Developers Come Together to Address Open Architecture Bridging
Digital Divide
Openwings Community Meeting at JavaOneSM
Highlights Successes with Infrastructure Technology
San Francisco, Calif. – June 4, 2001 - A community of Java™
developers representing government and industry are bringing work, web and personal
information and services closer to users—as close as the personal digital assistant
(PDA) in your pocket. The details of how this is being made possible using non-proprietary
technology will be revealed this week at a users group community meeting during the
JavaOne SM Worldwide Developer Conference.
Using an open, community process for development, more than 250 participants have been
aiding in maturing and developing a distributed, service-based framework called
Openwings™. The architecture was jointly conceptualized and introduced in 2000 by
Motorola’s Integrated Information Systems Group and Sun Microsystems, Inc. Openwings
provides a foundation for future system designs that combines the connectivity and
interoperability propositions of Sun’s Jini™ and Java™ technologies with
other emerging commercial technologies like Microsoft® .NET and Bluetooth.
The Openwings architecture lets users share information and services regardless of
where the data originates or how it gets to a person’s pocket device, PC or
workstation. “Openwings is providing an excellent framework for connecting multiple
systems together and making our products’ functionality available to a larger,
networked group,” said Stu Lewin, system/software engineer for BAE Systems.
Openwings is designed to bring intuitive interaction with other devices and services
using the latest commercial technologies and concepts. The applications are broad and deep
and can provide access to volumes of information in a pocket-sized computer that is also
outfitted with technology that understands and can interact with other devices.
Another example of the technology’s probable application involves integrating
communication and information on the battlefield. For example, The U.S. Department of
Defense has a vision for how it will defend the nation in the future. The Joint Vision
2020 transformation details a war environment in which airborne and ground-based command,
control, communication and intelligence systems are networked together and share
information across the enterprise—on land, in the air and out at sea. This
environment must easily accommodate systems that come in and go out in an ad-hoc fashion.
Openwings is ideally suited for this environment.
Developers during the community meeting will discuss how Openwings is extending legacy
systems by enabling interoperable software applications. Users will also discuss how
Openwings is intended for use in spontaneous networking applications.
One community member, The Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO)
is examining several industry initiatives related to enterprise information technology.
Openwings has caught the interest of DSTO’s Research Centre because of its use of
open-interface software systems. “An architecture that allows the evolution of
Defence capabilities without being slave to the continuously-changing underlying
technologies along with the flexibility to integrate and reuse components produced by
multiple vendors are vital features for Defence, Intelligence, Command and Business
Systems,” said Clive Walmsley, system engineer at DSTO.
The Openwings Community meeting is being held at the W San Francisco Hotel across from
the Moscone Center—the site for JavaOne—beginning at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, June 5,
2001. For more information on the Openwings community visit www.openwings.org.
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