Last week we were pretty busy at JBoss. Here is the summary.

First, we have Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5. A great interview with lots of answers about the upcoming GA release of AS5. Check it out on DZone:

http://eclipse.dzone.com/videos/tech-chat-sacha-labourey-jboss

Mark Newton and his team just announced the Community Statistics Server. It is now publicly available here: http://stats.jboss.org/

For now you can see JIRA and SVN project activites. For example you can see commiters' actvities on the AS trunk:

http://stats.jboss.org/index.html?ctrl:cmd=render&ctrl:window=svn.default.JBossS vnMonitoringPortlet&action=viewCommitterDetails&id=1667658106

Or you cna go to JIRA's Open Issues and sort by Assignee.

Wesley strikes again, Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 2 of 3). The second part of an already very successful article. Check it out:

http://www.infoq.com/articles/jsf-ajax-seam-portlets-pt-2

While you have your JBoss IDE open, you can update it with the latest JBoss Tools. Check out Thomas Heute, JBoss Portal Project lead talk on the newly added Portlet support in JBoss Tools's Eclipse latest release.

http://www.jboss.org/feeds/post/jboss_portlet_support_in_eclipse

Thanks go to Snjezana Peco for her contribution.

Red Hat's JBoss business hits overdrive. Read what Craig Muzilla has to say about JBoss's growth and it's business strategy.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10021361-16.html