A project that we have been con­tribut­ing to at the Bel­gian Rail­ways is about ready to go live. It con­cerns a track­ing sys­tem for trains, pro­vid­ing de­tailed text mes­sages about de­lays that are sent to sub­scrib­ing pas­sen­gers. The sys­tem was of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced in the lo­cal press to­day.

Here is the of­fi­cial press an­nounce­ment (Dutch only) or the Eng­lish ver­sion...

Atomikos has of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced the avail­abil­i­ty of Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions 3.6 with a press re­lease.

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This is a main­te­nance re­lease that im­proves the JAX-WS han­dler con­fig­u­ra­tion of the JAX-WS demo.

Down­load is rec­om­mend­ed if you are in­ter­est­ed in web ser­vice trans­ac­tions...

As part of our Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions 3.6.1 re­lease we have pro­duced Trans­ac­tion­sEssen­tials 3.5.4 - a bug fix re­lease for Trans­ac­tion­sEssen­tials.

The most im­por­tant fix­es in this re­lease con­cern state­ment in­val­i­da­tion af­ter trans­ac­tion time­out and JMS/JNDI ini­tial­iza­tion im­prove­ments - both sug­gest­ed by the com­mu­ni­ty (for which thanks!)...

We now have our 3.6.1 re­lease of Ex­tremeTrans­ac­tions ready and on­line. This re­lease in­cludes a new and work­ing JAX-WS demo per­form­ing a dis­trib­uted trans­ac­tion (where the com­mit scope reach­es across web ser­vice calls) as well as sev­er­al bug fix­es. This re­lease also in­cludes a new ver­sion of the core: Trans­ac­tion­sEssen­tials 3.5.4

Feel free to check it out, all feed­back is wel­come!