Red Hat has announced the “Enterprise Acceleration” initiative designed to help enterprise customers accelerate their transition to a next-generation, open source architecture based on JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
The strategy, announced at JBoss World Orlando, focuses on expanding the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio through the availability of the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and the sponsorship of multiple new open source community projects, including JBoss.org BlackTie.
JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform
The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, which is expected to be available in Asia Pacific by March 2008, is the market's first comprehensive, open source SOA product offering designed to help enterprises develop business solutions more rapidly and to improve productivity within and across enterprises.
The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is designed to be simpler, more open and more cost-effective than proprietary SOA platforms. It is intended to increase flexibility in a range of implementations from small-scale integration projects to enterprise-wide SOA integration. It has a light-weight footprint and is simpler to install for low-cost operations.
The Platform is built on a number of leading open source projects that offer essential capabilities:
• JBoss ESB delivers application and service integration as well as mediation, transformation and registry;
• JBoss jBPM facilitates service orchestration and workflow (human and service)
• JBoss Rules provides for business policy and rule management and integration, message content-based routing leveraging rules
It also includes scalable clustering, JEE technologies and a highly customizable base to meet changing enterprise needs. The platform combines SOA, enterprise application integration (EAI), business process and rule management (BPM) and event-driven architecture (EDA) technologies. These enable enterprises to:
- Simplify application integration using a Service Oriented Architecture
- Automate manual business processes
- Reduce errors in business processes by eliminating unnecessary manual intervention
- Create a better customer experience as a result of fewer data-processing errors and faster customer service delivery
- Enhance enterprise scalability and reliability by building on mature, open source projects.
“Red Hat's JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform offers enterprises the opportunity to integrate applications and services, as well as streamline business processes more simply, openly and cost-effectively than with expensive, monolithic proprietary SOA platforms,” said Gery Messer, President, Red Hat Asia Pacific. “This next-generation SOA Platform coupled with the JBoss subscription, can help add significant business and IT value to enterprise SOA integration projects.”
Early adopters of JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform include enterprises in financial services, transportation, telecom, government and entertainment. These customers have used the Platform in internal integration projects, business process automation and B2B integration.
A JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform subscription includes certified product access, technical support that includes code upgrades, revisions and updates, customer support portal, documentation and long-term enterprise stability.
JBoss.org BlackTie project
From JBoss World Orlando, Red Hat also announced sponsorship of multiple new open source community projects, including JBoss.org Black Tie, which will enable enterprises to advance open source middleware in their IT infrastructure.
JBoss.org BlackTie is a new project for integrating Java and legacy-based distributed transaction-processing environments. BlackTie will complement and extend the current JBoss transaction monitor project, JBoss.org Transactions, through the addition of C, C++ and mainframe compatible transaction capabilities. This will enable organizations to better integrate and migrate legacy environments with next-generation, Java-based transaction environments.
The BlackTie project will focus on emulating transaction-processing monitor application programming interfaces (such as BEA's Tuxedo), providing legacy services in an open source capacity, including security, naming, clustering and transactions.
This will ensure that applications formerly dependent on legacy transaction environments such as BEA's Tuxedo will operate with the JBoss transaction processing features project through the BlackTie framework.
The JBoss.org BlackTie project is designed to fully support the ATMI programming interface. It eliminates the need to replace customer client, server or service code and at the same time, help simplify customer migration paths.
“JBoss is strengthening Red Hat's leadership in the open source community with a number of initiatives, which are intended to expand the availability of enterprise-level capabilities necessary to advance the growth of open source middleware in organizations," added Messer . “A viable open source offering for high-speed transaction processing will accelerate customer adoption of open source middleware.” |
