jbox

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jbox

• A Pure Java Cluster Node
• JAOO 2002
• Michael Ringgaard (mringgaa_at_csc.com)
• Bjarne Hansen (bhansen4_at_csc.com)

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jbox A Pure Java Cluster NodeTuesday, 14.00
15.00 (Java room)

• Reminder Many home appliances are actually
  quite advanced devices
• Yet they share some common properties of
  simplicity
• Unpack, connect, use...
• Does not require an expert to operate
• Requires about zero maintainance
• Just think if the same was true for Enterprise
  Business Systems

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jbox A Pure Java Cluster NodeTuesday, 14.00
15.00 (Java room)

• What would we like to achieve?
• Apply the virtues of traditional appliances to IT
  business systems
• Apply the effective software development tools,
  utilities, and methodologies to appliance
  development
• As a Java server appliance
• Ideal development environment to develop, deploy
  and maintain software for appliances
• As a Java cluster node
• Its better to own 100 appliances than 100
  application servers

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jbox A Pure Java Cluster NodeTuesday, 14.00
15.00 (Java room)

• What do we need?
• A simple appliance for executing Java programs
  (JavaOS)
• Technology like Jini, Java Spaces, JXTA or
  similar to build distributed solutions
• A truely distributed management option based on
  JMX
• We have built the Java appliance jbox