JBossESB 4.0 Released

JBossESB 4.0 was just released. According to this news the next version (4.x?, 5.0?...) will be ready later year (2007). Below some features in this release:

• support for general notification framework. Transports supported include JMS (JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging and MQSeries), email, database or file system.
• trailblazer example.
• many quickstart examples to get you going.
• support for data transformations using Smooks or XSLT.
• listeners and action model to support loose-coupling of interaction steps.
• content based routing using JBoss Rules or XPath.
• support for registries, using JAX-R and jUDDI out-of-the-box.
• gateways to allow non-ESB aware traffic to flow into the ESB.
• high performance and reliability (in use by a large insurance company for 3 years).(*)

* probably it refers to the second-largest insurance company in Canada, where this ESB handles data from 3,000 employers and more that 2,0 million customers.

See an abstract view of ESB/SOA infrastructure: