/by apr/ An experimental prototype version of the long awaited ReplicatedSpace is out. You can read about it in jPOS-EE documentation (see Experimental chapter). We are very excited about the posibilities that components like this open to jPOS applications and we are looking forward to get your feedback and ideas about how to improve what we already have.
/by apr/ jPOS Training/Montevideo is over, we managed to cover our schedule and even had some time to have some beers, wine, grappas and chivitos. We had the great honor to host world class developers - coming from North America, South Africa - traveling almost 30 hours to come to our training, we really appreciate that guys! We also had the chance to share some experiences and we got to know about some impressive products (such as kiosks, mobile payments, etc) that either rely or will rely on jPOS for exiting mission critical applications. 
We expect to come to a city near you the next time. Update: added trackback to Jeff's blog which has some beautiful panorama pictures of Montevideo.
/by apr/ jPOS High Availability Service can be used to create a cluster of nodes where one of the nodes is used as a MASTER and the other(s) as SLAVE(S). A typical setup involves jPOS HA taking responsibility for standing-in with a virtual IP address in the cluster. In addition to providing peace of mind to your jPOS-EE installation, the HA Service has proven to be extremely useful when rolling out new software versions in a production environment, you roll it on a slave, then just disconnect the master, the slave becomes the new master running the new software. Should something go wrong, you re-connect the old master and disconnect the new one, that's something you can even do at the RJ45 patchbox level, which may be faster than typing commands under high pressure. jPOS-EE documentation has been updated and the jPOS-HA module is available for download . We have to thank Dave for his work in this module and for deploying it in several mission critical systems under his control. Dave is now enjoying a well deserved vacation in Europe, certainly confident that should something goes wrong with a master node, the slave will pick up the load ... he may be also crossing his fingers ... just in case ... 
/by apr/ We've made some minor changes to miniGL in order to integrate it as a jPOS-EE module. GLSession now have a few new constructors that accept a DB object, so we can reuse DB's Hibernate session. In addition miniGL's configuration has been adapted to jPOS-EE-SDK naming convention (see modules/minigl/cfg). This module depends on the following modules:
/by apr/ We have a couple of new modules in jPOS-EE that integrates Q2 with the excellent Java Service Wrapper. We provide implementations for Windows as well as Linux.
/by apr/ There's a new QBean in eecore called org.jpos.ee.status.Monitor. It has an easy to extend interface:
public interface MonitorTask {
public String checkService ();
}
that can be used to monitor different kind of services. We just have a pseudo-Ping implementation so far, but we plan to add monitoring capabilities for other services, both external (http, ftp, smtp, etc.) as well as internals (channels, muxes, servers). The configuration is very simple too:
<monitor class='org.jpos.ee.status.Monitor' logger='Q2'>
<monitor id='webserver jPOS.org Web server' delay='15000' period='180000'>
<class>org.jpos.ee.status.Ping</class>
<property name='host' value='www.jpos.org' />
<property name='port' value='80' />
</monitor>
<monitor id="secureserver jPOS.org Secure Web server"
delay='20000' period='180000'>
<class>org.jpos.ee.status.Ping</class>
<property name='host' value='www.jpos.org' />
<property name='port' value='443' />
</monitor>
...
...
</monitor>
Here is a live demo (login with user 'guest', password 'guest'). Several modules have been updated, so you may want to call
ant update
ant setup
In addition, the documentation has been updated, you may want to fetch a new copy. If you find this useful and you plan to use it, please consider contributing some MonitorTask implementations.
/by apr/ There's a new experimental jPOS-EE module called QCluster that can be used to manage Q2 farms. Although this is just an alpha version, stuff like this will enable the creation of web based configuration wizards usable by average operators for common tasks such as creating new servers, restarting channels and the like. 
There's a new section in the experimental chapter of jPOS-EE-SDK document. The module source can be found in the usual place.
/by apr/ The jPOS-EE-SDK reference guide have been updated to document more entities available in the eecore module. We are currently working in customized versions of the eeweb module with some end-user institutions and VARS and we expect to release a generic community edition asap. Some components of the CE have been installed in the jPOS-EE Demo Site (login with user 'guest' and password 'guest') and are available for a sneak preview. If you're currently working with jPOS and you want to jump the jPOS-EE wagon, do not hesitate to contact the EE team.
ISO-8583 made easy Implementing a jPOS based application usually requires some major development effort. If Java is your platform of choice and you already have a knowledgeable ISO-8583-savvy Java development team then jPOS, or better yet, jPOS-EE is certainly the way to go. But if you are not a Java shop, or even if you are, but you just want to focus on your business logic without having to deal with low level ISO-8583 communications details, then ISO/Bridge is probably an alternative you ought to evaluate. Read the rest here.