December 12, 2004
JBoss Formally Enters Middleware Market
JBoss is formally announcing its move to expand its capabilities into the middleware market. By expanding its capabilities JBoss will start to compete against the BEA and IBM giants. One capability that interests me is support for a Business Process Engine developed by Tom Baeyens called jBpm (Java Business Process Management). This expands JBoss' components to include:
- JBoss Application Server
- EJB 3.0
- Hibernate (Object/Relational Java Persistence and Query Service)
- Javassist (Java class library for editing Java bytecode in Java)
- JBoss AOP (Aspect Oriented Framework)
- JBoss Cache (Replicated and transactional Cache)
- JBoss IDE (Development Environment built inside Eclipse)
- JBoss jBPM (Process Engine)
- JBoss Mail (email server)
- JBoss Portal (Portal implementation)
- JGroups (Reliable multicast communication)
- Tomcat (JSP and Servlet Engine)
It will be interesting to see how tight a package is created and whether it works easily without too much hair pulling.
Links
ComputerWorld Article
JBoss Site
JBpm Site
