Cacheon Announces Industry's First J2EE Migration Management System; Cacheon Migrator Automates Migration to Oracle9i Application Server.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers JavaOne 2002 BOOTH #1026 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2002 At the JavaOne conference today Cacheon launched the industry's first J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. migration management system. The Cacheon Migrator is a tool enabling customers to easily convert existing J2EE applications A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. from one application server platform to another. Cacheon has joined with Oracle as its first go to market partner and will preview BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. to Oracle9i Application Server (Oracle9iAS) migration capability. By automating the migration effort, it is now possible to relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. existing applications from BEA WebLogic to Oracle9iAS without the time consuming manual effort and expensive custom development that is normally required. The Cacheon Migrator will be demonstrated at JavaOne in both the Cacheon and Oracle booths. The application platforms selected several years ago no longer meet the needs of commerce, portal, integration or web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. demands today. Companies with existing application servers want to standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on one server platform as their current servers are no longer supported or do not meet the growing need for scalability and security. Now with the Cacheon Migrator, customers can migrate their applications from BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. to Oracle9iAS. "Enterprises are discovering that they need to keep up with the rapidly evolving platform technologies and want to deploy their Java applications A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. on the best application server available," commented John Kish, chief executive officer, Cacheon. "With the Cacheon Migrator, customers can now easily migrate their Java applications to the Oracle9i Application Server." When companies change to new application server platforms, they generally hire consultants to re-write their existing applications or face losing their investment in them. Migration is the process that allows companies to transfer existing J2EE applications to the latest, most innovative server platforms. Migration is significantly less expensive than application redevelopment and preserves the application's functionality and reliability. Until today, migration was typically performed manually; now with the Cacheon Migrator, companies can automate a significant portion of the migration. For any given customer, the manual migration effort is essentially a one-off project executed by outsourced services. The expertise gained in performing migration is typically lost for further use on the completion of the project. Cacheon has captured this manual migration expertise and packaged it in software that enables enterprises to decrease the time and expense associated with application migration. "Customers are rapidly standardizing on Oracle9i Application Server as their enterprise wide application server because of its superior performance, scalability and reliability," said Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President of Oracle9iAS at Oracle. "The tight integration of key middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a functionality Oracle9iAS provides and the resulting cost savings it incurs has also been a key decision factor for customers migrating to Oracle. With the Cacheon Migrator, BEA customers can now quickly and easily simplify their infrastructure and switch to Oracle9i Application Server." What does this mean for customers? In the past, it has been difficult to migrate a BEA WebLogic application to Oracle9iAS without making manual changes to the application source code. In most cases, BEA has used custom configuration files and proprietary API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. extensions of the J2EE specification that are unique to the BEA product and prevent easy portability. With the Cacheon Migrator, developers can migrate applications to Oracle9iAS, without worrying about source code or API changes. This new capability allows them to simplify and streamline their migration process today. About Cacheon Cacheon is a software provider accelerating J2EE application migration. Cacheon's product the Cacheon Migrator, allows developers to migrate applications from one server platform to another. The product is a low risk, non-invasive software workbench that enables enterprises to decrease the cost, time and expense associated with application migration. Cacheon's business partners include BEA, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , iPlanet and Oracle. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Cacheon can be reached at http://www.cacheon.com. Note to Editors: Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle9i is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. |
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