The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform includes service oriented architecture (SOA) open source middleware such as JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), JBoss jBPM, JBoss Rules and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to integrate applications, services, transactions, and business components into automated business processes.
Service oriented architectures are not about building a grand software vision, says JBoss.
InfoWorld recently awarded the Best Open Source Software for the Enterprise (aka the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies).
JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible and scalable suite of products for creating and deploying e-business applications, offering cutting-edge technology components which customers can mix-and-match and roll out into their line of business infrastructure - all at zero-cost software licenses.
I work for JBoss as Director of Standards and Development Manager for the Transactions and ESB projects. Prior to this, I was Chief Architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard. I've been working in distributed systems since the mid-80's. Although I got my PhD on replication and transactions, for the past decade I've been concentrating solely in the area of transactions.
The importance to help out customers in areas like portability and interoperability, as well as standards compliance when developing products.
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