New from Sun Microsystems - Project Glassfish and Open-ESB

Sun Microsystems announced its new projects at the JavaOne Conference in San Francisco.

Under the name of project Glassfish, the company plans to open the source code of its application server.

The other new deal, which reveals Sun's plan to build an open source Enterprise Service Bus called Open-ESB, respects the newly approved Java Business Integration specifications, also known as Java Specification Request 208.
For a three-year subscription to the project, the company offers a Sun Ultra 20 workstation, for no additional cost.

Both of the projects released by Sun Microsystems are to use the Common Development and Distribution License.

According to the Sun vice president of marketing applications and developer platforms, Joe Keller, "this is to fuel the next age of computing". "It allows the communities to participate and have access in ways that they hadn't before, and deliver on the types of things that are needed to drive the age of participation", added Keller.

A development project for an open source ESB called Celtix was started last year by the the European ObjectWeb open source consortium.