“Milestone 2 represents not only the nearly complete foundation upon which the Celtix project will be built, but also a foundation on which developers can already begin building initial SOA-based applications,” explained Carl Trieloff, open source program manager, IONA. “With Milestone 2, the community has delivered support in Celtix for plug-ins, a new feature extending the project’s capabilities, on a truly extensible core.”
Accomplishments in Milestone 2 include implementation of the binding API and support for message handlers. Both features enable the Celtix core to support the use of plug-ins, enabling easy support extensions and integration of other Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure technologies. In addition, Milestone 2 expands SOAP 1.1 support to include DOC literal and RPC literal, as well as the ability to handle faults. APIs supporting JAX-WS Sync and One-Way have also been completed.
Celtix Milestones are anticipated twice per quarter. With its initial release, the ObjectWeb Celtix project will deliver an open source Java ESB runtime and a set of extensibility APIs. The goal of the project is to provide open source ESB technology that can simplify the construction, integration and flexible reuse of technical and business components using a standards-based, SOA.
“We are confident that ObjectWeb’s ESB initiative is bound to become the de facto standard in open source SOA for the enterprise. Celtix is a cornerstone of this ESB initiative and the sustained pace of development of this project demonstrates how vibrant the community behind it is,” said Jean-Pierre Laisné, ObjectWeb Chairman and Linux & Open-Source Strategy Manager for Bull. “As ObjectWeb is becoming the natural home ground for open source middleware, we encourage all stakeholders to join in and contribute to Celtix or complementary ObjectWeb projects.”
For more information about ObjectWeb Celtix, or to become involved in the Celtix community, please visit http://celtix.objectweb.org./
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’s sponsorship of the ObjectWeb Celtix open source ESB is a natural extension of the company’s history of solving integration problems by leveraging open standards and distributed architectures.
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 that 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.
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