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JBI 1.0 is Final!

After over two years of great effort, I am pleased to announce that Java(TM) Business Integration 1.0 is final! This means that the specification, along with the reference implementation (RI) and technology compatibility kit (TCK), have been accepted by the JBI expert group and the Java Community Process executive committee for Java SE/EE. You can find the final spec and RI at Sun. (The TCK, as usual in the Java world, must be licensed separately.)

We timed the completion of JBI 1.0 to occur just before JavaOne, which is always the best time to introduce a new technology to the Java community. Peter (my co-spec lead) and I gave a talk about JBI at JavaOne. In addition, there were several other talks related to service-oriented architecture (SOA) and JBI.

Interestingly, our session on JBI (subtitled "A Foundation for SOA") was the best attended technical session of the entire JavaOne 2005 conference. We even did a repeat session to accommodate the overflow from our original talk. Obviously the attendees felt that JBI was something important.

Personally, I'm gratified at the huge reception JBI got at JavaOne. The open-source community is also embracing JBI wholeheartedly. See servicemix.org, celtix.org, and Java.net for examples.

Judging from some of the blog traffic related to JBI, I'm sure that not everyone yet *gets* what JBI is all about; certainly the implications of such a standard are just starting to be understood by the community outside of the JBI expert group. I will attempt to answer some of the questions being raised in future blogs.

Posted at 10:50AM Jul 14, 2005 by rtenhove in Java Business Integration  |  Comments[0]