The importance of information exchange in Health Care will continue to grow and the Federal Goverment has several projects to improve it, while also trying to reduce costs. And, as Bill wrote earlier in the year, Sun's Open Source has been actively engaged in this.

Added - Just noticed Tim O'Reilly's note on WhiteHouse.GOV's stack. They use MySQL, Drupal and Apache.

The goal of the National Health Information Network (NHIN) is to provide secure, nationwide, interoperable health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health and healthcare. And the CONNECT Gateway is intended to let the federal agencies connect to the NHIN. Within the HHS, the ONC is the main entity that coordinates these efforts and it just has choosen Health Information Exchange Open Source (HIEOS) as a key portion of NHIN Connect.

And, HIEOS - developed by Vangent - is using several of our OpenSource components - see Architectural Diagram - including OpenESB and GlassFish, and MySQL.

Sujit has published a blog entry showing a nice example of how to easily leverage Spring DM within OpenESB v3 / Project Fuji; both to either expose a service, or to call existing services on the "bus". The "bus" (a.k.a. normalized message router) adds the option of a message based, loosely coupled and asynchronous contract to an OSGi environment such as Felix or GlassFish v3. The simple API mechanism allows the (interface centric) OSGi services to implement and invoke message based services. Fuji then includes a host of advanced constructs, including the ability to route, transform and augment these messages. The sample application bundle as well as instructions on installing the Spring DM bundles is available on the Fuji wiki.

OpenESB's IEP SE (Intelligent Event Processor Service Engine) is an open source Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Event Stream Processing (ESP) engine. The IEP enables SOA and Event-Driven Architectures. On Wednesday, Tom Barrett will explore and demonstrate the IEP in a webinar. Tom Barrett is a Software Systems Engineer and a well known Sun Java Ambassador. In this webinar, he will give an introduction of CEP, provide an overview of the IEP, and showcase two examples. If you're thinking about using the IEP in your own projects, this may be an ideal way to get started with CEP quickly.

When: Wednesday, September 9, at 10:00 am PDT (1:00 pm EDT / 19.00 CET); Duration 1 hour
Signup: https://dct.sun.com/dct/forms/reg_us_2808_545_0.jsp

Many of the components in OpenESB were developed by Sun, and all of the components in the GlassFish ESB distribution are commercially supported by Sun. Now, for the first time, and hopefully the first of many to come, it is an OpenESB community partner that has taken a component through the OpenESB release process, providing commercial support on it. This component is the CORBA BC and the OpenESB community partner is Imola Informatica. With this component, developers can exchange messages with CORBA interfaces without any coding. Download it from the OpenESB downloads page!

Mark has announced the Availability of Fuji M7. This new release features Many Additions including support for Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP - website, Wikipedia). Supported patterns include: Message Filter, Split, Content-Based Routing, Aggregate and Wire Tap The Screencasts page does not yet include examples for the new features, but Mark hints that they are on their way. Also see previous entries tagged Fuji

Earlier in the week the team for Fuji (advance for OpenESB v3) released their latest Milestone, M6. Mark has a good Overview of the release which includes a good Demo (note - content is not streamed). The Downloads now include an install image for Felix and a bundle with GlassFish v3. New features include Java POJOs, S3, and SSL support. For more details, refer to Mark's post or go to the M6 home page and the Demos and Screncasts page.

After a few months of development, bug fixing, testing, etc, GlassFish ESB v2.1 is now released. New in this release is that is a lot easier to scale GlassFish ESB through clustering. All components now have support for clustering. By the way, GlassFish ESB clustering is (of course) based on GlassFish clustering. Also new in this release is the inclusion of the IEP SE and Scheduler BC (a new component!), several component enhancements, and support for AIX 5.3. More details can be found in the release notes. And GlassFish ESB v2.1 can be downloaded from the OpenESB downloads page!

GlassFish ESB v2.1 is almost done: Release Candidate 2 is now available from the OpenESB downloads page. We expect to be able to list the GA version a few days after JavaOne.

Not clear what OpenESB is and what it can do for you? Sign up for a free webinar that will be held on June 10 at 10am PDT. Reserve a seat by registering!

If you're attending JavaOne, make sure to pay us a visit. There are several events that feature OpenESB. See our JavaOne events page.

On Wednesday April 29 at 10:00am PDT, Tom Barrett will present a webinar in which he will provide a technical deep dive of GlassFish ESB. Tom is a SOA Technical Specialist, and Java Ambassador. He's the author of several high quality OpenESB tutorials. In this webinar he will cover amongst others BPEL orchestration of web services using the BPEL service engine, the use of binding components, and the assembly, deployment and testing of composite applications. Join the webinar on Wednesday! Reserve a seat by registering!

Fuji continues to make progress. Fuji M3 was Released last November but I missed M4 (but see Annies' note on Logging). M5 was released last week (Downloads) and Andi has just published a Release Summary that complements the M5 Wiki page. Andi and Kirill also gave a nice webinar on Fuji last Thursday; see the webinar page for links to the screencasts and the presentation - I'm afraid I'm a bit behind and have not yet uploaded the recording.

And, on related news, the recent Release of OpenESB v2.1 M2 has been well received, notably the ability to install OpenESB directly on a pre-existing GlassFish installation; see the notes by Manfred and Giovani.

Added Also see Mark's Post on M4 and M5; as he points out the instructions on M4 are here.

As was announced on the OpenESB site and on Mark White's blog, Milestone 2 of the upcoming GlassFish ESB v2.1 release is now available. This milestone includes many bug fixes compared with the previous milestone. Also, AIX is now a supported platform. Next to the "full installer" that includes GlassFish v2.1 and NetBeans 6.5, there's now also a component bundle installer that only installs the runtime and design time components on top of an existing installation of GlassFish and NetBeans.

With Milestone 2, GlassFish ESB v2.1 is nearing its destination: there's only one more milestone planned before the release. Milestone 2, like any other OpenESB distribution and component, can be downloaded from the OpenESB downloads page.

This week's webinar is on Fuji, the project delivering the core of OpenESB v3 that provides a lightweight, developer-friendly, and extensible platform for composite application development. Since Fuji leverages OSGi directlly, it is a perfect match for GlassFish v3. The presentation on Thursday, April 16th, 11am US Pacific, at TheAquarium Channel. Full details (and recordings) at the Show Page.

The registration for our CommunityOne Unconferences is now open. We are hosting two intertwined events, one for all the GlassFish projects, the other for OpenSSO, OpenDS et al. Both in Hall A at the Moscone (Wikipedia, GeoHack) the Sunday before JavaOne, May 31st. Both events are free, and you can switch back and forth as your interests apply. Check the GlassFish Unconference page and the OpenSSO Day MeetUp and Topics page.

The unconferences will be followed with a Party at the Thirsty Bear. We have plenty of space at the Moscone but the TB space is limited, so I encourage you to sign up early.

There has been a lot of news coverage about Sun's participation in Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). For example in eWeek: "At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Conference in Chicago April 6, Sun announced that a host of its open-source software is being used by the federal government for the gateway that will connect the 26 member agencies of the NIHN to the network’s infrastructure." The adoption of OpenESB by NHIN is a great success story for OpenESB: not only is OpenESB a key piece of infrastructure in the project, it also shows the power of open source development. For the past months, developers working on the NHIN project worked together with and in the OpenESB community to build their solution using OpenESB. NHIN provided valuable feedback that's currently being incorporated into the upcoming v2.1 release.

AllGateways Software has received the status of OpenESB Community Partner. A Community Partner is an organization that is actively contributing to the community through activities such as code contributions, tutorials, etc. AllGateways, formerly known as Zaz Consulting, has been active in developing OpenESB components. Zaz Consulting was the originator of the LDAP BC and the Screen Scraping Service Engine. And AllGateways is planning more code contributions! AllGateways shows that in a vibrant open source community such as OpenESB, there are many players coming together to develop software. When will we see you there?