SoftwareEuropean Open Source Foundation Introduces First SOA for Cloud Computing
Open Source Business Foundation securely creates a bridge between Java and .NET
NUREMBERG/HANOVER, March 08, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) (http://osbf.de/en), the non-profit European open source business network, announced today a platform that, for the first time, leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) for cloud computing.
The Internet Service Bus (ISB) makes online applications accessible as a service via an integrated web application - enabling developers to easily access and use existing, proven code to build applications. At the same time, ISB creates a bridge between the Java and the .NET world.
"Cloud computing is the future," said Andreas Hartl, head of the OSBF Interoperability project group and Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft Germany. "That"s why, when we launched our group in summer 2008, we defined two projects - ISB and Identity Network Service (INS) - both of which focus squarely on customer requirements. The ISB makes it possible for services of different developers in the cloud to communicate with one another. And the INS allows users to access a number of combined services with a single sign-on to the cloud."
INS permits secure online authentication and authorization by single sign-on for the first time in cloud environments. For private and B2B users, the project not only points out specific application scenarios for cloud computing, it also provides software manufacturers, integrators and hosters with an important technology module that offers the possibility of new, cloud-based business models.
The development consortium of the OSBF Interoperability project group consists of 1&1, Corisecio, Microsoft, Open-Xchange and Sopera.
A demo presented live today by the project group at the CeBIT conference in Germany showed how one web application is sufficient to administer patient data, securely, from different sources. To ensure that personal data is protected, authorized nursing staff are given specific access to individual datasets. The ISB, which is based on the open source platform of German SOA specialist Sopera, creates a bridge between the Java and the .NET world: it integrates the applications Open-Xchange, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Virtual Earth to form one web-browser. All this is completely transparent for users and application developers, making technical know-how unnecessary.
The basis of the ISB is the open source SOA platform Sopera ASF, which integrates both Java and .NET applications as service providers.
"Java and .NET are the predominant platforms for enterprise applications today - as they will be for cloud computing too," said Dr. Ricco Deutscher, managing director at Sopera. The key to the native integration of these two worlds is the ISB."