KaanBaan have released a beta version of their XML-Broker transaction server for XML.

KaanBaan describes XML-Broker as "the first XML transaction server based on J2EE and EJB". Its features include:

• EJB 2.0 conformant, providing standard transaction management, resource sharing and an EJB compliant container
• security using open standards including SSL and X.509 digital certificates
• synchronous / asynchronous transactions
• fault tolerance, dynamic load balancing
• component caching
• web based administration

The 1.0beta is available for download from KaanBaan's site.

XML-Broker also includes a development environment.