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Announcing Java Enterprise System Release 6

Friday Apr 24, 2009

This month Sun releases Java Enterprise System Release 6 which continues a great tradition while expanding the offering to include identity and SOA/BI components. Java ES R6 will also integrate into Sun's enterprise open source strategy providing new versions of products and new components now built from open source projects which are now available in the Java ES alignment assurance and pricing program. New and existing customers of Java ES, will benefit from the product alignment and simplified pricing available from the 5 main Java ES suites.

Java ES R6

Java Enterprise System is a comprehensive set of subscription-based services that combines software, support, professional services, and educational services in a single package with a simplified price. The Java Enterprise System consists of a set of principles unique in the industry which aligns a broad set of platform components. All products within Java ES are coordinated during development for common components and features, released along identical time lines and are quality assurance tested together for interoperability and compatibility.

The Java Enterprise System consists of several Java System Suites, each matching a particular industry architectural standard. The current Java System Suites are:

Java Enterprise System Base - a core set of application platform and identity components for enterprises
GlassFish Portfolio - a complete application platform for major enterprises, startups, and smbs
Java Composite Application Platform Suite - a complete SOA/BI platform for composite apls and legacy integration
Identity Management Suite - enables enterprise secure, streamlined, and simplified process for managing users
Java Availability Suite - An integrated platform that provides multiple levels of availability

Each suite is well priced with unlimited use throughout the enterprise allowing customers maximum flexibility in how deployed and reduces the need for annual accounting and true ups. Each Java ES release provides alignment assurance - allowing enterprises to plan broad implementations based on the versions identified within each Java ES release. While each product within each suite can have additional versions between Java ES releases - and enterprises who have licensed Java ES suites can implement any available version of the products contained within the suite they have licensed - enterprises can benefit by coordinating upgrades within their enterprise to those available in the Java Enterprise System release cycle.

What's New

Java Enterprise System Release 6 adds Identity Management Suite and Java Composite Application Platform Suite to the assurance alignment testing. All products support the common requirements and are processed thru the Java ES quality assurance testing required across the platform for interoperability. Java ES R6 is unique within the industry for coordinating such a broad range of components for enterprises with a concept that realizes how enterprises deploy software. The following shows the comparison of Java ES 6 and Java ES 6:

GlassFish a new suite available within the Java Enterprise System adds GlassFish ESB and GlassFish Web Stack to the base platform. See full contents on the GlassFish Portfolio site.

Coordinating Java ES with Open Source

Java ES R6 provides customers with a method to unify their open source strategies with their enterprise product support strategy. Many enterprises are augmenting their infrastructures with open source components. Open source components often have broad developer followings, are easy to acquire, provide simple development and are oftn used for the extensive set of non-mission critical application requirements. Java ES R6 provides the benefits of both open source and of enterprise applications. Enterprises can leverage open source community versions and leverage the support of the community forums and eco-systems for projects that do not require a service-level-agreement and can then leverage the enterprise versions of Java Enterprise System Suites - plus the additional value add components only available when purchasing the suite.

The Future Benefits from Java ES

Customers can look to the regular release cycles of Java ES R 6 to plan enterprise architectures. Java ES customers can leverage community versions of the products available in Java ES suites for projects that do not require support but do desire the latest features available in open source and can then leverage the Java ES aligned enterprise versions for departmental, mid-tier or mission critical applications requiring up to the highest service levels of agreement. This dual strategy allows customers the maximum flexibility when planning their use of open source and enterprise components.

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