President and CEO of Exadel.
RichFaces is available for download here.
To read the press release click here.
IN THE NEWS:
AJAX4JSF AT "NO FLUFF JUST STUFF"
Ajax4jsf, the highly successful open source project sponsored by Exadel, a JSF component library with a tag library that blends Ajax into JSF in a natural, intuitive way without having to write JavaScript, will be presented on "No Fluff Just Staff" conference by David Geary, a prominent speaker and consultant, co-author of "Core JSF", the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
"No Fluff Just Stuff" is a periodical conference where technical gurus speak about top technologies in the software industry. The next one will take place on March, 23-25, 2007 in Omaha, Nebraska.
To view Ajax4jsf session description click here.
The schedule of the event is available on the conference's official website.
EVENTS
MAX KATZ TO SPEAK AT SD WEST 2007
March 19-23, 2007, Sants Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA
SD West 2007 offers more than 200 sessions, in 14 important subject areas, taught by the most-qualified speakers in the field. Max Katz, Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel, will be presenting "Building Rich Internet Applications With JSF And AJAX".
For more information on this event visit the conference's Web site.
AJAX WORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO
March 19-21, 2007, New York City, NY
You cannot afford to miss Ajax World this year! Over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe will be converging in New York City to attend the East coast AJAXWorld Conference & Expo -- the most comprehensive meeting on the most significant technology subjects of recent times: AJAX, Rich Internet Apps & Web 2.0.
For more information on this conference, visit the website of the event.
COMMUNITY:
JOIN THE EXADEL TEAM
Exadel is growing company with many current opportunities for software developers (particularly those with JSF experience). If you're interested, submit your resume to jobs@exadel.com
MAX KATZ'S BLOG
Max Katz is a senior systems engineer at Exadel, responsible for technical support and training. Max is also out on the road a lot making presentations about JSF and AJAX technologies for conferences and other events. To find out if he's scheduled for an event in your area, read his new blog.