JBoss Joins OASIS, W3C and WS-I Standards Organizations.

ATLANTA -- Membership Underscores Company's Continued Support for Industry Standards and JEMS Roadmap for Web Services and Integration

JBoss(R), Inc., the Professional Open Source company, today announced it has joined three industry organizations focused on establishing standards for Web services: OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and WS-I (Web Services Interoperability). This move will help JBoss ensure that the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS(TM)), the leading open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA), supports emerging Web services standards.

Today, for example, JBoss announced JBoss Portal 2.4 with WSRP (Web Services for Remote Portlets) support (www.jboss.com/news) while JBoss Transactions has the only Web services implementation on the market supporting both the WS-CAF (Composite Application Framework) and WS-TX (Transactions) specifications.

Mark Little, Ph.D., director of standards for JBoss, will be the company's primary representative within the organizations. Dr. Little commented: "JBoss is committed to making JEMS the leading open source platform for SOA, and that means adhering to key standards as they emerge. Though JEMS already supports a wide range of standards such as WS-CAF and WS-TX, membership in these organizations ensures that JBoss will have greater visibility and the opportunity to contribute our technical knowledge back into the standards process."

In OASIS, JBoss will be participating on committees for WSRP, WS-CAF, WS-TX, WS-RX (Reliable Exchange), WS-SX (Secure Exchange), WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language), SOA Reference Model and SOA Adoption Blueprints.

"Mark Little has a long history of working with OASIS, and we're pleased to have JBoss join the consortium," said James Bryce Clark, director of standards development at OASIS. "We look forward to having JBoss participate with other industry experts to help define the standards that will make Web services and SOA a reality for many enterprises."

In W3C, JBoss will be participating in the Web Services Addressing and Web Services Choreography Working Groups. For WS-I, JBoss joins as an advocate to support the organization's interoperability efforts.

OASIS is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries. More information is available at www.oasis-open.org.

W3C is an international consortium of over 400 member organizations focused on developing Web standards. The consortium is jointly run by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) in the U.S., the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) headquartered in France and Keio University in Japan, and has additional offices worldwide. For more information, see www.w3.org.

WS-I is an open industry organization committed to promoting consistent and reliable interoperability among Web services across platforms, applications and programming languages. The organization unites a diverse community of Web services companies to provide guidance, recommended practices and supporting resources for developing interoperable Web services. For more information, go to www.ws-i.org.

For more information about JBoss' participation in industry standards efforts, please visit www.jboss.com/company/leadership.

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 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 and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP, NEC, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com.

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