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December 22, 2005 | Comments: (0)

Open source ESB makes strides

TAGS: SOA

Iona Technologies and ObjectWeb on Thursday said the Celtix open source enterprise service bus (ESB) now compares favorably with commercial ESBs, based on a milestone that has been reached.

The milestone, called Milestone 3, covers transport support, specification compliance and usability. Celtix is intended to provide an open source Java ESB runtime for use in SOA.

"The Celtix community has delivered robust JMS (Java Message Service) support and this, combined with the other features made available in Milestone 3, gives end users a powerful and cost-effective ESB to support their SOA and other integration projects," said Carl Trieloff, director of open source programs at Iona, in a prepared statement released to the press.

Also featured in Milestone 3 is an implementation of HTTP 1.1 and Servlet Transport support, SOAP 1.1 headers and additional support for WS-Addressing and JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services). Additionally, command line tools for WSDL-to-Java and Java-to-WSDL conversions are featured, and the Celtix configuration infrastructure is complete.

Celtix also sports a multiple licensing approach that backs both the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) and the EPL (Eclipse Public License).

Posted by Paul Krill on December 22, 2005 03:46 PM

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