Tuesday, 31 July 2007

TIBCO Unveils Open Ajax MashUp Tool

TIBCO Software Inc. has announced the release of TIBCO PageBus and the donation of its core Ajax message bus technology to the OpenAjax Alliance Hub project. The company said this endeavour would help to establish industry standards for Ajax component interoperability and further advance services as the foundation for composite applications.

Composite applications created with Ajax can range from a few simple sources of data, to productivity solutions created from reusable business process gadgets, such as task lists, to large-scale enterprise deployments atop portals. All of these increasingly sophisticated composite applications face the same classic systems integration problem. As the use of Ajax within portals, composite applications and mashups becomes increasingly sophisticated, the programming required can increase exponentially unless certain architectural approaches are followed.

TIBCO PageBus applies proven "publish and subscribe" message bus programming patterns within the context of a single Web page. The technology facilitates communication between multiple Ajax components to allow developers to easily create composite applications from reusable parts and services. Ultimately, this helps to reduce development costs and shorten the time it takes to create ready-to-use solutions.

"TIBCO's messaging solutions have been recognised as some of the most high-performance, reliable, and scalable technologies for distributing information throughout the enterprise," said Kevin Hakman, director, Developer Evangelism. "TIBCO PageBus is a natural extension of this legacy simplifying the ability to integrate pre-existing services and Ajax components."

As member of the OpenAjax Alliance (OAA), TIBCO is working with more than 70 companies to standardize key aspects of Ajax. The first specification project of this group is the OpenAjax Hub, which seeks to provide Ajax component interoperability though a publish/subscribe interface. TIBCO's contribution of the core of TIBCO PageBus helps set the industry standard for a client-side high-performance message bus to enable Ajax components to work seamlessly together.