Virtuas Open Source Solutions - The premier provider of enterprise-level support services for widely adopted open source middleware.

The Colorado Software Summit 2006

Matt Raible — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:59:34 -0500

Bill Dudney and I are both speaking at the Colorado Software Summit this week. Bill is speaking about Cayenne and Ajax+JSF, while I'm speaking on AppFuse and Migrating from Struts 1 to Struts 2.

When we arrived, we had great weather up here and last night it got even better.

I attended a fair amount of sessions at this show, you can search my blog for "css 2006" to see my posts from the show.

Spring Forward 2006

Matt Raible — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:42:38 -0500

This week, I'm on the road speaking at the Spring Forward 2006 Conference. I've posted a number of blog entries on raibledesigns.com with my presentations, as well as notes from attending other sessions.

Spring 2.0 is definitely hot right now. I've updated our courses for it, as well as AppFuse and Equinox. Both applications have their updates in source control, not in current releases.

Spring 2.0 is scheduled for release today.

Contact

Matt Raible — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:32:49 -0500

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Methodology & History

Matt Raible — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:31:28 -0500

History

Founded in 1999, Virtuas is a world-class knowledge enablement organization providing expert analysis, assessment, education, and implementation of enterprise-ready open source software.

Over the last decade, Open Source Software (OSS) has evolved into a stable, integral part of IT strategies worldwide. Many organizations interested in implementing an open source strategy hesitate to do so without the support of a trusted partner to guide them through all components of open source implementation. Virtuas Solutions is that trusted partner.

Methodology

Virtuas’s methodology is based on enablement, and our worldwide client base can speak to the success of this approach. Unlike other professional services organizations, our model allows us to transfer our knowledge of open source middleware to our clients, enabling them to bring innovation back into their own IT environments and in turn, free them from the restraints of vendor handcuffs, whether those vendors be proprietary software groups or professional services organizations.

Through Virtuas’s enablement methodology, Global 2000 organizations have been able to tie their technology direction to their business models, rather than vice versa.

About

Matt Raible — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:18:17 -0500

About Virtuas Open Source Solutions

Virtuas Open Source Solutions is the premier provider of enterprise-level professional services for widely adopted open source middleware technologies such as Apache Geronimo, Spring, Apache Tomcat, AppFuse, Hibernate, and other emerging technologies such as Maven, Tapestry, Struts A2, MyFaces, and a host of others. Since 1999, Virtuas Open Source Solutions has provided the Global 2000 with world-class enterprise software solutions.

For more detailed information about our company, please visit the following pages:

• Methodology & History
• Contact

Links

kristin — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:16:47 -0500

Useful Links

Novell, Inc. delivers Software for the Open Enterprise™. With more than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure, and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With more than 20 years of experience, 5,000 employees and 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating environment while reducing cost.

IBM, the world’s largest IT services and consulting provider, helps clients integrate IT with business value. IBM services business delivers integrated, flexible, and resilient processes across companies and through business partners, enabling clients to save money and transform their businesses to be more competitive.

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses, and institutions globally. The company’s offerings span IT infrastructure, global services, business and home computing, and imaging and printing. For the four fiscal quarters ended Jan. 31, 2006, HP revenue totaled $87.9 billion.

Founded in 1998, Covalent Technologies is the most trusted source for complete enterprise open source solutions. Founders of Covalent helped develop the Apache HTTP web server, and the company is proud to be one of the most distinguished supporters of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Covalent now supports many of the world’s largest IT operations groups and Web infrastructures.

OpenLogic provides software and support that enables enterprises to easily customize and manage commercial-grade open source environments. OpenLogic’s consolidated technical support covers more than 150 open source solutions and is backed by the OpenLogic Expert Community of open source developers.

Terracotta, Inc. delivers plug-in capacity and availability for enterprise Java at runtime with no application code changes. Terracotta gives application developers and operators substantial advantages in development, deployment, and management that translate directly into faster time to market, increased return on investment, and lower total cost of ownership.

Founded in 2003, SourceBeat pioneered a new way to publish books on open source projects and technologies by allowing the content to stay current with the pace of the technology. SourceBeat provides digital and print-on-demand books for the most popular open source projects such as Geronimo, Spring, Hibernate, Tapestry, and Eclipse.

Services

kristin — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:16:10 -0500

World-Class Open Source Middleware Professional Services

Virtuas provides a comprehensive range of professional services surrounding Apache Geronimo, Apache Tomcat, the Spring Framework, Hibernate, AppFuse and many other emerging, enterprise-ready open source projects.

Whether your organization wants to accelerate and enhance the open source adoption and migration process or seeks customized consulting, training and technical support, you can be assured that Virtuas Open Source Solutions has the experts to assist your development team in achieving success.

Let Virtuas show you how open source can make a real difference in your organization through enterprise-ready technologies such as:

• Apache Geronimo
• Spring
• Apache Tomcat
• AppFuse
• Hibernate
• Other Emerging Technologies

Emerging

kristin — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:15:23 -0500

Emerging Technologies

In addition to our other practices, Virtuas also constantly seeks out imminently emerging open source technologies. Many of these emerging technologies are rapidly building their communities and are at the cusps of enterprise-wide adoption.

Virtuas is here to help these emerging technologies reach their full potential and we offer the same level of expertise for these as we do for technologies that are already widely adopted across the enterprise. Services we provide around the emerging technologies listed below include:

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information.

Apache Ant is a Java-based build tool created as part of the Apache open source project. Ant largely inherits Java's platform independence, offering users increased flexability with build files, which can be easily moved from one platform to another.

Apache Struts is an open source framework created for developing J2EE web applications. It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt an MVC architecture. The core of the Struts framework is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies such as Java Servlets, JavaBeans, resource bundles, and the Extensible Markup Language (XML).

In December 2005, it was announced that Apache Struts, the leading web application framework for Java, was merging code bases and community with OpenSymphony's WebWork. The release will be out soon, and Virtuas expects a strong following and adoption of this technology. Stay tuned for more information!

JSF/MyFaces technology, created as part of the Apache open source project, is the industry standard in web frameworks and has a vast following of successful organizations who’ve used the technology to build complex Web applications with ease. The MyFaces Project is an open source implementation of Sun Microsystem's JavaServer Faces (JSF).

Tapestry is an open-source framework for creating dynamic, robust, highly scalable web applications in Java. Tapestry complements and builds upon the standard Java Servlet API, so it works in any servlet container or application server.

JBoss is an open source J2EE-based application server implemented in pure Java, which means JBoss can be used on any operating system that supports Java. A J2EE certified platform for developing and deploying enterprise Java applications, web applications, and portals, JBoss application server provides the full range of J2EE 1.4 features as well as extended enterprise services including clustering, caching, and persistence.

Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. Developed to make web pages load faster, be more user friendly, and more responsive through the exchange of small amounts of data with the server “behind the scenes.” The result is web pages that don’t need reloadeding each time the user makes a change.

Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework that's optimized for "programmer happiness and sustainable productivity". It has garnered much attention over the past twelve months or so and continues to gain developer mindshare. Many organizations are building applications quite seamlessly on Ruby on Rails.

Apache ServiceMix is an open source distributed Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and SOA toolkit built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration (JBI) specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache License.

Codehaus XFire is a next-generation Java SOAP framework. Codehaus XFire makes service oriented development approachable through its easy to use API and support for standards. It is also highly performant since it is built on a low memory StAX based model. XFire is gaining mindshare among leading-edge developers and technologists and is expected to become mainstream in the near future.

Hibernate

kristin — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:14:49 -0500

The Hibernate Project

Hibernate is a powerful, high-performance object/relational persistence and query service. Hibernate allows users to develop persistent classes following object-oriented idiom, including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition, and collections. Hibernate also allows for express queries in its own portable SQL extension (HQL) as well as in native SQL, or with an object-oriented Criteria and Example API. To learn more about the Hibernate open source project, visit: http://www.hibernate.org.

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AppFuse

kristin — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:14:19 -0500

The AppFuse Project

AppFuse is an open source application used to "kickstart" web application development, eliminating countless hours of setup and integration time. AppFuse prompts users for the open source tools and frameworks desired and then it actually creates the project. In addition, AppFuse features many enterprise-ready open source technologies such as Spring Framework, Apache Tomcat, Hibernate, MySQL, and a host of others. Visit http://appfuse.org
for more specifics on this open source project.

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