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JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES NEW LAB — USING HADOOP WITH .NET-BASED MAPPERS AND REDUCERS

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:47:52 +0000

Using out-of-the-box JNBridgePro, company provides specific instructions and source code demonstrating how to write .NET-based Hadoop mapreducers in process and without streaming

BOULDER, Colo., May 21, 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 a new JNBridge Lab demonstrating how to build and use .NET-based mapreducers with Apache Hadoop. Using the out-of-the-box functionality of JNBridgePro, JNBridgeâ��s flagship product, this new lab provides a faster and better way to create heterogeneous Hadoop applications than other current alternatives. JNBridge Labs is 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. Â The labs are distributed freely, with pointers to documentation and links to source code. They are announced on the companyâ��s blog (http://www.jnbridge.com/jn/blog/) and are available on JNBridgeâ��s Â website (http://www.jnbridge.com/labs). The Hadoop lab demonstrates how developers can write .NET-based Hadoop mapreducers against the Java-based Hadoop API â�� without having to use Hadoop streaming or incurring the overhead costs of parsing the stream. The resulting .NET code can run inside the Hadoop process, greatly reducing both development time and performance costs. â��We expect developers who want to implement or use Hadoop mapreducers written in C# or other .NET languages will find this much easier than other alternatives,â�� explained Wayne Citrin, CTO of JNBridge. â��The beauty of this lab is that the hardest part was getting educated on Hadoop. JNBridgePro is versatile enough that once we understood the problem, a straightforward and elegant solution pretty much just fell into place.â�� 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. JNBridgeâ��s interoperability software and adapters have received numerous accolades over the companyâ��s past 10 years, including being cited as a Gartner Cool Vendor and the Readerâ��s Choice Award from Visual Studio Magazine. JNBridge expects to offer several more labs throughout the course of the year. The Hadoop Lab is available now and can be downloaded at (www.jnbridge.com/labs). Share this story via Twitter: #JNBridge shows how to use #dotnet (.NET) #mapreduce with #Hadoop. Get the code 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. See what JNBridge can do in 3.5 minutes on (www.jnbridge.com/videoscribe.htm). 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 500 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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JAVA & .NET INTEROPERABILITY LEADER JNBRIDGE ANNOUNCES FIRST LAB — SSH ADAPTER THAT INTEGRATES BIZTALK SERVER WITH CROSS-PLATFORM CLOUDS

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:32:10 +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. Â 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, Â 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 19:50:57 +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. Â 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 16:56:38 +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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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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