Thursday, 23 November 2006

Red Hat's JBoss Launches ESB

JBoss, a division of Red Hat, has introduced JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), which rounds out the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) as the defining open source platform for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the company said in a statement.

According to the company, 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 ESBГ,a field-proven ESB donated by a longstanding customer in the insurance sector JBoss ESB comes with a three-year track record in handling complex integration and real-time events in a business environment with 3,000 employees across 40 locations serving two million customers.

The company touts JBoss ESB, by saying that it 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 business process automation platform, the company added.

According to the company, key features of JBoss ESB 4.0 include:

• A pluggable architecture enables all JBoss ESB subsystems such as messaging and transformation to be swapped with other alternatives
• Support for a variety of messaging services, including secure FTP, HTTP, email and JMS (JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging, IBM MQSeries, and ActiveMQ)
• Transformation engine that bridges data formats for communication, supporting XSLT and Smooks, a flexible alternative
• Service registry for service discovery and integration, using JAX-R and UDDI
• Persisted event repository to support governance of the ESB environment
• Notification service to allow the ESB to register events and signal subscribers
• Content-based routing based on XPath and JBoss Rules for an alternative to publish-subscribe
• Gateways that allow non-ESB aware clients to interact with services deployed within the JBoss ESB environment