JBoss Group Joins Java Community Process

Reinforces Commitment to Industry Standards and Innovation

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003--JBoss Group LLC, provider of the most popular Java-based application server, today announced that it has joined the Java Community Process (JCP(SM)). The move will enable all JBoss Group developers to directly contribute to the body that determines the specifications governing the advancement of Java technology. With developers across North and South America, Europe and Australia, JBoss Group is the premier provider of expertise and comprehensive services for the Java-based, open source JBoss(R) application server and Tomcat servlet engine.

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"As part of the JCP, JBoss Group employees look forward to sharing our ideas, recommendations and technology," said Bill Burke, chief architect, JBoss Group. "With the most recent version of JBoss, we feel that we introduced innovative services for working with plain Java objects, particularly in the areas of persistence, tracking changes and dependencies among objects, caching and transaction demarcation. We believe that we have substantial value to contribute to the group and that we, as an organization, will also benefit from the perspective and experience of its members."

"The JCP welcomes JBoss Group to its midst," said Rob Gingell, chair of the Java Community Process. "This step demonstrates that JBoss Group shares the common interest that underlies the community in the advancement of compatible Java implementations and I believe that the JBoss Group will be an active, important contributor to the evolution of the Java technology."

About the Java Community Process

Since its introduction in 1995 as the open, inclusive process to develop and revise Java technology specifications, reference implementations, and technology compatibility kits, the Java Community Process program has fostered the evolution of the Java platform in cooperation with the international Java developer community. The JCP has over 650 company and individual participants; more than 190 Java technology specifications are in development in the JCP program out of which 46% are in final stages. For more information on the JCP program, please visit http://jcp.org.

About JBoss Group

JBoss is an open source, standards-compliant, Java-based application server. With an average of 250,000 downloads per month, JBoss is the most downloaded Java-based application server in the industry. JBoss can be embedded in commercial products and is being used in production around the world. JBoss Group LLC is an Atlanta-based professional services company, created by Marc Fleury, founder and lead developer of the JBoss application server. JBoss Group brings together core JBoss developers to provide services such as training, support, consulting and documentation, as well as management of the JBoss software affiliate program. These commercial activities subsidize the development of the free JBoss server. For more information, please see www.jboss.org. For more information on JBoss Group, please see http://www.jbossgroup.com.

JBoss is a registered trademark of Marc Fleury. Java and JCP are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the United States and other countries.