The JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform includes service oriented architecture (SOA) open source middleware such as JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), JBoss jBPM, JBoss Rules and the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform to integrate applications, services, transactions, and business components into automated business processes.
Service oriented architectures are not about building a grand software vision, says JBoss.
InfoWorld recently awarded the Best Open Source Software for the Enterprise (aka the 2007 InfoWorld Bossies).
JBoss Enterprise Middleware is an extensible and scalable suite of products for creating and deploying e-business applications, offering cutting-edge technology components which customers can mix-and-match and roll out into their line of business infrastructure - all at zero-cost software licenses.
David is the CTO of Grand Central , and has been involved with Grand Central sense the beginning of the company in 1999. Also, David is the former CTO of Mercator and has held key technology management rules with a number of organizations including CTO of SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years, and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities.David keynotes at many leading technology conferences. In addition, David has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications, and has monthly columns in several popular industry magazines. David has authored or co-authored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development, and the ground breaking and best selling Enterprise Application Integration released in 1999. His latest book, Next Generation Application Integration, was just released and is already a best seller.
When I wrote about the 12 steps to creating a SOA a few months ago, I talked about the importance of data and abstract data, or the notion of data management within the SOA.
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