As part of Google Summer of Code this year, Robbie Gemmell's been working on the JMX Management Console, focussing on the UI and making it awesome.

I'm particularly fond of the new queue view:

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So, while there's yet to be a formal announcement, I am very please to learn that Google is going to be holding Summer of Code again this year.

Last year I had a great time working with Lahiru who contributed a totally rocking CLI to Apache Qpid. I'm already looking forward to this year.1GSoC is a great program, it provides students with an ( Read more... )

Apache Qpid is, if you didn't know, a message broker that implements the AMQP specification. Strictly speaking, it's two, a C++ broker and a Java Broker and a some clients in a variety of languages (C++, Java, Python, C#, Ruby..).

As part of the Google Summer of Code Lahiru Gunathilake has been working on a command line management interface for ( Read more... )

It is not without some great degree of pleasure that I am able to announce Qpid M2.1 RC1 is available for your perusal, testing, delectation and adoration.

I'm happy to announce that M2.1 is now frozen and that beta 2 has been
rolled and is available for testing from:
http://people.apache.org/~aidan/qpid-M2.1-RC1

Release notes

Known issuesThe ( Read more... )

This year Apache Qpid is taking part in Google Summer of Code. We've currently got a few project proposals, but we're always happy to get more ( Read more... )