Red Hat updates JBoss services

automated decision-making to business rules, while tapping into a broader range of data sources to inform decision-making, V3.co.uk reports.

The changes are applicable to JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.2 and JBoss enterprise data services platform 5.2, which gains additional data source support and the ability to choose different business process languages.

JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.2 empowers customers to streamline and improve operations with automated, real-time, rules-based decisions, Market Watch says. Active decision-making that is “situationally aware” takes into account conditions that influence how rules execute, in order to improve the quality and speed of the response. When integrated with JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5.2, JBoss Enterprise BRMS 5.2 presents business rules, integrated via an ESB, to a wide range of applications, services and business processes.

ServerWatch quotes Pierre Fricke, director of SOA product line management at Red Hat, as saying: "In our enterprises we have lots of data scattered about, so information about a customer may be in a relational database, with other pieces in a CRM application. If you want to get a holistic view of a customer, for an application to use, you got to connect all the different data sources and rationalise all of it."

The data services platform is a solution for that data scattering problem, and provides data in a way that applications can make use of. The 5.2 release adds new data sources, including Terradata and IBM Netezza data warehouse formats, in addition to providing support for JSON data sources.