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FUSE ESB 4.0 Preview available

A preview release of FUSE ESB 4.0, the enterprise release of Apache ServiceMix, is now available. Give it a try!

Chariot Solutions Partnership

DUBLIN, Ireland & WALTHAM, Mass. - July 16, 2008 - IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, today announced that Chariot Solutions, a technology consulting firm specializing in Java and Open Source software development, has become a FUSE™ Partner. Chariot Solutions, as a FUSE Partner, will resell IONA’s FUSE family of Open Source services and solutions to address customers’ enterprise Open Source requirements. Read the press release

Video: RESTful Services

Watch the video and listen to industry analyst Dana Gardner and IONA veterans Adrian Trenaman and Roland Tritsch talk about building agile applications on SOA infrastructure using dynamic languages. The archived webinar includes code samples and a cool iPhone demo!

One Year Anniversary!

open.IONA.com is one year old this week - thanks to all of you for making this community great. Highlights of the year include

Enjoy the web site and your community, and thank you for your participation!

Progress Software to Acquire IONA

Independent, Heterogeneous SOA.

Letter to Community

IONA Commends CXF Community

IONA Technologies commends the Apache CXF community on the graduation of CXF from incubator to full project status at the Apache Software Foundation. With over 60,000 downloads since July 2007, CXF reflects the growth in popularity of Open Source software and its broad appeal to Java developers as the easiest environment for the creation of Web services.

Creating RESTful Services

You're invited to join us for a live webinar with analyst Dana Gardner and IONA experts Adrian Trenaman & Roland Tritsch.

ActiveMQ and SPECjms

Archived webinar presented by Hiram Chirino and Rob Davies on ActiveMQ and the first vendor-independent benchmark.

FUSE Services Framework 2.1

Download FUSE Services Framework 2.1 for a slew of new features, bug fixes and performance enhancements.

ServiceMix 4.0

IONA's webinar on ServiceMix 4.0, presented by Guillaume Nodet, ServiceMix PMC Chair and Bruce Snyder, ServiceMix committer is now available on demand. Watch the archive.

JavaOne! JavaOne!

IONA is heading to San Francisco and will make a splash at JavaOne. We will be hosting parties, raffling off an iPhone and giving away t-shirts. Hope to see you there! Visit our events page for more information.

Apache graduates CXF to a TLP!

Email from Jim Jagielski: I am happy and proud to announce that at this month's board meeting, we have approved CXF's graduation out of the Incubator and as a TLP. Dan Kulp was approved as VP of the PMC.

ZDNet Talks to Larry Alston: FUSE vs. Mule

Dana Blankenhorn and Paula Rooney interview Larry Alston, IONA's GM and VP of open source, and get his opinions on recent news and competitors. Read the article.

ComputerWorld: OS for Business Users?

When using open-source software, businesses usually choose between a free, community-supported version of an application or a fee-based enterprise version that includes support, service, updates and other features. Read the article.

Robert Davies and James Strachan published in Java Developer's Journal

One set of design patterns that has gained traction in the industry is Hohpe and Woolf's Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIPs). These patterns include a technology-agnostic vocabulary for describing large-scale integration solutions. Read about how to implement EIPs - without programming - using Camel. Read the article.

ServiceMix and ActiveMQ Training Classes

IONA is now offering public training classes for enterprise ServiceMix and enterprise ActiveMQ. Classes are hands-on sessions designed to help architects and developers to build enterprise-class infrastructure and to get the most out of these popular Apache projects. Instructors work closely with project committers, and are IONA professionals who are experienced in working with Global 2000 IT organizations. For more information on registration, course content, dates, pricing and locations click here.

Understanding Threads in ActiveMQ

Are you looking to increase the scaleability of ActiveMQ? Are you ready to fine-tune your implementation of ActiveMQ to suit your specific requirements? If so, one of your first steps is to understand how threads are managed in ActiveMQ. Hiram Chirino, principal engineer for open source at IONA and the chair of the ActiveMQ Project Management Committee at the Apache Software Foundation, has written a brief article in the community wiki on this very topic. Take a look at the article here

Introducing FUSE HQ, New Releases of All FUSE Product

IONA Technologies today released a new version of its FUSE™ family of Open Source SOA products. The release includes enhancements to each of the FUSE product offerings: FUSE ESB, FUSE Message Broker, FUSE Services Framework and FUSE Mediation Router and the introduction of FUSE HQ, for systems management and monitoring. FUSE HQ is based on Hyperic HQ and takes advantage of the JMX-based reporting capabilities of the FUSE products to deliver advanced systems management and monitoring capabilities to administrators. FUSE HQ is available to IONA customers who subscribe for either Developer level or Production level FUSE support. To learn more about the releases, please refer to the IONA press release. To download the latest releases, please visit the download page.

Q4 Webinar Series

Starting in October, the IONA Open Source Team is hosting a series of webinars led by the IONA developers who are leading the open source projects that make up the core of our product offering. This is your chance to interact directly with the product architects and learn how you can take advantage of these leading open source SOA solutions. The webinars are free to all attendees and will be recorded and made available for viewing afterward. The series includes:

Open Source SOA for the Enterprise, Part I (View the Archived Recording!)

    • ServiceMix: Enterprise-Ready Open Source ESB
      Date: October 23, 12:00 PM EDT
      Hosts: Guillaume Nodet, ServiceMix PMC Chair and Bruce Snyder, ServiceMix committer

    • Open Source SOA for the Enterprise, Part II (View the Archived Recording!)
    • ActiveMQ: Enterprise-Ready JMS Messaging Platform
    • Date: November 13, 12:00 PM EST
    • Hosts: Hiram Chirino, ActiveMQ PMC Chair and James Strachan ActiveMQ project co-founder

    Open Source SOA for the Enterprise, Part III

    New Release of FUSE Products

    The release includes enhancements across the FUSE family of products including, FUSE ESB, FUSE Message Broker, FUSE Services Framework and FUSE Mediation Router. The releases include significant performance and feature improvements and tighter integration between the FUSE ESB and all components of the product family. Additional new features include

    To learn more about the releases, please refer to the IONA press release. To download the latest releases, please visit the download page.

    ServiceMix Graduates from the Apache Incubator; Becomes a Top Level Project

    The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has voted to graduate ServiceMix from the Apache Incubator to the status of a "top-level project" (TLP). This means that ServiceMix will leave the Apache Incubator and will be an "Apache Project" just like Apache ActiveMQ or any other Apache-based development effort. This is very good news for the ServiceMix team, and they deserve congratulations for the years of effort they have invested into ServiceMix. Of course, graduating from the Apache Incubator is not a technical endorsement -- it is recognition by the ASF that a project team has demonstrated diversity, open communications and processes, and a commitment to the ASF's principles regarding intellectual property and open source development. In addition, IONA principal engineer Guillaume Nodet has been elected to be the Project Management Committee Chair for the ServiceMix Project. Anyone who has been involved with ServiceMix knows Guillaume's boundless energy and commitment to making ServiceMix a success, so this is a well-deserved recognition of his efforts. More information at Guillaume's blog

    New Update Release for FUSE ESB

    The new FUSE ESB v3.2.0.1 provides better integration between ServiceMix, Apache Camel and Apache CXF. Because IONA provides Apache Camel and Apache CXF in our FUSE Mediation Router and FUSE Services Framework products, this update will be of particular interest to you if you are considering using those products together with FUSE ESB. The advantage of better integration of FUSE ESB with FUSE Services Framework is that the FUSE Services Framework can be used as a robust endpoint for SOAP services on FUSE ESB, with full support for JAX-WS 2.0. The advantage of better integration of FUSE ESB with FUSE Mediation Router is that FUSE Mediation Router can be employed to manage processes implemented on FUSE ESB, using a lightweight POJOs that you can configure in an IDE, and you can design processes in familiar Enterprise Integration Patterns descriptions. Download the Update here

    New Podcast on Apache Camel

    Listen to IONA architect James Strachan in conversation with industry analyst Dana Gardner. James presents the new Apache Camel project, how it came about and how organizations are using it today. To learn more about this podcast, see the Podcasts page.

    IONA FUSE Now Available!

    IONA is excited to announce availability of FUSE, a family of advanced, open source SOA infrastructure products closely aligned to some of the most popular Apache Software Foundation projects. IONA FUSE features componentized, standards-based and technology-neutral SOA infrastructure products that work together or independently and allows customers unprecedented flexibility in SOA adoption. The family includes FUSE ESB, based on the Apache ServiceMix project, FUSE Message Broker, based on the Apache ActiveMQ project, FUSE Services Framework, based on the Apache CXF project and FUSE Mediation Router, based on the Apache Camel project. To learn more about FUSE, please check out today's press release or the FAQ.

    New Web Site!

    We told you it was coming ... and here it is! Welcome to the new site for all things open source at IONA. This new site replaces the sites that had previously been maintained by the LogicBlaze and IONA open source developer teams. So if you clicked on "ionaceltix.com" or "logicblaze.com" and ended up here, now you know why. Check out the FAQ about the site, our products, and our approach to open source for SOA.

    JBoss Supports Apache CXF

    With JBossWS-2.1.0, scheduled for release in early August 2007, JBoss will support the use of Apache CXF as a JAXWS Web services integration layer. CXF is one of only three support Web services integration layers. Congratualtions to the Apache CXF team on this exciting development. Click here To learn more...

    IONA acquires LogicBlaze

    The LogicBlaze team that brought you ActiveMQ, ServiceMix and LogicBlaze FUSE is now part of IONA Technologies....