Date: Mar. 12, 2001
Link: http://developer.interbind.com/
Source Author or Organization: Interbind, Inc.

Interbind, Inc. has just added HTTP 1.1 and SOAP support to its Interbind XML Messaging Server (IBX). The Server is primarily designed for XML messaging between nodes in a Peer-To-Peer network. It's a collection of Java classes for sending, receiving, routing and transforming network messages. It uses an XML-based data format, and supports Interbind's IBX message format and the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communications protocols. A SOAP messaging module is in development, and support for HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is planned. The architecture is extensible and developers can also add their own modules. One intended audience is developers requiring lower level control than Java Message Service (JMS) provides, and a JMS interface on top of the Interbind XML Messaging Server is planned for a later release.

Interbind's XML Messaging Server requires a version 1.2 or later Java virtual machine, an XML parser which supports (or separate parsers for) the Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple Application Programming Interface for XML 2.0 (SAX2). Secure communications additionally requires Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) 1.02 or later and Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) 1.2.1 or later. Complilng source code for the Interbind XML Messaging Server requires Java 2 SDK Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.2 or later with the SAX2 and DOM classes for your parser.

The developer site includes tutorials, sample applications, technical resources, an API Reference Guide, a support forum, and a Technical Preview area where developers can view and comment upon new modules and features in development. The XML Messaging Server source code is downloadable from the site, and the software license is free for noncommercial uses, including evaluation, demos and development by commercial organizations as well as for personal and educational use.