announcement: Jbi4Cics available

[rs...@imolinfo.it]

I'm pleased to announce that the first release of Jbi4Cics is available at
http://jbi4cics.sourceforge.net/

Jbi4Cics is a JBI compliant Binding Component. It allows to map a CICS ECI
service as an internal JBI endpoint. This is simply done by deploying into a
JBI ESB a service unit containing the CICS ECI service's copy cobol, no coding
is required. Having an internal JBI endpoint opens a wide spectrum of
possibilities because the endpoint can partecipate to the message streams and
the orchestrations that take place inside the ESB. For example the endpoint
could be externally exposed as a SOAP/HTTP Webservice.

This release provide the following features:

support for string, binary packed decimal and zoned decimal
support for nested copy structures and fixed length occurs
support for synchronous CICS ECI calls.

I'm really interested in any kind of feedback so please don't esitate to post
any comments

To servicemix crew: I'd be honored if Jbi4Cics could be mentioned in the third
party components section.

Thanks
Raffaele