Sun Distinguished Engineer John Crupi to Speak at Gartner ITxpo 2003
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems,
Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW) announced today it is teaming with industry leading
independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide model driven architecture (MDA)
based solutions for customers across multiple industries. The Sun's partners
will be exhibiting in the Sun Global Partner pavilion at the Gartner Symposium
ITxpo 2003, October 21- 23 in Orlando, FL. In addition, Sun's Distinguished
Engineer and Chief Architect of Sun Software Services, John Crupi, will speak
about recent developments in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and Patterns at
the conference on Thursday, Oct. 23.
The model-driven architecture, or MDA, represents an advanced approach to
software design and development. Developers use models created using
languages such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to capture details of
their business objects and processes. MDA-based systems can then translate
these designs into code, improving the productivity, quality, and longevity of
applications. By capturing business logic and business processes at a higher
level of abstraction, MDA also helps to protect organizations' software
investments by creating re-usable models. Further, MDA simplifies the
implementation of Web services by shielding the application architecture from
changes in the deployment infrastructure. Using MDA, businesses can easily
evolve and grow without massive rewrites to existing production environments
as standards and platform capabilities change and mature.
"Today's IT managers face unprecedented complexity and high development
costs," said John Crupi, Distinguished Engineer, Software Services, Sun
Microsystems. "Creation and delivery of a network infrastructure solution
incurs tremendous costs and requires sophisticated expertise. To ease the
challenge of reuse through model driven architectures, Sun is working closely
with its partners to create solutions that reduce cost and complexity while
helping businesses realize the advantages of the real-time enterprise." John
Crupi is a Sun Distinguished Engineer and manages the Pattern and Design
Capture Expertise Center at Sun Software Services. John is co-author of Core
J2EE Patterns and has over 17 years of experience in distributed object
computing.
Sun will highlight nine vendor solutions at the conference, including,
Certive, Clickmarks, Inc., iSpheres, Kabira Technologies, Inc., M7 Networks,
MAKE Technologies, ProactiveNet, Relicore, Inc., and Transoft Inc.
"Model driven development is the native language for Kabira solutions on
the Sun platform," said Grover Righter, vice president of marketing for Kabira
Technologies. "Architects can use models to design and then compile
high-speed, real time enterprise applications that combine upper layers from
the Java Enterprise System with Kabira's ultra fast lower layer software. The
resulting solutions enable customers to use best-in-class solutions from Sun
and connect them directly to global networks for high-volume business
transactions."
"The M7 Application Assembly Suite uses a model-driven persistence engine
that makes it easy to access data from any SQL database without requiring any
custom coding," said Mansour Safai, CEO of M7. "By using a model-driven
architecture, M7 saves our customers time and money in developing custom web
applications."
"Model driven development is a key benefit of iSpheres Halo 4," said David
Dawson, vice president of Marketing for iSpheres Corporation. "Corporate
developers can use models built by Halo 4's prototyping tools to map their
high-level analysis models to Halo's Event Server platform. Developers can
then rapidly deploy these applications to Sun solutions."
"Model Driven Development forms the core of our solution," said Adnan
Lawai, director of Technical Sales at Clickmarks. "Using the Clickmarks
solution, developers can capture business logic from existing systems by
modeling the behavior of users interacting with a system as a state machine.
This dramatically reduces the time and cost of performing application
integration -- and enhances the ROI. The resulting application, which
integrates with components of the Sun Java Enterprise System, enables users to
have access to the most relevant functionality, in the most relevant format
-- a portlet, web service, or stand-alone web or mobile application."
About Sun Microsystems
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Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a
leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that
make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Terri Molini
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
650-786-7983
terri.molini@sun.com
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