Bluestone Software Announces General Availability of Bluestone Java Transaction ServiceTM; Bluestone Sets Standard for Next-Generation Distributed Transactioning, Surpasses Legacy Transaction Processing Systems with Delivery of Pure Java Transaction Se.Business Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2000 Bluestone bluestone, common name for the blue, crystalline heptahydrate of cupric sulfate called chalcanthite, a minor ore of copper. It also refers to a fine-grained, light to dark colored blue-gray sandstone. (R) Software, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BLSW), a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies, today announced general availability of Bluestone Java Transaction Service The Java Transaction Service (JTS) is an implementation of the JTA Transaction Manager, AKA TP monitor, that maps onto the OMG Object transaction service used in the CORBA architecture. It uses IIOP to propagate the transactions between multiple JTS transaction managers. (TM) (Release 2.0), the first commercially available version of Bluestone's pure Java Refers to initiatives from Sun that specify 100% compliance with its Java specification. The goal is to maintain a consistent, single interface for Java so that all Java Virtual Machines can run all Java programs. See Holy Grail. transactioning system, and the industry's first and only OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group approved, commercially distributed transactioning system developed entirely with Java technology and based on Sun Microsystems' Java Transaction Service (JTS JTS - A simple dialect of JOVIAL. [Sammet 1969, p. 528]. ). Since the company's acquisition of Arjuna Solutions and its product JTSArjuna in July of this year, Bluestone has tested and fully integrated the product with its award winning Application Server technology, as well as added several important enhancements. With Bluestone Java Transaction Service, Bluestone sets the standard for next-generation, distributed transactioning with a high-performance, pure Java transactioning system optimized for Internet and wireless commercial services. Running as an embedded, distributed service within the Bluestone Internet Operating Environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. (TM), Bluestone Java Transaction Service enjoys extreme performance, availability, and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. , while providing transactional integrity to millions of Internet and wireless users. Bluestone Java Transaction Service employs a fully distributed Fully distributed A new stock issue that has been completely resold to the investing public and is no longer held by dealers. fully distributed Of or relating to a new issue of securities that has been sold out. transactioning model that effortlessly scales to handle high-volume applications access, readily surpassing the capabilities of legacy transaction processing systems. "The high-volume demands of Internet and wireless applications can quickly outstrip out·strip tr.v. out·stripped, out·strip·ping, out·strips 1. To leave behind; outrun. 2. To exceed or surpass: "Material development outstripped human development" the capacities of legacy transaction processing systems and transaction monitors," said Andre Pino, senior vice president of marketing for Bluestone Software. "Those shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw. Shortcomings may also be:
Release Highlights The heart of Bluestone's transactioning superiority is the in-process deployment methodology of Bluestone Java Transaction Service, which now executes inside the Application Server process to achieve unparalleled performance and availability. Running within the Application Server process, Bluestone Java Transaction Service avoids the overhead of interprocess communications associated with legacy transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. monitors. Similarly, as part of each Application Server process, Bluestone's distributed transactioning system offers inherent resiliency and high availability unlike last-generation systems. To further ensure maximal transactioning performance, Bluestone performed over 1,400 quality tests with Bluestone Java Transaction Service for a number of new design advances, including asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. commit processing and a crash recovery architecture. Independent of the crash recovery features inherent in the Bluestone Internet Operating Environment, Bluestone Java Transaction Service crash recovery architecture enables the transaction service to complete the processing of a distributed transaction after a process or processor failure. Bluestone provides superior data connectivity for Bluestone Java Transaction Service by now bundling MERANT's SequeLink(R) 5.0 data access technology. (See separate news release, "Bluestone Software Fortifies Pure Java Distributed Transactioning With World-Class Data Access From MERANT," September 19, 2000.) The MERANT technology incorporates JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) A programming interface that lets Java applications access a database via the SQL language. Since Java interpreters (Java Virtual Machines) are available for all major client platforms, this allows a platform-independent database 2.0 drivers with XA support, allowing Bluestone to perform distributed transactions with relational databases. Bluestone Java Transaction Service also incorporates Transactional Objects. A new addition and unique to Bluestone, Transactional Objects establishes a lightweight transactional persistence facility for applications that do not merit the services of a full-scale database. Utilizing a pluggable, configurable architecture, Transactional Objects can persist objects to flat files and other data stores. Transactional Objects works with the crash recovery architecture to ensure that objects are persisted only if the transaction was committed. Concluded Pino, "Transactional integrity becomes paramount in e-businesses that unite the multiple, distributed systems of the e-business owners, as well as its customers, suppliers, and partners. Bluestone Java Transaction Service is the only commercial pure Java distributed transactioning system on the market today that meets the demands of next-generation Internet and wireless applications." Bluestone's Java Transaction Service (Release 2.0) is immediately available for $6,000 per CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . About Bluestone Software Bluestone(R) Software, Inc. is a leader in business-to-Web and wireless technologies. Companies deploying e-business applications, like Avnet, CDNow, Food.com, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom, Planalytics, Reliance National, and Time Inc., rely on Bluestone's Total-e-Business(TM) platform to provide comprehensive e-business platforms, Internet-class infrastructures, and robust integration services that e-business success demands. Bluestone is headquartered at 300 Stevens Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19113-1597. For more information, please call 888-Bluestone or 610-915-5000, email info@bluestone.com, or visit http://www.bluestone.com Bluestone is a registered trademark, and Bluestone Java Transaction Service, Internet Operating Environment and Total-e-Business are trademarks of Bluestone Software, Inc. SequeLink is a registered trademark, and MERANT is a trademark of MERANT. All other names, brands or products may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, including those contained in Bluestone's publicly filed reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which may cause Bluestone's actual results, performance, or achievements or those of its customers or its industry to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward looking statements. Specifically, the Company's beliefs with respect to the business opportunities presented by e-business and the Company's ability to profitably market and deploy its product solutions may prove to be inaccurate. In light of the significant uncertainties inherent in these forward looking statements, the information in this press release should not be considered a representation by the Company or any other person that Bluestone's objectives and plans will be achieved. |
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