Fiorano Software, provider of business integration and middleware solutions, launched the first Component Gallery to speed the delivery of modular business solutions in a world of distributed computing.

“Just as the Apple Itunes service allows users to create their own music albums by simply clicking a button to aggregate songs on an iPod, the Fiorano Component gallery allows business analysts to assemble ready-to-deploy business solutions using standards-based coarse-grained software Components with XML interfaces”, said Atul Saini, President and CEO of Fiorano.

The initial rollout of the gallery contains several useful components including connectors to databases, files, sophisticated XSLT transformers, HTTP sources, Web-Services, various flow components and middleware bridges. Experience with multiple complex production deployments indicates that over 75% of most common business processes can be deployed ‘out of the box’, without programmer intervention.

Components in the gallery use the JCA (Java Connector Architecture) and JMS (Java Message Service) interfaces, allowing any programmer worldwide to contribute to the gallery. Fiorano has a certification program in place to control the quality of released components. Components in the gallery can be developed in a variety of supported languages, including Java, C, C++, C# and all .NET languages including Visual Basic.

Said Saini, “The Fiorano Component gallery allows business-analysts with no programming experience to simply snap together components, apply a few relevant transformations and deploy the resulting business process across an enterprise network grid. This approach represents the Industry’s first move towards the true democratization of business process management”.