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Red Hat Information Technology has created a new middleware architecture for our internally-developed applications. Although many of our internal applications take advantage of open source solutions, we have historically used tools such as Tomcat and Perl on a standalone basis and not taken full advantage of our JBoss application stack.
We’ve defined our new middleware architecture based on JBoss technology. This includes an Enterprise Service Bus implementing a Services Oriented Architecture (SOA); Seam, the JBoss integration framework; the JBoss Business Process Modeling suite (JBPM); and Drools, the JBoss rules processing environment.
The entire stack runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, taking advantage of the operating system tools for virtualization, provisioning, configuration, and other functionality. The full technical architecture incorporates Cobbler/Koan, JBoss SOA, Xen, LVM, Git, and more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Service-oriented architectures are enabling businesses to be more agile, flexible and responsive to their customers, partners, employees and other stake holders. However, SOA deployments that drive high value (beyond small-scale “RPC” SOA deployments) also need to be managed. In this Align Journal article, Roberto Medrano of SOA Software and myself explore SOA adoption hurdles and how a simple, open and affordable platform and management strategy can help enterprise SOA adoption.
See more from Red Hat on SOA here.
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.
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AmberPoint recently announced version 6 of AmberPoint SOA Management System and AmberPoint SOA Validation System. Each delivers new capabilities for understanding and controlling heterogeneous SOA applications and business processes. Key areas of improvement include visibility into your SOA deployments, control of SOA services and automation of operational tasks required to keep a SOA deployment running smoothly. AmberPoint also delivers these capabilities supporting multiple platforms including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. We are excited to see AmberPoint as a key strategic partner in the Red Hat SOA ecosystem, making SOA Simple, Open and Affordable.
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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.
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Red Hat continues to work with partners to deliver simple, open, and affordable SOA to help drive the next migration opportunity: moving legacy application infrastructures to JBoss. With Vitria, we jointly announced bringing the strengths of the two companies together to further this SOA vision. Vitria will bring its business process automation and integration suite, Business Accelerator, together with the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to deliver a simple, open and affordable SOA-focused business acceleration solution.
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables enterprises to accelerate business execution while driving higher quality and customer satisfaction. The key to success in business is creating the ability to not only to respond to opportunities and threats, but to identify them as early as possible and drive your vision of your business to a successful delivery of product and service leadership. SOA allows enterprises to do this because it opens up the integration and automation of the value chain built on IT standards.
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