OpenCloud Rhino 2.0 Developer Preview Release available now
November 21 2007, Cambridge, UK
OpenCloud Limited, the supplier of in-network application servers for next-generation convergent telecommunications services, today announced the launch of OpenCloud’s Rhino 2.0 Developer Preview Release. Aimed at developers designing flexible, in-network applications for the telecoms industry, the release preview features new JAIN SLEE 1.1 enhancements such as the ability to port Resource Adapters between any JAIN SLEE-compliant environment.
Designed to give developers early access to new JAIN SLEE 1.1 enhancements, the Rhino 2.0 Developer Preview Release enables developers to create applications that that allow customisation of services on a per user basis. The updated JAIN SLEE 1.1 standard provides a portable Resource Adapter (RA) architecture, which standardises how network events are communicated between the Resource Adapter and the JAIN SLEE application server. This means that Resource Adapter implementations that use this release can be deployed and run in any compliant JAIN SLEE container without modification.
Read-write application parameters are also possible, meaning that application and user data can now be maintained within the JSLEE environment. Operators implementing applications developed in this environment will be able to offer more highly personalised services as a result.
JAIN SLEE enables operators to break free from proprietary infrastructure vendors and offers innovative applications from competitive third party developers, leading to much faster development and deployment of innovative, new services at a significantly lower cost. Providing a bridge between existing and Next Generation networks, OpenCloud’s Rhino is the only carrier-grade and event-based application server available that allows operators to provide both Next Generation and convergent services.
In January 2007, OpenCloud received $10million from Advent Venture Partners, Motorola and No 8 Ventures. The funding supports OpenCloud’s sales, marketing, delivery and product development in Europe, the US and Asia Pacific to help bring the open standard JAIN SLEE (Java application programming interfaces (APIs) for Integrated Networks, Service Logic Execution Environment) to a global market.
David Ferry, CTO at OpenCloud and JAIN SLEE specification lead commented: “With the Rhino 2.0 Developer Preview Release, in-network application developers will be able to create new, fully portable telecommunications applications and to port existing ones. The enhancements within the JAIN SLEE 1.1 Resource Adapter specification mean that operators have more choice when it comes to choosing application developers and this will stimulate innovation in the industry. The Developer Preview Release gives developers a head start for the launch of the full Rhino 2.0 software development kit next year and provides us with valuable developer community feedback.”
The Rhino 2.0 Developer Preview Release is available to download today from http://www.opencloud.com/products/rhino-kit/dp1/do cs/index.html. Feedback on the Rhino 2.0 Developer Preview Release will be taken into consideration for the final version that OpenCloud is working towards. Rhino 2.0 builds on the previous 1.4.x releases from OpenCloud and will be compliant with the soon to be released JAIN-SLEE 1.1 specification. The new JAIN SLEE specification will also allow backwards compatibility between JAIN SLEE 1.0 and JAIN SLEE 1.1. Any 1.0-compliant platform will run unmodified when the platform is upgraded to a 1.1-compliant version. JAIN SLEE 1.0 applications will run unaltered on JAIN SLEE 1.1 containers, provided no proprietary application programming interfaces, libraries or features of a particular vendor platform are used by the application.
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About OpenCloud
OpenCloud was formed in New Zealand in 2000 to create open standard software that would revolutionise the portability and interoperability of services in telecommunications, specifically in the evolution to IP and 3G IMS. The company was founded on the vision that the use of Java within the telecommunications network would stimulate innovation, interoperability and simplicity in telecommunication infrastructure equipment. In autumn this year, OpenCloud won global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan’s Product Differentiation Innovation of the Year award in the European telecommunications market.
OpenCloud works with partners to deliver, integrate and support end-to-end solutions incorporating OpenCloud products to global network operators and service providers. OpenCloud has representatives in: Cambridge, UK; Wellington, New Zealand; Madrid; Tokyo; and San Francisco. More information is available at www.opencloud.com.
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