As many of you know, the B2B product teams at Sun have been working for a few months now on getting the next version of our B2B Suite complete. We have had numerous Champion customers using pre-releases of these components - this has helped us tremendously in getting the "bits" right!
Well, we are on target! We’ll be announcing the 5.1.1 release on December 4th to plan (as long as all the machinery at Sun allows us).
This release will bring some of the “standard” protocol capabilities in the suite – ebXML, AS2, and an additional HIPAA validation engine option from Foresight (http://www.foresightcorp.com/ - Press Release: http://www.foresightcorp.com/news_events/releases/070814pr.htm).
Once this is complete, the B2B Engineering team will begin working in earnest on the next major release of B2B. This will be done in milestone-based development methodology as usual, but we will be doing it completely in our open source community (https://sun-b2b.dev.java.net/) and we will be doing it in backwards-compatible component releases. The first will be message auditing and tracking. So, come join our community and watch the suite grow.