JBoss Updates Open Source SOA Platform for BRMS, Cloud 
Red Hat is shipping JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0, an upgrade to its foundation open source SOA ESB-based platform with new support for business rules and cloud connectivity to allow IT to more quickly respond to growing integration requirements.
Red Hat is shipping JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0, an upgrade to its foundation open source SOA ESB-based platform with new support for business rules and cloud connectivity to allow IT to more quickly respond to growing integration requirements.
JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.0 ships with an updated ESB (enterprise services bus) and new protocol listeners and transformation capabilities, improved web services integration features, management consoles and a new rules engine that can be managed by JBoss Enterprise BRMS (business rules management system), according to JBoss officials.
Relatedly, JBoss also released an upgrade to its JBoss Developer Studio designed to enable web services and Eclipse devs to more rapidly develop applications and services. JBoss Developer Studio v3.0 sports new tools for SOA services, data transformation, and integration services. It is built on Eclipse 3.5.
With these latest releases, enterprises can use the platform to more quickly deploy new applications and services using their existing IT systems, a JBoss executive said.
“Both of these platforms add new and critical capabilities to the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio, and help to form a broad range of open source middleware reference architecture which enables organizations to address their application development, deployment and integration needs,” said Craig Muzilla, vice president, middleware, Red Hat, in a statement.
Muzilla also said JBoss’ new releases will better enable users to integrate applications and services, both on-premise and between their enterprise and the cloud.
On analyst liked the combined benefits of JBoss’ platform and dev tools for on-premise SOA and cloud projects.
"Services and their underlying data must be considered together, as do cloud and premise deployments, as do rich internet applications and complex integrated services,” said Brad Shimmin, Principal Analyst Application Infrastructure at Current Analysis in a statement. “JBoss Developer Studio 3.0 melds these disparate concerns using the agility of the Eclipse 3.5 platform and a broad quiver of supported frameworks that includes RichFaces, Seam, Spring, Struts and GWT."
Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is a single open source middleware platform integrated into a single, simple SOA integration and business process automation platform. The architecture is designed to find, integrate and orchestrate SOA business services, enterprise applications, and other IT assets into automated business processes.
Built on an ESB architecture, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform also includes a UDDI v3 registry, workflow and business rules execution. It supports multiple integration architectures, including EAI (enterprise application integration), SOA, EDA and process and business rules services integration.
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