The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, announced at JBoss World 2008 in Orlando, FL last week, and made available for download this week, offers developers options for using the modules they need for their service-oriented architecture (SOA) project.
The platform built around the JBoss ESB offers SOA, application and business-process management (BPM) integration capabilities in an enterprise distribution. JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM,and JBoss Rules are included in the SOA platform, which Red Hat Inc., the parent of JBoss, is marketing on a subscription-basis.
"You might look at it and think you have to download this gargantuan thing, but that's not the case," said Bradley F. Shimmin, principal analyst of application infrastructure at Current Analysis LLC. "JBoss has taken advantage of the micro-kernel they've put together over the past several years, so you can install just pieces of it. You can just install the ESB without the app server, for example. There are no real product interdependencies, which is a big deal because it's extremely modular. You can install what you want and get support for what you have installed."
