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Francois LETELLIER
ObjectWeb
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Erlang-projects Joins ObjectWeb
and Will Contribute to ESB Initiative
PARIS, FRANCE December 16, 2004 Erlang-projects is today joining the
Objectweb consortium to develop and extend its portfolio of middleware components.
This agreement is expected to increase Erlang-projects' user base while allowing
ObjectWeb to diversify and extend its middleware offer with robust, scalable and
proven solutions.
Objectweb is seeing in Erlang-projects participation to the consortium a way to
stimulate innovation. Cross-project synergies are anticipated that will consolidate
ObjectWeb know-how in scalability and high performance. The first Erlang-projects of
interest in this respect are:
the Open Transaction Platform itself
J-EAI: standard-based EAI (enterprise application integration) platform relying
on XML and the XMPP protocol (IETF standard)
Tsunami: highly-scalable and efficient benchmarking framework
UBF: Contract-based interoperability framework.
Erlang-projects will submit J-EAI framework as an ObjectWeb project in the
framework of the ObjectWeb Enterprise Service Bus initiative.
Mickaël Rémond, President, Erlang-projects, says: "ObjectWeb consortium is built
upon the powerful mix of industrial strength solutions and highly innovative projects.
We are proud to participate in and extend the ObjectWeb offer on both aspects."
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Emmanuel Cecchet, Chief Architect, ObjectWeb, says: "Erlang-projects brings to
ObjectWeb expertise and know-how in the field of concurrency oriented
programming. The contributions of the Erlang community will extend the ObjectWeb
code base to cover new standards and provide building blocks for architectural
issues such as scalability and interoperability."
About ObjectWeb
Founded in 2002 by Bull, France Telecom and INRIA, ObjectWeb is a consortium of
leading companies and research organizations from around the world who have
joined forces to produce next generation of open-source Middleware. ObjectWeb's
goal is to provide Real-Time Enterprises with independent solutions which combine
quality and robustness at the best possible performance/cost ratio. ObjectWeb
targets alternative solutions to proprietary products for e-business, EAI, data
connectivity, grid computing, and enterprise messaging. Based on open standards,
ObjectWeb's middleware includes application servers, components, frameworks and
tools. Examples of ObjectWeb's "cost killer" platforms are JOnAS - an open-source
implementation of the J2EE specification, JORAM - a message-oriented middleware
with JMS(TM) / SOAP connectors and Enhydra - a Java/XML application server.
http://www.objectweb.org
About Erlang-projects
Erlang-projects is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Erlang
language and the Open Transaction Platform (OTP) platform. OTP supports a
programming paradigm called Concurrency Oriented Programming, thus making it
particularly suitable for developing highly scalable, high-performance and fault-
tolerant server applications.
Erlang/OTP was developed for 20 years by Ericsson before going open-source. It is
used for example by Ericsson, Nortel, TebaBank, Correlatus and many others
companies for industrial applications.
http://www.erlang-projects.org
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