JBoss Accelerates Open Source Middleware to High-End Market with New Projects; JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Continue to Drive Technical Innovation for the JEMS Open Source Platform for SOA.ATLANTA -- JBoss, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today introduced two open source projects designed to further strengthen the JBoss(R) Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS JEMS Journal of Emergency Medical Services JEMS Judicial Enforcement Management System JEMS Joint Embedded Messaging System (Operator configurable message translation device) JEMS Jenks East Middle School JEMS Joint Effects Management System (TM)) as the leading open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA): JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Server (JBoss Web). These new technologies move JBoss further into the high-end market, which has long been presided over by expensive, proprietary application platforms. Today, JEMS is already deployed in hundreds of intensive, high-end transactional environments, including financial hubs, trading exchanges and some of the world's busiest e-commerce companies. The advance of these high-performance technologies will accelerate JEMS further into the top end of the market. JBoss Messaging provides an open source and standards-based messaging platform that brings enterprise-class messaging to the mass market. JBoss Web brings high-performance Web server capabilities to users of Apache Tomcat and JBoss Application Server For the JBoss company itself, see . JBoss Application Server (or JBoss AS) is a free software / open source Java EE-based application server. Because it is Java-based, JBoss AS is cross-platform, usable on any operating system that Java supports. . "JBoss is focused on solving real-world customer needs and delivering technologies optimized for the complex IT environments common to large enterprises," said Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management, JBoss, Inc. "JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web signify another important milestone in JBoss' technology vision. These projects expand and enhance the JEMS stack for our high-end customers while maintaining the simplicity and modularity that have established JEMS as the leading open source platform for SOA." JBoss Messaging 1.0 JBoss Messaging 1.0 implements a high-performance, robust messaging core designed to support the largest and most heavily utilized SOAs, enterprise service buses (ESB) and other integration needs ranging from the simplest to the highest demand networks. Key features of JBoss Messaging include: --Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1 and 1.0.2b standards compatibility. For users of JBossMQ, the JMS technology embedded within JBoss Application Server, JBoss Messaging supports JMS applications currently running on JBossMQ without any changes. --JMS Facade, the JMS personality of JBoss Messaging, enabling a JMS client to connect to a JBoss Messaging server, send and receive messages, and interact with queues, topics and other key elements of a messaging platform. --JBoss Messaging Core, a transactional and reliable distributed messaging foundation, supports transactional ACID semantics, generalized message protocols (not just JMS) and other messaging protocol facades. --Standalone serverless operation as well as easy integration with JBoss Application Server. JBoss Messaging is currently available as a standalone product and will be the default JMS technology in JBoss Application Server 5.0, as well as the foundation for JBoss ESB 1.0--both targeted for release later in 2006. For additional product and download information about JBoss Messaging, visit http://www.jboss.com/products/messaging. JBoss Web Server 1.0 Community Release JBoss Web provides enterprises with a single, high-performance deployment platform for Java Server Pages See JSP. (JSP) and Java Servlet technologies, Microsoft ASP.NET, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. and CGI. It uses an innovative, high-performance hybrid design that incorporates the best open source technologies for processing high-volume data with market-leading support for important Java Enterprise Edition (EE) specifications. This hybrid technology model makes JBoss Web one of the fastest and most scalable Web servers on the market. JBoss Web is built on Apache Tomcat--the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, JSP/Servlet container--and incorporates the Apache Portable Runtime The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a supporting library for the Apache web server. It provides a set of APIs that map to the underlying operating system. Where the OS doesn't support a particular function, APR will provide a replacement. (APR APR See: Annual Percentage Rate ) and a Tomcat native layer to achieve dramatic scalability improvements, including the ability to handle over 10,000 concurrent connections. Since JBoss Web is built on the APR, it is able to achieve performance characteristics that meet and exceed the Apache HTTP Server The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. Apache was the first viable alternative to the Netscape Communications Corporation web server (currently known as Sun . Additional JBoss Web Server features include: --Support for the HTTP, HTTPS (1) (HyperText Transport Protocol Secure) The protocol for accessing a secure Web server. Using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure port number rather than the default Web port number of 80. and AJP (Apache JServ Protocol The Apache JServe Protocol (AJP) is a binary protocol that can conduit inbound requests from a web server through to an application server that sits behind the web server. It also supports some monitoring in terms of the web server being able to ping the application server. ) protocols; --OpenSSL for Secure Sockets Layer (networking, security) Secure Sockets Layer - (SSL) A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide secure communications over the Internet using asymmetric key encryption. (SSL) support; --On-the-fly URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. rewriting with a flexible URL manipulation engine that supports an unlimited number of rules and rule conditions; --Support for both in- and out-of-process execution of CGI and PHP scripts, as well as ASP.NET applications; and --An advanced application load balancer that offers both high-availability and application segmentation for remote subsystems being executed out-of-process. JBoss Web 1.0 is currently in a community release, with a final production release targeted for June 2006. For more information about JBoss Web, go to http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossweb. Subscription Support Licensed under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL (Lesser GPL) See GNU General Public License. ), JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web are free to download and use. JBoss Messaging is available with Silver Level subscription support and will escalate to Gold and Platinum Levels later this year. JBoss Web will be supported through the JBoss Subscription following its final release. For more information about JBoss Subscriptions, visit http://www.jboss.com/services/profsupport. About JBoss, Inc. JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the market's leading open source platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service--all at a dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as Continental Airlines, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com. JBoss and JEMS are registered trademarks or trademarks of JBoss, Inc. in the United States and other countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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