Greetings dear Petals users,
we are very glad to announce the public availability of our latest ESB, Petals ESB 4.0!
This distribution packs sweeties.

• Latest container with new kernel 3.2, which brings strong enhancements under the hood: beyond usual performance/stability profits, many parts have been rewritten to prepare for exciting new features (yeah, we're teasing you :)). Beware though, in spite of our care, there may be a few regressions, which we'll detect and fix as fast as we can.
• A new business monitoring system: no more Petals View+KPI, now all is based on plain texts logs, for extensive configurability and choice in third-party exploitation tool.
• A new Command Line Interface: now brings all essential administration tools in one dedicated shell, usable locally or remotely (including replacement for old "stop" and "shutdown" scripts).
• Pack of updates for most used components, to make them compatible with the new monitoring: Filetransfer, FTP, Mail, SFTP, SOAP, SQL, BPEL, EIP, JSR, Quartz, Validation, XSLT.
• BC-SOAP now supports WS-Security and SSL connexions.
• BC-Filetransfer is simpler to use as a service provider, and is now ready for high availability use-cases as a consumer.
• Petals startup script has been improved, using your feedback as guidelines.

Also, please note that package structure of the container and our versioning policy has slightly evolved. 

You're welcome to download Petals ESB 4.0 and try it at work... Or at home? For more information about an individual novelty, please refer to previous news on the blog.

We hope you'll enjoy Petals ESB 4.0, and are waiting for your feedback on Petals forum.

Christophe was chosen for his experience of SOA project, his skills for industrial developments, and his great motivation as a community contributor. He was architect and main developer of a huge SOA project at ACOSS, the first big open source SOA project in France. At Capgemini, he participated to a global and transversal project, to make code development more industrial. His background in system integrators companies will help work more closely to these essential partners. He was also the first contributor in Petals project, both in time and in contributions, which give him great knowledge on the software.

So what’s his mission? Manage product technical evolutions, improve development industrialization, and help customer design their architecture.
You might work with him one day ;-)

So welcome Christophe!

To avoid any jealous, let’s welcome also two new developers for Petals ESB, who arrived those last three month : Nicolas Oddoux a young and motivated engineer, and Marc Jambert, an experienced developer and also technical support guy.
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Now you can post Support ticket (If you have support) or Bugs on the Petals issues tracker.

For information, we're using JIRA with the free license for open source projects, generously offered by Atlassian.
Second time using an Atlassian product and it's still a pleasure. First time that was switching the Petals documentation on the wiki Confluence.

Bertrand Escudié, Petals Link CEO, interviewed at Solutions Linux Event in Paris (by Jonathan Lelous, Intelli'n TV).

Question is : What is Petals Link ? (French)

Qu'est-ce que Petals link ? SOA open source
envoyé par Flo2s_TV. - Vidéos des dernières découvertes scientifiques.

We met Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizeta, the French Officer for IT Economic Developement (Secrétaire d'Etat à la Prospective et au développement de l'économie numérique). She answers questions about Innovation and Open Source financing in France.

The meeting was organized and recorded by Linagora.

(in French)

(download)

Click here to download:

Linagora-Table_Ronde_Logiciels_Libres-Ministre_economie_numerique.flv (93.61 MB)

We talked in an Interoperability Round Table at Solutions Linux 2010 on March 16th. (All in French)
That was very interesting, mostly because of the intervention of big guy from Microsoft, inside an open source world.

Featuring :

• Pierre JARILLON, Vice-President, Abul
• Michel-Marie MAUDET, Deputy managing director, Linagora
• Jean-Pierre LAISNE, President, OW2 & Open Source Manager, Bull,
• Teodor DANCIU, Chief Technical Officer, Jaspersoft
• Gaël BLONDELLE, Chief Technical Officer, PetalsLink
• Alfonso CASTRO, Interoperability Strategy Director, Microsoft,

Animated by Philippe Davy, Freelance IT Journalist.

(Click here to launch the video)

You might notice some "posterous" links. Posterous is an online content publish solution, cleverly designed, and evolving very fast. What is funny (and useful) is that you can use it all by email. Create a blog, create a ticket, respond to a comment... Then it is connected to many social websites, and publishes there. We are using twitter, flickr and facebook page auto-publish.

Third-party hosted softwares saves us a lot of time : very little maintenance, always the latest upgrades, almost no technical knowledge needed, and higher availbitlity than self-hosted softwares. It's perfect for human-sized companies.
One year ago we moved to Salesforce (for CRM and customer support), then Mailchimp (for email publishing), and now Posterous for blog and micro-blog. To continue...

Great !

We are now starting the Petals Blog. It will deal with Petals code and upgrades (ESB, Master, Studio and View),  Petals link inside stories, and some Petals link official stuff. Also some views on SOA & open source ecosystem.

There are other great blogs in the petals community, aggregated at planet.petalslink.com
They will give you useful hints about Petals, SOA and integration.