JBoss, the Professional Open Source company, introduced two open source projects designed to further strengthen the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS) as the leading open source platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA): JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web Server (JBoss Web). These new technologies move JBoss further into the high-end market, which has long been presided over by expensive, proprietary application platforms.

JEMS is already deployed in hundreds of intensive, high-end transactional environments including financial hubs, trading exchanges and some of the world's busiest e-commerce companies. The advance of these high-performance technologies will accelerate JEMS further into the top end of the market. JBoss Messaging provides an open source and standards-based messaging platform that brings enterprise-class messaging to the mass market. JBoss Web brings high-performance Web server capabilities to users of Apache Tomcat and JBoss Application Server.

"JBoss is focused on solving real-world customer needs and delivering technologies optimized for the complex IT environments common to large enterprises," said Shaun Connolly, vice president of product management, JBoss. "JBoss Messaging and JBoss Web signify another important milestone in JBoss' technology vision. These projects expand and enhance the JEMS stack for our high-end customers while maintaining the simplicity and modularity that have established JEMS as the leading open source platform for SOA."

JBoss Messaging 1.0 implements a high-performance, robust messaging core designed to support the largest and most heavily utilized SOAs, enterprise service buses (ESB) and other integration needs ranging from the simplest to the highest demand networks. Key features of JBoss Messaging include Java Message Service (JMS) 1.1 and 1.0.2b standards compatibility. For users of JBossMQ, the JMS technology embedded within JBoss Application Server, JBoss Messaging supports JMS applications currently running on JBossMQ without any changes.

JMS Facade, the JMS personality of JBoss Messaging, enables a JMS client to connect to a JBoss Messaging server, send and receive messages, and interact with queues, topics and other key elements of a messaging platform. JBoss Messaging Core, a transactional and reliable distributed messaging foundation, supports transactional ACID semantics, generalized message protocols (not just JMS) and other messaging protocol facades.

It provides standalone serverless operation as well as easy integration with JBoss Application Server. JBoss Messaging is currently available as a standalone product and will be the default JMS technology in JBoss Application Server 5.0, as well as the foundation for JBoss ESB 1.0 - both targeted for release later in 2006.