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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO SHARE INSIGHTS INTO ALM AUTOMATION AND JAVA BUILD AND CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION AT JAVAONE 2011

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:07:19 +0000

Kersten to outline ALM Automation with Mylyn and Hudson, and moderate panel discussion on the Future of Java Build and Continuous Integration

WHO: Mik Kersten - CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com)

Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for developer productivity and tool integration and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization.

WHAT: "Future of Java Build and Continuous Integration"

Mon., Oct. 3, 2011, 11 a.m. Pacific in Hotel Nikko - Nikko Ballroom II/III

Not long ago, developers built and deployed Java applications with brittle scripts and builds invoked from developers' desktops. Given the complexity of today's applications and the shift of the deployment destination from data center to cloud, Java build is due for an overhaul. The increased roles of DevOps, Agile planning and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) are putting new requirements on the automation needed in the modern build stack, while the rapid adoption of Hudson is making clear the central role of Continuous Integration (CI) as the hub of a Java application development and deployment. This panel will debate approaches to modernizing the build, CI and ALM infrastructure to help scale the productivity of development teams and leverage the latest array of build, test and deployment solutions.

"ALM Automation with Mylyn and Hudson"

Tues., Oct. 4, 2011, noon - 1 p.m. Pacific in Parc 55 - Divisidero

With the shift to PaaS and a new breed of open source ALM tools, the deployment loop of enterprise apps is going through its biggest transition since the creation of Java. Kersten will explore connecting the enterprise Java stack to cloud deployment via task-focused continuous integration based on Hudson. Distributed version control systems, code review and Agile planning, based on the Eclipse Mylyn interoperability platform, can be used to create a new level of connectivity and automation between the team and the running application. This talk outlines a roadmap for transforming productivity by connecting developers' desktops to the release, and automating all the steps in between, from provisioning the IDE to monitoring the running application.

WHERE: JavaOne 2011 booth (#5004)

San Francisco, CA

INFO: Tasktop is exhibiting at JavaOne in booth #5004. For more information and to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

GORILLA LOGIC’S ERIC BRUNO TO DISCUSS USE OF JAVAFX ON WALL STREET AT JAVA ONE CONFERENCE

Bruno to share the planned expansion of JavaFX inside national bank and how it will enhance the user experience

WHO: Eric Bruno
Gorilla Logic

Senior Software Developer
(http://www.gorillalogic.com)

Eric Bruno is a senior software developer for Gorilla Logic, Inc., a leader in enterprise application development services and creators of open source test tools for mobile and rich Internet applications. His experience ranges from client/server and highly distributed development, to multi-tiered web and transactional and real-time software development.

WHAT: "JavaFX on Wall Street" (Session 24350)

This session will describe the work Bruno has been conducting at a leading national bank in New York City. Bruno will highlight his work with teams to build and deploy JavaFX components in an existing Java Swing application which is used by companies globally. Called Locus, this application is a key financial research and analytics application with a large user base, across a large set of financial markets. He will share how he has deployed JavaFX 1.3.1 successfully, and how the project is moving to JavaFX 2.0. He will describe how he integrated JavaFX into Swing, how it's driving increased Locus usage, and the future planned expansion of JavaFX inside the global bank.

WHERE: Java One

Hotel Nikko - Nikko Ballroom I

222 Mason Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-2115

WHEN: Mon., Oct. 3, 2011

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. (Pacific Time)

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with Eric Bruno, please contact:

Christie Denniston

Catapult PR-IR

303-581-7760, ext. 13

(cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com)

ULLA POPKEN USES JNBRIDGE JMS ADAPTER FOR BIZTALK SERVER TO INTEGRATE MULTIPLE JMS SERVERS WITH BIZTALK

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:35:11 +0000

ULLA POPKEN USES JNBRIDGE JMS ADAPTER FOR BIZTALK SERVER TO INTEGRATE MULTIPLE JMS SERVERS WITH BIZTALK

JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server allowed fashion retailer to quickly integrate disparate platforms and focus on automating business processes

BOULDER, Colo., September 20, 2010 - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of Java and .NET Framework-based interoperability tools, today announced that Ulla Popken GmbH (www.ullapopken.de), a German-based retail fashion supplier, selected JNBridge's JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server to integrate multiple existing JMS implementations with BizTalk. Since using the adapter, the company has been able to move into production rapidly, without the time and cost associated with internal development.

Ulla Popken fashion allows all women the opportunity to develop their own style - regardless of size. With the theme "fashion that suits me," the Ulla Popken label presents its customers with a changing collection every month. As a multi-channel business, Ulla Popken sells in more than 300 stores, by mail-order and internet, and with the help of selected franchise partners in Europe and non-European countries, and also with shop-in-shop partners.

To integrate applications, automate business processes, and improve business responsiveness and agility, Ulla Popken GmbH made a strategic decision to focus its IT development efforts on Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications that rely on Java Message Service (JMS). Central to the company's IT infrastructure is Microsoft BizTalk Server, which supports enterprise application integration services, business process management, and interoperability between Java EE and .NET applications. To deploy Java EE applications that expose functionality and services via JMS messaging, IT developers needed a way to implement reliable communications with BizTalk Server. Within the company's application portfolio, several core business applications required specific Java EE and JMS servers - each with its own JMS implementation. For example, the mail order system relied on IBM WebSphere. In addition, other applications used Progress SonicMQ and GlassFish (an open source application server) as the JMS provider. Ulla Popken therefore needed a way to facilitate durable asynchronous messaging from Microsoft BizTalk Server to three different JMS implementations - WebSphere, SonicMQ, and GlassFish.

"We needed a way to integrate these JMS technologies and intercommunicate with our BizTalk Server," recalled Ralf Quebbemann, technology consultant at Ulla Popken GmbH. "If we tried to do this ourselves, it would have been a significant development effort that would have taken months - if not years - to complete."

Looking for a solution that involved less cost and resulted in faster deployment, developers researched available Java and .NET interoperability solutions and learned about the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server. Since the adapter is designed to work with any JMS implementation, it was, as Quebbemann described, "perfect for our needs."

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server encapsulates JMS client capabilities into a standard BizTalk Server adapter. For each different JMS implementation that Ulla Popken employs, the adapter is configured as endpoints specifically bound to send and receive ports, allowing a BizTalk orchestration to produce and consume messages to and from JMS queues and topics.

"While Ulla Popken's use of three different JMS servers in their architecture may be unusual, our JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server is designed to work with any JMS implementation," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "The adapter enabled Ulla Popken to quickly integrate their disparate JMS services into an infrastructure based around BizTalk Server."
Ulla Popken experienced these benefits in using the adapter:

Flexibility. With a single product from JNBridge, developers integrated all three JMS implementations with BizTalk and quickly solved the challenge of intercommunication.
Simplicity, ease-of-use, and full support. Developers were able to easily configure the adapter for each JMS server. When they encountered problems that they couldn't resolve on their own, JNBridge engineers were quick to respond.
Fast integration. Since Ulla Popken developers selected JNBridge's commercially available JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server, they were able to move into production rapidly, without the time and cost associated with internal development.
Throughput and stability. In production the adapter supported solid performance and reliable messaging. "The adapter worked just as we expected," Quebbemann remarked. "The product was very stable, provided good throughput, and delivered reliable messaging for our full spectrum of JMS applications."

For more information on the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server and JNBridge's other interoperability products, please visit: (www.jnbridge.com). For information about Ulla Popken GmbH please visit (www.ullapopken.de).

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

JNBRIDGE COMPANY EXPERTS TO SPEAK ON INTEROPERABILITY ISSUES IN THE CLOUD AT JAVAONE 2010

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:41:43 +0000

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).

JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASE OF JMS ADAPTER FOR .NET

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:17:56 +0000

Version 1.2 of the JMS Adapter for .NET supports distributed transactions with full rollback capability

BOULDER, Colo., June 1, 2009 (JavaOne Booth #208) - JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), the award-winning provider of Java and .NET interoperability tools, today announced the release of version 1.2 of its JMS Adapter for .NET. The adapter provides a single-step integration between JMS (Java Messaging Service) capabilities and .NET Framework-based applications. This new version adds interoperability between .NET distributed transactions and local JMS transactions, thereby allowing JMS to fully participate in .NET transactions.

"We use JNBridge's core product, JNBridgePro, to rapidly integrate our .NET-based Enterprise Service Bus with our JMS broker," said Don Taylor, CTO for Benefitfocus. "The ability to combine .NET and JMS transactions will allow us to extend our use of JNBridge interoperability technology to additional business-critical applications where preserving the integrity of data is paramount."

The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET integrates any vendor's JMS implementation directly with a .NET Framework-based application. Customers can quickly and easily create custom .NET applications that send messages to, and receive messages from, an existing JMS infrastructure. In the new version of the adapter, if a .NET-side operation fails inside a transaction, and the transaction must be rolled back, JMS messages that are consumed as part of the transaction will be placed back on the JMS queue, ensuring that no data is lost. When the .NET side resumes its activity, the messages are still on the JMS queue, and will be read when the .NET operations resume.

"JNBridge's technologies provide seamless integration between both the Java and .NET frameworks, which allows our organization to meet customer demand regardless of platform," said Michael Petersen, President at TechPath, a systems integration company. "We've successfully and easily integrated Microsoft's products with our customers' existing JMS systems, including enterprise systems that require 99.999 percent uptime. This new ability to support distributed transactions across platforms will be crucial for certain architectures in financial services and other transaction processing systems."

"Transactions are critical to many applications, especially in financial services," said Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. "A transaction needs to succeed or fail in its entirety, especially where money is involved. Current solutions that support distributed transactions do not guarantee their success across platforms. With version 1.2 of the adapter, this process is completely transparent for the user, and works regardless of the JMS vendor."

"With the increased adoption of financial systems that integrate both .NET and JEE technologies, true cross-platform transactions are a necessity that current web service-based interoperability standards fail to adequately meet," said Mark Driver vice president of research at Gartner. "Bridging technologies offer an alternative that is both fine-grained and tightly coupled-a fundamental requirement of any robust transaction processing implementation."
Pricing and Availability
The JNBridge JMS Adapter for .NET is available for immediate download from www.jnbridge.com, and can be purchased directly from JNBridge.

About JNBridge
JNBridge connects Java and .NET 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 350 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, press only:
Christie Denniston
Catapult PR-IR
Office: 303-581-7760, ext. 13
Cell: 303-827-5164
cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com