Borland Software Corp., the Scotts Valley, Calif.-based provider of e-business platform solutions, and Sonic Software, a provider of e-business messaging (EBM) software, Tuesday announced an agreement to deliver messaging functionality for Borland customers.

Borland will integrate SonicMQ 3.5, the Java Messaging Service (JMS), with the next release of Borland AppServer. Appserver is an application server that provides infrastructure to ebusiness platforms supporting a mixed Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and CORBA framework.

Borland says that integrating SonicMQ, a widely used JMS implementation will provide AppServer customers with Java messaging functionality in a single installation. "With SonicMQ we get more than just JMS, we get Sun certified J2EE compatibility that will scale to meet the transactional needs of our customers," says Alan Shoap, vice president and general manager of the enterprise solutions for Borland. He also hopes customers will gain faster time-to-market while lowering total costs of ownership.

Greg O'Connor, president of Sonic Software says: "The combination of SonicMQ and Borland's AppServer offers customers a clear path to support the forthcoming J2EE standard, and a secure, reliable way to exchange information between enterprise applications." He says the partnership with Borland, a software developer since 1983, shows its commitment to bringing its Java-based technology to today's extended enterprise.

Sonic Software Corp. is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corp. headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Its EBM software is used by corporations across the e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy industries.