The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, which is expected to be available in Asia Pacific by March 2008, is an open source SOA product offering designed to help enterprises develop business solutions more rapidly and to improve productivity within and across enterprises.
The platform is built on a number of open source projects that offer essential capabilities: JBoss ESB delivers application and service integration as well as mediation, transformation and registry; JBoss jBPM facilitates service orchestration and workflow (human and service); and JBoss Rules provides for business policy and rule management and integration, message content-based routing leveraging rules
The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform also includes scalable clustering, JEE technologies and a highly customisable base to meet changing enterprise needs. The platform combines SOA, enterprise application integration (EAI), business process and rule management (BPM) and event-driven architecture (EDA) technologies.
“Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform offers enterprises the opportunity to integrate applications and services, as well as streamline business processes more simply, openly and cost-effectively than with expensive, monolithic proprietary SOA platforms,” said Gery Messer, president, Red Hat, Asia Pacific. “This next-generation SOA Platform coupled with the JBoss subscription, can help add significant business and IT value to enterprise SOA integration projects.”
A JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform subscription includes certified product access, technical support that includes code upgrades, revisions and updates, customer support portal, documentation and long-term enterprise stability.
JBoss.org BlackTie is a new project for integrating Java and legacy-based distributed transaction-processing environments. BlackTie will complement and extend the current JBoss transaction monitor project, JBoss.org Transactions, through the addition of C, C++ and mainframe compatible transaction capabilities. This will enable organisations to better integrate and migrate legacy environments with next-generation, Java-based transaction environments.
The BlackTie project will focus on emulating transaction-processing monitor application programming interfaces (such as BEA's Tuxedo), providing legacy services in an open source capacity, including security, naming, clustering and transactions. This will ensure that applications formerly dependent on legacy transaction environments such as BEA's Tuxedo will operate with the JBoss transaction processing features project through the BlackTie framework. The JBoss.org BlackTie project is designed to fully support the ATMI programming interface. |
