Industry Leadership

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An insatiable demand from enterprises to cut costs is a significant factor in the increased enterprise adoption of Professional Open Source. But the tremendous success and popularity of JEMS technology is also due to a continued commitment to innovation and industry leadership. This leadership can be witnessed through JBoss' involvement in strategic industry and standards committees, and through awards and recognition.

Awards

» JBoss was shortlisted in the category "Business Supplier of the Year" in The Computing Awards 2006. September 2006.

» The readers of Eclipse Magazin selected JBoss Eclipse IDE as the Best Eclipse-based Open Source Project. July 2006.

» JBoss once again topped the Application Server category in the annual SD Times 100. In selecting JBoss, the editors of SD Times commented, "Always at the front end of emerging technologies, JBoss continues to be the one to watch for its app server innovations." This year's list also saw the debut of JBoss in the Business Process Management category. June 1, 2006.

» Forbes names JBoss one of their Forbes.com Best of the Web award winners in the B2B category. November 7, 2005.

» JBoss Application Server topped the list as the most popular J2EE platform (38%) and Hibernate ranked as the second most widely used Web framework (51%) in the OnJava 2005 Readers Survey. September 21, 2005.

» Software Development Magazine JOLT! Awards recognize Hibernate 2.1, Apache Jakarta Tomcat and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss. March 16, 2005.

» JBoss named top deployment platform in annual SD Times 100 list. May 19, 2004.

» TAG (Technology Association of Georgia) Top 50 Most Innovative Companies, 2005

» Red Herring 100, 2004

» JOLT! Award Winner – Hibernate in Libraries, Frameworks and Components category, 2004

» Java World Editor’s Choice Winner – JBoss AS – 2002

Driving Standards: Committees & Memberships

» JBoss elected to the Executive Committee of the Java Community Process. November 22, 2004. JBoss represented by Sacha Labourey.

» Free Standards Group, JBoss represented by Pierre Fricke.

» SPEC Java Subcommittee, Clebert Suconic and Ryan Campbell.

» JSR 77, J2EE Management Specification, Marc Fleury.

» JSR 107, Jcache, Bela Ban.

» JSR 154, Java Servlet 2, Remy Maucherat.

» JSR 160, Java Management Extensions (JMX) Remote API, Tom Elrod, Juha Lindfors.

» JSR 170, Content Repository for Java Technology API, Remy Maucherat.

» JSR 198, A Standard Extension API for Integrated Development Environments, Max Andersen.

» JSR 207 Expert Group, Process Definition for Java, Tom Baeyens.

» JSR 208 Expert Group, Java Business Integration, Tom Baeyens.

» JSR 220, EJB 3.0 Spec Committee, Gavin King, Bill Burke, Marc Fleury.

» JSR 240, JAIN SLEE 1.1, Ivelin Ivanov.

» JSR 244, JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5), Scott M. Stark.

» JSR 250, Common Annotations for the Java Platform, Gavin King.

» JSR 252, Java Server Faces 1.2 spec, Stan Silvert.

» JSR 255, Java Management Extensions (JMX) 2.0, Greg Hinkle, Emmanuel Bernard, Adrian Brock, Tom Elrod, and Scott M. Stark.

» JSR 270, J2SE 6.0, Scott M. Stark.

» JSR 273, Design-Time API for JavaBeansTM JBDT, Max Andersen.

» JSR 276, Design-Time Metadata for JavaServer Faces Components, Stan Silvert.

» JSR 277, Java Module System, Adrian Brock.

» JSR 283, Content Repository for Java^TM Technology API Version 2.0, Julien Viet.

» JSR 284, Resource Consumption Management API, Dimitris Andreadis.

» JSR 299, Web Beans, proposed and led by JBoss with Gavin King as spec lead.

» JSR xxx, Servlet API 3.0, Remy Maucherat.

Other Open Source Software Projects

» Apache Cocoon (Emeritius), Andy Oliver.

» Apache Jakarta Commons, Brian Stansberry and Mladen Turk.

» Apache Jakarta POI (founder), Andy Oliver.

» Apache Jakarta Tomcat Connectors, Mladen Turk.

» Apache Juddi, Anil Saldhana.

» Apache Lucene (Emeritius), Andy Oliver.

» Apache HTTPD, Mladen Turk.

» Apache MyFaces, Stan Silvert.

» Apache Portable Runtime (APR), Mladen Turk.

» Apache Scout, Anil Saldhana.

» Apache Tapestry (sponsoring member), Andy Oliver.

» Apache Tomcat, Remy Maucherat and Mladen Turk.