We're pleased to announce the general availability of JBossESB 4.0. As you can see, there have been some significant updates to this release since the first Beta Release late last year. Some of these updates haven't been to the feature set of the ESB, but to improving the out-of-the-box experience. which is very important too.

• We now have a lot of quick start examples, each one aimed at illustrating a particular way of using or developing on the ESB.
• There are some on-line tutorials, covering various aspects of the transformation engine and associated console.
• Amongst (S)FTP, email, SQL, file and other transports, we support JMS in various flavours, including JBossMQ and MQSeries. We'll be adding support for JBoss Messaging as soon as that is released later this month.
• The documentation suite has been updated based on feedback from the community.

We've in increased the size of the development community over the past few months and we're hoping that the user community will follow. This has been a community effort, but it's only the first steps towards our final goal. Don't forget, if you have any questions on using JBossESB then post them to the User Forum. Likewise, we're always happy to receive design questions or suggestions from the community. If you want to join our developer list, then email me.