IONA’s advanced SOA
infrastructure suite, IONA Artix, offers a standards-based approach to SOA
deployment that complements existing infrastructures and makes integration with
future technologies more affordable. By commoditizing proprietary, centralized
middleware deployments and allowing SOA to conform to the needs of enterprises,
IONA Artix delivers on the promise of SOA, including business agility,
increased ROI and lower operational costs.
IONA Artix consists of distributed, technology-neutral SOA
infrastructure products that work together or independently, allowing customers
unprecedented flexibility in SOA adoption. IONA Artix is based on a
lightweight, microkernel architecture that provides organizations with the
ability to incrementally adopt SOA on their own terms, one step at a time.
Artix ESB is IONA’s
extensible Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) which offers customers a multi-platform
and multi-protocol solution that connects diverse and lightweight endpoints
without a centralized server. Artix ESB endpoints are configurable and
insulated from the rest of the network so services can be extended, modified
and hot deployed without disrupting the rest of the enterprise. By creating a
peer-to-peer network of smart, standards-based endpoints using existing infrastructure
Artix ESB allows enterprises to begin with low-risk, high-value SOA projects
and gradually add services as needed.
Artix Connect for Windows Communication Framework (WCF)
enables organizations to integrate Microsoft technologies with non-Microsoft
investments. The product enables companies to leverage existing legacy
investments in Java, CORBA and more, right from within the Microsoft Visual
Studio development environment without requiring custom adapters, gateway
services or Java skills. IT decision makers no longer need to choose between
Java and Microsoft, or to discard legacy systems that use CORBA. Instead, they
can access these systems directly from the Microsoft .NET runtime using C# or
Microsoft Visual Basic without requiring custom adapters, gateway services or
Java skills.
Artix Mainframe provides discrete and intuitive processes
that allow existing mainframe resources to be rapidly exposed to the network
using standards-based technologies such as Web services and CORBA. Artix
Mainframe further allows for the deployment of new mainframe-based Web service
applications and is ideal for customers who want to expose their mainframe
resources in a manner that can meet the ever-changing demands of client and
mid-tier systems.
IONA’s FUSE family of Open
Source products include supported, enterprise releases of Apache ServiceMix,
ActiveMQ, CXF and Camel, and combine the speed and innovation of open source
software with the reliability and expertise of commercially provided enterprise
services.
IONA’s FUSE Services
Framework is an open source pluggable service framework based on the Apache CXF
project and provides the easiest environment available to Java developers to
create Web services. As an open source product, developers have the flexibility
to modify the code and the security of knowing they will never be locked into a
single vendor. The FUSE Services Framework is a services framework that fully
implements the JAX-WS 2.0 specification, simplifying the process of exposing
existing Java code as a Web service or writing new Web services. Many key Apache CXF committers are employed
by IONA and work on FUSE Services Framework.
The FUSE Services Framework makes it easy to create new and
existing services across heterogeneous environments by providing design-time
tools and runtime infrastructure that are technology-neutral. The pluggable and
extensible architecture allows the FUSE Services Framework’s small footprint to
work in a variety of container servers, with a variety of languages, and with
several messaging systems.
SOAWorld Magazine’s
“SOA World Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards”
SOA World Magazine announced that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers'
Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or
services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice
Awards, also known as the "Oscars
of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious
industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's SOA awards will be
given in 19 categories and the award-winning products and services will be
selected by SOA World Magazine readers. Winners will be
announced at the SOA World Conference &
Expo 2008 East, June 23-24 in New
York City.
Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past
few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing
constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major
enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy,
supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA
aspects or entire solutions.
Nominated Products and Services by Category:
SOA World Conference
& Expo 2007 SponsorsIn 2007, SOA World Conference & Expo was sponsored by the world’s leading
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TIBCO Software, WSO2, IBM, Parasoft, webMethods, Sybase, B-hive, iTKO, Managed
Methods, Mellanox Technologies, Nastel, NextAxiom, RingCube, Two Roads
Professional Resources, Web Age Solutions, Solstice Software, Fiorano Software,
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Thinstall, Trivera Technologies, BZMedia, Extension Media, GoingToMeet,
ITtoolbox, Methods & Tools, SDTimes, Software Test & Performance,
TechTracker Media, ZapThink, OASIS, and SOA Consortium.
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