I just found out I’m going to heading out to San Francisco to attend the Fuse Community Day!

I’m pleased to announce the release of RMI via JMS 1.0!  RMI via JMS allows you do RMI style remoting over any JMS provider.  It combines the ease of RMI development with flexibility and loose coupling that JMS provides.

Wow, I love the simplicity that ZooKeeper brings to a really hard set of distributed problems. Check out this Introductory Video that explains it more in depth. Basically group leadership/coordination and cluster wide configuration issues are taken care of if you Use ZooKeeper.

Whoa, time flies by, and I forgot to post about the upcoming webinar that I will be co-hosting with Rob Davies on June 10th. We will be covering some messaging basics, introducing Apache ActiveMQ and Apache Camel to the audience, but most interesting I think will be the section where Rob will be covering the results that IONA has been seeing benchmarking ActiveMQ against the SpecJMS2007 test suite. I totally agree with Rob’s comment that “An independent benchmark is important, because it negates the chance to skew home groan tests to a vendor’s strengths.”

The James Strachan has put together an awesome intro to Apache Camel.