ObjectWeb Celtix Project Achieves Second Key Milestone; Community Delivers Complete Core Architecture for Celtix Open Source ESB.DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. & GRENOBLE, France -- IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IONA), a world leader in high-performance integration solutions for mission-critical IT environments, and ObjectWeb, a well established and respected open source community with a focus on the development of industry-grade distributed middleware, today announced that the Celtix(TM) open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB (Enterprise Services Bus) A message broker that supports Web services. See message broker, messaging middleware and Web services. ) project has achieved its second key milestone. The on-schedule delivery of Milestone 2 makes available to the Celtix community a complete and tested binary format (1) Numbers stored in pure binary form in contrast with BCD form. See binary numbers. (2) Information stored in a binary coded form, such as data, text, images, voice and video. See binary file, binary field and LOB. of the core Celtix architecture. "Milestone 2 represents not only the nearly complete foundation upon which the Celtix project will be built, but also a foundation on which developers can already begin building initial SOA-based applications," explained Carl Trieloff, open source program manager, IONA. "With Milestone 2, the community has delivered support in Celtix for plug-ins, a new feature extending the project's capabilities, on a truly extensible core." Accomplishments in Milestone 2 include implementation of the binding API and support for message handlers. Both features enable the Celtix core to support the use of plug-ins, enabling easy support extensions and integration of other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) infrastructure technologies. In addition, Milestone 2 expands SOAP 1.1 support to include DOC literal and RPC (Remote Procedure Call) A programming interface that allows one program to use the services of another program in a remote machine. The calling program sends a message and data to the remote program, which is executed, and results are passed back to the calling literal, as well as the ability to handle faults. APIs supporting JAX-WS Sync and One-Way have also been completed. Celtix Milestones are anticipated twice per quarter. With its initial release, the ObjectWeb Celtix project will deliver an open source Java ESB runtime and a set of extensibility APIs. The goal of the project is to provide open source ESB technology that can simplify the construction, integration and flexible reuse of technical and business components using a standards-based, SOA. "We are confident that ObjectWeb's ESB initiative is bound to become 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, in open source SOA for the enterprise. Celtix is a cornerstone of this ESB initiative and the sustained pace of development of this project demonstrates how vibrant the community behind it is," said Jean-Pierre Laisne, ObjectWeb Chairman and Linux & Open-Source Strategy Manager for Bull. "As ObjectWeb is becoming the natural home ground for open source middleware, we encourage all stakeholders to join in and contribute to Celtix or complementary ObjectWeb projects." For more information about ObjectWeb Celtix, or to become involved in the Celtix community, please visit http://celtix.objectweb.org. About IONA For more than a decade, IONA(R) Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix(R) products. Artix(TM), IONA's extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization's common infrastructure components. IONA's sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company's history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and distributed architectures. IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts One of the early centers of the Industrial Revolution in northern America, Waltham is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 59,226 at the 2000 census. and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. About ObjectWeb Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA INRIA - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique , ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce next generation of Open Source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with independent solutions that combine quality and robustness at the best possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products for e-business, business integration, data connectivity, grid computing grid computing, the concurrent application of the processing and data storage resources of many computers in a network to a single problem. It also can be used for load balancing as well as high availability by employing multiple computers—typically personal , and enterprise messaging. Based on Open Standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" middleware are JOnAS - an Open Source certified implementation of the J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. (tm) specification, JORAM Joram (jō`rəm), in the Bible. 1, 2 Kings of Israel and Judah: see Jehoram (1,) (2.) 3 Son of Toi, king of Hamath, sent to congratulate David on the defeat of Hadadezer. - a Message Oriented Middleware and Enhydra - a Java(tm)/XML Application Server. http://www.objectweb.org IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, High Performance Integration, Artix, Mobile Orchestrator and Making Software Work Together are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. 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