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Version 4.3 of OpenMQ was made available as a free download in December. This new version of the enterprise quality, production ready, scalable messaging server allows a new http-based Universal Messaging Service to be used to access OpenMQ from a browser using AJAX, along with .Net, Python, Ruby, and others. OpenMQ 4.3 also includes new platforms (AIX, Oracle 11g, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008), a new installer, and additional Samples for things like talking to HermesJMS and STOMP.

Tune into a Webinar presentation this coming Friday, January 9th at 11 a.m. PT / 2 p.m. ET / 19:00 UTC (GMT), where speakers Ed Bratt and Linda Schenider of Sun will talk about the new Universal Messaging Service and show examples of its use from AJAX, C# and Python.

With the focus on performance, this release of JRuby has proven to be a contender. “There have been more and more reports of applications exceeding Ruby 1.8.6 performance; we are even beating Ruby 1.9 in some microbenchmarks,” reports Thomas Enebo.

Other major features in this release:

• Compilation of Ruby to Java Bytecode (in AOT and JIT modes)

• Oniguruma port to Java

• Refactored IO implementation

• Improved memory consumption

• Thousands of compatibility fixes

JRuby 1.1 can be download from:  http://dist.codehaus.org/jruby/

“Please try your applications against JRuby 1.1 and give us feedback.  If you find poor performance or a compatibility problem, then we want to know about it; message us on IRC, email our mailing list, or file a bug,”  Enebo requests.

For more visit the JRuby homepage.