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JAVA & .NET INTEROPERABILITY LEADER JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES FIRST LAB — SSH ADAPTER THAT INTEGRATES BIZTALK SERVER WITH CROSS-PLATFORM CLOUDS

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:33:45 +0000

Company provides specific use case scenarios and source code to show developers how they can connect technologies that have been otherwise difficult, if not impossible, to join

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 29, 2012 â�� JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), a leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks both on the ground and in the cloud, today announced the introduction of JNBridge Labs, a series of newly developed interoperability kits designed to help developers address new ways of connecting disparate technologies both on the ground and in the cloud. The labs will be distributed freely, announced on the companyâ��s blog (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/blog/), with pointers to documentation and links to source code. The first lab offered is a new adapter for BizTalk Server that uses SSH (Secure Shell) to enable BizTalk Servers to manipulate remote files securely. For example, Microsoft provides a file adapter Software Development Kit (SDK) for the BizTalk Server, but it does not support secure communications. This new SSH Adapter enables secure manipulation, which is particularly important when files are sitting in the cloud and being accessed over the public Internet. SSH is a network protocol for secure network services between networked computers that it connects via a secure channel over an insecure network. It can be used for many applications across many platforms, including UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Appleâ��s Mac OS X. â��We expect developers will find these labs useful in addressing problems they encounter in their regular work,â�� explained Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��It also provides a way for developers to interact and share best practices and experiences with one another by testing out new ways of overcoming the significant challenges they face related to interoperability.â�� With JNBridgeâ��s SSH Adapter for BizTalk Server, users can securely control files on Linux machines from BizTalk Server, for example, Amazon EC2 cloud files. â��While this lab uses SSH in the context of BizTalk Server, itâ��s important to note that the ability to access and manipulate files securely over a network using SSH is equally compelling from general .NET applications, not just from BizTalk Server, so a similar strategy will allow users to use best-of-breed Java SSH libraries from any .NET application,â�� Citrin added. JNBridgeâ��s interoperability adapters and software have received numerous accolades over the companyâ��s past 10 years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Readerâ��s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine, and Best of Tech-Ed 2009. JNBridge expects to offer several more labs throughout the course of the year. The SSH Lab is available now and can be downloaded at (www.jnbridge.com/labs). About JNBridge JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Celebrating 10 years, JNBridge counts 25 percent of the Fortune 100 as its customers. The company has more than 490 unique customers in 40 countries that use its award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit (www.jnbridge.com) for more information.

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JNBRIDGE CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF JAVA & .NET INTEROPERABILITY

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:51:52 +0000

Company to commemorate milestone with year-long series of events and activities

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 31, 2012 â�� JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), a leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, today announced the 10-year anniversary of the company. Since 2002, JNBridge has grown from a start-up providing support for accessing Java classes from .NET to an award-winning interoperability tool provider for customers ranging in size from small independent software vendors to large global enterprises. JNBridge boasts some of the worldâ��s foremost companies as customers: including financial services, insurance, telecom, media, government, healthcare and manufacturing industries. To celebrate the companyâ��s 10-year milestone it will be looking both backwards and forwards: showcasing some of its current customer applications and inviting the developer community to create and share new use cases that incorporate new technologies, both in the cloud and on the ground. â��The past 10 years have been an incredible journey for our company and customers,â�� said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��The interest and demand for our Java .NET interoperability solutions continues to increase, and weâ��re continually amazed by the breadth of applications our customers incorporate our tools into. As we look ahead, we will continue to explore and provide technologies that address the evolving needs of developers in emerging industries.â�� Citrin co-founded the company in 2001 along with partner and COO Deborah Arhelger, back when .NET was still in beta. The company has achieved year-over-year growth without any outside investors. JNBridgeâ��s focus on providing rich, high performance, and simple-to-use interoperability tools has earned the company industry recognition and helped to build an impressive list of clients, including Adobe, Pfizer, Barclays, HBO, Boeing and GE. JNBridgeâ��s interoperability adapters and software have received numerous accolades over the years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Readerâ��s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine, and Best of Tech-Ed finalist. â��Microsoft values the relationships it has cultivated throughout the years with partners like JNBridge,â�� said Tom Lindeman, Director of the Visual Studio Industry Partner program at Microsoft. â��The technology of connecting .NET to other platforms allows us to extend our reach and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability.â�� For more information on the companyâ��s planned events and activities to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, please visit (www.jnbridge.com). About JNBridge JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Celebrating 10years, JNBridge counts 25 percent of the Fortune 100 as its customers. The company has more than 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use its award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit (www.jnbridge.com) for more information.

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JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES LATEST RELEASE OF JMS ADAPTERS FOR .NET AND BIZTALK SERVERS

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:58:03 +0000

Version 3.0 of the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server adds support for JMS Map Messages

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 7, 2011 â�� JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connects the Java and .NET Frameworks, today announced the release of Version 3.0 of its JMS Adapters, which enables developers to access JMS (Java Messaging Service) directly from BizTalk Server or from their .NET-based applications. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server V3.0 adds support for JMS Map Messages, automatically converting received map messages to XML documents based on user provided schemas. The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET adds full support for Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Line-of-Business (LOB) SDK. Both adapters also have expanded licensing options, including support for virtual machines and annual licensing.

â��The new map messages interface especially is timely for our organization as it is vital in our environment to ensure we can seamlessly integrate our enterprise service bus and our existing application assets,â�� said Richard Townsend, director of information systems at Farm Bureau Financial Services. â��JNBridgeâ��s adapters filled the void our enterprise had when we were looking to access JMS directly from BizTalk Server,â�� said Townsend.

The JNBridge JMS Adapters enable enterprises to integrate any existing JMS (Java Message Service) infrastructure with BizTalk Server or with Microsoft .NET Framework-based desktop applications, server solutions and cloud deployments.

With the adapters, customers are able to quickly configure transports and integrate applications, simplifying the complexity and therefore allowing development teams to reduce risk and focus on automating other businesses processes.

â��This latest release of the adapters is another step forward in our vision of interoperability, allowing users to deploy interoperable solutions anywhere,â�� said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��The latest version of each adapter allows enterprises to purchase and deploy according to their business needs: from conventional perpetual machine-based licensing to annual licenses on virtual machines, or even to instances in the cloud.â��

Availability

Version 3.0 of the JMS Adapters for .NET and for BizTalk Server are available today. To download and purchase directly please visit: (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm). For more information on JNBridge, please visit (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridgeâ��s award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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JNBRIDGE ENABLES GLOBAL REINSURANCE FIRM SWISS RE TO ELIMINATE REDEVELOPMENT OF CORE ANALYTICS API

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:33:51 +0000

SwissRe able to shorten development times, improve localization and gain consistent business results

BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 26, 2011- JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, and Swiss Re, (www.swissre.com) one of the world's largest and most diversified reinsurers, together are now enabling actuaries all over the world to incorporate a common numerical analysis Java API in their local market Excel-based applications in order to eliminate the need for local code reinvention and duplication.

"Giving actuaries working in local markets access to key functions from their VBA/.NET environments has changed the way they develop applications," said Johannes M. Hug, Ph.D. director of information technology at Swiss Re. "Without the need to reinvent critical code, they now can focus on integrating local market conditions for even more accurate analysis."

Insurance underwriting relies on complex analysis to make critical business decisions - including reviewing financials, valuing potential losses and mitigating risk. At Swiss Re, these analyses are performed by actuaries who chart and analyze probabilistic data using a proprietary library containing hundreds of classes of numerical and business functions that capture reinsurance knowledge and perform key computations.

Prior to seeking out JNBridgePro, Swiss Re had spent considerable resources in developing the Swiss Re Actuarial Library (SAL), its proprietary Java-based API that contains rich numerical analysis functionality. SAL is readily available to actuaries working on corporate enterprise applications at the home office but it was not accessible to actuaries in local markets thus resulting in actuaries continuing to reinvent the wheel by writing their own logic, investing time and effort to create and test more limited function sets.

"A great deal of business knowledge is embedded in the API - cost models, internal overhead and profit margin calculations and critical numerical and business functionality - content local users might not think to create," said Thomas Kruppa, director of products at Swiss Re. "Yet the API cannot address every market or rapidly changing local conditions. Local markets have unique characteristics that our Java-based enterprise library does not address. That is why many of Swiss Re's actuaries develop standalone Microsoft Excel applications that are tailored to local markets."

JNBridgePro is an interoperability bridge between Java and .NET that simplifies the issue of cross-platform integration. Using JNBridgePro, SwissRe was able to:

Integrate the solution quickly with a simple deployment: JNBridgePro quickly made SAL available to users. Dr. Hug estimates it took only a few weeks to validate the proxied Java API and distribute it directly to each user's desktop.
Gain consistent, repeatable results without reinventing code. By exposing the Java API, VBA/.NET developers can take advantage of an extensively tested, common code base to ensure greater numerical accuracy and eliminate errors. Users no longer need to code functions in Visual Basic or C+ and test them to ensure they return the same answer with the same precision as those provided by SAL. The result is centralized numerical and business intelligence that can be accessed by all actuaries to deliver consistent and repeatable results.
Develop local applications faster. Access to powerful routines lets users take advantage of sophisticated functionality that is unavailable when creating code from scratch. As a result, actuaries can spend their valuable time developing market-specific logic and build localized solutions faster.

For more information on JNBridgePro or JNBridge's JMS Adapters for Java and .NET. please visit: (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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JNBRIDGE DELIVERS JAVA AND MICROSOFT .NET INTEGRATION FOR THE CLOUD WITH LAUNCH OF JNBRIDGEPRO 6.0

Thu, 26 May 2011 00:57:08 +0000

JNBridgePro 6.0 addresses interoperability between major cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure

BOULDER, Colo., May 25, 2011 (Glue Conference Booth # 11) - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, announced today the release of JNBridgePro 6.0, which enables developers to access both .NET-based and Java-based cloud services and APIs from ground or cloud-based clients written in the other platform, and to develop cloud-based services and APIs that incorporate both Java and .NET-based components.

"As enterprise development teams start including cloud technologies in their applications, incompatible cloud platforms and APIs will be a huge road block," said Michael Cote, analyst at RedMonk. "We're already seeing a clamoring for tools and services that integrate this spaghetti bowl of end-points, and they're only going to become more important to realizing the benefits of cloud development."

JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with simple-to-use Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridgePro 6.0 extends this interoperability to the cloud, allowing developers to build and distribute integrated applications anywhere, including:

Intra-cloud, where both platforms reside in the same cloud, either in the same or in different instances
Inter-cloud, where the instances belong to different clouds
Ground-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground, where the interoperability is between a cloud instance and an application running on the ground.

"JNBridge's vision of cloud interoperability is any object or API, on any platform, in any language, anywhere," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "JNBridgePro 6.0 will allow enterprises to build applications that access any API, or build rich APIs that are accessible to the other side, no matter where they reside, and whether or not they are services enabled."

Along with extending all the high-performance interoperability capabilities of JNBridgePro to the cloud, JNBridge has both simplified and extended the licensing options. Now a single edition, JNBridgePro 6.0 includes all the functions of the previous standard (JNBridgePro SE) and enterprise (JNBridgePro EE) editions. JNBridgePro 6.0 now offers an annual licensing option, in addition to perpetual, and supports licensing of virtual machines and cloud instances.

Availability

JNBridgePro 6.0 will be generally available on June 6, 2011. To download and purchase directly please visit (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm).For more information on JNBridge, please visit (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge

JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability, both in the cloud and on the ground. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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Christie Denniston

Catapult PR-IR

Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13

Cell: 303-827-5164

cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

JNBRIDGE CTO WAYNE CITRIN TO DISCUSS CLOUD COMPUTING INTEROPERABILITY AT GLUECON 2011

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:06:15 +0000

Citrin to present and demo how JNBridgePro 6.0 will enable developers to integrate Java with .NET code in the Cloud

Who: Wayne Citrin

CTO

JNBridge

(www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridgePro and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

What: Java/.NET Interoperability in the Cloud

Cloud computing is without question here to stay. However, how do IT organizations moving applications to the cloud integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications? At the GLUE Conference, Citrin will outline the level of support and various approaches developers can take to call Java from .NET in the cloud. Citrin will explain why he believes that what is typically discussed under the rubric of cloud interoperability is so insufficient it will destroy the promise of the cloud. For cloud computing to be successful 'Cloud Interoperability' must encompass full Cloud-to-Cloud access, whereby any cloud service can be consumed from any client or on-premise platform, and full interoperability within a cloud service. Citrin will conclude with an explanation of the approaches developers can take to make interoperability in the cloud successful. He will share use cases and tools that provide the ability to write cloud services using any platform, easily, simply and quickly, and regardless of the cloud vendor.

When: Wed., May 25, 2011

2-3 p.m. MTN

Where: GLUE Conference 2011

Omni Interlocken Spa and Resort

500 Interlocken Boulevard

Broomfield, CO 80021

Contact: For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:

Christie Denniston

Catapult PR-IR

303-581-7760, ext. 13

(cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

INTEROPERABILITY EXPERT SAYS WINDOWS AZURE STARTER KIT FOR JAVA DOESN’T ADDRESS THE ‘REAL WORLD PROBLEMS’ OF CLOUD DEVELOPERS

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:56:13 +0000

INTEROPERABILITY EXPERT SAYS WINDOWS AZURE STARTER KIT FOR JAVA DOESN'T ADDRESS THE 'REAL WORLD PROBLEMS' OF CLOUD DEVELOPERS

JNBridge's Wayne Citrin outlines a more practical approach for integrating Java with .NET code in the Cloud

Who:  Wayne Citrin
          CTO
          JNBridge
          (www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridge Pro and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

What: Java and the Azure Cloud
Microsoft has been promoting the use of Java in the Azure cloud, with the recent launch of "Windows Azure Starter Kit for Java." (http://preview.tinyurl.com/4hz2rp7). The intent of the new offering is to provide developers with tools for packaging and uploading Java-based web applications running on Tomcat or Jetty. However, the use cases for this offering are not realistic and, in some instances, "just don't work." The problem is that these examples are extremely constrained. While it may be possible to construct Java EE examples that work as demos, it is unlikely that any real Java EE apps, web-enabled or otherwise, can be migrated to the Azure cloud without drastic, impractical or even impossible, modifications to the underlying application servers in order to accommodate the networking issues.

Beyond technical issues in getting an app server to run on the Azure platform, developers need to ask why they would want to do this on a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), such as Azure, when it would be far simpler to run such an application on an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering such as Amazon EC2. It is one thing to say it can be done; it's another to actually want to do it, as opposed to the easier alternatives. The market seems to bear this out - a recent Forrester study shows that Eclipse (that is, Java) developers prefer Amazon EC2 or Google App Engine, while Visual Studio developers prefer Windows Azure.

Users will want to do things with Java on Azure, but not what the creators of the Azure Starter Kit for Java think they want to do. Rather than running a self-contained Java server in an Azure role, they will want to integrate their Java with the .NET code more directly supported by Azure.

How: The industry needs interoperability solutions for IT organizations that need to integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications running in the Cloud - especially as a high-performance alternative to existing web services protocols. Citrin outlines the level of support and approaches developers can take to call Java from .NET in the cloud.

To read Wayne Citrin's full blog post on this topic please visit: (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/blog/2011/04/26/java-in-the-azure-cloud/)

Contact: For more information or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin, please contact:
             Christie Denniston
             Catapult PR-IR
             303-581-7760, ext. 13
             (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:54:32 +0000

ESSENTIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS LICENSING AND BILLING, IN THE CLOUD WILL MAKE OR BREAK ISV SUCCESS

The new frontier of the Cloud hasn't been designed to accommodate software vendors who want their products to work in the cloud, says JNBridge's Wayne Citrin

WHO:  Wayne Citrin
          CTO
          JNBridge
          (www.jnbridge.com)

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridge Pro, and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zürich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

WHAT: ISVs and the Cloud

If you ask most people how software vendors can move into the cloud, they will say that the vendor should take their traditional products, put them in the cloud, and offer them as services. But what about other software vendors who create components that other developers incorporate into their own programs? In most cases, offering the component as a service doesn't make sense.

The main challenge to running components in Cloud-based programs has to do with essential issues, like licensing and billing. Windows Azure has absolutely no provision for third-party licensing and billing. It's a chicken-and-egg problem. If Microsoft is serious about its software partners producing for Azure (and not just end-user customers creating custom applications), Microsoft will have to jump-start the market by offering their own billing mechanism.
One would think that barriers to entry wouldn't be there, and that Cloud providers would do all they could to encourage software vendors to help settle this new frontier. Without a robust partner community for both Azure and Amazon Web Services, Cloud adoption will be that much slower for everyone.

HOW: The industry needs interoperability solutions for IT organizations that need to integrate Java and Microsoft .NET applications running in the Cloud - especially as a high-performance alternative to existing Web services protocols. The vision of Cloud interoperability should be any object, on any platform, in any language, anywhere, and at any time. Solutions such as this are needed because existing web services protocols are too slow for IT organizations trying to meet demanding service level agreements frequently associated with Cloud computing, Citrin says.

To read Wayne Citrin's full blog post on this topic please visit: (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/?p=277).

FAIRFAX IMAGING SELECTS JNBRIDGE PRO TO ACCELERATE JAVA INTEGRATION FOR .NET-BASED MAIL ORDER PHARMACY SOLUTION PROVIDER

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:12:18 +0000

FAIRFAX IMAGING SELECTS JNBRIDGE PRO TO ACCELERATE JAVA INTEGRATION FOR .NET-BASED MAIL ORDER PHARMACY SOLUTION PROVIDER

Fairfax Imaging solves the complex task of integrating Java and .NET systems to enable multiple on-time implementations

BOULDER, Colo., January 31, 2011 - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of Java and .NET Framework-based interoperability tools, has been selected by Fairfax Imaging (www.fairfaximaging.com), a leading provider of document and forms management solutions, to integrate its premier .NET-based software product, Quick Modules, with a third-party Java-based Pharmacy Benefits Management (PBM) system, to meet a customers rigid deployment schedule.

As a leader in forms and document processing, Fairfax Imaging is accustomed to integrating its NET-based software product into different customer environments. However, for a prospective client - a large mail-order pharmacy - its professional services team faced a new challenge: quickly deploy a fully integrated solution into the customer's Java-based enterprise within a matter of months.

Fairfax's Quick Modules is based on a pure .NET framework-based infrastructure, so the company employs a staff of developers with deep experience in Microsoft development tools. The mail-order pharmacy client, on the other hand, uses a third-party Java-based PBM system to track prescriptions, patient data and benefits information. To implement the Quick Modules software and provide the customer with a fully functional solution, Fairfax Imaging needed to integrate the PBM system's Java API with its .NET infrastructure -it needed an easy way to expose data from the client's Java-based system to the Quick Modules software stack.

Using proxy generation tools supplied with JNBridgePro, Fairfax Imaging's developers built proxy classes for the third-party Java API. The developers could then call the Java API via those proxies, incorporating them into the .NET code just as if they were native library calls. In this way, JNBridgePro streamlined an otherwise complex integration task and provided an easy way for Quick Modules to access the pharmacy customer's prescription, patient, and benefits information.

"JNBridgePro bridged the gap between our customer's Java platform and our .NET infrastructure in an efficient and seamless manner," said Donna Schmitz, director professional services for Fairfax Imaging. "JNBridge quickly solved the interoperability problem for us both quickly and cost-effectively, allowing us to integrate our product and deliver an implementation within an extremely tight project deadline for one of our valued customers."

JNBridgePro solved the problem of cross-platform interoperability for Fairfax Imaging, adding to the company's arsenal of integration capabilities. In addition, soon after the completion of this project, Fairfax Imaging subsequently used JNBridgePro to integrate Quick Modules successfully into another mail-order pharmacy client with the same Java-based PBM back-end.

"Today more than ever, cross interoperability between Java and .NET is critical to achieving and delivering successful software development products," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "Customers such as Fairfax Imaging appreciate JNBridgePro's ability to retain their current investments while building applications that incorporate best-of-breed components from both platforms."

For more information on JNBridgePro or JNBridge's JMS Adapters for .NET and BizTalk Server, please visit: (www.jnbridge.com).

About JNBridge
JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 450 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com

JNBRIDGE PREDICTS INTEROPERABILITY WILL BECOME LYNCHPIN FOR CLOUD TECHNOLOGY SUCCESS IN 2011 AND BEYOND

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:04:48 +0000

JNBRIDGE PREDICTS INTEROPERABILITY WILL BECOME LYNCHPIN FOR CLOUD TECHNOLOGY SUCCESS IN 2011 AND BEYOND

BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 15, 2010 - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the leading provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET Frameworks, today said interoperability will make or break cloud computing success in 2011 and beyond.

"We believe that what is typically discussed under the rubric of cloud interoperability is so insufficient it will destroy the promise of the cloud," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge and interoperability expert. "Our vision of cloud interoperability is one where applications and services can be developed in any technology and deployed to any cloud, where cloud services can be accessed by any other cloud service or from any client on the ground. In other words, any platform, anywhere. And until that exists, there will be severe limits on user adoption of cloud computing."

Citrin predicts the top three trends that enterprises should expect in 2011:

1. The realization among cloud users (if not also among cloud providers) that true cloud interoperability really doesn't yet exist - despite cloud vendors' claims to the contrary. There's an "emperor's new clothes" situation with regard to cloud interoperability. Despite what many vendors say, it just doesn't work. Citrin says this will become important in the coming year as users continue to adopt cloud platforms. Initially they will be migrating legacy applications to the cloud, since those applications will be immediately available. But the roadblocks that will come up, particularly with "platform as a service" offerings, may cause users to sour on cloud offerings and cause adoption to be delayed.

2. The introduction of tools and technologies to support interoperability - particularly, the ability to migrate legacy non-cloud applications into the cloud (regardless of the platform for which they were written, and regardless of the cloud platform to which they are being migrated), and the ability to access cloud services from clients running on any platform, regardless of the cloud platform upon which the service resides.

However, he cautions that it needs to be easy. "Customers want things to 'just work,'" Citrin said. "For interoperability to 'just work,' it either will need to be built into the cloud platform offerings themselves, or will need to be third-party cloud services that can just be plugged into directly. The more technically sophisticated customers who create their own cloud services from scratch will have no problem adopting conventional tool-based offerings, but other customers who want to wire their offerings together from best-of-breed services (that are available regardless of platform) will just want these offerings to work together - either right out of the box or through the addition of easy-to-use interoperability services. These customers are used to the idea of connecting services together, and they will be comfortable plugging in a service that allows interoperability."

3. Initial steps supporting the notion that interoperability can be a service, too, - as well as a conventional tool. Cloud services supporting interoperability will begin to be introduced, and will start gathering early adopters. However, Citrin says customers may be disappointed that the services they create will not be usable by up to half their potential market. If they write Java-based services, they will shut out .NET-based customers, and if they write .NET-based (Azure) services, they will shut out Java-based customers. Creators of cloud services may be disappointed by the adoption of their offerings, which again will slow the further roll-out of cloud services.

"Interoperability in the cloud is currently a real problem. Supporting real interoperability is critical to the success and survival of the cloud computing model, and right now it is a large stumbling block that prevents adoption," said Mark Driver, vice president of research at Gartner. "Initiatives that support cloud interoperability in its various aspects will benefit cloud users, vendors of cloud services, and vendors of the underlying cloud platforms."

Aside from interoperability, Citrin sees one other cloud trend in the coming year. "We will see greater support for the 'housekeeping' capabilities that will need to be part of any offering built on cloud platforms. Particularly, features like user access and feature control (also known as 'licensing') and metering/billing support. I suspect these will arrive in the form of service offerings themselves that can be plugged into the newly developed cloud offerings," he said. "However, without robust support for licensing and billing, software developed for cloud platforms won't be anything more than just a toy."

For more information on JNBridge and its family of interoperability solutions please visit: (www.jnbridge.com). To stay abreast of JNBridge's plans for the cloud, please visit (www.jnbridge.com/cloud).

About JNBridge
JNBridge connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with tools and adapters that are fast, simple to use and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridge is a privately-held company based in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 2001, JNBridge has over 400 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge's award-winning solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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