JavaOne Blog Talk Radio and More

June 18th, 2009

Whew! We’ve finally updated our Web site to reflect most of the JavaOne and Tech-Ed flurry of activity.

Listen to Wayne Citrin’s interview on JavaOne Blog Talk Radio, or read the transcript.

And check out some of our recent press:

SearchSoftwareQuality.com
June 4, 2009
New tools target software QA, testing: Spring roundup
by Colleen Frye and Jan Stafford
Read more

SDTimes
June 2, 2009
JNBridge crosses message queue Rubicon
by Alex Handy
Read more

SearchSoftwareQuality.com
May 14, 2009
JNBridgePro 4.1 Interview at Tech-Ed
Watch the video

Windows IT Pro
May 14, 2009
Tech Ed 2009: Best of Tech Ed Winners Announced
Read more

Announcing new version of JMS Adapter for .NET

June 1st, 2009

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

Boulder, Colorado, 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-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 more than 350 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge’s solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

JNBridgePro and Visual Studio 2010

May 29th, 2009

Something cool from the JNBridge labs. What you’re seeing below is the JNBridgePro plug-in running inside Visual Studio 2010. When VS2010 is released, we’ll be ready for it.

JNBridgePro in VS2010

Powered by JNBridgePro

May 20th, 2009

Adobe’s Kristen Schofield has posted some quotes and excerpts from a Gartner report (requires purchase) that praises ColdFusion. We’re particularily fond of the quote from Mark Driver where he says:

“…ColdFusion can provide unique value that is not fully addressed by any competing alternative technology. Most notably, ColdFusion is unmatched by any competitor for ease of use and technical capabilities. When we combine this with cross-platform deployment,and significant integration into both Java and .NET, ColdFusion stands out as a compelling solution for many IT challenges.”

That’s JNBridgePro hiding under the ColdFusion covers, enabling it to integrate with .NET.

TechEd birds-of-a-feather session followup

May 20th, 2009

Thanks to everyone who attended our birds-of-a-feather session on UI interface technology interop at TechEd last week in Los Angeles.  As promised, I’d like to follow up with resources that people have requested.  If you have a question you’d like answered, or are looking for information on a UI interop-related topic, drop me a note in the comments below, and I’ll post the information that I find.

JNBridgePro by JNBridge Named ‘Best of Tech·Ed 2009 Awards Winner’

May 15th, 2009

Best of Tech-ED 2009

By Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazines

Boulder, Colorado, May 14, 2009 (Tech·Ed Booth #644)

JNBridge, (www.jnbridge.com), today announced that its JNBridgePro was named as a Winner in the Best of Tech·Ed 2009 awards program in the Software Components and Middleware category by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The Best of Tech·Ed 2009 awards recognize companies who offer innovative products for the industry. The judges reviewed more than 170 products and services submitted for the contest and chose 35 finalists to be interviewed at the Tech·Ed 2009 IT Pro Conference in Los Angeles, Calif. Winners were announced on May 13, 2009, at an evening reception and are also posted on www.WindowsITPro.com/awards.

“Every year, selecting winners from the outstanding pool of highly qualified nominations is challenging, with this year’s submissions no exception,” said Jeff James, IT Group editor in chief and web content strategist. “Our judging criteria - innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customers - are clearly reflected in the winners’ products.”

JNBridgePro connects Java and .NET Framework-based components and applications together with simple-to-use Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins that remove the complexities of cross-platform interoperability. JNBridgePro provides fast access to anything Java from anything .NET and anything .NET from anything Java, including EJBs, J2SE, J2EE, AWT, SWT, Swing, Microsoft .NET APIs, Microsoft ASP.NET, WinForms, SharePoint Server, and WPF. Developers can explore Java or .NET Framework-based classes to quickly select which classes to integrate, and then JNBridgePro builds proxies that are callable from the other side.

Pricing and Availability

JNBridgePro 4.1 is available for immediate download from www.jnbridge.com, and can be purchased directly from JNBridge.

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 more than 350 unique customers in 40 countries that use JNBridge’s solutions in a wide variety of applications in financial services, insurance, media, manufacturing and other industries. Please visit www.jnbridge.com for more information.

Announcing JNBridgePro v4.1

May 11th, 2009

We’ve just announced JNBridgePro v4.1. This new version supports Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), so you can:

  • Embed WPF components and controls directly into Java applications that are written in Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), or Swing.
  • Embed Java Graphical User Interface (GUI) widgets and controls written in AWT or Swing directly into WPF applications.

Are you at Tech-Ed this week? Come see a demo in booth 644.

JNBridge named Best of Tech-Ed Award Finalist

May 4th, 2009

JNBridgePro has been named a finalist in the Best of Tech-Ed 2009 Awards. We’re one of three finalists in the Software Components & Middleware category. The annual award is sponsored by Penton Media’s Windows IT Pro® and SQL Server Magazine®, see http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/102027/best-of-teched-2009-awards-finalists-announced.html.

Come see us next week in booth #644.

Birds-of-a-Feather session at TechEd

April 22nd, 2009

At Microsoft’s TechEd next month in Los Angeles, Wayne Citrin will be conducting a BOF session titled “The UI buffet: Mixing and matching .NET and Java UI technologies.”  We hope to get together people who need to mix UI technologies in the course of their work, or who are otherwise interested in this sort of interoperability.  We’ll love to hear about different scenarios that people have encountered and how they’ve addressed these interop problems.  If you’d like to mix WPF, WinForms, Silverlight, or ASP.NET Web parts (on the .NET side), with AWT, SWT, Swing, JavaFX, JSPs, or Java Portlets (on the Java side), this is the place to talk about it!

The BOF session will happen on Tuesday, May 12, at 8:30AM-9:45AM PDT.  The room will be published in the program or on the conference Web site as the conference gets closer.

We hope to see you there!

We’re twittering

April 22nd, 2009

We admit we’ve been slow to grab on to this whole Twitter thing — it seems vastly counterproductive to tweet the moment while trying to stay focused on software development and delivery.

Well, we’re going to give it a try. See how we do: twitter.com/jnbridge.