Red Hat

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JBoss in the Enterprise Red Hat Wanja Pernath
(wpernath_at_redhat.com)?
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Agenda

• What is Middleware
• What is Middleware being used for
• Why customers choose JBoss
• Products vs. Projects
• JBoss Enterprise Middleware
• Who is using JBoss?
• Chosen success stories
• Swedish Railway
• Teambank
• DGI
• Roadmap

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What is Middleware 1

• You know operating systems
• Without them you would not be able to start a
  computer
• It defines a set of interaction points between
  hardware and human beings
• It helps you using the stuff
• Middleware is being used as a central repository
  of applications
• Strange? -- Yes!
• Suppose you want to have all your employees using
  the same application to book their time
• How to distribute this central application?
• How to make sure each individual is using the
  right version of the application?
• What about security? You know RH DirectoryServer
  as a central (middleware) service repository for
  credentials
• Middleware and especially the Java / JEE based
  middleware helps you solving those problems
• --gt Better time to market

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What is Middleware 2

• In the past each developer did the necessary
  integration on his own
• He would write a LDAP connector
• He would write a Database connector
• He would also take care on different database
  dialects
• Oracle SQL ! Microsoft SQL
• How to connect to legacy systems?
• With Java / JEE all those systems are
  encapsulated to the developer
• He can now concentrate on the real business
  relevant stuff
• Much better time to market
• Time is money
• Conclusion Middleware helps your team to be more
  productive

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What is middleware being used for?

• It's limited through your phantasie
• Which means, everything is possible, examples
• Amazon.com
• Google.com
• yahoo.com
• Ebay.com

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JBoss Overview

• Founded
• EJBOSS project founded in 1999 by Marc Fleury
• Acquired
• Red Hat acquired JBoss in June 2006
• Red Hat acquired MetaMatrix in June 2007
• Mission Offer a comprehensive line of middleware
  products that enable Fortune 5000 organizations
  to accelerate their ability to develop, deploy,
  integrate and manage applications and composite
  applications across their extended enterprise.

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Why customers choose JBoss?

• To understand that you need to think about other
  middleware vendors
• IBM WebSphere
• BEA WebLogic (now part of Oracle)?
• Oracle Fusion
• SAP Netweaver
• Glassfish (open source, Sun)?
• Geronimo (open source, Apache)?
• Jboss is lightweight
• The intention was always to have a solution from
  developers for developers
• This means you don't have to wait 20 minutes
  until you see that your last change was wrong
• We define standards

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Products vs. Projects

• It's the same like with Fedora vs. RHEL
• We have an open source space on www.jboss.org
• There we work on the future of the project
• There we try new stuff, we implement new
  standards before they are officially released
• During productization we make the projects ready
  for the enterprise
• We make heavy load tests
• We are fixing bugs
• We make them mature
• Shortly We do everything we can to be able to
  give support up to 5 years to a product
• It is still open source!
• You can download the source for the products
  (like with RHEL)?

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