May 08, 2006
Iona launches open source ESB
Iona's Celtix geared for SOA, departmental usage
1 RecommendationA new open source ESB (enterprise service bus) from Iona will help companies integrate departmental applications for SOAs (service-oriented architectures) and Web services deployments, according to Iona Technologies, which is sponsoring the project.
Celtix 1.0 will be unveiled Monday. The Java-based ESB is hosted by the ObjectWeb Consortium and is one of a growing number of open source ESBs, in a field that includes SymphonySoft’s Mule and LogicBlaze’s ServiceMix.
ESBs provide Web services-based application integration in service-oriented architectures.
Celtix will run with any Java Business Integration container and features an implementation of the JAX-WS (Java API for XML Web Services) specification for building Web services-based Java applications. Multiple transports are supported in Celtix, including Java Message Service, XML, and HTTP. A SOAP stack is featured, as well.
The offering is initially meant for deployments ranging between 20 to 30 services and supporting hundreds of users. “The original concept wasn’t [for Celtix to be used in] mission-critical, high-performance applications, but rather for those projects that are departmental in nature,” said Larry Alston, vice president of product management at Iona.
“Celtix’s big strength is that it is a highly distributed architecture and not totally reliant on a central hub [or] stack,” said analyst Shawn Willett of Current Analysis.
Celtix is available from Iona through Eclipse, GPL (GNU General Public License), or LGPL (Lesser GPL) licenses.
Paul Krill is an editor at large at InfoWorld.
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