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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
ObjectWeb To Federate Open Source ESB
ObjectWeb, the international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to
open-source infrastructure software, announced that its corporate members are
now targeting the delivery of ESB solutions built on open-source components.
ObjectWeb's chairman, Jean-Pierre Laisne, explained, "ObjectWeb is a
business-neutral home ground for open-source projects which brings together
software vendors, service providers and corporate users of integration
technologies. We already deliver a good deal of building blocks for
service-oriented and event-driven architectures. The natural next step is to
make headway toward a full-fledged ESB platform as expected by the corporate
users."
As defined by the Integration Consortium, an ESB is a "neutral,
standards-based integration solution that is flexible, robust, scalable, and
at the same time, easy to implement and maintain." Market research firm
Gartner forecasts that "more than one-half of large enterprises will use ESBs
by end of 2006."
With more than 60 active projects including production-ready platforms, the
ObjectWeb community has a proven track record of success in delivering
open-source middleware components and tools for integration and
Service-Oriented Architectures/Event-Driven Architectures, including:
- JOnAS -- Java application server currently undergoing certification of
compliance with J2EE 1.4.
- Bonita, Enhydra Shark, JaWE -- WfMC workflow engines and tools.
- JORAM -- message-oriented middleware with JMS and SOAP connectors.
- JOTM -- distributed transaction manager.
- XQuark -- XML/XQuery data integration and transformation engine.
- Enhydra Octopus -- ETL tool.
The proposal of an ESB suite developed under the ObjectWeb umbrella, sketched
by corporate members eMAXX, INRIA, Librados, Open Wide, ScalAgent, Thales,
Together Teamlosungen and XQuark Group, is to be structured as a development
project once approved by ObjectWeb's College of Architects during the next
Architecture Meeting. ObjectWeb may leverage cooperation with the Eclipse
foundation, already well under way thanks to joint work performed on the
Eclipse Web Tools Platform proposal, to address the issue of tooling as
required by an enterprise-ready ESB.
"The openness of our organization makes it possible for a wide range of
current or future members to contribute to the specification and development
of the ObjectWeb ESB. We invite all players on this market, including
associate organizations, to join in, share R&D efforts and pull open-source
software up the value stack," said ObjectWeb's executive director, Christophe
Ney.
Patrick Benichou, CEO of Open Wide, one of the pioneers of open-source EAI, is
a strong supporter of this endeavor: "Open Wide recently rolled out the second
generation of NoSICA, an Enterprise Service Bus built on ObjectWeb components.
ESB is a critical path for the future of open-source infrastructure software.
Open Wide will actively collaborate on the success of ObjectWeb in this area."
Michel Veenhuis, CEO of eMAXX, said, "eMAXX developed a service bus based on
BPEL for Web Services that is now in production at government agencies. We
consider making this technology available to the open-source community in the
framework of the ObjectWeb ESB initiative."
David Richards, CEO of Librados, board member of ObjectWeb and of the
Integration Consortium explained, "When defining their open-source strategy,
corporate users are looking for a dependable supply chain. We believe that the
ObjectWeb consortium is a unique ecosystem with critical mass and momentum
required to drive the community effort toward mission critical business
integration solutions."
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