 |
|
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
|
Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
Sun Launches Comprehensive SOA Initiative
Sun Microsystems Inc, the creator and leading advocate of Java technology,
announced Project Kitty Hawk, a new initiative encompassing expanded
service-oriented architecture (SOA)-enabling capabilities in Sun products
including the Sun Java Enterprise System and Sun Java Studio Enterprise
developer tools, as well as a new SOA Readiness Assessment offering from Sun
Services.
Project Kitty Hawk is designed to enable a new breed of enterprise software
built around Java technology-based Web services, incorporating an SOA
programming model and an open, extensible architecture. Elements of Project
Kitty Hawk are currently scheduled to be phased into the Java Enterprise
System and Java Studio Enterprise developer environment over the next two
years, with initial deliveries targeted for the first half of 2005.
"Sun currently provides customers with one of the industry's best Java Web
services products and technologies to develop and deploy secure, reliable and
interoperable Web services," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Java Web
Services at Sun. "Now, through Project Kitty Hawk, Sun will give flight to the
industry's most practical service-oriented architecture tools and
infrastructure products."
Project Kitty Hawk Vision
Leveraging Project Kitty Hawk, Java Enterprise System is envisioned to greatly
simplify the administration, management, security and provisioning of services
by making it possible to expose core SOA capabilities as a collection of
reusable services. For example, IT organizations building SOA applications
will have the ability to use a Java Enterprise System-based registry service
to provide centralized control of services versioning, services metadata
management, and services registration and lookup, streamlining operations and
enabling global services administration.
Using the shared services model and federation approach projected to be
enabled by Project Kitty Hawk, IT organizations will be enabled to work with
an enterprise-wide view of their services infrastructure. At the same time,
Project Kitty Hawk will enable finer control in administering service-level
agreements, security policies, and identity and user management across the
organization.
Project Kitty Hawk will also feature next-generation business integration
infrastructure, which Sun refers to as Java Business Integration. Sun and its
partners plan to deliver this infrastructure, along with its partners, based
on Java Business Integration standards. Java Business Integration, based on
Java Specification Request (JSR) 208, is a Sun-led industry effort to extend
the Java platform to provide new standardized integration capabilities built
on a modern SOA architecture. Currently, there are 24 active members in the
Expert Group for JSR-208 in addition to Sun, including BEA Systems, Collaxa,
Oracle, SAP AG, SeeBeyond Technology Corp, Sonic Software, Sybase Inc, TIBCO
Software and webMethods Inc.
Implementations based on Java Business Integration will help to provide IT
organizations with higher levels of portability and reuse of integration
technologies not achievable with current integration products. Java Business
Integration components such as business process engines, rules engines, and
routing and transformation engines from multiple vendors can be easily
combined in a single solution, reducing the cost of application integration
and enabling best-of-breed solutions.
Additional capabilities planned for Project Kitty Hawk include Java Studio
tools that enable Service Oriented Development of Applications (SODA) for
deployment to the secure technologies in Project Kitty Hawk planned for the
Java Enterprise System. These development environments include:
- Java Studio Enterprise, the newest version expected in July, a
collaborative development tool for rapid modeling, visualization, and secure
implementation of patterns-based, service-driven components for the Java
Enterprise System.
- Java Studio Creator, an easy-to-use tool for visual design and development
of Web-tier applications, now available from Sun.
- A visual Web services designer that will enable visual design-to-test
lifecycle development of asynchronous, distributed and conversational Web
services, with exceptional speed and ease-of-use, to be made available to
subscribers of the Sun Developer Network.
Sun Services SOA Readiness Assessment
The Sun Software Services SOA Readiness Assessment program included in Project
Kitty Hawk announced today and available immediately involves four primary
activities:
- Discovery -- Through interviews and document collection, Sun helps
customers fully map and understand their existing business and technology
strategies, methodologies, processes, infrastructure, and EAI and B2B
architectures as a means of preparing for the transition to an SOA approach.
- Analysis -- This activity compares existing state evidence to Sun SOA
guidelines to determine best practices and gaps.
- Working Sessions -- Sun will work with the customer to conduct architecture
working sessions to explain findings, answer questions and help define a
phased approach to implementing tactical and strategic recommendations.
- Findings -- Sun Services will deliver to key customer stakeholders a formal
SOA Readiness Assessment report, including both tactical and strategic
recommendations for migration to an SOA.
Integrating SOAs with Existing Architectures
Today, Sun achieves interoperability with existing applications and services
in part through product compliance with industry standards such as WS-I Basic
Profile and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Additionally, customers can
utilize adapters based on Web services and Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) Connector Architecture standards to efficiently connect their
enterprise applications and legacy systems. Through Sun's reseller agreement
with iWay Software, also announced today, customers will be able to purchase
iWay adapters for numerous third-party IT applications directly from Sun.
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 http://sun.com/ .
|