Author Archives: Reza Rahman

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.                             – Lao-TzuI am very proud to say the second edition of EJB 3 in Action is now published. In addition to covering EJB 3.2, we’ve also covered JPA 2.1, CDI 1.1, JAX-RS, WebSocket and so on. The goal is to try to cover as much ofContinue reading “EJB 3 in Action: A Personal Journey”

One of the not so small things I’ve come to appreciate about Oracle as an employee is it’s stability. Unlike many other companies I’ve seen in my fairly non-trivial career, pretty much no one is worried about their next paycheck. This is no accident. It is a direct result of Oracle leadership’s focus on maintainingContinue reading “Oracle, GlassFish and the Nature of Open Source”

Since it first started as a small grassroots open source project in the late nineties, JBoss AS has come a long way. It is now one of the foremost open source Java EE application servers, if not one of the leading application servers outright. JBoss AS has always been vital to fulfilling the Java EE promise ofContinue reading “JBoss AS Now WildFly”

I feel profoundly sad for the victims of the Boston bombings. As always, I really wonder what people like the bombers had hoped to accomplish. If there was indeed a legitimate cause that motivated them, they have simply managed to undermine it by tarnishing it with the blood of the innocent – perhaps forever. On their path ofContinue reading “Reflections on the Boston Bombings”

I had two sessions at JavaOne this year. One was a solo talk on the CDI ecosystem. It was well-attended and I got excellent feedback on it. The other was a joint talk with my fellow co-author Ryan Cuprak on Java EE tooling support. The talk went very well as well considering we had stiffContinue reading “JavaOne 2012/Joining Oracle”

On August 19th I spoke at the Atlanta JUG — one of the biggest JUGs in the east coast and the sponsors of the popular DevNexus conference. I gave my Arquillian/Java EE 6 testing talk. The attendance was great as was the participation. I am hoping I’ll get to come back to Altanta again forContinue reading “Arquillian Talk at the Atlanta JUG”

I did a talk on Arquillian/Java EE 6 testing at the Twin Cities JUG on May 14th. The attendance was moderate but I had some pretty good discussions afterwards. This was my first JUG talk in the mid-West so it was interesting. While I was there, I got to check out the iconic Mall ofContinue reading “Arquillian Talk at Twin Cities JUG”

On January 18th, I went back to speak at the Maryland JUG once again — this time talking about the JCP. Even despite the fact that this wasn’t a technical talk per se, the atttenance was great as was the participation. I really enjoy speaking at this JUG and the JUG leaders are doing aContinue reading “JCP Talk at Marylad JUG”

On January 11, I spoke at the Dallas JUG — I gave my CDI demo/tour. This was my first talk so far down South so it was exciting. The talk went great and the crowd was fantastic. I got a chance to look around Dallas a bit. I never realized exactly how metropolitan this partContinue reading “CDI Talk at Dallas JUG”

I did my CDI/Seam 3 talk at the Maryland JUG on 17th August, 2011. The JUG was great and it had excellent active participation. I hope to speak there again soon.