JBoss Delivers JBoss Application Server 4.0

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Wednesday, September 22, 2004; 12:00 AM

September 21, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - JBoss®, Inc. (www.jboss.com), the Professional Open Source company, today announced general availability of JBoss Application Server 4.0 for enterprise production deployment. JBoss AS 4.0, the company's flagship open source middleware offering, is the first open source application server to achieve compatibility certification for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) version 1.4 by passing the 23,000 tests of the Test Compatibility Kit.

"Open source is rapidly moving beyond Linux and the operating system into middleware. As a  company at the forefront of this second generation of open source, JBoss is focused on building an entire open source middleware stack with JBoss AS as the foundation," said Marc Fleury, chairman and CEO of JBoss, Inc.

JBoss AS has been downloaded more than five million times and ranks first with Java developers and independent software vendors (ISVs). For the second straight year of their annual award for innovation, the editors of SD Times recognized JBoss AS as the top deployment platform.

"Our entire business has relied on JBoss AS for the past year and we have been extremely  satisfied with the performance and reliability. The modularity of the architecture enabled us to pick and choose the services we needed and tighten integration with the applications running on top. JBoss AS has allowed us to scale both technically and economically," said Jamie Cash, Director of Technical Architecture, NLG, one of the nation's largest online and offline leisure travel companies. "Best of all, support for JBoss AS is delivered by JBoss product experts. We were early adopters, so it was critical that whenever we called we could immediately talk to someone who could help us. We have become great advocates of open source projects like JBoss AS that have evolved into best-of-class products."

JBoss AS 4.0 enables middleware providers to deliver greatly simplified programming models to developers without sacrificing service capabilities, including object persistence, caching, acidity, remoteness, transactions and security. Key features and benefits include:

JBoss, Inc. provides a full range of expert support services delivered by the experts behind the JBoss Application Server, including 24x7 Support, on-site and remote RightStart Support, public and on-site training and documentation. Support and services are also available through the company's extensive network of JBoss Authorized Service Partners (JASP), which includes leading ISVs like Computer Associates, HP, Novell and Unisys.

JBoss AS 4.0 is immediately available at  http://www.jboss.com/downloads/index and is free to download and free to use regardless of the size of the production deployment. The LGPL also allows ISVs to embed and distribute JBoss AS free of charge.

Through its Professional Open Source model, JBoss, Inc. is making open source a safe choice for the enterprise. The JBoss team of technical experts drives core development of freely distributed open source software products and stands behind them with 24x7 production support, development support, training, consulting and documentation.

The company's federation of open source middleware now includes Tomcat, Hibernate, JGroups, JBossCache, Nukes on JBoss and the JBoss Application Server, the industry's fastest growing J2EE application server in use, with over five million downloads. Corporate Express, La Quinta and Nielsen Media Research, among others, rely on JBoss products for mission-critical enterprise applications.