JNBridge Company Experts to Speak on Interoperability Issues in the Cloud at JavaOne 2010

Who:

Wayne Citrin

CTO

JNBridge

(www.jnbridge.com)  

Citrin is Chief Technology Officer at JNBridge. He is the architect of JNBridgePro, and has been devoted to Java and .NET interoperability issues since .NET's beta days, more than nine years ago. Prior to co-founding JNBridge, Citrin was a leading researcher in programming languages and compilers, and was on the Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a researcher at IBM's research lab in Zurich, Switzerland and has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He has given presentations at JavaOne, Microsoft's TechEd and TechReady, and numerous academic and technical conferences.

William Heinzman

Senior Software Engineer

JNBridge

(www.jnbridge.com)

Heinzman has more than 20 years of experience developing manufacturing test, distributed job scheduling and IT software products. He currently develops interoperability solutions between Java EE and .NET. Heinzman has a degree in Geophysics and a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

What:

Unconference: "Interoperability Issues in the Cloud"

Cloud technologies are supposed to be "interoperable," as they generally are based on Web services and supposedly adhere to standards.  Most cloud vendors tout their support for interoperability: both Cloud-to-Cloud and within a single cloud platform.

However, despite the promise, there are real problems in actually getting cloud interoperability to work, either Cloud-to-Cloud (e.g. between Windows Azure and Amazon Web Services) or within a single cloud platform (e.g. running Java on Windows Azure).

In this "unconference" discussion, Citrin and Heinzman will lead participants in discussing where current cloud interoperability falls short, exploring what true cloud interoperability should be, and examining how to resolve cloud interoperability issues. Participants will be given the means to develop a road map toward implementing true interoperability now and in the future, as cloud technology matures.

"Bridging Transactions from Java EE to .NET"

Cross-platform transactions between enterprise Java and .NET should be easy, right? After all, both platforms have implemented the same specification. How hard can it be? This session will attempt to answer that question by providing an in-depth look at distributed transactions, including implementations in enterprise Java and .NET. Technologies that provide cross-platform transactions will be demoed providing a look at code from examples using WS-AT/WS-Coor and direct bridging using a shared-memory JVM-to-CLR implementation. In addition, the session will discuss performance benchmarking, "gotchas," tips and tricks and the move towards eXtreme Transaction Processing and what that means for current Java EE and .NET based technologies.

Location:

JavaOne

Unconference: "Interoperability Issues in the Cloud"

Hotel Parc 55 - Lombard Room

55 Cyril Magnin Street, San Francisco CA 94102

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

1 p.m. (Pacific)

"Bridging Transactions from Java EE to .NET"

Hilton San Francisco – Continental Parlor 1/2/3

333 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco CA 94102

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

2:15 p.m. (Pacific)

Contact:

For more information on JNBridge or to set up an interview with Wayne Citrin or Bill Heinzman please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or by email at ([email protected]).