Read about what people are saying about Jini network
technology.
Commercial Licensee Quotes
"Without Jini Network Technology, 4D Networks would not exist.
Jini is the foundation of our inspirations, product, and business.
In February 2001, 4D Networks released 4D Pocket System that is
based on the Jini architecture. 4D Pocket System enables the
delivery and management of distributed application services, and
changes the way application services are shared and used in
corporate IT systems, by Application Service Providers, and within
e-Marketplace solutions. Before Jini, I could not imagine
opportunities to create a single sign-on and one-stop environment
for managing distributed application services. Simply, it was not
possible. Jini triggered a new era of distributed application
services."
"Acriter is using Sun ONE Webtop to integrate the products in
the Acriter's Business Management Suite (BMS solution) with office
automation solutions. The integration with Sun ONE Webtop enables
Acriter to include all Java and Jini applications with full
featured office automation functionality through an advanced,
customizable user interface."
"Our internal deployment of Jini Network Technology has allowed
AdviceFrameworks to implement an application architecture that is
framework-centric and supports pluggable hot-spots implemented
using services. Jini has given us a unique competitive advantage by
empowering us with the ability to quickly hot-deploy new services
that extend the functionality of our application framework to meet
rapidly changing customer requirements. Furthermore, Jini has given
us a robust, high-availability solution that permits us to use
inexpensive servers and still maintain mission-critical services
that would have cost us significantly more in hardware. Finally,
the distributed architecture of Jini provides us with a far
superior scalability model than that provided in both COM+ and
CORBA."
John C. Walker
Chief Technology Officer AdviceFrameworks
"Appropria have developed Plant~Advantage using Jini network
technology as a core building block. Our application integrates
information from multiple, distributed data repositories into a
single browser-based user interface. We use Jini technology to
manage the communication between the distributed components of
Plant~Advantage. Jini technology provides the resilience,
performance and scalability our customers in the Oil and Gas,
Petrochemical, Chemical and Pharmaceutical industries require. Our
implementation of Plant~Advantage at BP Chemicals has demonstrated
the maturity of this technology and its readiness for use in
business and mission critical applications."
"Three critical components make Frontiers what it is today:
reliability, maintainability and ease-of-use. We owe a large part
of success to the Sun hardware and software we have incorporated
into this product.
Jini network technology gave our product, called Frontiers, the
capability to connect to any type of medical equipment--including
physiologic monitors, ventilators, and anesthesia machines--without
requiring clinicians to even think about configuration data or
software drivers.
At Inova Fairfax Hospital, located in Falls Church, Virginia and
one of the nation's top 100 hospitals and a premiere teaching and
training facility, a four-year pilot program with Frontiers has
given it the capability to capture and analyze patient data. The
result has been an improvement in how nurses, doctors, and
clinicians perform their jobs, and a degree of visibility across
departments that paper records could never provide.
Frontiers is most valuable in settings where a great deal of
concurrent, critical care is being given to unusually sick
patients. In operating rooms, that means connecting machines that
monitor fetal heartbeats, measure cerebral pressure, administer
anesthesia, or pump a patient's blood--equipment that sustains
vital functions and must not go down. To get the best in
reliability and fault-tolerance in a dynamic environment, Jini was
the solution that was very straightforward to implement, provided
dynamic configuration without the overhead associated with JNDI and
was not resource intensive."
Jim Edmiston
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder eko systems
"GigaSpaces Platform is a collaboration platform for web and
enterprise services. The GigaSpaces Platform is a commercial
implementation of Sun's JavaSpaces technology with many powerful
enhancements like clustered space for scalability and high
availability, support for JDBC and web services. It is designed to
meet the needs of large scale distributed enterprise applications
that need to synchronize, share, and exchange information and
activities in a loosely coupled and simple manner. Jini technology
enables GigaSpaces to deliver a very powerful and dynamic platform
that is easy to use across many application domains.
Many of our customers, like ServiceHub and the German Aerospace
Center, are using the Jini and JavaSpaces technologies in order to
deploy highly distributed projects. ServiceHub Corporation deployed
a 24 x 7 vehicle tracking systems via GPS system using the
GigaSpaces Platform. The space is used for communication adapters,
persistence services, caching of data, session management,
automated application logic, control and monitoring. The German
Aerospace Center uses the GigaSpaces Platform for processing
simulations. The information about the simulation is broken into
small tasks which are stored in the space and then accessed by
worker machines that perform the computation."
"GroupServe offers GroupPort, a suite of collaborative
applications accessible by wired and wireless devices. GroupPort
runs with the 'JiniEngine' created by GroupServe, a component
installable in Java application servers that provides rapid
server-side access to Jini services used by web applications and
quick server-side registration of Jini services. Our patent-pending
'Glueware Box' uses the JiniEngine, TSMS (TupleSpace Management
System, a patent-pending management system for JavaSpaces
reminiscent of an RDBMS), and XML to 'glue' together disparate data
sets of different applications. An instance of this box is deployed
in the mission-critical application of transacted billing, serving
as the intelligent conduit between GroupPort and our third party
billing service. Jini Network Technology was chosen because it
mirrors the highly distributed nature of collaborative
applications. Jini implements quickly, scales rapidly, and performs
robustly to support the complexity of extremely demanding
applications like GroupServe's GroupPort."
Dr. Ted Achacoso
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer GroupServe,
Inc.
"All e-business consulting companies, including IconMedialab,
need to be current on new technologies that may be of interest to
our clients. We wanted to learn more about the possibilities of
Jini Network Technology in order to better serve clients that need
'ad hoc' networking. A research project was started to broaden our
knowledge about Jini Network Technology and the JavaSpaces
Specification.
Using Jini technology we developed of a peer-to-peer file system
solution that provided redundancy. Because it's based on Java
technology, all kinds of devices, such as PDA's, workstations, and
portable computers, could participate in the network and share
information. The redundancy really is an essential feature for an
ad hoc network, where devices frequently become unavailable, and
Jini technology provides the ideal solution."
"Karora Technologies is a privately held software development
company that creates elegant software components and solutions to
efficiently manage information---documents, applications and data.
We utilize Jini network technology as the distributed computing
infrastructure for our XML Connector and DocConnector products. Our
revolutionary architectural approach has enabled us to access data
spread throughout the network, with support for advanced features
such as dynamic discovery, fault tolerance, load balancing and
unparalleled scalability. Using XML Connector with Jini technology
makes it possible to simply and elegantly integrate applications
and data or quickly build and deploy collaborative applications
utilizing web standards. Jini technology also allows Karora?s
DocConnector product to access documents from multiple
repositories. We believe the addition of Jini technology has given
our customers the ability to implement critical integration
quickly, efficiently and cost effectively and manage information
across diverse boundaries."
"Oki Electric Industry Co. ltd., is developing a content
delivery system and its application platform software called
C-NetLiaison based on Jini Network Technology. The products are
primary targeted for content delivery and management at
broadcasting stations but also good for wherever content is shared.
By using Jini Network Technology, C-NetLiaison has easily achieved
flexible, scalable and platform independent features as an
application platform. We exhibited the products at
Networld+Interlop Las Vegas in May 2001. The FCS of C-NetLiaison is
scheduled in June."
"Procoma creates systems that perform, scale, socialize and heal
themselves in the event of failure. Our customer, Commerzbank,
asked us to create a media appliance - a system for transforming
simple XML input into sophisticated publishable media: complex page
layouts, charts, graphics, even audio-video equivalents. Procoma's
Chameleon/XML had to deliver. Moreover, if additional throughput
was needed, then adding another box to the network should suffice
to supply it. No job should ever be lost, even if a node failed. No
integration overhead! No manual intervention! There were, of
course, the traditional solutions. Uneasy alliances comprising
layer upon layer of complex, conflicting models.
Combining our XML rendering environment with Jini network
technology resulted in a system design that is centered, symmetric
and beatifically simple. Jini network technology is different. Jini
technology is born from a fresh, clear way of thinking about
networked computing. Jini technology starts from a definition of
what's really needed, rather than patching together a "solution"
from hand-me-downs.
Chameleon/XML shows all the positive qualities of scalability,
healing and performance that our clients require. Looking at
competitors solutions I have no doubt that Jini technology allows
us to go further, faster, with less headaches and a level road into
the future."
Aidan Mark Humphreys
Consultant System Architect Procoma GmbH
"To bring adaptive networking to the embedded world, we have
developed a small footprint Jini technology-enabled implementation
called JMatos that does not require RMI or the use of the Jini
Technology Surrogate Architecture. JMatos software enables
spontaneous networking between things, allowing them to dynamically
exchange information and services where and when needed,"says Dr.
Steven Knudsen, Senior Vice-President and Chief Technical Officer
of PsiNaptic.
"Only with JMatos can small, inexpensive, mobile devices act for
themselves and on behalf of their users. In a world where there
will be billions of mobile Java technology-enabled devices,
JMatos-enabled handhelds, PDAs, sensors, controllers, meters and
vending machines will interact with any other Jini
technology-enabled implementation without worrying about how the
underlying hardware or software is configured and managed. It is
this need for impromptu networking, devoid of human intervention,
that is so compellingly supported by JMatos," Knudsen says. "
Dr. Steven Knudsen
Chief Technology Officer PsiNaptic Inc.
"Response Networks' Pulsar xSP service level and performance
management solution was designed to have carrier-class capabilities
for the service provider market. Our customers demand a flexible,
distributable, portable, robust and scalable solution. Sun
Microsystems Jini network technology enables us to meet all of
these requirements. At Pulsar xSP's core is a series of
self-healing Jini technology-enabled services that can manage
service level commitments based on hundreds of points of presence
tracking millions of transactions. The use of distributed Jini
network technology made it possible for us to deliver an
application that service providers can install and host on multiple
machines in multiple data centers without any single point of
failure."
Phil Hollows
VP Product Marketing Response Networks, Inc.
"By using Jini Network Technology, Risk2Risk built a robust
integrated online trading exchange for the reinsurance industry
with a small team within a realistic budget. Jini's simplicity
accelerated our development process because it allowed us to
simplify our code and Jini's dynamic nature means that we can have
a very flexible development environment. We can run parts on the
system in isolation and parts together. The use of other
technologies were explored, however, the chance to do it properly
the first time with Jini was too great an opportunity to refuse.
Our Jini-based infrastructure can now be rolled out globally
without any of the traditional growing pains. We are rolling out
new products much faster then we really believed we could."
Dave Sag
Director Risk2Risk
"Jini network technology is an essential ingredient to the
success of Unwired Express' creation of a context-sensitive
applications for the mobile workforce. We rely on Jini technology
for the implementation of our context server, which determines the
context -- the aggregate knowledge about the activity and intent --
of an individual user. This contextual knowledge allows an
application to distill available information into relevant
information, to choose relevant actions from the list of available
actions and to determine the optimal method of information
delivery.," said Yuval Boger, CEO, president and founder of Unwired
Express. "Jini technology also allows developers to focus on the
business logic of context-aware applications rather than the
supporting infrastructure. Jini technology's self-healing and
transaction management capabilities allow us to create a
fault-tolerant and highly scalable architecture. The dynamic
discovery elements of Jini are very useful to the implementation of
context components, which can be both physically distributed and
intermittently available."
Vera Miles Unwired Express, Inc.
"Valaran Corporation's V-aerial software is able to address any
integration challenge through the unique use of Jini technology. It
is not limited to a few pre-selected 'compliant' applications or to
a specific business domain. With V-aerial, processes that govern
business practices, network operations and even a full-fledged
extension to mobile workers can be designed and implemented quickly
and efficiently."
Aleta Ricciardi
Executive Vice President Strategy and Innovation Valaran
Corporation
Technology Supporting Quotes
"aJile Systems provides the optimal platform for Jini network
technology. Jini technology is the essential layer that links the
Java technology-enabled devices powered by aJile Systems processors
together in a very elegant way. The unique features in aJile
products, such as fast hard real-time systems that respond in less
than 1 microsecond to a trigger event and multiple hardware
supported VMs, enable an even higher level of performance,
responsiveness, security and robustness to Jini technology-enabled
applications than other conventional implementations of JVM."
"Artima Software, Inc., provides an implementation of the
ServiceUI API under the Sun Community Source License (SCSL). The
ServiceUI API leverages Jini Technology to enable the delivery of
users interfaces (UIs) for network services. Jini Technology
enables network services to be found and used by software clients.
The ServiceUI API allows network services to be accessed by
people.
Because service UIs are network-mobile objects, they can provide
more natural user interfaces than network-mobile data such as HTML,
XML, or WML documents. A graphical service UI can include menus,
dialog boxes, and tree views, for example, and does not require
every user interface to be delivered as a series of individual
pages.
Multiple service UIs can be associated with a single service. This
allows service providers to target different UIs at different kinds
of client devices, with different user interface capabilities. It
also allows service providers to target different UIs at different
user requirements and preferences, including addressing
accessibility needs. In addition, third parties can add user
interfaces to an existing service to meet needs not met by existing
UIs. For example, a service could be accessed via a graphical UI on
a desktop computer, but accessed via a speech UI from the dashboard
of a moving automobile."
"Pronoic Ltd has been using Jini network technology as our
primary service architecture for over 2 years now, with great
success. Our goal for the last 6 months has been the completion of
our 'September 11 Proof' architecture known as Cos, short for
Corporate Operating System. Cos applications use JavaSpaces? to
coordinate the activity of services that are dynamically
provisioned using the Rio framework. Applications built on Cos are
swarms of redundant services that communicate with each other, and
with application clients, via messages passed through the space.
Should the application encounter partial hardware failure, the
services can be respawned on other hardware. Additionally, because
of the inherent transactionality of Jini technology, the
application itself does not skip a heartbeat. The application is
distributed, hologram like, across your network. Should the worst
happen, and you lose an entire machine/department/building, as long
as a small part of your infrastructure remains intact your critical
applications will keep running, albeit more slowly.
Such a self healing, holistic system would be impossible to build
using traditional heavyweight systems, but is fairly
straightforward using Jini technology. We have developed a unique
peer-to-peer task allocation and tracking system called TaskTracker
as a demonstration application. It is the inverse of a traditional
ERP system in that although tasks may be specified in advance,
human resources volunteer themselves rather than get allocated a
task. We call such systems distributed adhoc work groups or
dawgs."
Dave Sag
Director Pronoic Ltd (UK) and Pronoic BV (NL) Pronoic, Ltd.
"Wireless devices, such as mobile phone, PDAs, and pagers are
ideal for joining dynamic, spontaneous networks. Zucotto is working
with Jini network technology to ensure these next generation
wireless devices can leverage the distributed services around them
through its Xpresso family of Java technology-based processors and
cores. The Xpresso 100 microcontroller supports both J2ME and
Bluetooth and with Surrogate Jini technology, it becomes a very
powerful platform upon which to build next generation devices.
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