Gervas Douglas wrote: > A lot of companies who developed J/JS solutions subsequently decided > to use it as an engine in their later offerings. I think you will > find this applies to GigaSpaces, Sun and IntaMission. > > Gregg, what is your information on present users/implementers?
The GigaSpaces customer base seems to be focused on the investment community, but I've heard of other customers in varied market places. Their product has support for Javaspaces as its primary integration engine, but provides a wide range of other technology interfaces. Recently, one of the primary developers of Rio (http://rio.jini.org) went to work at gigaspaces indicating to me that they are refining their product in the direction of more deployment management and a richer failure handling system which the RIO technologies should provide them a great start on. They will also be feeding back a lot of their efforts back into the RIO platform. RIO was developed as part of a package of battlefield management software targeted at dealing with the massively volatile state of such systems. I can't begin to do justice to all of the capabilities of Rio here though. The blitz javaspaces implementation by Dan Creswell is an opensource Javaspaces implementation that has a significant, and growing commercial base. Dan uses blitz to draw commercial support and development work. One of the primary issues we have in the Jini community, at large, is that the Sun Jini team has commented in private that there are many different users of Jini which do not wish to have public recognition. Some developers have told me that Jini provided such an large, positive impact on the development and systems, for such a small investment, that they consider it a competative advantage that they don't want to talk about. I.e. it was so cheap and easy to use that their competitors would be able to be on par with them quickly. I don't know how to put real numbers behind all of these conversations and heresay. When I search for Jini on Monster I see quite a number of different industries having that term in their job listings. There is a number in the defense and investment industry, but also in other industries as well. Not as many as J2EE returns though. Gregg Wonderly Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/service-orientated-architecture/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
