IONA Commends Vibrant Apache CXF Community

  
    
  
  
    
      IONA® Technologies (NASDAQ: IONA), a world 
      leader in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure 
      solutions for performance-demanding IT environments, commends the Apache 
      CXF community on the graduation of CXF from incubator to full 
      project status at the Apache Software Foundation.
    
    
      With over 60,000 downloads since July 2007, CXF reflects the growth in 
      popularity of Open Source software and its broad appeal to Java 
      developers as the easiest environment for the creation of Web services. Dan 
      Kulp, Principal Engineer at IONA, is the PMC (Project Management 
      Committee) Chair of Apache CXF and has contributed significantly to the 
      development of Apache CXF and the fostering of a vibrant community. “This 
      is a milestone achievement for the CXF community,” 
      said Dan Kulp. “There are a diverse number of 
      project committers across the community that have all contributed 
      significantly to the project’s graduation. The 
      collaborative development effort has resulted in a successful Open 
      Source project with a high level of product innovation.”
    
    
      “The graduation of CXF to full project status 
      is evidence of the ubiquity of CXF and the diverse and growing community 
      that has contributed to its success,” said 
      Larry Alston, Vice President and General Manager, Open Source, IONA 
      Technologies. “A robust and innovative 
      solution developed by a thriving community base, coupled with enterprise 
      support and services represents a compelling Open Source deployment 
      option for enterprise customers. I look forward to seeing the Apache CXF 
      community continue to grow and develop with full project status and 
      support from the Apache Software Foundation.”
    
    
      IONA’s 
      FUSE™ Services Framework is an enterprise 
      release of Apache CXF and provides a fully tested and supported Open 
      Source services framework for enterprise deployment. Apache CXF 
      represents the merger of IONA’s original 
      Celtix™ Open Source ESB, hosted at the 
      ObjectWeb community, and XFire from Codehaus. It became CXF upon the 
      merger of Celtix and XFire and the movement of the project to the Apache 
      Software Foundation in August 2006.
    
    
      Further information on IONA FUSE is available at the FUSE community Web 
      site at http://open.iona.com. The 
      site also offers discussion forums, wikis, tutorials, sample 
      applications and documentation designed to help users at all stages of 
      their FUSE adoption.
    
    
      About IONA
    
    
      For more than a decade, IONA® Technologies 
      (NASDAQ: IONA) has been a world leader in delivering high-performance 
      integration solutions for Global 2000 IT environments. IONA pioneered 
      standards-based integration with its CORBA-based Orbix® 
      products. IONA’s Artix™, 
      an advanced SOA infrastructure suite enables customers to leverage 
      service-oriented architecture to streamline and modernize IT 
      environments. The FUSE™ family of Open Source 
      products include supported, enterprise releases of Apache ServiceMix, 
      ActiveMQ, 
      CXF and Camel.
    
    
      IONA is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in 
      Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information 
      about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com.
    
    
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