See you in Berlin

• Wise core:
  • Support of WS-*
  • Integration in ESB
  • One line WS calls
  • API to explore the dynamic generated stubs
• Wise-wegui:
  • A tool to help business analysts during validation tests of WS
  • The legacy web GUI and how it has been used in my company during the last year
  • The upcoming GWT gui
• LMS: Logging Meta Service
• The Wise Code donation: why have I donated my pet project to JBoss.org

I’ll post there a report of the speech and slides too.

I hope I’ll have also opportunities to have some interesting lightning talks about Wise and/or TestedBy during spare time there. Twitter, comment on the blog, or email are all fine if you want to contact me about that. I’ll probably post in next days some proposal to have a run together too

Well, I’ve been very very busy in last months driving (or at least help a lot to drive) a big change in my former company, leading a key project with more than fifty programmers involved distributed in various team, with a lot of biz analysts and so on. But it’s another story I’ll probably tell you at some point. But the important word in last sentence is former. Yep, who is following me on twitter (or have recently read about_us page or even is linked with me on linkedin) knows I’ve joined  Red Hat as Principal Software Engineer in JBoss division. That’s a cool interesting job (I’m working on IronJacamar project and AS7 development), but it’s making me very busy.

Anyway, back to the title of this post. It’s matter of fact that is very hard to keep alive open source projects in spare time. And maybe in last months some people thought that Wise is an almost dead project, and TestedBy a totally dead one. In fact we had very few time to  work on Wise and also on TestedBy for all the reasons stated above. But they aren’t dead and we are getting back on them (check last week commits for both!).

In particular Alessio is working on Wise to full support JBossWS-CXF container, while I’m planning to cleanup ESB module to support the last version (maybe after Alessio’s work). After that we will work on our object mapping subsystem needed to continue the implementation of our WebUI.

I’m refining in the mean time samples of TestedBy to make possible to release the first version of the project. BTW very probably we will leave “TestedBy” name and we will launch the first release of the project with a new cool name. I’ll keep you post here.

As said keeping open source project alive in spare time isn’t easy, and sometime it’s very very hard specially if contributors are very few and very busy. Would you be part of a cool open source project, with all the beauty of that? We would need in particular contributions for TestedBy in Eclipse area, but if you would land an hand in other area and/or in Wise we are fine with that too. Please contact us, your help could make the difference!

Last but not least Wise have a new very very cool logo. Thanks to Red Hat Design team and in particular to Cheynne for that! No link here…it merits a dedicated post!

As said a lot of cool stuffs are coming…stay tuned.

At the moment here you have a cross post of Wise’s blog:

http://jbosswise.blogspot.com/2009/08/wise-11-released.html

As you probably remember I’ve contributed in DNA, JBossWS (sometime in the past), and JBossESB integrating Wise into ESB 4.4.  Moreover Wise is now a JBoss.org project: I’ve donated it some months ago and I’m leading the project there, and we have already released 0.9 and 1.0 versions.

If you like my efforts and would support me, and/or you are using Wise (within JBossESB or not) may I kindly ask  your vote there (you need a JBoss.org account, but it’s quite easy to register one):

http://www.jboss.org/community/poll.jspa?poll=1003

More infos from JBoss.og homepage:

Voting will end on January 30th 2009 and winners will be announced at the JBoss Virtual Experience, a web-based JBoss technology conference which will be held February 11th 2009. There is no charge for admission, but please advance register if you’d like to attend.
Terms and conditions are here. Please join us in giving these community members the recognition they deserve.

As said in this post, a lot of the strength spurring on an open source developer is narcissism. Help mine to grow up

It’s a funny post, containing a code_swarm (a COOOOOOLand funny project!!) video and some little update on how things are going on for the project.

http://jbosswise.blogspot.com/2009/01/wises-codeswarm.html

http://jbosswise.blogspot.com/2009/01/wise-10-released.html

It’s the usual cross post for my older readers

Find the original post here.

But what does it mean? And more important why?

What does it mean?

Wise has been since the beginning released on LGPL license. Of course donating our code to JBoss.org we haven’t changed nothing about license. Wise still be an open source project and neither is changed, you still have code, you still have a business friendly open source license.

Code donation just change the Intellectual Property owners, switching from us to JBoss, divison of Red Hat. So it seems we are leaving all what we have on this project, but we are doing that for some good reasons.

And what does it mean for the project? More or less nothing. We are not donating and leaving project, but we will be active members (more precisely I’m going to lead the project). The good news are two new contributors from JBoss world are lending a hand with the code.

Why?

The real question is why have I decided to donate? Well, I’ve used “we” until now because Alessio and me have generally agreed on this donation. I’m switching to first singular person because Alessio kindly give me last word on the donation both because his position could condition him and because all last code written to transform wise from a general web client to zero code web service client easily integrable in a lot of server side application comes by me.

Reasons are essentially 4:

• Wise is essentially an hacking against jbossws and jax-ws tools. Quite frankly I believe a pure hacking could be good for a personal use project, which more or less have been for years Wise. But when Wise have gotten a lot of interest integrating with the (cool) jbossesb project my point of view has changed. The question is: is possible to maintain wise and add features without having a strict join with jbossws and/or jbossesb with which is strictly dependent/integrated? And are there any better way to get it joined than make Wise a JBoss.org project? More users have been using Wise, and I have gotten some good feedback, but I think they need a serious approach of the project ensuring them Wise will not break (or at lest it will have great chance to don’t) it compatibility and interoperability which are the main reasons a lot of users is coming to us.
• Becoming a JBoss.org project Wise would probably have a larger and greater community. It should mean more and better feedbacks and contribution (already verified since we have gotten 2 new contributors). More feedbacks and contribution mean better software and it’s all what I care.
• I believe JBoss open source model is good. I think what they call professional open source is great. Maybe not all will agree with me, but it’s my own thoughts. It’s not planned at the moment, but I wouldn’t have any problem if one day Wise would be included in a JBoss product and someone will pay for support. Moreover I think it would be great, and for sure I wouldn’t have sufficient time to provide a professional support to them. I think open source is great, but home made product haven’t a real future, they need some kind of support, some company behind. I hope JBoss could be the company behind Wise.
• Last but not least because I’m honoured of JBoss’s interest on my project. A lot of the strength spurring on an open source developer is narcissism And I can ensure you sometimes it’s really needed with a little daughter and a lovely wife (with a great sense of humour) saying “ok, you don’t smoke, but you write code”

Have I taken a mistake? I don’t believe so. Anyway Wise is not going to an end, but to a bright new beginning: we have a lot of ideas, both increasing wise current capability and adding totally new features making it much more useful both in its traditional world (web services client/test) and in some new way I’m currently exploring and I’ll post about very soon. Stay tuned, and please join us and our building community contributing on our public forums, reporting bugs or writing some code. BTW Wise now have its own blog even if I’ll continue to cross post here for a while for wise’s older fans .

Moreover we are not discontinuing this blog where we will continue to post our experiences and point of views not necesseraly related to Wise (BTW the two most read posts aren’t about Wise, but subversion branching and a new approach to unit tests).

Stay tuned.