“After years of failed promises and inflated expectations from EAI, it is clear customers want to move away from expensive, proprietary, and server-based integration approaches. Our customers embrace ESB technology to solve integration problems using distributed architectures built on open standards,” explained Peter Zotto, CEO, IONA. “Promoting the adoption of easily available ESB technology broadens the range of companies able to apply the advantages of modern SOA solutions to the most pressing IT problems. Further, we believe that open source software will be a major accelerator for the adoption and evolution of ESB technology. IONA’s heritage in distributed computing allows us to take the lead in this industry trend, which is the foundation for the Celtix project. ObjectWeb is the perfect community for an open source ESB project because of its successful track record in open source middleware projects. Hosting Celtix with ObjectWeb gives us great confidence in the community’s ability to bring to market an open source Java ESB project that best meets both business needs and the needs of the developer community.”
As a member of the ObjectWeb consortium, IONA will introduce an open source Java ESB that delivers the core functionality required to begin deploying SOA in the enterprise. Part of that core functionality in Celtix will be support for the recently introduced Java Business Integration (JBI) specification developed within the Java Community Process (JCP). JBI defines a standard container in which components from multiple vendors and various integration technologies can interact, significantly increasing end user choice, flexibility and extensibility while at the same time allowing them to avoid vendor lock-in and lower total cost of ownership.
“We are pleased and excited that IONA has elected to join the ObjectWeb consortium and contribute the Celtix project to the ObjectWeb code base. ObjectWeb spearheaded the development of open-source ESB technologies one year ago by launching the ‘ESB Initiative’ (ESBi), an endeavour to make open-source components for business integration available to mainstream enterprises,” said ObjectWeb Executive Director Christophe Ney. “IONA will bring recognized expertise to the ObjectWeb community and its contribution will tremendously increase the momentum of the ESBi. For these reasons, we see Celtix as a natural extension to the projects currently hosted by ObjectWeb. Additionally, synergy with other ObjectWeb projects offers the real opportunity for Celtix to serve as a key element in an open source business integration toolbox comprised of both existing and future ESBi projects.”
The initial release of Celtix will also include WSDL contract language support for defining services, standard transports including WS-RM, JMS and HTTP, binding support for SOAP and XML payloads and application bindings for Java and POJO. Celtix will also feature Eclipse-based administration and configuration tools and basic security support.
“Too often, end users of integration technology are forced to make large initial investments that do not align to the true needs of the enterprise or the project at hand,” explained Massimo Pezzini, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. “Many integration projects are intended to roll out incrementally, tackling problems and challenges in a systematic way. Technology solutions that offer this ability will be very attractive to organizations with integration requirements.”
About IONA
For more than a decade, IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix® products. Artix(tm), IONA’s extensible Enterprise Service Bus, enables existing enterprise systems to be integrated with an organization’s common infrastructure components.
IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com./
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 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, business integration, 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 certified implementation of the J2EE(tm) specification, JORAM – a Message Oriented Middleware and Enhydra – a Java(tm)/XML Application Server. http://www.objectweb.org/
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