JSR 208 (Java Business Integration) is a harmless and quite useful specification which was approved recently. Guess,
who abstained from voting: IBM and BEA. JBI standard threatens to commoditize the integration space (at least in the Java world) which is great for all the integration-consumers, but obviously isn't for the vendors. There are already many open-source projects that are in the works, including the currently popular
ServiceMix. I think JBI will be widely adopted over time, with or without IBM and BEA.
