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This paper is about a service bus, a really simple one. What we will describe is a service bus based on RSS, or Really Simple Syndication: a simple protocol for disseminating news on the Internet which has been especially successful in the blogging world. RSS is a basic structure, or protocol for producing information feeds, usually consisting of news headlines. Many people will say that there is nothing enterprise about RSS, and indeed it is often assumed that RSS is too simple to be useful for anything but news.

The Petals services platform extends ObjectWeb ESB initiative with a JBI container as a core element to build standard based integration solutions. Built on top of Celtix, the project adopts a highly distributed integration approach, in which many JBI containers running on different Java Virtual Machines achieve location transparency via a JMS based transport layer.

PETALS is an open source software development project dedicated to deliver ObjectWeb JavaTM Business Integration (JBI) platform, providing lightweight and packaged integration solutions, based on JSR-208 specifications, with a high focus on distribution and clustering.