11/02/2005

Fiorano Software, Inc., a provider of business process integration and enterprise messaging solutions, today announced the general availability (GA) of its next generation SOA platform - Fiorano SOA 2006™. Built on Fiorano’s Enterprise Service Bus, Fiorano ESB™, the SOA 2006 platform incorporates several advanced features including peer-to-peer messaging, distributed BPEL-compliant business process management and visual tools, together with a powerful model for coarse-grained Business Services.

The company released the following details:

"Fiorano SOA 2006 is a clear choice for enterprises developing and executing their SOA strategy," said Atul Saini, CEO & CTO, Fiorano. "This will be the most comprehensive enterprise-class infrastructure for SOA deployments on the market today. Already, initial feedback from many customers shows that Fiorano enables an SOA to be implemented up to 4 times faster than competitive products, in large part due to its unique component model," he added.

Fiorano SOA 2006 is the industry’s first platform that supports both services and events on a single technology base with a shared component model and common tools for design, development, deployment, security and administration. Advanced features include:

• Composite Components - Business components can now be aggregated into larger reusable components (controlled using industry-standard BPEL), which run in a single operating system process. This results in significant performance advantages when multiple lightweight business components need to be executed on a single peer as part of a distributed event process.



• New Standards Embraced - BPEL/JCA/WS/J2EE/JMX - Support for BPEL based process composition, JCA & Web-Service based process configuration & component invocation and JMX based management.



• Peer-to-Peer JMS Enhancements - Improved throughput of JMS messages within and across peer networks. This enables seamless ports of existing JMS applications to reusable ESB components.



• Enhanced Simple/Distributed Transaction handling - Support for simple and distributed transactions across multiple components within a single Composite Component.



• Business Component Development Kit (BCDK) - A combination of Java libraries (implementing standard JMS, JCA, JMX interfaces) and an ant-based compilation framework for implementation & deployment of new Business Components.BCDK can also be integrated with Eclipse IDE.



• Shared Resource Pools - Support for resource sharing across multiple instances of components running within a composite component. This enables sharing of expensive/heavy-weight resources (like DB connection) across multiple coordinating components.

The "Fiorano SOA 2006 Platform" software pack includes:

• Fiorano ESB™ Server 2006 - A web-services capable middleware platform that supports intelligently-directed communication and mediated relationships between loosely coupled (SOA) and decoupled (EDA) business components.



• FioranoMQ™ Server 2006 - World’s first grid-enabled, peer-to-peer JMS messaging platform with powerful and unique features and performance.



• Fiorano BPEL™ Server 2006 - World’s first implementation of truly distributed BPEL processing orchestration engine.



• Fiorano Business Components and Adapters 2006 - Ready-to-use JCA-compliant components that include connectors for all popular databases, messaging systems and middleware.



• Fiorano Process Orchestration Tools 2006 - A set of integrated tools that enable users to orchestrate standards-based business components to deploy scalable, easy-to-modify distributed business processes with minimal IT intervention.



• Fiorano BPEL Editor 2006 - A standalone tool that enables developers to compose, test and deploy standards-based BPEL processes using JCA-compliant business components.