The Eclipse Foundation is expected to announce on March 23 the first release of Swordfish, a next-generation enterprise service bus that provides the flexibility and extensibility required by enterprises to successfully deploy a service-oriented architecture strategy. 

Swordfish is based on the OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative) standard and builds upon successful open-source projects, including Eclipse Equinox and Apache ServiceMix. OSGi will play a major role at this year's EclipseCon, according to officials from the Eclipse Foundation and other vendors announcing new technology at the conference.

“Last year we announced a strategy to provide open-source run-time technology based on Equinox and OSGi,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive  director of the Eclipse Foundation, in a statement. “The first release of Swordfish is a great example of the progress that is being made to develop our run-time technology portfolio. Over the next year I expect we will see more interesting run-time technology built at Eclipse.”

Swordfish is based on real-world SOA deployment experience and knowledge, Eclipse officials said.  It provides the features and extensible framework required by enterprises and system integrators to customize their ESB to meet the specific needs of an enterprise.

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