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JBoss Delivers JBoss Application Server 4.0 To Enterprise Market
JBoss Inc announced the general availability of JBoss Application Server 4.0
for enterprise production deployment. JBoss AS 4.0, the company's flagship
open source middleware offering, is the first open source application server
to achieve compatibility certification for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE) version 1.4 by passing the 23,000 tests of the Test
Compatibility Kit. This next generation of the industry's most popular open
source application server is also the first to implement aspect orientation
(AO) for Java, bringing unprecedented productivity, performance and management
capability to customers. JBoss AS 4.0 is immediately available under the
business-friendly LGPL (Lesser General Public License) open source license.
"Open source is rapidly moving beyond Linux and the operating system into
middleware. As a company at the forefront of this second generation of open
source, JBoss is focused on building an entire open source middleware stack
with JBoss AS as the foundation," said Marc Fleury, chairman and CEO of JBoss
Inc. "JBoss AS 4.0, the culmination of nearly three years of research in
aspect orientation, showcases JBoss' ability to innovate ahead of the market
and deliver a uniquely architected product that significantly enhances
flexibility and combines the simplicity of standard Java with the power of the
J2EE platform."
JBoss AS has been downloaded more than five million times and ranks first with
Java developers and independent software vendors (ISVs). For the second
straight year of their annual award for innovation, the editors of SD Times
recognized JBoss AS as the top deployment platform. In a study by BZ Research,
use of JBoss AS doubled from 13.9 percent in 2002 to 26.9 percent in 2003,
with the highest rate of market-share growth among all app servers. Combining
a robust yet flexible architecture with a no-cost open source software license
and the full backing of superior technical support services from JBoss
technical experts, JBoss AS has quickly become the safe choice among
enterprises for their mission-critical applications.
"Our entire business has relied on JBoss AS for the past year and we have been
extremely satisfied with the performance and reliability. The modularity of
the architecture enabled us to pick and choose the services we needed and
tighten integration with the applications running on top. JBoss AS has allowed
us to scale both technically and economically," said Jamie Cash, director of
technical architecture at NLG, one of the nation's largest online and offline
leisure travel companies. "Best of all, support for JBoss AS is delivered by
JBoss product experts. We were early adopters, so it was critical that
whenever we called we could immediately talk to someone who could help us. We
have become great advocates of open source projects like JBoss AS that have
evolved into best-of-class products."
Features And Benefits
JBoss AS 4.0 enables middleware providers to deliver greatly simplified
programming models to developers without sacrificing service capabilities,
including object persistence, caching, acidity, remoteness, transactions and
security. Key features and benefits include:
- Scalability. JBoss offers full clustering of any Java object, including
EJB, JMS, HTTP and Plain Old Java Objects (POJOs).
- Performance. Based on their own internal benchmark tests, JBoss users have
found that JBoss offers improved performance and superior server utilization
over other leading J2EE application servers.
- Customizable footprint. A modular and elegant architecture built on a
microkernel-based design leverages JMX extensions. The result is a lightweight
component model that allows users to tailor the footprint to meet their
specific needs.
- Services-oriented architecture. Services can be easily added or removed
based on the specific needs of the user. All services are neatly packaged and
fully hot-deployable. Users can also create and add their own services easily.
- Enterprise-class services for any Java object. Aspect-oriented framework
allows users to deliver EJB-like functionality such as persistence and
distributed transactional caching to any POJO.
- Application-level features, including no compilation, full security
implementation and JAAS integration.
- Full standards support. JBoss AS 4.0 offers full support for J2EE 1.4.
- Valuable sum of parts. JBoss AS 4.0 comes integrated with other leading
JBoss-federated open source products, all backed with support from JBoss Inc:
- Tomcat 5, the leading open source Web container. The integrated
version offers additional value to the standalone product such as high
performance, transactional HttpSession clustering over JBossCache.
- JBossCache, the first open source transactional, distributed cache
for fine-grained Java objects.
- Hibernate 2.1, the popular ORM engine, which enables POJO
persistence and a smooth transition to EJB3.
- Tools. JBossIDE provides additional convenience to developers, such as
server lifecycle control, debugging, EJB packaging, deployment and AOP
support.
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