LogicBlaze Delivers Open-Source-Based SOA

LogicBlaze, a start-up based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., has delivered what it believes is the first services-oriented architecture (SOA) platform based purely on open-source software.

Called LogicBlaze Fuse, the package is a collection of validated technologies from the Apache Software Foundation, including the enterprise service bus, messaging platform, persistence data base, registry and BPEL orchestration language. The product will be offered under the Apache 2.0 software license model.

The new stack is being targeted at users and developers grappling with a number of different business-integration and extension issues. Company officials believe the product offers a platform for those SOA implementations designed for Web sites handling higher volumes of transactions enhanced for Web 2.0.

"A lot of the idea around this product is you can think big, but start small. And working only with open source, you can start small," says Winston Damarillo, CEO of LogicBlaze. "There is no half-million-dollar cost of entry or army of consultants you need in order to get started with on an SOA project."

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Some analysts believe an all-open source SOA platform is an eventuality given the rising costs of development facing many users and solution providers.

"Web 2.0 applications require a high-performance middleware that can combine services and data from a variety of public sources into a single service accessible to Ajax applications," says Richard Monson-Haefal, senior analyst at the Burton Group. "This is where SOA meets Ajax, and products like LogicBlaze FUSE that meet this need will be in high demand if Web 2.0 is to realize its full potential."

Components in the Fuse stack include the Apache Derby database, the Apache UDDI Directory Server, the Apache Ode Orchestration Engine for controlling composite services, a management console for monitoring SOA components along with offering statistics on message flows, an installer for Windows, Linux and Mac OS environments, and a lightweight deployment kernel.

LogicBlaze is delivering the product with the CoRE (Community-oriented Real-time Engineering) Network, which is a subscription-based framework for production and developer-level support and maintenance. With CoRE, users and solution providers can leverage the engineering environment needed to support the distributed requirements of an SOA project.

Separately, LogicBlaze announced it has signed a deal with IBM that will see LogicBlaze distribute IBM's WebSphere Application Server Community Edition. That product, based on the open-source Apache Geronimo project, will be sold as an OEM component of FUSE.

Fuse can be downloaded immediately in either source or binary form from the company's Web site (www.logicblaze.com).