JBoss Delivers Core Technologies for Next-Generation Java EE 5.0 Application Server

  
    
  
  
    
      JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today unveiled several 
      pieces of core technology that will be featured in its forthcoming Java 
      Platform, Enterprise Edition (EE) 5.0 compliant application server, 
      JBoss Application Server 5.0. The new features, which are being 
      previewed at JBoss’ user conference and 
      exposition in Berlin, include significantly enhanced platform services 
      such as clustering, messaging, and web services that deliver 
      enhancements in reliability, performance, and interoperability.
    
    
      Considered an enterprise application server category leader by industry 
      analysts, JBoss Application Server is the most widely used Java 
      application server on the market. Hundreds of global enterprises 
      currently leverage JBoss Application Server for their Web applications. 
      The highly anticipated, next generation of JBoss Application Server will 
      provide a more powerful platform for modern applications such as SOA 
      (service-oriented architecture), rich client, and rich internet 
      applications.
    
    
      “With JBoss Application Server 5.0, JBoss will 
      continue to drive innovation and deliver enterprise software to the mass 
      market,” said Ram Venkataraman, director of 
      product management, JBoss. “The core 
      technology components that we have released are designed to boost 
      performance, scalability, and reliability of our runtime application 
      platform, taking us one step closer to delivering our Java EE 5.0 
      compliant application server. The JBoss community is encouraged to 
      download and start developing today.”
    
    
      The core technologies available today include:
    
    
      
        JBoss Web Services. A JAX-RPC 1.1 compliant SOAP stack custom 
        built for the JBoss Application Server architecture, JBoss Web 
        Services now supports all Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 
        compliant web services, including WS4EE 1.1, WS-I Basic Profile 1.1, 
        and WS-Security 1.0. In addition, developers can leverage 
        annotation-driven web services (JSR-181), a new feature in Java EE 
        5.0, to simplify the creation of web services on JBoss Application 
        Server. JBoss Web Services is compatible with Microsoft.NET.
      
      
        JBoss Clustering. Re-architected to better conserve memory and 
        resources while improving overall performance, scalability, and 
        reliability, JBoss Clustering now supports both fine-grained and buddy 
        replication. Since fine-grained replication replicates only values 
        changed within an object, it minimizes network traffic and provides a 
        scalable way to share objects across a cluster of servers. Buddy 
        replication, on the other hand, offers the ability to replicate cached 
        objects to specific servers within a cluster. As a result, network 
        traffic and memory are both minimized while ensuring failover of the 
        collective state of the cluster, even if some servers go down.
      
      
        JBoss Messaging. JBoss Messaging is a fully compatible JMS 1.1 
        implementation and substantially improves high availability features 
        such as distributed destinations, in-memory replication of the 
        messages and transparent client failover. A re-implementation of 
        JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging can be used with JBoss Application Server 
        4.0.5 and will be the default messaging platform in JBoss Application 
        Server 5.0.
      
      
        JBoss Seam. JBoss has quickly delivered new features to JBoss 
        Seam, its innovative unified component programming model and 
        framework. New features in JBoss Seam 1.1 include data-oriented 
        application wrappers for entity beans, integration with Ajax4jsf, 
        support for atomic conversations which greatly reduce database 
        roundtrips, exception handling via annotations, ability to integrate 
        RESTful pages into stateful page flow, and a new concurrency model for 
        AJAX-based applications.
      
      
        JBoss EJB3 (Enterprise JavaBeans). JBoss Application Server’s 
        implementation of EJB 3.0 has been updated to reflect the final 
        specification including Java Annotation support for Session Beans, 
        Message driven Beans, and Entity Beans as well as a simplified 
        persistence model based on Hibernate.
      
      
        Hibernate. Announced last month, Hibernate 3.2 is one of the 
        first object/relational mapping software to be compliant with Java 
        Persistence, which was introduced in Java EE 5.0 to simplify the 
        development of applications using data persistence. Hibernate 3.2 is 
        now integrated with JBoss Application Server, providing developers 
        with a Java Persistence provider out of the box.
      
    
    
      These new technologies are available today and all will work with the 
      current version, JBoss Application Server 4.0.5, which can be downloaded 
      from http://jboss.com/products/jbossas.
    
    
      These technologies will be featured in the upcoming Beta release of 
      JBoss Application Server 5.0 targeted for December 2006. The final JBoss 
      Application Server 5.0 release will be Java EE 5.0 compliant and is 
      targeted for the first half of 2007. JBoss Application Server is 
      licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and supports 
      all platforms, including Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It is currently 
      bundled in the Red Hat Application Stack. Subscription support for JBoss 
      Application Server is available from Red Hat (http://www.jboss.com/services/profsupport).
    
    
      About Red Hat, Inc.
    
    
      Red Hat, the world’s leading open source 
      solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite 
      offices spanning the globe. CIOs and other senior-level IT executives 
      have ranked Red Hat as the industry’s most 
      valued vendor for two consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine 
      Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and open source solutions 
      into the mainstream by making high-quality, low-cost technology 
      accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system platform, Red Hat 
      Enterprise Linux, along with applications, management, and middleware 
      solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite. Red Hat is 
      accelerating the shift to service-oriented architectures and enabling 
      the next generation of web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, 
      secure open source platform. Red Hat also offers support, training and 
      consulting services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier 
      partnerships. Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long 
      term plan for building infrastructures that are based on and leverage 
      open source technologies with a focus on security and ease of 
      management. Learn more: http://www.redhat.com.
    
    
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      Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute 
      "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private 
      Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements 
      provide current expectations of future events based on certain 
      assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to 
      any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially 
      from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of 
      various important factors, including: risks related to the integration 
      of acquisitions; the ability of the Company to effectively compete; the 
      inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and the 
      potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or relating to 
      third party intellectual property; risks related to data and information 
      security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of, and control over, 
      the Company's growth and international operations; adverse results in 
      litigation; the dependence on key personnel as well as other factors 
      contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (copies of 
      which may be accessed through the Securities and Exchange Commission's 
      website at http://www.sec.gov), 
      including those found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and 
      "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results 
      of Operations". In addition, the forward-looking statements included in 
      this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this 
      press release and these views could change. However, while the Company 
      may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in 
      the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. 
      These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as 
      representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date 
      of the press release.
    
    
      LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT and JBOSS are registered 
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JBoss, a division of Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT), today unveiled
several pieces of core technology that will be featured in its
forthcoming Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (EE) 5.0 compliant
application server, JBoss Application Server 5.0. The new features,
which are being previewed at JBoss' user conference and exposition in
Berlin, include significantly enhanced platform services such as
clustering, messaging, and web services that deliver enhancements in
reliability, performance, and interoperability.

   Considered an enterprise application server category leader by
industry analysts, JBoss Application Server is the most widely used
Java application server on the market. Hundreds of global enterprises
currently leverage JBoss Application Server for their Web
applications. The highly anticipated, next generation of JBoss
Application Server will provide a more powerful platform for modern
applications such as SOA (service-oriented architecture), rich client,
and rich internet applications.

   "With JBoss Application Server 5.0, JBoss will continue to drive
innovation and deliver enterprise software to the mass market," said
Ram Venkataraman, director of product management, JBoss. "The core
technology components that we have released are designed to boost
performance, scalability, and reliability of our runtime application
platform, taking us one step closer to delivering our Java EE 5.0
compliant application server. The JBoss community is encouraged to
download and start developing today."

   The core technologies available today include:

   --  JBoss Web Services. A JAX-RPC 1.1 compliant SOAP stack custom
        built for the JBoss Application Server architecture, JBoss Web
        Services now supports all Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
        (J2EE) compliant web services, including WS4EE 1.1, WS-I Basic
        Profile 1.1, and WS-Security 1.0. In addition, developers can
        leverage annotation-driven web services (JSR-181), a new
        feature in Java EE 5.0, to simplify the creation of web
        services on JBoss Application Server. JBoss Web Services is
        compatible with Microsoft.NET.

   --  JBoss Clustering. Re-architected to better conserve memory and
        resources while improving overall performance, scalability,
        and reliability, JBoss Clustering now supports both
        fine-grained and buddy replication. Since fine-grained
        replication replicates only values changed within an object,
        it minimizes network traffic and provides a scalable way to
        share objects across a cluster of servers. Buddy replication,
        on the other hand, offers the ability to replicate cached
        objects to specific servers within a cluster. As a result,
        network traffic and memory are both minimized while ensuring
        failover of the collective state of the cluster, even if some
        servers go down.

   --  JBoss Messaging. JBoss Messaging is a fully compatible JMS 1.1
        implementation and substantially improves high availability
        features such as distributed destinations, in-memory
        replication of the messages and transparent client failover. A
        re-implementation of JBossMQ, JBoss Messaging can be used with
        JBoss Application Server 4.0.5 and will be the default
        messaging platform in JBoss Application Server 5.0.

   --  JBoss Seam. JBoss has quickly delivered new features to JBoss
        Seam, its innovative unified component programming model and
        framework. New features in JBoss Seam 1.1 include
        data-oriented application wrappers for entity beans,
        integration with Ajax4jsf, support for atomic conversations
        which greatly reduce database roundtrips, exception handling
        via annotations, ability to integrate RESTful pages into
        stateful page flow, and a new concurrency model for AJAX-based
        applications.

   --  JBoss EJB3 (Enterprise JavaBeans). JBoss Application Server's
        implementation of EJB 3.0 has been updated to reflect the
        final specification including Java Annotation support for
        Session Beans, Message driven Beans, and Entity Beans as well
        as a simplified persistence model based on Hibernate.

   --  Hibernate. Announced last month, Hibernate 3.2 is one of the
        first object/relational mapping software to be compliant with
        Java Persistence, which was introduced in Java EE 5.0 to
        simplify the development of applications using data
        persistence. Hibernate 3.2 is now integrated with JBoss
        Application Server, providing developers with a Java
        Persistence provider out of the box.

   These new technologies are available today and all will work with
the current version, JBoss Application Server 4.0.5, which can be
downloaded from http://jboss.com/products/jbossas.

   These technologies will be featured in the upcoming Beta release
of JBoss Application Server 5.0 targeted for December 2006. The final
JBoss Application Server 5.0 release will be Java EE 5.0 compliant and
is targeted for the first half of 2007. JBoss Application Server is
licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and
supports all platforms, including Linux, Solaris, and Windows. It is
currently bundled in the Red Hat Application Stack. Subscription
support for JBoss Application Server is available from Red Hat
(http://www.jboss.com/services/profsupport).

   About Red Hat, Inc.

   Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the
globe. CIOs and other senior-level IT executives have ranked Red Hat
as the industry's most valued vendor for two consecutive years in the
CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat is leading Linux and
open source solutions into the mainstream by making high-quality,
low-cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides an operating system
platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with applications,
management, and middleware solutions, including JBoss Enterprise
Middleware Suite. Red Hat is accelerating the shift to
service-oriented architectures and enabling the next generation of
web-enabled applications running on a low-cost, secure open source
platform. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting
services to its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships.
Red Hat's open source strategy offers customers a long term plan for
building infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source
technologies with a focus on security and ease of management. Learn
more: http://www.redhat.com.

   Forward-Looking Statements

   Certain statements contained in this press release may constitute
"forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements
provide current expectations of future events based on certain
assumptions and include any statement that does not directly relate to
any historical or current fact. Actual results may differ materially
from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors, including: risks related to the integration
of acquisitions; the ability of the Company to effectively compete;
the inability to adequately protect Company intellectual property and
the potential for infringement or breach of license claims of or
relating to third party intellectual property; risks related to data
and information security vulnerabilities; ineffective management of,
and control over, the Company's growth and international operations;
adverse results in litigation; the dependence on key personnel as well
as other factors contained in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form
10-Q (copies of which may be accessed through the Securities and
Exchange Commission's website at http://www.sec.gov), including those
found therein under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations". In addition, the forward-looking statements included in
this press release represent the Company's views as of the date of
this press release and these views could change. However, while the
Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some
point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation
to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon
as representing the Company's views as of any date subsequent to the
date of the press release.

   LINUX is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. RED HAT and JBOSS are
registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the US
and other countries.