Version 2.1 of the JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server adds:

• Fault-tolerant connections for JMS Server shutdown scenarios. This feature provides the ability to configure specific behaviors for send and receive locations when the JMS server is explicitly brought down. Locations can be configured to either disable or periodically attempt to reconnect to the JMS server.
• Support for ISO 8859-15 encoding. Used almost exclusively in Europe, ISO 8895-15 is a single byte encoding that includes the Euro currency character.
• Ability to add a unique identifier to a receive location. This allows multiple receive locations to access the same JMS queue or topic providing a mechanism to support concurrent message consumption using JMS message selectors.
• New configuration documents for SonicMQ and GlassFish/OpenMQ.
• Improved logging and error reporting.

Version 2.1 of the JMS Adapter for .NET adds:

• Support for .NET 4.0.
• Support for version 2.0 of Microsoft’s WCF Line-of-Business adapter framework providing support for Visual Studio 2010.
• Support for Microsoft’s Azure AppFabric API, allowing .NET client endpoints running in the cloud to consume and produce JMS messages from JMS servers on the ground.
• Extended configuration and tuning documentation.

Both adapters are now:

• Built on top of JNBridgePro 5.1, which adds support for .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010.

Check out the press release, or download now.

Try it yourself: download a free trial or see how it works.

Business Challenge

How to streamline incoming carrier data from JMS (Java Message Service) with a BizTalk enterprise application integration infrastructure — and do it within a two-month software development window.

Solution

Use an off-the-shelf BizTalk adapter — the JNBridge JMS Adapter for BizTalk Server — to integrate applications into the enterprise infrastructure without the cost, risk, and time-to-deploy associated with an open source or internally developed solution.

Read the entire case study here.

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.

We’ll be at both TechEd Developers (June 3-6) and TechEd IT Professionals (June 10-13), demonstrating some of our latest products.  Come visit us at booth 1545 in the exhibit hall!

In other exciting, related news, JNBridge is honored to be recognized as a finalist for a Best of TechEd 2008 Developer award.  The awards will be announced on Thursday, June 5, at the TechEd attendee party.

We just came back from JavaOne in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, where we exhibited for the first time.  There was a lot of interest in JNBridgePro.  Many people are still unaware that interoprability between Java and .NET is possible, so there’s plenty of opportunity for us to spread the word at shows like JavaOne and TechEd.

There was plenty of talk about our upcoming JNBridgePro 4.0.  See some of the recent coverage here.

We’re happy to announce that JNBridge has released two new products: JMS adapters for .NET and for BizTalk Server!

Over the years, one of the most frequent scenarios for which customers have used our core JNBridgePro product (and for which they’ve often asked for assistance), is integration with JMS (Java Message Service). We’ve provided guidance on this, so that users can implement calls from .NET to JMS, and also create BizTalk Server adapters for JMS. However, for users to implement this integration with JNBridgePro requires knowledge of both .NET programming and JMS programming, and knowledge of the BizTalk Server Adapter Framework. These are not skill sets that most customers have, so we have often been asked to provide a full supported product. Well, we’ve listened, and the result is the two new adapters.

Both adapters will work with any vendor’s JMS implementation. Neither requires the deployment of any components on the JMS server, and neither require any knowledge of JMS programming. Both offer a full set of JMS capabilities, including point-to-point and publish/subscribe, durable subscriptions, JMS security, and message headers, filters, and selectors.

The BizTalk Server adapter works with both BizTalk Server 2006 and 2006 R2, and allows you to connect orchestration send and receive ports to JMS queues and topics. The .NET adapter is based on the new WCF Line-of-Business Adapter Framework, and allows you to access JMS messages and queues from custom .NET applications, or any Microsoft or third-party software that can consume a WCF endpoint.

There’s lots of information on the new adapters at http://www.jnbridge.com/JMS-NET-Adapter.htm and http://www.jnbridge.com/JMS-BizTalk-Adapter.htm. If you have any questions about the adapters, please don’t hesitate to contact us at info@jnbridge.com.