JBoss, Inc. Adds New Technical Features to Federated Open Source Projects, Continues to Drive Technical Innovation for Open Source Middleware.

ATLANTA -- JBoss(R), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced several key technical features among its federated open source projects. The product releases and updates in January attest to the company's focus on driving technical innovation in Java middleware and support the build out of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS) into a comprehensive open source architecture that gives end users greater flexibility and technology choice.

"JBoss continues to deliver resourceful and innovative open source products aimed at putting the end user back in control of their line of business infrastructure," said Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management, JBoss, Inc. "The JBoss Enterprise Middleware System offers companies cost-effective, cutting-edge technologies to meet their enterprise Java needs. JBoss stands behind JEMS with superior support services delivered by the technical experts who know the products best."

JBoss will be showcasing JEMS and its federation of open source projects at the company's upcoming user conference, JBoss World 2005, which will take place at the Omni/CNN Center in Atlanta, Ga., March 1-2, 2005. Sessions will be delivered by members of the JBoss community, including customers, partners and JBoss architects and developers. Registration is now open at http://www.jboss.com/company/events/jbossworld2005.

Releases and updates for JBoss projects in January 2005 include:

--JBoss Portal 2.0 Alpha: JBoss Portal 2.0 will offer an integrated framework for building, deploying and maintaining flexible and scalable enterprise portals. With a final release expected later in 2005, this JBoss Portal Alpha release provides an initial portal framework, content management system, forum portlet and single-sign on support. More information for this JBoss Portal community release is available at http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossportal.

--JBoss AOP 1.1: JBoss AOP is an aspect-oriented framework and prepackaged set of aspects designed to simplify development by providing enterprise services (for caching, transactions, security, remoting, etc.) to object-oriented plain old Java objects (POJOs) via annotations, pointcut expressions or dynamically at runtime. This new release includes a variety of enhancements including new aspects and improved integration with JBoss Eclipse IDE. More information for JBoss AOP is available at http://www.jboss.com/products/aop.

--JBoss Eclipse IDE 1.5 Alpha: JBoss Eclipse IDE extends Eclipse with a series of plug-ins that enable programmers to develop, deploy, test and debug their JEMS-based applications within the Eclipse IDE. With a final release expected later in 2005, this JBoss Eclipse IDE Alpha release provides new features that simplify AOP, EJB3, Hibernate and JBoss jBPM application development. Specifically, this release features a new AOP Pointcut wizard, a port of the popular Hibernate Console, as well as various wizards that ease EJB3 and Hibernate development. Further, this release offers a first look at the new JBoss jBPM Process Designer, which provides a graphical process archive editor with join, fork and path bending capabilities. More information for this JBoss Eclipse IDE community release is available at http://www.jboss.com/products/jbosside.

--JBoss Remoting 1.0.1 Beta: JBoss Remoting is a JBoss technology that provides a single, simple API for most network-based invocations and related services. Specifically, it provides the ability to make synchronous and asynchronous remote calls, push and pull callbacks and automatic discovery of remoting servers using pluggable transports and data marshallers. More information for this JBoss Remoting community release is available at http://www.jboss.com/products/remoting.

--JBoss AS 3.2.7: JBoss Application Server 3.2.7 is a maintenance release for JBoss AS 3.x users. This release contains a variety of bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. For more information on JBoss AS, please visit http://www.jboss.com/products/overview/jbossas.

JBoss Professional Support Services

JBoss, Inc. provides a full range of services delivered by the product experts behind JBoss open source projects, including 24x7 professional support, consulting and training. Documentation for JBoss products is free and available in HTML or downloadable PDF format. Support and services are also available through the company's extensive network of JBoss Authorized Service Partners (JASP). For more information, please visit http://www.jboss.com/services/index.

About JBoss, Inc.

Through its Professional Open Source model, JBoss, Inc. is making open source a safe choice for the enterprise. JBoss provides resources, technology direction and core development for popular open source projects and stands behind them with enterprise-grade support and services. The JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), built on the Professional Open Source model, includes leading technologies like Tomcat, Hibernate, JBoss jBPM, JBoss IDE and the JBoss Application Server, the industry's most popular J2EE application server in use, with over five million downloads. Companies like Corporate Express, La Quinta Inns and Nielsen Media Research rely on JEMS for mission-critical enterprise applications. Partners who embed or bundle JEMS and resell JBoss services include Computer Associates, HP, Novell and Unisys. JBoss has headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. and Neuchatel, Switzerland. For additional information, please visit www.jboss.com.

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