United States (change)
Shortcuts: Downloads Fedora Red Hat Network
Account Links: Cart Your Account
![[ RSS feed ]](http://www.redhat.com/g/chrome/rss-feed.gif)
Contribution by Mark Little, Director, Software Engineering
It’s taken us a while, but we’ve finally released the first version of our Service Oriented Architecture Platform, aka the SOA Platform 4.2. This is the culmination of many, many months of effort that actually dates back to the start of 2006 when we were still an independent JBoss entity. Just when we were on the edge of selling support contracts for JBossESB, we changed direction with Red Hat and went for the platform approach. So first there was the EAP and now there’s the SOA-P. This approach is actually better though, because we have spent a lot of the time and effort in making sure that the entire stack is stable, reliable, robust and performs.
We’ve been working on this initiative with some important partners, such as ActiveEndpoints and SOA Software, but the platform is primarily pure JBoss. There’s obviously the ESB that glues everything together, but also included is the great JMS implementation (JBoss Messaging) as our key transport, and JBossWS for those tricky Web Services interoperability requirements. JBossAS support comes out-of-the-box (though not mandatory), which allows us to tie in to some of those unique and cool capabilities such as Web Services Transactions, part of JBossTS. Ever thought about writing compensations for your services: much better than relying on traditional ACID transactions in long-running interactions. Now, many people may not be at that stage for their applications, but it’s there if and when it’s needed.
» Read more
Contributed by: Pierre Fricke, director, Product Line Management SOA Products
In 2005, not long after I joined JBoss, we began working to define a strategy to deliver a next-generation SOA Platform to the enterprise and mass markets to expand the opportunity for businesses to leverage SOA integration and business process automation. We talked with customers and potential partners throughout the process and in mid-2006 embarked on a strategy that leveraged existing and mature JBoss.org open source projects, customer contributions, including a major existing custom ESB donation that had been running for over three years at the time, and the open source community at large.
JBoss ESB 4.0 made its debut at the end of 2006 and was followed up by a second- generation ESB in August 2007, JBoss ESB 4.2. JBoss ESB 4.2 became the platform for our early adopter program, which has about a dozen enterprises spanning multiple industries such as transportation, financial, manufacturing, government and others. The JBoss productization team then turned their attention to delivering an enterprise-ready and consumable JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 4.2 announced today, February 14, 2008 with planned delivery by the end of the month.
» Read more
SOA Design Patterns, an upcoming book authored by noted SOA expert Thomas Erl, has taken a page from the open source community by allowing feedback from vendors, academic institutions, standards organizations and practitioners to help shape the first catalog of design patterns dedicated to SOA. On the open review website, you can comment on the already-submitted patterns, submit your own pattern and learn more about SOA in general. Some of our own Red Hatters are involved too.
Dr. Mark Little, technical development manager for the JBoss SOA Platform, and Arnaud Simon of Red Hat contributed several key patterns relating to the Enterprise Service Bus, the topic of a separate book they are writing for the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl.
» Read more
Just as we have worked closely together to provide best-in-class, end-to-end virtualization capabilities, Red Hat and Intel are excited to bring you the North American Value2 seminar tour. The tour consists of half-day interactive seminars where IT decision makers can learn how to transform their enterprise with an open source-based approach to virtualization and service-oriented architecture. Each seminar is led by Red Hat executives including Scott Crenshaw, VP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Shaun Connolly, VP, Product Management, JBoss and features customers who have experienced success with Red Hat and JBoss solutions.
» Read more
Today marks the completion of our acquisition of substantially all of the assets of MetaMatrix, Inc., a leader in data management and integration software. By acquiring these MetaMatrix assets, Red Hat enhances its JBoss service-oriented architecture (SOA) products with the next generation of data management and integration capabilities. Also, the acquisition of these assets provides Red Hat with a foundation in data management software. Customers will now be able to more easily migrate their applications by enabling data to be more accessible regardless of differences in data sources and formats.
» Read more
In November 2006, Red Hat rolled out its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) strategy by redefining SOA to be Simple, Open and Affordable.We highlighted four customer challenges that Red Hat takes on with low-cost, high-value SOA solutions. » Read more