Andrej Koelewijn

According to InfoWorld Jboss has passed the J2EE certification test suite.

Infoworld has an interview with Oracle’s Edwin Khodabakchian on BPEL.

Accept BPEL as a first-class language, understand the tasks of the developers, and create the equivalent of the JDT [Java Development Tools] for BPEL within Eclipse. And we have the visual [tool] as well, for when the visual is important. But we never lose focus that it’s a development tool. We’re not trying to build a high-level Visio-type thing.

I think it’s a couple of years before we can deliver the Holy Grail of having more parametric processes that nontechnical people can change and configure more easily.

There’s a good article on onlamp.com about some of the new features in php5: Why PHP5 Rocks!. I’ve been doing some development with php recently, and reading this list with new features makes me want to switch to php5 immediately: better mysql support, better oo implementation, better xml and soap support, exception handling, and support for tidy. The only question is, when will it be stable enough for hosting companies to start using it?