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I was giving a demo to a company today. The following sequence of events happened:

• Webex froze my computer, not once, not twice, but three times - requiring full reboots. (It seems it doesn’t work well with dual monitors)
• Construction knocked out my cable - which I use for phone and Internet
• I called back in on my cell phone and my call dropped

Sometimes it is just not your day.

Folks, we managed to push out a Galaxy 1.5 release candidate yesterday. It has some pretty cool new features I think:

• Much expanded metadata capabilities. You can define new properties which are stored of various types - like links to other things in the registries, lifecycles, users, and simple values. For instance, you can define a property called “supercedes” which is a link type. Than users can link to another entry in the registry that a particular service/artifact supercedes.
• The ability to work with a much larger variety of services. Galaxy 1.0 only stored artifacts. Galaxy 1.5 allows you to just store metadata about services in the form of registry “entries.” For instance, you can define an entry for a RESTful service then start attaching metadata such as the service owner, URL, links to documentation, lifecycle information, etc.
• Event API - easily develop extensions which listener for lifecycle transitions or new entries/artifacts
• Scripting shell - great for scripting things such as notificactions or replication

And there’s a lot more as well…you can find out the rest of the details in the What’s new in Galaxy 1.5 document.

We’ll be releasing the 1.5 final version (along with the 1.5 enterprise version) in a couple weeks once we’re able to put it through some more QA/testing and once we get all the documentation updated for 1.5.

As always, we’re eager to here feedback so kick the tires and please let us know what you think.

Yesterday, I touched down in Oslo to attend the JavaZone conference (can you believe Sun still lets them use that name?). This is always a great conference as the Norwegians are always doing cool stuff with Java.

This morning I attended Jim Webber’s talk on Guerilla SOA. He was hilarious as always. He (correctly) derided the idea of a giant “Bus” which sits on your network which does intelligent routing for every application then talked about how a more webby approach can solve a lot of the problems. Unfortunately, I there was no mention of enterprise man boobs (a.k.a. “moobs”) in this talk.

I also tried to attend Arjen’s talk on RESTful services in Spring, but it was full and they wouldn’t let me in.

I’ll be giving a talk tomorrow entitled “SOA Governance - 5 common mistakes and how to avoid them.” Hope you can make it if you’re here.