IONA Technologies
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IONA Technologies was an Irish software company. It was founded in 1991.
The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin
and maintains headquarters in Dublin, Boston
and Tokyo
.
The company specializes in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an IT
stack.
On June 25, 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by Progress Software
for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.
The open source group was later spun out into its own entity FuseSource Corp.. This group consisted of individuals and technologies involved in the various open source projects and communities, including those that joined as part of the acquisition of LogicBlaze.
, TMF and CORBA families of standards in their products, and was involved in the following standards bodies:
initiatives and acquired LogicBlaze. IONA was involved in the following open source projects, and offered enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported . These have since become part of the FuseSource Corp. entity.
standard, and more recent products were built using Web services standards.
IONA's products include
The company began life as a campus company in Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College, Dublin
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and maintains headquarters in Dublin, Boston
Boston
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and Tokyo
Tokyo
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.
The company specializes in distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructure. IONA products connect systems and applications by creating a network of services without requiring a centralized server or creating an IT
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
stack.
On June 25, 2008 it was announced that IONA would be acquired by Progress Software
Progress Software
Progress Software Corporation , formerly Data Language Corporation, is an American software company that sells business application infrastructure software. Its best known product is the OpenEdge ABL , which was developed in the early 1980s. The best known application written in Progress is...
for about $162 million, which occurred shortly thereafter.
The open source group was later spun out into its own entity FuseSource Corp.. This group consisted of individuals and technologies involved in the various open source projects and communities, including those that joined as part of the acquisition of LogicBlaze.
IONA and Standards
IONA was involved in the development of standards that are relevant to large-scale IT integration. IONA employs the Web service, JavaJava (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...
, TMF and CORBA families of standards in their products, and was involved in the following standards bodies:
- World Wide Web ConsortiumWorld Wide Web ConsortiumThe World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
(W3C) - Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information StandardsOASIS (organization)The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards...
(OASIS) - Object Management GroupObject Management GroupObject Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...
(OMG) - Telecommunications Management Forum (TMF)
- Web Services InteroperabilityWeb Services InteroperabilityThe Web Services Interoperability Organization is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. WS-I does not define standards for web services; rather, it creates guidelines and tests for interoperability...
(WS-I) - Microsoft/IBM Web Services Workshop Process
- Open Service-Oriented Architecture's Service component architectureService Component ArchitectureService Component Architecture is a software technology created by major software vendors including IBM and Oracle. SCA provides a model for composing applications that follow Service-Oriented Architecture principles...
(SCA) - Open Services Gateway initiativeOSGiThe Open Services Gateway initiative framework is a module system and service platform for the Java programming language that implements a complete and dynamic component model, something that does not exist in standalone Java/VM environments...
(OSGi) Alliance
IONA and Open Source
IONA promoted both open source and commercially licensed software, participated in several open sourceOpen source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
initiatives and acquired LogicBlaze. IONA was involved in the following open source projects, and offered enterprise versions of the projects that are tested, certified and supported . These have since become part of the FuseSource Corp. entity.
- Apache CXFApache CXFApache 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...
project - Apache ActiveMQApache ActiveMQApache ActiveMQ is an open source message broker which fully implements the Java Message Service 1.1 . It provides "Enterprise Features" like clustering, multiple message stores, and ability to use any database as a JMS persistence provider besides VM, cache, and journal persistency.Apart from...
project - Apache ServiceMixApache ServiceMixApache ServiceMix is an enterprise-class open-source distributed enterprise service bus and service-oriented architecture . It was built from the ground up on the semantics and APIs of the Java Business Integration specification JSR 208 and released under the Apache License...
project - Apache CamelApache CamelApache Camel is a rule-based routing and mediation engine which provides a Java object-based implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns using an API to configure routing and mediation rules...
project - SOA Tooling Platform (STP) project at the Eclipse FoundationEclipse FoundationThe Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the open-source Eclipse Projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services...
IONA Products
IONA's initial integration products were built using the CORBAÇorba
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standard, and more recent products were built using Web services standards.
IONA's products include
- IONA Artix - advanced SOA infrastructure suite. Components include
- Artix ESB (Enterprise Service BusEnterprise service busAn enterprise service bus is a software architecture model used for designing and implementing the interaction and communication between mutually interacting software applications in Service Oriented Architecture...
) - Artix Registry/Repository
- Artix Orchestration
- Artix Mainframe
- Artix Connect for WCF
- Artix Data Services (formally Century 24's Integration Objects (IO), C24 was acquired by IONA in March 2007)
- Artix ESB (Enterprise Service Bus
- FUSE - IONA's enterprise version of open source projects that include testing and professional services. Components include
- FUSE ESBFUSE ESBFuse ESB is an open source integration platform based on Apache ServiceMix that supports JBI and OSGi for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code...
- enterprise version of Apache ServiceMix - FUSE Message BrokerFUSE Message BrokerFuse Message Broker is an open source JMS message broker that is based on Apache ActiveMQ for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code...
- enterprise version of Apache ActiveMQ - FUSE Services FrameworkFUSE Services FrameworkFuse Services Framework is an open source SOAP and REST web services platform based on Apache CXF for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is productized and supported by the Fuse group at FuseSource Corp...
- enterprise version of Apache CXF - FUSE Mediation RouterFUSE Mediation RouterFuse Mediation Router is an open source tool for integrating services using Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Apache Camel for use in enterprise IT organizations. It is certified, productized and fully supported by the people who wrote the code...
- enterprise version of Apache Camel
- FUSE ESB
- OrbixOrbixOrbix may refer to:* Orbix , a battery-operated puzzle toy from Milton Bradley released in 1995.* Orbix...
- enterprise CORBA solution - Orbacus - embeddableEmbedded systemAn embedded system is a computer system designed for specific control functions within a larger system. often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. By contrast, a general-purpose computer, such as a personal...
C++ CORBA ORB - Professional services - training, consulting, and support
External links
- Official IONA website
- IONA's open source community
- Enterprise ServiceMix
- Enterprise ActiveMQ
- Enterprise CXF
- Enterprise Camel
- ServiceMix project at Apache
- CXF project at Apache
- ActiveMQ project at Apache
- Camel project at Apache
- SOA Tools Platform (STP) project at Eclipse Foundation
- Semantic Technology Related News about IONA Technologies