The European Open Source Business Foundation (OSBF) this week introduced the Internet Service Bus (ISB), a platform that leverages service-oriented architecture (SOA) for cloud computing and creates a bridge between the Java and .NET worlds.

"The secret sauce that blends the Java and .NET worlds is the Internet service bus, or ISB, which allows corporate and third-party developers to access online applications as a service through an integrated Web-based application," writes InformationWeek's Ed Scannell. "With the ISB, developers can get at and use existing, battle-tested code to build applications that can commute back and forth between Java and .NET worlds."

The OSBF's Interoperability project development consortium includes 1&1, CORISECIO, Microsoft, Open-Xchange and Sopera.

"Java and .NET are the predominant platforms for enterprise applications today - as they will be for cloud computing too," says Sopera managing Dr. Ricco Deutscher. "The key to the native integration of these two worlds is the ISB."

More here from The H Open Source ... and the press release is here.