ObjectWeb to Federate Open Source ESB
ObjectWeb Delivers Enterprise-Grade Open-Source Solutions for Business Integration
ObjectWeb to Support Community-Driven Aggregation of an Enterprise Service Bus
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2004--ObjectWeb, the international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to open-source infrastructure software, announces that its corporate members are now targeting the delivery of ESB solutions built on open-source components.
ObjectWeb's Chairman Jean-Pierre Laisne explains, "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(TM) application server currently undergoing certification of compliance with J2EE(TM) 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, XQuark Group, is to be structured as a development project once approved by ObjectWeb's College of Architects during the next Architecture Meeting (Prague, Czech Republic, July 7-9, 2004). 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," says 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, says, "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 explains, "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."
ObjectWeb is at JavaOne in booth #315 (sponsored by Librados). Bonita project leader Christophe Loridan will deliver a presentation about the Bonita workflow engine (TS-1312).
About ObjectWeb
Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have joined forces to produce the next generation of open-source Middleware. ObjectWeb's goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with independent solutions which combine quality and robustness at the best possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb targets alternative solutions to proprietary products for e-business, EAI, data connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging. Based on open standards, ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and tools. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" middleware are JOnAS -- an open-source implementation of the J2EE specification, JORAM -- a Message Oriented Middleware, and Enhydra -- a Java/XML Application Server. ObjectWeb is hosted by INRIA and sponsored by Together Teamlosungen GmbH.
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