JBoss Expands Open Source SOA Platform with Enterprise Service Bus

JBoss Expands Open Source SOA Platform with Enterprise Service Bus

JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today introduced JBoss ESB, which rounds out the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) as the defining open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA). With the addition of JBoss ESB to Red Hat’s arsenal, enterprises now have a complete set of leading, low-cost SOA building blocks for modern applications and the ability to run them on a virtualized Linux platform. As the global leader in open source software, Red Hat is driving costs out of the IT infrastructure by offering a tested and certified open source platform that delivers value, yet is comprised of modular pieces that ensure customer choice and flexibility.

An ESB intermediates interactions between enterprise applications, business services, business components, and middleware to integrate and automate business processes. Built on mature JEMS technology and the Rosetta ESBÑa field-proven ESB donated by a longstanding customer in the insurance sectorÑJBoss ESB comes with a three-year track record in handling complex integration and real-time events in a mission-critical business environment with 3,000 employees across 40 locations serving two million customers.

“JBoss ESB is the result of a true community effort, from the technology donation that helped accelerate our development timeline to the individual developers who brought their expertise to the project,” said Pierre Fricke, director of product management, JBoss. “This release provides a fundamental building block for our SOA integration platform. As an integrated company, Red Hat and JBoss are focused on delivering the leading open source platform for next-generation computing that drives down infrastructure costs for our customers without compromising on value and choice.”

JBoss ESB leverages other JEMS technologies, such as the JBoss Rules business rules engine for content-based routing and JBossMQ for messaging. Over time, JBoss plans to extend JBoss ESB with additional JEMS products such as the JBoss jBPM business process management and workflow engine, to create a complete business process automation platform. As part of its effort to enable customers and accelerate their path to SOA, JBoss will be looking to partners to extend the ESB with connectors, B2B gateways, SOA governance, and business services. Enterprises can start building on JBoss ESB today, with the assurance of standards-based portability.

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