XYBASE LAUNCHES VERSION 3.0 OF ITS EAI MIDDLEWARE, XYBASE MESSAGE BROKER (XMB)

By Fariha Mohd Yusoff

Kuala Lumpur, May 23rd 2002 - XYBASE today launched the XYBASE Message Broker (XMB) Version 3.0, a product of our continuous R&D efforts to enable small to large organisations to implement Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) in a cost-effective manner. 

Business today is no longer defined by what it does centrally but includes activities across many locations and business units. Fast, reliable and accurate information are vital to many organisations operating in the global economy in order for them to gain competitive edge or simply to increase efficiency. Disparate systems need to work together easily, seamlessly and immediately to obtain vital information for planning and decision-making. The XYBASE Message Broker allows disparate systems to communicate with one another and share critical business information, hence enabling organisations to produce quality and meaningful information fast where it is needed.

XMB also enables businesses to adapt to different systems that have multiple or different operating systems transferring real-time information between each other with ease without any costly reengineering processes. Also, the business will have the freedom to choose new best-of-breed systems to suit its needs and implement it without restricting business growth.

XMB is developed on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platform and thus provides highly scalable and robust architecture. It runs on and supports systems running on different platform (hardware, operating systems, application servers, and databases).

Among the projects, on-going or completed, which use XMB are the integration-based projects such as EG-AG's Jabatan Akauntan Negara (JAN)'s System And the Electronic Government Applications (e-Government), Universiti Putra Malaysia's Integrated Human Resource Payroll System Project, Boston Logan International Airport's Integrated Gate Management System And Flight Information Display System and Ataturk Airport Terminal in Istanbul, Turkey.

"We have incorporated many new features to enhance its performance such as synchronous messaging, priority-based routing and also support for SMTP and SOAP protocols," said Roslan Amir, the Chief Technology Officer for XYBASE who is responsible for developing XMB.