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PLUMTREE SOFTWARE TO LAUNCH J2EE
VERSION OF PORTAL SOFTWARE
Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software unveiled plans to offer a Java
Platform, 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) version of its portal software by the
middle of 2004, designed to run within a broad range of Java application
servers hosted on UNIX, and later, Linux operating systems. Plumtree plans to
continue developing the .NET version of its portal alongside this new J2EE
version, as part of a Radical Openness strategy to open the Enterprise Web to
every major application server, security system, content repository,
development environment and operating system. A new white paper on the
Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0J is available to the public at
www.plumtree.com/03/5.0J/.
Plumtree customers are supportive of Plumtree's coming Java technologies
product. "Chartered welcomes the Plumtree Corporate Portal 5.0J, including the
portal's greater compliance to the J2EE open development standards," said Roy
Kannan, chief information officer at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing,
one of the world's top three dedicated semiconductor foundries. "At Chartered,
our business model gives flexibility and openness to our customers in their
selection of manufacturing solutions and design services through our
third-party alliances. We applaud Plumtree's strategy of providing a scalable
Web platform and giving users the flexibility to grow their worldwide portals
on different types of application servers."
"'Radical Openness' is our strategy to be the first enterprise software
company not just to support .NET or Java technologies, but to live within both
worlds," said Plumtree CEO John Kunze. "Beyond the planned 5.0J release of the
portal, we want to be the first Enterprise Web vendor to outline a vision of
software completely permeable to the applications developed by customers and
third parties, in which all the components of the Enterprise Web can be
embedded in any application, and any Web application can be delivered and
managed within the Enterprise Web."
"This strategy also calls on us to systematically build on all the
repositories, productivity tools, security systems and databases in an
organization by offering new integration points across not just the portal,
but our entire suite," Kunze continued. "Giving customers cross-platform
deployment options with a J2EE product is just the first step. Radical
Openness is nothing less than a re-imagination of how software is built for
the Web which is the only environment sufficiently open and flexible to
accommodate all the dynamics of heterogeneity and change across the
enterprise."
"We applaud Plumtree's commitment to the Java community, Web services and
radical openness," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Java Web Services for
Sun Microsystems Inc. "That level of flexibility, choice and performance is
key to the combined value of Plumtree's software in conjunction with Sun's
Java Enterprise System."
Plumtree Commitment To J2EE And Radical Openness
Plumtree began its support of Java technology three years ago when the
company
released its first set of integration products based on Java code. For the
last two years, Plumtree has offered a UNIX portal with a Java Servlet user
interface and a Java programming interface. The Plumtree UNIX portal is
currently deployed to customers such as Chartered and Zimmer Holdings.
The 5.0J version of the portal software is expected to have the same
features,
functionality and server architecture as the 5.0 Windows product but will have
a re-designed Java kernel, and will use many J2EE components and
specifications including JDBC for access to multiple databases, JMX for
management and monitoring of the portal server, JNDI for naming and directory
services, and JNI for JVM communication. In addition, both J2EE and .NET
versions of the portal are designed to support the new Java portlet standard
JSR 168.
The 5.0J portal design draws extensively on the J2EE application server,
but uses the same HTTP-based Web Services Architecture as the Windows portal
for communicating with other systems and the same parallel processing
technology for communicating with a large number of Web services
simultaneously. This Web Services Architecture helps ensure compatibility with
all other components of the Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite, including
Java-based Collaboration and Content Servers, and Plumtree's integration Web
services and development tools. Plumtree expects customers may run the 5.0
Windows and 5.0J versions of the portal within the same deployment, as the two
are being designed to work together.
With the anticipated releases of the 5.0J version of the portal, Plumtree
plans to test application and Web servers including Apache Tomcat, BEA
WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Sun Java System Application Server, running on Sun
Solaris and IBM AIX operating systems. Plumtree currently plans to offer Linux
support later in 2004.
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