BELMONT, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/06/06 -- Reactivity®, Inc., the leading independent XML Networking provider, today announced a partnership with JBoss, Inc., the Professional Open Source company, to optimize secure messaging infrastructures for Web Services and SOA in an open source technology environment. Reactivity Gateways will improve security in SOA environments and enhance processing speeds of messages throughout the enterprise. With Reactivity and JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) solutions currently deployed together at several enterprises, the partnership will help ensure that these joint customers have the most optimum user experience.

"The growing momentum surrounding SOA and Web services technology has begun to transform business today," Andrew Nash, CTO of Reactivity. "And JBoss' users are leading adopters of SOA. The community's embrace of this technology will play a major part in how security requirements for SOA continue to evolve. Reactivity is pleased to be a partner working with JBoss to enhance security for policy development and enforcement."

"With proven interoperability for mission-critical, enterprise-wide secure XML, Reactivity Gateways meet the technology and security needs of our users and are highly compatible with the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite of products," said Tom Cooper, vice president of worldwide channels for JBoss, Inc. "Becoming a JBoss Certified Technology Partner will further optimize the performance and interoperability of our products."

This partnership further expands upon the successes of Reactivity's family of Gateway products. Reactivity's XML Security Gateway received a SearchWebServices.com "Product of the Year" Award and Software Development's Jolt Productivity Award in the Security Tools category. Reactivity was also among the companies named into the elite corps of the Red Herring and AlwaysOn(TM) 100 Top Private Companies.

Reactivity Gateways enforce XML Web services messaging policies and secure XML traffic. Reactivity Gateways can defend against XML-based threats, deliver any-to-any XML Web services interoperability with wirespeed XML processing and acceleration. The centralized definition, enforcement and management of security and operational policies establish new levels of trust among applications, and help ensure compliance with privacy and data protection laws. Reactivity's dedicated appliances improve network and application throughput, and enable an organization's existing operations staff to operate and maintain clusters of appliances across geographically distributed data centers for maximum operational scalability.

About Reactivity

Reactivity provides the leading XML Gateways used by enterprises to realize the promise of XML Web services and application oriented networking. Reactivity's family of products enables businesses to secure, operate and accelerate Web services effectively in order to expedite services, time-to-market and gain competitive advantage. Reactivity has unique experience with major Global 2000 enterprises in financial services, publishing, travel and other industries and is an active member of Liberty Alliance, OASIS and WS-I. Reactivity is located in Belmont, California, and can be reached at www.reactivity.com, +1-650-551-7800 or info@reactivity.com.

Reactivity is registered trademark and Adaptive Message Architecture, Adaptive Schema Pipelining are trademarks of Reactivity, Inc. All other products and services mentioned are trademarks of their respective companies.