SOA News Desk
Belgium Government Deploys IONA's Open Source FUSE ESB
Open Source SOA Technology
Dec. 4, 2007 01:00 PM
IONA Technologies announced that the Belgium Ministry for
Education is using IONA's FUSE(TM) Open Source
technology for a centralized student registration system. The system which was
developed with ETNIC is using IONA's FUSE ESB
(Enterprise Service Bus) to integrate the multiple applications, servers and
databases to facilitate real-time registration and validation of over one
million student records.
Prior to the implementation of the project, records for
primary and secondary school students were stored in a variety of different
locations and formats, and facilitating a centralized system required the
integration of over 8,000 disparate client applications. During the academic
enrollment period the system will process approximately 1.5 million student
registrations. Online registrations will be securely processed by the system,
generating web services messages which will be assigned a 'client certificate'
which in turn will be validated by the ESB.
"With the ESB providing the critical integration needs
for this SOA project we needed to ensure the chosen technology would be robust
enough to handle the inherent complexities involved in bringing together
multiple applications and securely managing the volume of registrations on the
system," said Lilian Duchene, SOA Technical Project Manager, ETNIC.
"FUSE ESB provided the high levels of performance, reliability and
flexibility required for a project of this scale and with the expertise of IONA's services and support organization we quickly concluded
that this professional Open Source model would deliver results across the
project on both a technical and business level."
FUSE is IONA's Open Source
product family based on popular projects developed at the Apache Software Foundation.
IONA provides professional support, consulting
and training for enterprise customers looking to deploy Open Source SOA
technology in mission-critical business applications. FUSE ESB is the release
of Apache ServiceMix that IONA packages and
distributes under the Apache license, and provides a full set of services,
including training, consulting and 24X7 enterprise level production support.
"The IONA team played
a significant role in the success of this project," continued Mr Duchene.
"With the help of IONA's Professional Services and IONA's
Guillaume Nodet who is PMC Chair of the Apache ServiceMix project, we completed
a successful pilot and quickly progressed to full development and roll-out of
the project. This first project gave us the opportunity to learn how to work
with an ESB and how to adapt our back-end architecture so that it could
perfectly match the SOA best practices. The next step will be to connect our
ESB with other ESBs in Belgium
to build a secure channel based on standard user authentication exchange and
also to create a distributed architecture where the ESB will be a technical
layer within the overall SOA architecture."
"Government organizations worldwide are realizing the
benefits of deploying professional Open Source technologies as part of their
strategic IT initiatives," said Larry Alston, Vice President and General
Manager Open Source, IONA Technologies.
"Customers are exploring Open Source Middleware
technology as a more cost effective deployment option and with IONA there is no compromise on product performance or
professional support, services and consulting. FUSE is fully certified and
supported to the highest enterprise level standards."
Further information on IONA FUSE is available at the FUSE
community Web site at http://open.iona.com. The site also offers discussion
forums, wikis, tutorials, sample applications and documentation designed to
help users at all stages of their FUSE adoption.
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