JBoss goes up the stack to Business Processes
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JBoss after a series of announcements last month (see JBoss announces&gt;) has made another significant announcement with JBoss jBPM, their first step into business process management.
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Company is upgrading current support and service program to draw more mainframe customers.
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Application developers are getting a raft of new options this week with Sun updating J2SE, Borland upping its CORBA ante, and Compuware detailing products that will work with Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 toolbox.
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(InfoWorld) - Red Hat and Exadel are joining forces to try to make the open source Red Hat platform more of a destination for software developers. The two companies will offer Eclipse-based developer tools for building applications for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat and Exadel said. "If you take a look at where Red Hat's business was a couple years ago, it was primarily around migration of production systems to Enterprise Linux," said Brian Che, Red Hat product manager. But now, Red Hat wants developers to build new applications, Che said. This week's announcement follows last year's purchase of JBoss as part of Red Hat's strategy. Through an arrangement being announced at the EclipseCon conference in Santa Clara, Calif., on Monday, Exadel will open source all of its products, including the Exadel Studio Pro Web development environment and the RichFaces AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) components platform. Exadel Studio Pro, which is based on the Eclipse platform, will be renamed Red Hat Developer Studio. Also, Exadel's Ajax4jsf, which is a framework for JavaServer Faces applications that use AJAX, will be consolidated under the JBoss.org umbrella. Red Hat will work with Exadel to drive development of these projects and integrate them with JBoss middleware technologies such as the JBoss Seam application framework. In offering its products via open source, Exadel is seeking to increase awareness of its technologies and sell application-building services around them. "We believe that this gives us more visibility," said Donna Burke, Exadel vice president. Red Hat, meanwhile, will support the products itself. The Red Hat and Exadel arrangement provides a new twist on partnerships in that it is not an acquisition and provides just a potential for future revenues from services, said Raven Zachary, senior analyst with The 451 Group. "Here you've got two commercial firms exchanging IP (intellectual property) with only a promise of revenue-sharing in the future. It's a fascinating model," Zachary said. "There's a risk here for Exadel," in giving away its IP, but Exadel believes the move provides greater opportunities, Zachary said. RichFaces and Ajax4jsf provide models for building rich Internet and Web 2.0 applications, Red Hat said. When combining these Exadel developer tools with JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat can offer a development and deployment platform for developers to assemble SOA components and Web 2.0 applications with less coding, Red Hat and Exadel said. RichFaces and Ajax4jsf are available now as JBoss RichFaces and JBoss Ajax4jsf on JBoss.org under the LGPL (Lesser GNU General Public License). Red Hat is working to open source Exadel Studio Pro as Red Hat Developer Studio under the GNU GPL (General Public License), with availability planned for later in the first half of 2007. Red Hat also plans to introduce a Red Hat developer assistance program. The effort will feature a developer portal that at present has been known by the code name of 108. Also at EclipseCon, AccuRev plans to announce enhancements to its AccuBridge for Eclipse plug, allowing Eclipse developers to access AccuRev software configuration management functionality from within the Eclipse IDE. Performance and usability enhancements in version 4.5.1 of the plug-in include the ability to synchronize a local development workspace with other developers' changes, a customizable AccuRev perspective to view the collection of windows most important to developers, and support for the Eclipse Update Manager. AccuRev also plans to announce it has hired David Jabs as vice president of engineering. He was a founding architect of IBM Rational ClearCase while at Atria Software, AccuRev said.
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Breaking down business processes into Web services components was the easy part. Weaving them together into manageable, useful services has proved more ambitious.
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JBoss, owners of the popular JBoss open source development community, added another piece to its middleware product portfolio with the addition of the Java Business Process Management (jBPM) Project, officials announced Monday.
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TechWeb - The company offers its JBoss BlackTie.org project over BEA's software to emulate transaction-processing monitors that connect large servers.
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JBoss has released a new version of its open-source business process management application, called &quot;jBPM.&quot; It is the latest evidence that the open-source provider is serious about pushing
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Sun Microsystems has disclosed a serious vulnerability in the Java Plug-in technology within the Software Developersâ Kit (SDK) and the Java Run-time Environment (JRE) that allows attackers to bypass the Java sandbox and Java applet security.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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InfoWorld - JBoss on Monday plans to flesh out details of its open source middleware stack consisting largely of existing software technologies, with the company intending to fill out the stack over time.
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In a deal aimed at helping corporate IT decision-makers feel more comfortable about moving to open-source software offerings, Hewlett-Packard Co. will now provide first-call support for JBoss Inc.'s open-source application server.
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Simplifying operations and saving money were the two themes heard often among IT managers  who talked about adopting JBoss middleware applications within their businesses at the JBoss World show in Orlando.
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The company Monday announced it has hired Tom Baeyens, the founder and lead developer of jBpm, an open source workflow engine. As with its other products, JBoss will sell services and support for jBpm (which
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Cape Clear Software this week is upgrading its ESB with the release of Cape Clear 6, enabling development of business process workflows based on BPEL.ADVERTISEMENTSolaris 10(TM) OS: Position your business ten moves ahead.Solaris 10 OS has arrived and provides even more reasons for the world's most demanding businesses to operate on this, the leading UNIX platform. Like the fact you can run Linux and Solaris applications side-by-side and run the same OS on SPARC(R), AMD Opteron(TM), and Intel processor-based systems. Discover more reasons and how Solaris 10 OS can move your business ahead today.
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(InfoWorld) - French systems and services provider Bull has formed a broad partnership with JBoss that could see theÂ Red Hat subsidiary's open-source middleware used more widely in Europe. As part of the deal, Bull will resell subscriptions to JBoss' software and provide first- and second-tier support for it, with Red Hat providing third-tier technical support, the companies announced Tuesday. Bull will also join the community of developers that contribute to JBoss, and it will become a JBoss systems integrator partner, adding the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite to the software choices that Bull offers to clients. The deal builds on an existing partnership with Red Hat and is the first strategic research and development partnership that JBoss has signed in Europe, the companies said. The deal may also provide aÂ boost for ObjectWeb, the French middleware consortium that was cofounded by Bull and that developed the open-source Jonas application server. Red Hat has been a close partner of ObjectWeb and helped with theÂ development of Jonas. When it bought JBoss, however, Red Hat shifted the focus of its development efforts to the JBoss middleware. With Tuesday's deal, Red Hat will now strengthen its involvement with ObjectWeb, the companies announced. The deal will give ObjectWeb "a strategic partnership with JBoss" that will "enforce the cross-fertilization and interoperability of open-source middleware developments," a Bull executive said in a statement. Red Hat will also work closely with Bull on "the future development and extension of ObjectWeb," the companies said. The announcement was made at the JBoss World conference taking place this week in Berlin. ObjectWeb is in the midst of an effort to become a more business-friendly and marketing-savvy organization. Earlier this year it said it would become a nonprofit legal entity, making it easier for it to sign business contracts. It has also held a contest to come up with a new name for itself, which could be announced shortly. Â ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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JNBridge will bridge the Microsoft .Net and Java Message Service (JMS) worlds Tuesday with the release of adapters linking the two platforms.The adapters connect JMS systems to .Net applications and Microsoft's BizTalk Server integration software.Adapters include: JNBridge JMS Adapter for .Net, to integrate any vendor's JMS implementation with a .Net application, and JNBridge Adapter for BizTalk, to connect to Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 or BizTalk Server 2006 R2."If your enterprise is built around JMS messaging, and a lot of them [are], this allows them to bring in .Net technology and integrate seamlessly," said Wayne Citrin, JNBridge CTO.There are users who want to develop in .Net or do Web development in ASP.Net but have to integrate with infrastructure already there, he said. Until now, there also has not been a satisfactory way to integrate JMS with BizTalk server, Citrin said."Out of the box, BizTalk doesn't support JMS queues," said JNBridge user Matthew Dean, a senior consultant at CTS, a software and professional services firm that has been using the BizTalk adapter. Although the product he used has had limitations of a beta offering, JNBridge developers have been responsive to issues, Dean said.BizTalk, said Dean, is being used by CTS to unite disparate systems that need to either feed into or retrieve data from an asset management application, he said.The .Net adapter uses Microsoft's Windows Communication Foundation Line-of-Business adapter technology. Both adapters use an interface to hide complexities of building a JMS client, and both utilize technologies from the JNBridgePro Java and .Net interoperability product.The BizTalk adapter costs $9,950 per server, while the .Net adapter also is priced at $9,950 but licenses are provided for 50 users.
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Open-source software maker releases big update to Java-based application server program.