Continuing its pursuit of enterprise IT shops, JBoss is releasing on Tuesday JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2, which offers a single package of three of the company's open source middleware technologies. Featured in the platform are JBoss Application Server 4.2, Hibernate 2.4, for object--relational mapping, and Seam 1.2, a application development framework for building enterprise Java applications. Use Continuing its pursuit of enterprise IT shops, JBoss is releasing on Tuesday JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 4.2, which offers a single package of three of the company’s open source middleware technologies.Featured in the platform are JBoss Application Server 4.2, Hibernate 2.4, for object–relational mapping, and Seam 1.2, a application development framework for building enterprise Java applications. Users get updates and patches to the three products, eliminating the guesswork for customers, said Ram Venkataraman, JBoss’s director of product management. “They’re all packaged together and integrated together, so the customer has the out-of-the-box experience of actually installing one product,” Venkataraman said. JBoss sells subscriptions to Enterprise Application Platform, which feature support. A Standard Subscription, featuring one year of 12-hours-by-five-days-a-week support, costs $4,500 for a four-CPU configuration.Other packages planned for release by JBoss later this year include JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform, featuring the Enterprise Application and JBoss Portal 2.6 and shipping this quarter, and SOA Platform, with Enterprise Application Platform plus JBoss ESB (enterprise service bus) JBoss jBPM (business process management) and JBoss Rules. The SOA package is due in the fourth quarter of 2007. Technology Industry