JBoss founder unhappy at Red Hat

Just months after Red Hat acquired JBoss, rumours have surfaced that JBoss founder Marc Fleury may leave the company.

Red Hat has issued a statement that Fleury went on paternity leave in December and is expected back "in a few months". However, ZDNet reports that an e-mail Fleury sent to a select group of JBoss colleagues implies he does not intend to return to Red Hat.

The report says in a November interview, Fleury said research and development funding for JBoss was one of the mean reasons he had decided to join Red Hat, but his expectations had not been met. Fleury has not responded to requests to comment.

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that it has signed a global licensing agreement with Kodiak Networks to integrate Kodak's push-to-talk technology on RIM's BlackBerry devices.

The deal enables RIM to integrate a Java version of Kodiak's client with various BlackBerry handsets.

Cingular Wireless is to be the first operator to offer the push-to-talk service on the newest BlackBerry model. Kodiak says the Cingular service for the Pearl BlackBerry will offer several unique push-to-talk features such as an availability status indicator, call requests and call waiting.

Developers have released the final version of Groovy 1.0, a Java virtual machine language that integrates with the Java platform that has Java-like syntax with features inspired by Smalltalk, Python and Ruby.

According to an Infoworld blog posting, Groovy can be used for shell scripting to Web applications built on Spring and Hibernate through the Grails framework.

The developers say that with Groovy, Java libraries can be reused and investments in Java skills, tools and application servers are protected. Groovy 1.0 follows two release candidates that have been tested against real-world projects.

The Sun Developer Network (SDN) has recognised FareCompare.com for its Java technology-based applications supporting airfare processing.

At any one time there are more than 60 million fares filed by airlines around the world, and as many as 10% of these fares change daily. Airfare rules use a highly complex structure, creating significant computational challenges.

According to the SDN, FareCompare has used Java SE 6 to create the world's fastest and most comprehensive engine for processing airfares. The SDN says FareCompare is taking airfare research to new heights, putting powerful tools in the hands of consumers.