IONA ESB

IONA gives another step forward in the ESB race. Great job!

Iona Technologies has announced the availability of Artix 3.0, the company's extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The upgrades included in Artix 3.0 are designed to strengthen the product's set of enterprise features and functionality including extensibility, platform support and enterprise qualities of service. These improvements expand the range of systems and technologies that Artix users can service-enable and leverage in their service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives.

New features include:

• Enhanced Extensibility Characteristics. Iona states that Artix service-enables existing systems by extending their endpoints with targeted plug-ins. Artix plug-ins can support virtually any protocol, transport, data model, security standard, and development platform, and it also support hot-deployment.
• Broader Platform Coverage. Artix 3.0 extends its platform coverage to include the popular Eclipse and Visual Studio development platforms. Artix 3.0 also includes expanded application platform support for J2EE, POJO and Java servlets, and native C++ containers.
• Improved Enterprise Qualities of Service (QoS) in the areas of security, high availability, management, transaction support and directory services. New enterprise QoS features in Artix 3.0 include X509 certification authentication, active/active client fail over, integration with Tivoli and CA-WSDM, 2PC transaction support, WS-Atomic Transaction support, and UDDI support.

For more information, see ESB vendors enhance their 'SOA middleware'.