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February 29, 2012
JAVA & .NET INTEROPERABILITY LEADER JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES FIRST LAB — SSH ADAPTER THAT INTEGRATES BIZTALK SERVER WITH CROSS-PLATFORM CLOUDS
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 — 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 company’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 Apple’s Mac OS X.
“We expect developers will find these labs useful in addressing problems they encounter in their regular work,” explained Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. “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.”
With JNBridge’s SSH Adapter for BizTalk Server, users can securely control files on Linux machines from BizTalk Server, for example, Amazon EC2 cloud files. “While this lab uses SSH in the context of BizTalk Server, it’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,” Citrin added.
JNBridge’s interoperability adapters and software have received numerous accolades over the company’s past 10 years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Reader’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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Contact information:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
February 13, 2012
3D PDF CONSORTIUM TO HOLD ANNUAL MEETING AT COLLABORATION & INTEROPERABILITY CONGRESS
Key Industry Group Joins Popular Industry Forum
Loveland, CO – February 13, 2012 – Longview Advisors, organizers of the annual 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress (3DCIC – www.3dcic.com), today announced the 3D PDF Consortium will hold its first annual meeting in conjunction with the 3DCIC on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The 3DCIC is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability in product design, development and manufacturing. The 3D PDF Consortium also is sponsoring the popular industry forum.
“3DCIC is a natural fit for our annual meeting,” says David Opsahl, the Consortium executive director. “The Congress focuses on end user experiences across any industry, and how users are meeting their objectives by leveraging product data assets in ways that generate real return on investment. This is very appealing to our members. They gain valuable insights on innovative ways their manufacturing colleagues are addressing some of the same challenges they themselves face.”
The 3D PDF Consortium is a community of companies interested in collaboration of dynamic 3D data through PDF files. Software providers, systems integrators, government agencies, and businesses that provide and consume 3D data solutions look to the 3D PDF Consortium to demonstrate the success of these solutions within the market and promote 3D PDF as a solution to improve business results. The 3D PDF Consortium promotes 3D PDF adoption through demonstrating best practices and generating awareness of the power of 3D-enabled PDF to solve a multitude of communication and collaboration challenges across various industries.
For more information on the 3D PDF Consortium, please visit: (www.3DPDFConsortium.org).
About 3DCIC
The 3D Collaboration & Interoperability Congress is dedicated to fostering and improving collaboration and interoperability in product design, development and manufacturing. Now in its ninth year, the annual Congress is the only vendor- and product-neutral event in the world addressing collaboration and interoperability in manufacturing and business communications. The international event has grown into an essential forum for executives, managers, senior engineers, and IT professionals to network, learn and strategize with thought leaders from automotive, aerospace and many other manufacturing industries, as well as with representatives from government and defense communities.
Visit the website (www.3dcic.com) to find out more about the event, and for free access to presentations and audios from past events.
About Longview Advisors
Longview Advisors Inc. provides consulting services in the business, technology and application of 3D software in product lifecycle management. For more information, please visit: (www.longviewadvisors.com), or the Longview advisors blog: (www.3Dubiquity.com).
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EDITORIAL CONTACTS:
For 3D PDF Consortium:
Mark Guthrie
Smart2Market
mark.guthrie@3dpdfconsortium.org
For Longview Advisors/3DCIC:
Terri Douglas
Catapult PR-IR
303-581-7760, ext. 18
January 31, 2012
JNBRIDGE CELEBRATES TEN YEARS OF JAVA & .NET INTEROPERABILITY
Company to commemorate milestone with year-long series of events and activities
BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 31, 2012 — 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 world’s foremost companies as customers: including financial services, insurance, telecom, media, government, healthcare and manufacturing industries. To celebrate the company’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.
“The past 10 years have been an incredible journey for our company and customers,” said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. “The interest and demand for our Java .NET interoperability solutions continues to increase, and we’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.”
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. JNBridge’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.
JNBridge’s interoperability adapters and software have received numerous accolades over the years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor, Reader’s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine, and Best of Tech-Ed finalist.
“Microsoft values the relationships it has cultivated throughout the years with partners like JNBridge,” said Tom Lindeman, Director of the Visual Studio Industry Partner program at Microsoft. “The technology of connecting .NET to other platforms allows us to extend our reach and remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability.”
For more information on the company’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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Contact information:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
September 26, 2011
JNBRIDGE ENABLES GLOBAL REINSURANCE FIRM SWISS RE TO ELIMINATE REDEVELOPMENT OF CORE ANALYTICS API
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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Contact information:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
May 26, 2011
JNBRIDGE DELIVERS JAVA AND MICROSOFT .NET INTEGRATION FOR THE CLOUD WITH LAUNCH OF JNBRIDGEPRO 6.0
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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Contact information:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
May 23, 2011
JNBRIDGE CTO WAYNE CITRIN TO DISCUSS CLOUD COMPUTING INTEROPERABILITY AT GLUECON 2011
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
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
December 16, 2010
JNBRIDGE PREDICTS INTEROPERABILITY WILL BECOME LYNCHPIN FOR CLOUD TECHNOLOGY SUCCESS IN 2011 AND BEYOND
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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Contact information:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
Tags: .net
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December 6, 2010
JNBRIDGE RELEASES NEW VERSION OF ITS JMS ADAPTERS FOR BIZTALK AND FOR .NET
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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Contact information:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com
September 15, 2010
JNBRIDGE COMPANY EXPERTS TO SPEAK ON INTEROPERABILITY ISSUES IN THE CLOUD AT JAVAONE 2010
JNBRIDGE COMPANY EXPERTS TO SPEAK ON INTEROPERABILITY ISSUES IN THE CLOUD AT JAVAONE 2010
Citrin and Heinzman to provide road map toward implementing true interoperability between Java and .NET
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.
William Heinzman
Senior Software Engineer
JNBridge
(www.jnbridge.com)
Heinzman has more than 20 years of experience developing manufacturing test, distributed job scheduling and IT software products. He currently develops interoperability solutions between Java EE and .NET. Heinzman has a degree in Geophysics and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
What: Unconference: “Interoperability Issues in the Cloud”
Cloud technologies are supposed to be “interoperable,” as they generally are based on Web services and supposedly adhere to standards. Most cloud vendors tout their support for interoperability: both Cloud-to-Cloud and within a single cloud platform.
However, despite the promise, there are real problems in actually getting cloud interoperability to work, either Cloud-to-Cloud (e.g. between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services) or within a single cloud platform (e.g. running Java on Windows Azure).
In this “unconference” discussion, Citrin and Heinzman will lead participants in discussing where current cloud interoperability falls short, exploring what true cloud interoperability should be, and examining how to resolve cloud interoperability issues. Participants will be given the means to develop a road map toward implementing true interoperability now and in the future, as cloud technology matures.
“Bridging Transactions from Java EE to .NET”
Cross-platform transactions between enterprise Java and .NET should be easy, right? After all, both platforms have implemented the same specification. How hard can it be? This session will attempt to answer that question by providing an in-depth look at distributed transactions, including implementations in enterprise Java and .NET. Technologies that provide cross-platform transactions will be demoed providing a look at code from examples using WS-AT/WS-Coor and direct bridging using a shared-memory JVM-to-CLR implementation. In addition, the session will discuss performance benchmarking, “gotchas,” tips and tricks and the move towards eXtreme Transaction Processing and what that means for current Java EE and .NET based technologies.
Location: JavaOne
Unconference: “Interoperability Issues in the Cloud”
Hotel Parc 55 – Lombard Room
55 Cyril Magnin Street, San Francisco CA 94102
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
1 p.m. (Pacific)
“Bridging Transactions from Java EE to .NET”
Hilton San Francisco – Continental Parlor 1/2/3
333 O’Farrell Street, San Francisco CA 94102
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
2:15 p.m. (Pacific)
Contact: For more information on JNBridge or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin or Bill Heinzman please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).
March 5, 2010
CAMBRIDGESOFT UTILIZES JNBRIDGE’S INTEROP TECHNOLOGY TO PROTECT MULTINATIONAL DRUG COMPANY’S INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
CambridgeSoft uses JNBridgePro to simplify the complex task of Java and .NET interoperability
BOULDER, Colo., March 3, 2010 – JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of Java and .NET Framework-based interoperability tools, enabled developers at CambridgeSoft Corporation (www.cambridgesoft.com) to easily integrate Java-based digital signature APIs into their .NET-based electronic lab notebook product. CambridgeSoft supplies discovery, collaboration, and knowledge enterprise solutions, desktop software, scientific databases and consulting services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical industries.
Using JNBridgePro, developers at CambridgeSoft now are easily able to integrate third-party Java-based digital signature technology into the .NET infrastructure of E-Notebook – CambridgeSoft’s electronic lab notebook software – to quickly meet business and compliance requirements of a major pharmaceutical customer.
“It takes an incredible amount of work to solve such a complex interoperability problem,” said Alfred Nehme, director of application development at CambridgeSoft. “JNBridgePro provided a level of Java and .NET integration that otherwise would have been very difficult and time-consuming to do ourselves.”
Protecting intellectual property (IP) and adhering to government regulations are crucial requirements for organizations engaged in biotechnology, drug discovery and chemical research. To comply with record keeping requirements in laboratory notes, CambridgeSoft implements digital signature and efficient archiving capabilities in its E-Notebook product. Using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technology, E-Notebook can embed digital signatures and timestamps, creating a reliable electronic record that cannot be falsified.
Recently a major multinational pharmaceutical customer wanted to use CambridgeSoft’s E-Notebook, but required a different Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for digital signatures. The customer needed their chemists to sign experiments related to drug development using the same third-party, Java-based digital signature infrastructure that was already deployed in other parts of the company. To deliver this functionality, CambridgeSoft needed to integrate the required Java PKI API with E-Notebook, which is based on a .NET architecture. CambridgeSoft used JNBridgePro to simplify the interoperability between Java and .NET, allowing E-Notebook to call the Java APIs from .NET and thus fulfill their customer’s requirements.
CambridgeSoft project leaders now are easily able to embed the needed Java digital signature APIs rapidly into the E-Notebook application. JNBridgePro includes proxy generation plug-ins for Eclipse and Visual Studio IDEs, as well as an intuitive standalone GUI. Using the GUI, CambridgeSoft developers created proxies for the Java APIs that simplified access to the needed Java classes.
“JNBridgePro enables developers to mix and match technologies between Java and .NET,” said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. “Customers appreciate the ability to retain their current investments while building applications that incorporate best-of-breed components from both platforms.”
For more information on JNBridge Pro or JNBridge JMS Adapters for .NET and BizTalk 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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