Red Hat Updates JBoss SOA

The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) component of the JBoss SOA Platform 4.3 should provide new gateway listeners, a declarative security model and additional scripting languages. New rules features include stateful rules, decision tables and support for rule agents. The Operations Network 2.1 component includes, among other things, a remote monitoring facility. Better integration with the ESB should facilitate monitoring of the service bus.

Red Hat started a massive campaign in February to promote its open source JBoss Java middleware product, now available in community and commercial versions. Included in these offerings were the cost-based Enterprise SOA Platform and the Operations Network 2.0, another cost-based management platform for the entire middleware palette. The JBoss package with its Red Hat Linux underpinning targets the SOA market.