CA brings SOA security to JBoss

CA is extending its Web access security technology to include support for Web applications and Web services hosted on JBoss Enterprise Middleware, reports ebizQ.

CA SiteMinder and CA SOA Security Manager offer organisations secure access management for Web applications and services deployed on JBoss Enterprise Middleware, including JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, and JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform.

"Open source middleware adoption is growing and more organisations are deploying their mission-critical applications on JBoss Enterprise Middleware," says Stephen Hess, senior director of product management, middleware, Red Hat.

Red Hat has revealed an initiative under development for application deployment, database scaling, and storage that meets the distributed needs cloud infrastructures demand, reports Datamation.

With application platforms in cloud computing, Red Hat is developing the BoxGrinder project. Jboss' Bob McWhirter explains that one of the goals of BoxGrinder is to make it easy to grind out server configurations for a variety of virtualisation fabrics.

Currently BoxGrinder is able to build Fedora-based software appliances for the cloud, though McWhirter noted that the plan for the future is to be able to build appliances based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Beehive, an Apache Software Foundation open source project providing a Java programming model, has been retired due to inactivity, reports SFGate.

Based on the former BEA Weblogic Workshop development tool runtime, Beehive was built on J2EE and the Struts Java Web framework with the focus on using annotations to reduce coding.

"It's a project that had been at Apache for several years," says Eddie O'Neil, project management committee chair for the Beehive project. "Over time, the rate of contributions to the project declined, and it just slowed down and we didn't do any more releases of it.” The project has been moved to The Apache Attic, where discontinued projects go.