Raleigh, North Carolina – (The Hosting News) – February 17, 2009 –
Open source solutions firm, Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, was developed as an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences.

Craig Muzilla, Vice President of Red Hat’s Middleware business remarked, ”As a critical component of the Web 2.0 landscape, portals remain a low-cost gateway for facilitating collaboration, information sharing and interoperable processes. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 includes an enterprise-class set of features required to support a wide range of portal use cases.”

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with improved server performance, high availability and clustering and simple, straightforward installation and configuration.

New features in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 include:

– Compliance with JSR-286 specification – JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 fully supports the Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286) specification. This new standard facilitates a more dynamic user experience through improvements in portlet to portlet communication, caching support and handling of Ajax frameworks.

– JBoss Portlet Bridge – JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 also introduces JBoss Portlet Bridge, an implementation of the JSR-301 specification, which supports JavaServer Faces (JSF) within a portlet and with added enhancements to support other web frameworks (such as Seam and RichFaces). With JBoss Portlet Bridge, Java developers can get their JSF web application running in a portal environment quickly without worrying about the underlying portlet development, portlet concepts, or the API.

– Portlet tools – In addition to the release of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, Red Hat will be including a new set of portlet plug-ins and wizards in the upcoming release of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0. These new plug-ins will make it easier to create and deploy portlets for both standard JSR-286 and Portlet Bridge-based portlets.

Designed to support a broad range of composite applications, from small departmental-focused mashups to enterprise-class site presences, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform can deliver the benefits of a no-license-fee-platform combined with a flexible and scalable underlying platform. Additionally, the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform delivers high-value features at a fraction of the cost of proprietary solutions and, without a large number of dependencies, portal applications can be deployed quickly, improving time to value.

Red Hat, the world’s leading open source solutions provider, is headquartered in Raleigh, NC with over 65 offices spanning the globe. CIOs ranked Red Hat as one of the top vendors delivering value in Enterprise Software for five consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value survey. Red Hat provides high-quality, affordable technology with its operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, including JBoss Enterprise Middleware. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to its customers worldwide.

To learn more, please visit: www.redhat.com.

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