Celtix delivers a Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) runtime and set of API

Application programming interface

An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...

s that make it easy to add transports, message formats, and security features. The goal is to simplify the construction, integration and flexible reuse of technical and business components using a standards-based, service-oriented architecture.

Related technologies

• Apache Axis
  Apache Axis
  Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. Using Apache Axis, developers can create interoperable, distributed computing...
  
   1.2+ is BP 1.0 compliant
• Apache Axis2
  Apache Axis2
  Apache Axis2 is a core engine for Web services. It is a complete re-design and re-write of the widely used Apache Axis SOAP stack. Implementations of Axis2 are available in Java and C....
  
  
• Apache CXF
  Apache CXF
  Apache CXF is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework. It originated as the combination of two open-source projects: Celtix developed by IONA Technologies and XFire developed by a team hosted at Codehaus. These two projects were combined by people working together at the Apache...
  
  , the merger of Codehaus XFire and Celtix
• ASP.NET
  ASP.NET
  ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...
  
   2.0 - Web Services are Basic Profile Compliant compliant http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms230196.aspx
• Codehaus XFire
  Codehaus XFire
  is a Java SOAP framework for development and consumption of web services.Unlike earlier similar products, such as Apache Axis 1.x that use in-memory tree models for XML, XFire uses StAX resulting in better performance..Apache Axis2 also uses StAX....
  
  
• DPWS
• GlassFish Metro
  GlassFish Metro
  Metro is an opensource web service stack that is a part of the GlassFish project, though it can also be used in a stand-alone configuration. Components of metro include JAXB RI, JAX-WS RI, SAAJ RI, StAX and WSIT...
  
  , the bundle including the JAX-WS
  JAX-WS
  The Java API for XML Web Services is a Java programming language API for creating web services. It is part of the Java EE platform from Sun Microsystems. Like the other Java EE APIs, JAX-WS uses annotations, introduced in Java SE 5, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients...
  
   Reference Implementation (JAX-WS RI) and the Tango (WSIT) project.
• IBM WebSphere Application Server Version 5.0.2 to 5.1 are BP 1.0 compliant version 6.0+ are BP 1.1 compliant http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/newto/ws-websvc.html
• JBossWS
• WebMethods Glue
  WebMethods Glue
  webMethods Glue is an enterprise web services platform from webMethods to provide web services/SOAP capabilities to existing Java and C/C++ applications....