MindTouch today announced the release of MindTouch 2009, "extending the development platform's collaboration capabilities through a bidirectional message bus," according to InfoWorld's Paul Krill. "With the bus, push-based e-mail notifications can be sent. MindTouch is an open source platform for building enterprise collaborative applications and communities. It offers a development paradigm for composite applications to connect teams, applications, and systems."

"MindTouch is now positioning itself as a development platform for 'Rich Internet Applications' with this release: developers are able to more efficiently develop and deploy collaborative applications for business automation, which are highly needed in today's distributed, heterogeneous environment," notes ZDNet's Oliver Marks. "This is achieved by taking advantage of the new integration between DekiScript (MindTouch's scripting language) and JavaScript, enabled by utilizing the JEM (JavaScript with Events and Messages) technology. (JEM is an augmented JavaScript with event coordination and message passing that creates a rich user experience similar to desktop applications)."

More here from ZDNet ... and the press release is here.