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JNBRIDGE RELEASES NEW VERSION OF ITS JMS ADAPTERS FOR BIZTALK AND FOR .NET

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:56:04 +0000

JNBRIDGE RELEASES NEW VERSION OF ITS JMS ADAPTERS FOR BIZTALK AND FOR .NET

BOULDER, Colo., December 6, 2010 - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of interoperability tools that connect the Java and .NET frameworks, has released a new version 2.1 of its JMS Adapters for .NET and for BizTalk Server. JNBridge's JMS Adapters enable enterprises to quickly and easily connect JMS infrastructures with BizTalk Server or other .NET applications, resulting in lower costs and reduced deployment times. The latest releases incorporate several customer-driven requests, including fault-tolerant connections and support for ISO 8859-15 encoding of XML documents.

The JNBridge JMS Adapters enable enterprises to integrate any existing JMS (Java Message Service) infrastructure with BizTalk Server or with Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications. 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.

"As one of the requestors, we are eagerly awaiting these important new features in the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server," said Ralf Quebbemann, technology consultant at Ulla Popken GmbH. "The adapter has already greatly simplified the complex task of integrating BizTalk with our existing JMS infrastructure for all three JMS implementations - WebSphere, SonicMQ and GlassFish - and eliminated what would otherwise have been a potentially long and costly development effort. We rely on JNBridge -- we couldn't have done this ourselves."

Version 2.1 of the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server adds:

Fault-tolerant connections for JMS Server shutdown scenarios. This feature provides the ability to configure specific behaviors for send and receive locations when the JMS server is explicitly brought down. Locations can be configured to either disable or periodically attempt to reconnect to the JMS server.
Support for ISO 8859-15 encoding. Used almost exclusively in Europe, ISO 8895-15 is a single byte encoding that includes the Euro currency character.
Ability to add a unique identifier to a receive location. This allows multiple receive locations to access the same JMS queue or topic providing a mechanism to support concurrent message consumption using JMS message selectors.
New configuration documents for SonicMQ and GlassFish/OpenMQ.
Improved logging and error reporting.

Version 2.1 of the JMS Adapter for .NET adds:

Support for .NET 4.0.
Support for version 2.0 of Microsoft's WCF Line-of-Business adapter framework providing support for Visual Studio 2010.
Support for Microsoft's Azure AppFabric API, allowing .NET client endpoints running in the cloud to consume and produce JMS messages from JMS servers on the ground
Extended configuration and tuning documentation.

Both adapters are now:
• Built on top of JNBridgePro 5.1, which adds support for .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

"This particular set of new features demonstrates how crucial the adapters have become to some of our enterprise customers' business processes," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "It's a real pleasure to help our customers successfully implement interoperability in these kinds of situations and contexts where before it just wasn't practical or feasible."

Availability
Version 2.1 of the JMS Adapters for BizTalk Server and for .NET are available for immediate download on (www.jnbridge.com/downloads.htm), and can be purchased directly from JNBridge. 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. 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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BENEFITFOCUS USES JNBRIDGE JMS ADAPTER FOR BIZTALK SERVER TO STREAMLINE INCOMING DATA INTO BIZTALK INFRASTRUCTURE

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:11:52 +0000

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk enables Benefitfocus to integrate Java messages with BizTalk without the cost, risk and time-to-deploy associated with an open source or internally developed solution

BOULDER, Colo., March 29, 2010 - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of Java and .NET Framework interoperability tools, has provided Benefitfocus® (www.benefitfocus.com), the largest healthcare benefits software provider in the United States, with the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. Benefitfocus is using the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server to integrate incoming Java Message Service (JMS)-based carrier data into its BizTalk Server infrastructure without the cost, risk and time-to-deploy associated with an open source or internally developed solution.

"We had a strong need to integrate Java and .NET applications via our BizTalk infrastructure. The JNBridge adapter did exactly what it said it would do, right out of the box," said Don Taylor, chief technology officer for Benefitfocus. "We went from downloading the evaluation copy into full production in just 45 days."

A leader in providing Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for the healthcare industry, Benefitfocus provides employers, health carriers and consumers a single Web-based platform for benefit shopping, enrollment, management and industry standard data exchange. With an emphasis on simplifying or eliminating paper processes, Benefitfocus offers a wealth of Web solutions on the Benefitfocus PlatformTM, including Benefitfocus eBilling^TM for easy-to-use, secure online payments.

To merge different software systems and build applications that deliver highly effective business processes, Benefitfocus utilizes Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 for its back-end enterprise application infrastructure. In the process of building out its integration infrastructure, Benefitfocus needed a way for BizTalk to communicate reliably with its electronic enrollment tool, eEnrollment. Integrating Java-based eEnrollment made BizTalk critical in the customer onboarding process.

Java enterprise applications traditionally use JMS (Java Message Service), a standard messaging API that enables distributed communications and allows application components to create, send, receive and process messages. Software architects at Benefitfocus wanted the enrollment application to publish messages to a JMS queue, but they needed a dependable way for BizTalk to consume messages and support Java and .NET communications. Benefitfocus only had two months remaining in its software release cycle to complete this significant integration task.

When Benefitfocus' developers started looking at how to integrate BizTalk and JMS, they discovered open source code that could help them construct the needed solution. They began to build the open source code in a test environment, but soon hit a series of show-stopping bugs. "Because of time constraints, we had to reject the open source approach," explained Taylor. "The documentation was spotty, there was no formal support, and we faced the task of debugging the code ourselves within an extremely short project window."

"The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server encapsulates JMS client capabilities into a standard BizTalk adapter," explained Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "We have designed the adapter to be easily configured as endpoints that are specifically bound to send and receive ports, allowing a BizTalk orchestration to produce and consume messages to and from JMS queues and topics. We are committed to making our solutions flexible and easily adaptable to work with any JMS implementation."

Based on proven success in deploying the online enrollment solution with the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server, Benefitfocus now uses the adapter to streamline other application integration tasks.

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

About JNBridge
JNBridge is the industry's leading provider of interoperability software that connects Java and .NET framework-based components applications together with simple-to-use tools and adapters that remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability and generate high performance communications. The company's core product, JNBridgePro, and its JMS adapters for .NET and for BizTalk Server are uniquely designed to enable enterprises to quickly and easily integrate between heterogeneous infrastructures. JNBridge was founded in 2001 in Boulder, Colorado as a privately held company and boasts more than 400 customers in 40 countries. Customers include leading Fortune 500 companies and organizations in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. For more information, please visit (www.jnbridge.com).

About Benefitfocus
Benefitfocus is the largest healthcare and voluntary benefits software provider in the U.S. with 10,069,669 consumers, 326,787 employers, 57,454 brokers and 2,932 carrier representatives live on the Benefitfocus Platform^TM. Benefitfocus offers a single Web-based platform for benefit shopping, enrollment, management and industry standard data exchange. Benefitfocus - All Your Benefits. One Place. www.benefitfocus.com.
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JNBridge Releases Two New JMS Adapters for Microsoft .NET Framework and Biztalk Server

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:58:00 +0000

New adapters allow developers to quickly and easily integrate a JMS infrastructure with any .NET Framework application or BizTalk Server

BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 30, 2007 - JNBridge, LLC today announced the release of two new first-to-market JMS adapters: The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET and the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. The new adapters provide a streamlined and automated method to connect JMS (Java Messaging Service) capabilities to Microsoft .NET Framework applications and BizTalk Server to accelerate the delivery of new software products and services to the enterprise.

"As customers use the .NET Framework and BizTalk Server as a foundation for their enterprise information systems, interoperability is a key requirement," explained Dino Chiesa, Director of Marketing for the .NET Platform at Microsoft. "These new JMS adapters from JNBridge allow customers that already have Java-based messaging systems to connect to those systems from .NET and BizTalk programs. Interoperability between .NET or BizTalk applications and JMS systems just got a whole lot easier."

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET integrates any vendor's JMS implementation directly with a .NET Framework application. This adapter is the first commercially-available JMS adapter that relies on Microsoft's new WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) Line-of-Business adapter technology, allowing it to work with any custom .NET Framework application or any Microsoft program that can consume a WCF endpoint.

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server provides enterprises with a fast and easy way to connect JMS capabilities with Microsoft's BizTalk Server 2006 or its newly released BizTalk Server 2006 R2.

Both the JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET and the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server use a simple interface that hides the complexities of building a JMS client. The JMS adapters require no changes to existing JMS enterprise servers and are compatible with any vendor's JMS server. Both adapters utilize the technologies in JNBridgePro, JNBridge's flagship Java and .NET interoperability product. The BizTalk adapter supports .NET Framework 2.0 and above, the .NET adapter supports .NET 3.0, and in the future JNBridge plans to support .NET 3.5.

"For years, our JNBridgePro customers have asked for an easy way to allow .NET Framework or BizTalk Server applications to send and receive messages from JMS servers," explained Wayne Citrin, CTO at JNBridge. "Now, with our new JMS adapters for the .NET Framework and BizTalk Server, they have a streamlined and automatic way to ensure complete and immediate interoperability. Users don't need to have detailed knowledge of both JMS programming and adapter construction to use the JMS Adapter for .NET or the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. We have fully automated the process for them in one single step."

Both adapters are available immediately and full-featured evaluation copies can be downloaded by visiting www.jnbridge.com

About JNBridge
JNBridge connects Java and .NET based components and applications together with interoperability tools 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 grown to hundreds of customers and tens of thousands of users worldwide. Organizations using JNBridge products range from Global 500 enterprises to ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and consulting shops, solving Java and .NET interoperability issues in a tremendous variety of applications. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

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