Introducing JBoss ESB

This news I got from SOA WebServices Journal. On Nov, 20 2006, JBoss announced the release of "JBoss ESB". See the press release here (PDF document).

Some excepts from this announcement:
"...With the addition of JBoss ESB to Red Hat’s arsenal, enterprises now have a complete set of leading, low-cost SOA building blocks for modern applications and the ability to run them on a virtualized Linux platform.
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“JBoss ESB is the result of a true community effort, from the technology donation that helped accelerate our development timeline to the individual developers who brought their expertise to the project,” said Pierre Fricke, director of product management, JBoss. “This release provides a fundamental building block for our SOA integration platform. As an integrated company, Red Hat and JBoss are focused on delivering the leading open source platform for next-generation computing that drives down infrastructure costs for our customers without compromising on value and choice.”

Here are some key features of JBoss ESB 4.0 include:

• A pluggable architecture enables all JBoss ESB subsystems such as messaging and transformation to be swapped with other alternatives, which gives customers flexibility and choice.
• Support for a variety of messaging services, including secure FTP, HTTP, email and JMS (JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging, IBM MQSeries, and ActiveMQ).
• Transformation engine that bridges data formats for seamless communication, supporting XSLT and Smooks, a flexible alternative.
• Service registry for service discovery and integration, using JAX-R and UDDI.
• Persisted event repository to support governance of the ESB environment.
• Notification service to allow the ESB to register events and signal subscribers.
• Content-based routing based on XPath and JBoss Rules for a more flexible and dynamic alternative to publish-subscribe.
• Gateways that allow non-ESB aware clients to interact with services deployed within the JBoss ESB environment.