IT services company SunGard is hosting SunGard World 2001 on September
4-7, in Las Vegas, Nevada. SunGard World 2001 is an
opportunity to learn more about the financial services industry and its
leading integrated solutions.
Sun has chosen 18 new customers and business partners to join the
prestigious ranks of its iForce Heroes program. Selected twice a
year, iForce Heroes are business and technology leaders from around the
world honored for their unwavering vision and leadership in adapting to
market requirements amidst challenging conditions. iForce Heroes
include Pam Scanlon, executive director, Automated Regional Justice
Information System (ARJIS); Marc Karstaedt, vice president, Energy
Markets, Burntsand Inc.; Mark Dickelman, vice president, M-commerce and
Wireless, Bank of Montreal; and Ernie Allen, CEO, National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC).
OpenFinance, the publication of Sun's Worldwide Financial Services
division, provides the financial community with information about
global trends and challenges. The latest issue highlights some of the
projects that are making straight through processing a reality, as well
as features on Java technology in areas such as retail banking.
The Sun BluePrints article by Joel Weise on "Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI)" discusses the use of public key cryptography in e-commerce and other
environments. Topics covered include applications and benefits of PKI,
planning a PKI Infrastructure, cross certification, and security services.
Illustrations, an acronyms list, and a bibliography are included.
The Code Red computer virus exploits a vulnerability within Microsoft's
Internet Information Web server (IIS). Sun Chili!Soft ASP and
iPlanet Web Server allow users to easily run ASP applications
without fear of infection. This is a cost-effective alternative for
those worried about long-term protection from Code Red and related
viruses.
There is a white paper available on the Network Equipment Provider (NEP)
section of Sun's web site titled, "Softswitch: Next-Generation
Telecommunications Switching Platform." It covers a telecommunications
market overview and a switching primer. The white paper also covers
Softswitch functionality, benefits, and how Softswitch allows
telecommunications companies to reduce costs.
Sun is pleased to reaffirm its continued development of Solaris
Operating Environment (OE) (Intel Platform Edition) for this 32-bit
platform (IA32). There are also certification programs for hardware
manufacturers and independent hardware vendor (IHV). Sun's planned
priorities for the future include engineering and marketing initiatives
to capture the widest possible set of software and device drivers for
the IA32 platform. Sun is also focusing its independent hardware vendor
(IHV) and device driver priorities towards the needs of volume
commodity platforms and self-certification programs.
Sun StorEdge Network Data Replicator software is a live-data
replication utility that runs on Solaris Operating Environment (OE)
servers. Data is written to the primary and secondary sites. Sun
StorEdge Network Data Replicator software allows for data to be
replicated in both synchronous and asynchronous modes over IP. The
replicated data can exist globally--anywhere in the world. Any medium
such as ATM, ISDN, Ethernet, gigabit-ethernet, T1, and T3 lines, can
be utilized to replicate data.
Forte for Java Guided Tours are available on Sun's web site.
The Forte for Java, release 2.0, Community Edition includes an overview
and covers editing and building, GUI editing, debugging, and updating
the IDE. The Forte for Java, release 3.0, Enterprise Edition covers
developing J2EE applications, assembly and deployment, and creating web
services. Tours can be viewed online or downloaded to run locally.
Sun announced the availability of new entry-level Sun Blade 1000
workstations with price reductions of over thirty percent. Sun Blade
1000 workstations
with 750 MHz CPUs are targeted at the entry-level market and have
expansion capability to cover the mid-range and high-end markets as
well. The Sun Blade 1000 workstations are expandable from one CPU to
two CPUs and have the ability to mix CPU speeds, they support existing
graphics cards, and have larger RAM capacity of eight GB.
Sun has nearly doubled the performance of its popular rack-optimized
Netra X1 thin server while keeping the same low price of $995. Solaris
8 Operating Environment (OE) and LOM management software are pre-installed.
Sun's web site has customer success stories that detail how the Sun
Netra servers are being used. Tele Danmark Communications (TDC) is
a telecom, ISP, and cable television operator. One of its most high
profile divisions is the ISP arm, TDC Internet A/S, which hosts many
high-profile web sites, including most recently providing the web
hosting service to support the broadcast in Denmark of the popular TV
show, "Big Brother." TDC Internet uses Netra servers to manage the high
demand for the "Big Brother" show.
RespondTV has chosen Sun software and hardware to meet the needs of its
growing audience of interactive television subscribers, who currently
number half a million and are expected to grow to 50 million in the
near term. By 2004, the company expects its network data center to
house thousands of Sun Enterprise Workgroup and other servers. The data
center is expected to have the capacity to handle a load of one million
concurrent consumer responses providing high rates of interactivity
even for major television events like the Super Bowl, when 30 percent
of TV viewers typically watch the broadcast. The firm performed a major
upgrade in mid-2000 and added several more Sun Workgroup servers by
spring of 2001. In the current system, 14 Sun Netra t1 servers run
iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition, for web serving JavaServer
Pages (JSP) framework.
"Techniques for Optimizing Applications: High Performance Computing,"
just published by Sun Microsystems Press, is a practical guide to
performance optimization of computationally intensive programs on Sun
UltraSPARC platforms.
The Best Practices: Developer's Notebook, from the Dot-Com Builder
web site, contains nuggets of specialized content and advice from
web experts at Sun as well as from other corporations. Current
topics include using reverse proxies within the iPlanet Web Server,
XML, exploring the Java DataBase Connectivity Driver, and
Sun and Oracle Performance Tuning.
The Dot-Com Builder site has case studies of best practices that
provide an exclusive, behind-the-scenes view of the architecture and
approach from some of the most innovative sites built on Sun and Sun
partner technology. Currently available articles include how the
Dot-Com Builder site was built, priceline.com, NetSchools, and
DriveLogic.
Sun tapped the experts for their knowledge and methodology on various
web building endeavors to bring you the "how-to" information you need
to get your work done. Topics include internationalizing your web site,
finding a network file-caching solution, building a data warehouse, and
document tagging for better searches.
The new section of the Dot-Com Builder web site features an article that
introduces the technical aspects of UDDI, an evolving
standard for locating businesses and invoking the services they
provide. It details the core structures of UDDI and frequent ways in
which they are used, and it illustrates UDDI in action with a sample
find_business application.
The new section of the Dot-Com Builder web site features technical
overview articles, including one by Tom Clements on Simple Object
Access Protocol (SOAP). SOAP
allows objects
(or code) of any kind, on any platform, in any language, to
cross-communicate in a web-based enviornment. The foundational
paradigm of SOAP is crucial to the continuing evolution of web
services. Web services facilitate interactions among
platform-independent objects, which are able to access data from
anywhere on the web. SOAP servers ensure
that documents received over a HTTP connection are converted to a
language that the object at the other end understands.
The new section of the Dot-Com Builder web site features technical
overview articles, including an overview of ebXML by Madhu
Siddalingaiah, summarizing this XML-based initiative that aims to
enable a single, global market, examining both its architecture and the
way it models business processes and information exchange.
Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is an XML language that
contains information about the interface and semantics of a call to a
web service. The new section of the Dot-Com Builder web site features a
brief summary of the WSDL standards by James Kao. The article covers
the Java technology API for WSDL (JWSDL) specification and how a
web service is registered, found and called in a scenario based on Java
technology. Illustrations and a sample WSDL definition with code are
included on the original web site.
The Java Developer Connection web site provides a central place for
developers to learn about the latest Java technologies. The August
2001 article, "Developing a Java Card Applet" by Ed Ort, shows you
how to perform each step in the process of actually preparing a Java
Card applet for execution on a Smart Card environment that implements
the Java Card runtime environment.
The ebXML Registry/Repository 1.0 Implementation is based on Java
2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology and provides an important
infrastructure component for businesses to conduct highly interoperable
e-commerce transactions in a consistent, predictable, standards-based
manner. An article on Sun's web site explains what developers get with
the free download announced at the JavaOne Conference, and
how it adds value to IT operations. The article also
covers both business perspectives and technical details, including the
value of registries and repositories in e-business infrastructure and
details on J2EE technology, ebXML, and UDDI.
Developer Resources contains the technical article, "Unsupported
Platforms: Forte for Java on MacOS X and OpenVMS." There are
system requirements, installation instructions, and instructions on
launching Forte for Java software. This article also notes some of the
requirements for installing and running the NetBeans 3.2 IDE on
OpenVMS, even though there is no installer for Forte for Java 3.0 software.
There are some of the requirements for installing and running the
NetBeans 3.2 IDE. There are system requirements for running NetBeans 3.2 IDE
on Compaq OpenVMS and installation prerequisites.
Dana Nourie and Mike McCloskey provide an overview of regular
expressions and detail how to use them with the java.util.regex package
in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE), version 1.4
Beta. The article also discusses regular expression constructs and how
to use the java.util.regex package to find, display, or modify some or
all of the occurrences of a pattern in an input sequence.
Standards-based directory services using the Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) now serve as the power behind the curtain for
many business processes, including enterprise resource planning (ERP),
human resources, and supply-chain management. The open LDAP standard
provides a common language that enterprises can use to share
information about the resources in their organization, regardless of
the underlying operating environment and regardless of the client,
communications protocols, and application models.
iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions, a Sun-Netscape Alliance, has created
the industry's first integration platform to incorporate Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Java
technology, and XML into a comprehensive solution. As a result,
customers will be able to use emerging web services standards to
seamlessly link business processes and data to partners, customers, and
suppliers.
The iPlanet Integration family offers a complete solution for
digital data exchange and aligns with Sun Open Network Environment
(Sun ONE) web services architecture. Targeted at large organizations
that need to rapidly and cost-effectively interoperate over the web
with partners, customers, and suppliers, the iPlanet Integration family
brings Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Java Message Service
(JMS), XML, and an array of other standards (Enterprise JavaBeans
Components (EJB), EDI, XSLT, LDAP, FTP, HTTP, COM, CORBA) together into a single
web services integration platform.
Voxware released version 2.1 of their VoiceLogistics system. It includes
the UNIX version of VoiceLogistics for Solaris Operating Environment
(OE). Improvements include the performance of the Voxware Integrated
Speech-Recognition Engine (VISE), an expanded functionality of VoxBrowser,
improved battery utilization, and a more efficient wireless networking
capability with the Voxware Java Messaging Layer implementation, supporting
the latest in available wireless radio technology.
The ExoLab Group, sponsor of open source projects for enterprise
class, client-intensive environments, has released OpenORB Enterprise
Suite 1.2., a complete CORBA 2.4 ORB. Performance increases of over 700
percent have been achieved with OpenORB Enterprise Suite 1.2, enabling
750 invocations per second when tested with 500 clients running concurrently.
Instant ASP (iASP), version 2.0, from Halcyon Software is a Java
technology implementation of the industry-standard Microsoft Active
Server Page (ASP) framework that allows businesses with an investment
in ASP applications and development to deploy those applications on
more robust, secure hardware platforms, including SPARCstation
RS/6000s, AS/400s and even S/390 mainframes. iASP can also be tightly
integrated with application servers including IBM WebSphere,
iPlanet Application Server, Oracle Application Server, and BEA
WebLogic.
GroupServe, a provider of distributed application technologies, and a
leader in Jini technology-enabled web services, has established a
project to demonstrate the value of Jini technology in developing web
services. The project offers Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
(J2EE) and Jini technology developers a forum for exploring new
methods and techniques for writing sophisticated, complex enterprise
applications.
Comsearch's iQ-link V7.3 offers enhanced
point-to-point and point-to-multipoint engineering functionality and
improved user interfaces for data entry and display. iQ-link V7.3 is
compatible with Solaris 2.7 Operating Environment (OE)
and Oracle V7.3.4.
EcomXML, Inc., has agreed to provide its EcomTalk software to iWorkwell, Inc.,
for the secure transport of human resources (HR) data over the Internet.
iWorkwell will be using the Solaris Operating Environment (OE)
version of EcomTalk on multiprocessor Sun servers to exchange resumes
and job postings between its website and other top job sites.
Users of the Oracle9i Application Server (AS) integrated with Mercury
Interactive Corp.'s LoadRunner and Topaz can test the performance of
their Oracle9iAS architecture using a real-life user load, measure
end-user experience, and correlate performance issues to their
root cause in the web infrastructure--inside and outside the firewall and
in the application.
Software Design Automation Corp. has released Web Database
Objects(WDO), an optimal application development technology and design
methodology based on Java technology and Oracle for building
high-functionality enterprise and e-commerce applications that run the
day-to-day web-enabled online transaction processing operations of
medium to large businesses. The key business benefits of WDO are
shortened development cycle and time-to-market, along with reductions
in development and operations costs.
IntraNet Solutions, a provider of web content management solutions,
released Outside In Version 7.1, an enhanced version of its Outside In
developer technology for viewing, conversion, and access of business
content in more than 225 file formats on a wide range of platforms,
including mobile and wireless devices. Outside In 7.1 includes support
for a wide range of new and updated file formats, including Sun
StarOffice Write 5.2 Software.
Cybermation Inc., has released ESP Espresso 1.0 for the Solaris Operating
Environment (OE), the Microsoft Windows NT/2000, and HP-UX operating
environments. ESP Espresso is a distributed job scheduling solution that
manages workload across all leading enterprise operating systems and ERP
platforms, providing power, flexibility, and ease of use. It uses an
intuitive graphical user interface. Its next-generation XML and
Java technology architecture provides scalability and performance.
DataMirror Corp., a provider of enterprise application integration
and resiliency solutions, has released a new version of DB/XML Vision
software that supports Forte for Java integrated development
environment (IDE). The new version of the software enables the
flow and exchange of data to and from the web using XML and text
formats.
Gordano Ltd., has extended their product suite for the Linux and
Solaris Operating Environment. GLWebMail allows users to
personalize their email client and has a multi-lingual facility.
Mail can be collected automatically from any number of external
POP3/IMAP4 accounts. A mobile interface is also included.
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