We were at this week’s RedHat Summit/JBoss World show in Chicago to announce that the SecureSpan line is now fully certified against the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform. We’ve seen increasing use of JBoss in our engagements, so this endorsement is important for both Layer 7 and RedHat. We’re huge fans of open source technologies here at Layer 7, and it’s great to be more closely aligned with JBoss.
How Does it Work?
Here’s a very common deployment scenario, showing a SecureSpan Gateway in the DMZ, providing edge-of-the-network governance for JBoss Enterprise SOA platforms:
Of course, this isn’t restricted to hardware appliances. Every product in the SecureSpan line can be deployed as:
- Hardware
- Software on various OS platforms
- Virtual Appliances for VMWare, Xen, or cloud providers like Amazon.
These options offer architects a lot of flexibility in how they deploy JBoss servers in combination with SecureSpan. It’s not uncommon for developers to run virtual images of both JBoss and SecureSpan on their laptops. The policies they develop in this environment can be transferred to production systems regardless of the target form factor.
Policy migration is made easy using regular import functions built into SecureSpan, or–if the application network is more complex–using our Enterprise Manager product. The later has advanced mapping features for automagically correcting policy attributes like IP address, or switching over to production LDAP systems instead of development. This is something that’s often overlooked (and I can tell you from experience that it’s a very difficult problem to solve well); but it’s an essential part of SOA policy management.
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