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JBoss, Inc.                                       Schwartz Communications
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nathalie.fleury@jboss.com                         jboss@schwartz-pr.com



            JBoss Initiates Effort to Standardize Web Beans
 Borland, Google, Oracle and Sun Microsystems Add Support to Effort to Standardize a Unified
                         Component Model Across EJB 3.0 and JSF

JAVAONE (BOOTH 768), SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 16, 2006--JBoss®, Inc., the
Professional Open Source company, today announced plans to submit to the Java Community
ProcessSM (JCPSM) Program a proposal to standardize Web Beans. The Web Beans standard
initiative will aim to bridge the artificial gap between Enterprise JavaBeansTM (EJBTM) 3.0 and
JavaServerTM Faces in the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5) architecture. The
result would be a simpler, more elegant, unified programming model for web development.

Borland, Google, Oracle and Sun Microsystems will bring their support and expertise with web
frameworks to the standardization effort. The proposed standard will draw upon principles found
today in JBoss Seam, Oracle® Application Development Framework (ADF) and Apache
StrutsShale. JBoss Seam introduced a uniform component model for building web applications
through declarative, contextual, application state management. Oracle ADF promotes the use of a
metadata-driven architecture that enables developers to cleanly separate business service
implementation details from the user interface. Apache StrutsShale offers a set of fine-grained
services that can be combined as needed, rather than a monolithic request processor.

Gavin King, architect at JBoss, plans to lead the standardization effort. King, who founded the
popular Hibernate® project and is currently leading the development of JBoss Seam, commented:
"The overwhelmingly positive response to Seam from the developer community convinced us
that this is an idea whose time has come and one that should be brought back into the standards
process for the benefit of the entire Java community. JBoss' end goal is the same as these
companies supporting this initiative: To create a highly productive, accelerated development
environment and enable richer web applications."

Linda DeMichiel, EJB 3.0 spec lead, Sun Microsystems, added: "Sun is pleased to see JBoss
leading this effort to make the Java EE platform easier to use. This kind of innovation and multi-
vendor initiative is critical to moving Java forward and maintaining its position as an enterprise
standard. We look forward to working with Gavin and his peers from Borland, Google and Oracle
to make this happen."




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"This Web Beans specification effort has the potential to both shorten and simplify the
development cycle for web applications," said Ted Farrell, chief architect and vice president,
tools and middleware, Oracle. "Oracle is committed to driving standards and we're pleased to
contribute our application development and Java technical expertise to the Web Beans initiative."

About the Java Community Process
Since its launch in 1998 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 1000 company and individual
participants; more than 290 Java technology specifications are in development in the JCP
program out of which 45% are in final stages. For more information, on the JCP program, please
visit http://jcp.org.

About JBoss, Inc.
JBoss, Inc., the global leader in open source middleware, offers simply the better way to
transform businesses through a service-oriented architecture (SOA). As the leading open source
platform for SOA, JEMS (JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite) delivers proven performance in
mission-critical environments and is backed by world-class support and service--all at a
dramatically lower cost structure than proprietary systems. Fortune 500 companies such as
Continental Airlines, MCI and Starwood Hotels & Resorts rely on Professional Open Source
from JBoss, Inc. Certified partners offering JEMS and JBoss Subscriptions include Dell, HP,
NEC, Novell, Sun Microsystems and Unisys. For more information, visit www.jboss.com.

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