Special Features:
GRID MARKETS ADOPT SUN'S JINI
TECHNOLOGY
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced that Jini technology is being successfully
applied to help solve the dynamic networking problems of customers in a wide
range of emerging and evolving markets. Heartlab, Templar, Valaran, Cysive,
and the FETISH Federation are some of the businesses currently using Jini
technology to create dynamic networking systems. An example is the Federated
European Tourism Information Service Harmonization (FETISH) organization using
Jini technology to transform a disparate, fragmented travel market spanning an
entire continent into an accessible online community of travel service
providers. Another example is Templar Corporation using Jini technology to
integrate new data sources into a shared information system used by law
enforcement, without needing to bring the system down or interrupt services to
clients.
Sun Microsystems, the Jini Community and the larger community of Java
technology vendors and users work together to provide the "dynamic" style of
network computing, one of many different styles of Java technology-based
network computing available to Java technology developers. This unique style
of Java network computing is also being successfully integrated with other
Java network computing styles, including Java Web Services. Dynamic networking
refers to a distributed system's ability to continue to operate while
automatically accommodating changes.
"Jini technology is a compelling part of the larger Java ecosystem," said
Mark
Bauhaus, vice president, Java Web Services for Sun Microsystems. "Java
developers can use Jini technology in conjunction with other popular
development styles to create dynamic network computing systems that enable
customers to get to market quickly as well as to deploy and manage new or
modified services with no interruption to clients. Sun's strategic focus on
innovative technologies like Jini technology helps open new markets by
successfully addressing these dynamic networking challenges."
In addition, Jini technology is being used by early adopters in emerging
markets that include mobile computing, grid computing, telematics, and
industrial automation. These customers use Jini technology to help them manage
difficult to control operating environments, as well as exploit the
unpredictable nature of those environments as a valuable asset.
The FETISH project applies Jini technology within a Java Web Service
framework
to link existing travel services offered by different providers and built on
disparate platforms throughout Europe.
"Our architecture dramatically cuts down on administration load by acting
as
a
self-contained, decentralized network that continuously adapts to new
standards, new services and fluctuating network availability," said Andrea
Nicolai, CEO of T6 and project coordinator of FETISH. "It also has self-
healing capabilities -- if a software component failed, it would be able to
recover itself and continue running."
Templar Corporation is also using Jini technology to provide key
differentiating value in its Informant product. Deployed today by law
enforcement and public safety customers in California, Virginia, Florida,
Oregon, and South Carolina, Informant allows cross-jurisdictional information
sharing and provides the solution framework for a much broader data-sharing
system.
"Jini technology provides multiple advantages to us," said Dr. Robert
Shore,
Chief Scientist at Templar. "First, we realize significant competitive value
from our ability to easily add any new data source into a running Informant
system without needing to bring the system down or interrupting service to the
clients who are using it at the time. Second, Jini technology makes it
possible for us to integrate widely diverse data sets quite easily, even
though individual data sources may use unique data table formats, query
language, data access privileges, and the like."
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at sun.com/.
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