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JBI takes over Java EE 5!

The Java EE 5 SDK has been released, along with some NetBeans-based tooling. This is the first industrial-strength release of Java EE 5, so this will be of great interest to the EE crowd.

What makes the SDK release really interesting (at least to me) is the integration of Open ESB (Sun's open-source JBI-based Enterprise Service Bus) into the SDK. This really points to the future of Java EE application servers: interoperation between the various EE technologies, using the web services model, enabled by the JBI infrastructure.

Even more interesting is the NetBeans tooling that accompanies this release. This leverages a JBI service engine that executes composite applications using WS-BPEL 2.0, a SOAP-over-HTTP binding component, and the AS9 "Java EE Service Engine", which ties the various Java EE technologies to JBI transparently. Visual editors aid creation of BPEL, WSDL, and XSD documents; tight integration with Open ESB allows you to easily create JBI service assemblies and deploy them to the app server. Multi-language debugging is another great feature. This stuff is a pleasure to play with; check it out!

Posted at 09:09PM May 11, 2006 by rtenhove in Java Business Integration  |