IONA Technologies Delivers The Enterprise Environment For EJB Applications With The IONA iPortal Application Server.DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 1999-- IONA iPortal Application Server Beta Program Commences at IONA World Europe IONA(r) Technologies (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 :IONA), a leading provider of solutions designed to create and deploy eBusiness applications, today delivers the beta version of IONA iPortal Application Server(tm). Previously code-named OrbixHome(tm), IONA iPortal Application Server is the world's first fully integrated development, assembly and deployment environment for Enterprise JavaBeans(tm) (EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. ) and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (r). IONA iPortal Application Server is a key component of IONA iPortal Suite(tm), a comprehensive solution for integrating eBusiness with the enterprise. IONA iPortal Application Server allows organizations to build and deploy robust, scalable Java(tm)-based business applications that can also take the maximum advantage of existing information and application assets. The IONA iPortal Application Server beta program builds on a successful early adopters program where a pre-release of the product was enthusiastically welcomed by a selected group of twenty customers and partners including EDS's eBusiness unit and Flashline.com. The beta release of the IONA iPortal Application Server is now available for download from the IONA web-site at www.iona.com. IONA iPortal Application Server includes full support for Enterprise JavaBeans 1.1 - the latest release of the EJB standard providing the complete EJB Container functionality required for Sun Microsystems' Java(tm) 2 Enterprise Edition (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. ) platform. In addition to giving Java applications full interoperability with existing CORBA applications, IONA iPortal Application Server provides a rich deployment environment with CORBA's proven scalability, reliability, and performance, from the world's leading standards-based middleware provider. It delivers an exceptionally high 'ease-of-use' graphical interface for developing, assembling, deploying, managing and maintaining Java applications, that automatically generates all the necessary XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . "Customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. high availability solutions that save them time and money," stated Simon Pepper, senior product manager for IONA iPortal Application Server. "IONA iPortal Application Server provides such a solution by increasing productivity with its easy-to-use, drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. component assembly, allowing faster time to market. The product is built using IONA's latest CORBA technology, Orbix 2000, which enables the development of scalable, robust EJB applications that can be integrated with CORBA applications from the Internet and the desktop to the mainframe." "Sun Microsystems is particularly excited by IONA's release of its EJB 1.1 product, the iPortal Application Server, and it's support of the Java(tm) 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, specification (J2EE)," said Bill Roth, Product Line Manager for the J2EE platform. "We are pleased to continue our strong relationship with IONA, and look to them to be among the early vendors to provide a complete Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (language, programming) Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition - (J2EE) Sun's Java platform for multi-tier server-oriented enterprise applications. The basis of J2EE is Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB). See also the Standard edition J2SE and the Micro edition J2ME. implementation." "The industry is facing a global software shortage. Reusable software components offer the only viable solution," said Charles M. Stack, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Flashline.com. "IONA's iPortal Application Server provides an attractive platform for migrating to this reusable component architecture. Our membership within the IONA BeanMarket Partner Program reinforces the business values of developing software with reusable server-side components in the new economy." IONA iPortal Application Server Features: EJB Container Functionality IONA iPortal Application Server provides the complete EJB Container functionality required for a J2EE platform. It provides full support for Session and Entity Beans, Java Naming and Directory Interface The Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) is an API for directory service that allows clients to discover and lookup data and objects via a name. Like all Java APIs that interface with host systems, JNDI is independent of the underlying implementation. (JDNI), JTA (Java Transaction API) A programming interface (API) from Sun for connecting Java programs to transaction monitors such as IBM's CICS and BEA's Tuxedo. JTA is part of Sun's J2EE platform. See J2EE. including 2-phase commit, Security Management, RMI over IIOP (Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-ORB Protocol) An extension to Sun's RMI procedure call that enables Java programs to execute CORBA objects. It allows Java access to non-Java processes via CORBA. See RMI. and XML-based deployment descriptors. EJB Container Core The container core is built using Orbix 2000, the latest release of IONA's leading CORBA-based platform. This enables true interoperability between EJB and CORBA environments. Development Environment The IONA iPortal Application Server provides a graphical environment that enables EJB assembly, deployment and administration through a simple drag and drop graphical interface that makes large-scale deployment easier and minimizes risk. GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. for Bean Provision and Bean Assembly Beans may be written in any IDE. The IONA iPortal Application Server will provide tight integration with Symantec Visual Cafe Enterprise Edition for compilation and debugging. The necessary ejb-jar files and associated XML descriptors for EJB 1.1 applications are all automatically generated, removing this requirement from the developer/assembler. Rich Deployment Environment The highly scalable EJB Container with fault tolerance and clustering provides dynamic migration and reconfiguration of EJB Applications with no system downtime. Applications benefit from the reliability and manageability of proven and trusted CORBA technology. Availability The IONA iPortal Application Server beta release is available today on the IONA website at www.iona.com. The IONA iPortal Application Server will be ready for general availability (GA) in Q1 of 2000. IONA iPortal Application Server Workshop IONA Technologies and Sun Microsystems are hosting a day and a half J2EE/EJB and iPortal Application Server Workshop after IONA World Europe Wednesday and Thursday, October 20 and 21. The seminar is open to all and free to attendees of IONA World Europe. For more information on this workshop please visit: www.iona.com/info/workshop.html. About IONA Technologies IONA Technologies is a leading provider of products and services to organizations building enterprise portals, Internet commerce sites, and other large-scale distributed applications. IONA is committed to supporting the full diversity of languages - including Java and C++ - and distributed computing technologies - including Enterprise JavaBeans, CORBA, Microsoft's Windows DNA 2000 and 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) CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. - used by today's development organizations. More information about IONA Technologies is available from the company's Web site (www.iona.com). NOTE TO EDITORS: To access IONA press releases and background material on the web, visit: http://www.iona.com/news/pressroom/. If you would like to receive IONA press releases by e-mail, contact Sarah Lima at sarah.lima@iona.com. IONA and Orbix are registered trademarks of IONA Technologies. CORBA and the Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ) are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Object Management Group, Inc in the US and other countries. Enterprise Java Beans and Java are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems. Making Software Work Together, IONA iPortal Integration Server, IONA iPortal Server, IONA iPortal Application Server, Orbix 2000, Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART) are trademarks of IONA Technologies. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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