Open source solutions firm, Red Hat's JBoss releases Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, developed as an integrated and standards-based open source platform for hosting and portal based applications and rich web presences.

Craig Muzilla, Vice President of Red Hat's Middleware business remarked, "As a critical component of the Web 2.0 landscape, portals remain a low-cost gateway for facilitating collaboration, information sharing and interoperable processes. JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 includes an enterprise-class set of features required to support a wide range of portal use cases."

JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 maintains its focus on enterprise needs with improved server performance, high availability and clustering.

New features in JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 include:

• Compliance with JSR-286 specification - JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 fully supports the Portlet 2.0 (JSR-286) specification. This new standard facilitates a more dynamic user experience through improvements in portlet to portlet communication, caching support and handling of Ajax frameworks.
• JBoss Portlet Bridge - JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3 also introduces JBoss Portlet Bridge, an implementation of the JSR-301 specification, which supports JavaServer Faces (JSF) within a portlet and with added enhancements to support other web frameworks (such as Seam and RichFaces). With JBoss Portlet Bridge, Java developers can get their JSF web application running in a portal environment quickly without worrying about the underlying portlet development, portlet concepts, or the API.
• Portlet tools - In addition to the release of JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform 4.3, Red Hat will be including a new set of portlet plug-ins and wizards in the upcoming release of JBoss Developer Studio 2.0. These new plug-ins will allow the creation and deploymjent of portlets for both standard JSR-286 and Portlet Bridge-based portlets.

Designed to support a broad range of composite applications, from small departmental-focused mashups to enterprise-class site presences, JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform can deliver the benefits of a no-license-fee-platform combined with a flexible and scalable underlying platform.