Contributing Partners

J2EE Product Vendors

BEA Systems

BEA provides software infrastructure to make companies more efficient and productive. The majority of Fortune Global 500 businesses are building their enterprises on the BEA WebLogic platform to reduce costs, improve responsiveness, and accelerate the flow of information to customers, employees, partners and suppliers.

HostJ2EE.com

HostJ2EE.com, a service of Prominent Software Group, provides the comprehensive expertise required to manage and host J2EE application services. From strategy development through implementation and hosting, HostJ2EE provides solutions that are highly available, secure, reliable, and scalable, allowing enterprises to extend their reach, reduce their costs, and lower the response times of their services to customers, employees, and suppliers. Visit HostJ2EE.com, or call 847-466-1010 for more information.

Starbase

Starbase is the leading provider of end-to-end collaborative products for both the development and management of integrated content and code for enterprise and eBusiness applications. With more than 3,200 Starbase customers worldwide, the company's technology supports the continuous cycle of creating, linking and managing digital assets, which comprise complex eBusiness applications. Starbase products enable users with differing technical and functional backgrounds to collaborate on the production and management of Web sites and eBusiness initiatives from multiple locations. Companies and organizations, including leading corporations such as Chase Bank, Dell Computer, Lucent Technologies, Motorola, PepsiCo and Seagate Technology have selected Starbase products to manage their eBusiness development projects.

VMware

VMware is the only company bringing mainframe-class virtual machine technology to Intel computers -- from the desktop to the data center. Simplify your infrastructure and immediately expand your possibilities by putting your software in virtual machines.

ObjectPlanet

ObjectPlanet Inc. is a vendor of network monitoring tools, Java(tm) based software components, and online survey software. The main focus is on creating light weight easy-to-use software.

Allaire Corporation

Allaire Corporation is a leading provider of software products and services for companies building their business on the Web. Comprised of proven, award-winning technology, the Allaire Business Platform enables companies to conduct online commerce, strengthen customer and partner relationships, publish and personalize content, and automate key business processes.

Borland

Borland is a leading provider of technology used to develop, deploy, integrte, and manage software applications. Delivering best-in-class technology solutions dedicated to interoperability, Borland allows enterprises of all sizes to move into Web-based computing while leveraging legacy systems. The Borland Solution for Java includes the award-winning Borland JBuilder® IDE and Borland Enterprise Server, enabling organizations to increase productivity and deliver higher performance projects faster and on budget, while lowering total cost of ownership. To learn more, visit http://www.borland.com

Empirix

Empirix, Inc., the only provider of testing and monitoring products for business-critical Web, middleware, and voice applications, provides solutions that meet the rigorous quality demands set by the Internet and communications markets. Empirix is committed to developing and delivering industry-leading testing solutions for e-business and networked applications that assure the highest level of performance and scalability.

Fiorano Software Inc.

Fiorano Software is a leading provider of key e-business infrastructure technology that guarantees real-time delivery of mission-critical data over the Internet or any enterprise network. FioranoMQ EnterpriseT is the fastest , fully JMS compliant Java messaging server for guaranteed message delivery. The Multicast Edition of FioranoMQ gives developers a high availability solution for reliably delivering high-volumes of messages with no single point of failure.

Gemstone Systems

GemStone Systems, Inc. has today's platform for tomorrow's business-to-business Internet commerce applications and sites. GemStone's Java(tm) Success technology initiative provides e-businesses with faster time-to-market and enhanced competitive advantage for their Internet marketplaces.

IONA

IONA is a leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration. IONA Orbix E2A(TM), which consists of the Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform and Orbix E2A Application Server Platform, enables the flow of information across disparate systems and the liberation of application assets for new business opportunities. Founded in 1991, IONA (NASDAQ: IONA) is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company had revenues of $181 million in 2001 and employs more than 900 people in more than 30 offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com/.

ORACLE Corporation

Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. With annual revenues of more than $9.7 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.

Cape Clear

Cape Clear Software is automating the business Internet. Cape Clear's first product, CapeConnect, is an XML Business Server that provides the capability to create, compose, customize, and integrate Internet-based applications. With CapeConnect, popular J2EE and CORBA components can now be easily exposed as "Web services" to cooperate in collaborative business-to-business interactions. Cape Clear recently acquired Orbware for their J2EE Orcas technology.

Pramati

Pramati Technologies, based in Hyderabad, India but with significant operations in the U.S. and abroad, is a global provider of Java software development technology for small-to-medium sized businesses. Pramati Server and Studio together are a complete platform developers use to create and deploy applications based on Sun's Java 2 Enterprise Edition platform. Pramati is focused on addressing mid-market enterprises and ISVs who cannot compromise on compliance, performance and productivity, but at the same time require lower total cost of deployment.

Secant Technologies Inc.

Secant Technologies, Inc., provides expert solutions to extreme e-Business problems. Secant solutions are comprised of work-eliminating development tools, ultra high-performance application servers, and world-class education and consulting services. Secant solutions have received several prestigious awards including "Best Java Application Server" (Network Computing Real World Labs), "Best Middleware" (Java Developer's Journal), "Best Intranet/Internet Application" (Application Development Trends Magazine), and "Top 50 Oracle Partner" (Oracle Corporation).

Tower Technology

Established in 1992, Tower is a technology leading provider of advanced object-oriented language compilers and virtual machine runtime environments, and related services. Since 1996 Tower has been focused on high performance deployment solutions for Java server applications. Tower allows organization to get the full benefits of Java without having to sacrifice performance, reliability or manageability.

Unify Corporation

Unify Corporation is a leading provider of Internet and end-to-end e-commerce solutions that enable businesses to create online trading communities quickly and cost effectively. Unify technology enables corporations to seamlessly integrate business processes into a Web environment to support new business-to-business and business-to-consumer online initiatives.

ActiveScript

ActiveScript provides Utility EJB components for deployment in business applications. Currently available components include: an FTP bean for sending and retrieving both binary and text data; a full featured mail client that supports attachments, foreign character sets and HTML format emails; and a clusterable unique sequence generator for use in EJB primary keys.

AdventNet

AdventNet empowers rapid enterprise-specific management of business processes, applications and infrastructure. With the first and only Sun-certified independent JMX implementation, AdventNet ManageEngine enables automatic exposure of application management information (pre- or post-deployment) without manual coding, through JMX and adaptors for SNMP, HTTP, SOAP, RMI etc. AdventNet Middleware Manager provides detailed end-to-end visibility into J2EE application performance, with root-cause analysis and custom dashboards. AdventNet has over 700 customers. Most major middleware vendors are its OEM partners.

Alachisoft

AlachiSoft provides TierDeveloper to help you cut down your middle-tier object development time by 40%. TierDeveloper is an object-to-relational mapping and code generation tool. Map your relational tables to your data objects, embed sophisticated SQL in them, and generate code for Enterprise Java Beans for Application Servers (iPlanet, WebLogic, WebSphere, and JBoss), .NET (C# and VB.NET), Windows MTS components (C++ or VB), and Java Objects.

Ashnasoft

Ashnasoft Corporation is the technology leader in standards-based Internet scale messaging platform. The company provides a rock solid & high performance server platform to support the widest range of clients. On the server side, the company's flagship product, AshnaMQ is the highest performing Java Message Service (JMS) implementation with no trade-off on reliability. On the client side, Ashnasoft is committed to extend its proven messaging technology to a variety of platforms. Today it is available on J2EE, J2SE and J2ME (mobile devices)."

Business Objects

Business Objects is the world's leading business intelligence (BI) software company. Business Objects enables organizations to track, understand, and manage enterprise performance. Popular uses of BI include enterprise reporting, management dashboards and scorecards, customer intelligence applications, financial reporting, and both customer and partner extranets.

ComponentSource

Founded in 1995, ComponentSource, pioneers of the open market for software components, established the world's largest business-to-business marketplace and software component community for EJB, COM, and CORBA. ComponentSource is the market place of choice for technical decision-makers involved in specifying, locating and procuring software components.

Compoze Software

Compoze Software, Inc., is a provider of EJB component-based products and solutions for today's emerging enterprise. Compoze Software's products drastically reduce the development time of new applications for companies where time-to-market is essential. Compoze's flagship Harmony Component Suite is critical to the development of applications that foster collaboration, such as CRM, sales-force automation, time tracking, and groupware.

Dirig Software

Dirig Software provides proactive eBusiness performance management solutions that help organizations protect revenue streams, resulting in increased profits, brand loyalty, and a better user experience. Founded in 1997, Dirig has emerged as a leader in the market with its industry acclaimed eBusiness management solution Fenway. Dirig has strategic partnerships with major industry leading organizations to help deliver on the mission of improving our customers' profitability and experience.

Ejip.Net

Ejip.Net provides an extremely robust and fully automated J2EE Web Deployment Service that combines the best vendor packages, with centralized control in a powerful application console. Ejip.Net dramatically simplifies hosting Enterprise Java systems by giving developers and organizations full control over their applications via a highly sophisticated browser interface--the Ejip.Net Console. The Ejip.Net Console provides dynamic control of Web and application servers, database servers, application monitoring, and naming services. Ejip.Net is the only J2EE environment offering advanced automation technologies that completely enable individual and corporate clients to outsource the system administration and production infrastructure of Java applications deployed on the Internet.

Ensodex

Ensodex, Inc. provides EAI, B2B, HIPAA, integration products and services. Ensodex's flagship product, Tupelo, is a composite application framework built on J2EE. Tupelo is a production-proven framework that was designed for building Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) applications that bring together disparate enterprise information systems in a short amount of time. The framework deploys on J2EE application servers but also is capable of running with only a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat. The Tupelo Framework speeds development by including a set of off-the-shelf components that follow the philosophy of configuring, not coding, wherever possible. Components are configured using XML.

Flashline

Flashline.com, Inc. is the industry leader in providing software component products, services and resources that facilitate the rapid development of software systems for business. Through our component portal, Flashline.com, Inc. provides an extensive marketplace of world-class JavaBeans", Enterprise JavaBeans", and COM components, quality assurance testing, auction-based outsourcing, an open component registry, and programming articles and resources.

M7 Corporation

When you're under pressure to deliver J2EE enterprise applications quickly, turn to M7. M7 is the proven application assembly platform that is the most productive way to deliver enterprise-quality applications. Component-based M7 masks the complexity of J2EE by allowing you to visually assemble applications from your existing enterprise data. www.m7.com

Netspective

The Sparx Application Platform™ simplifies the development of complex Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™ ) applications by integrating dozens of J2EE APIs in powerful, open, extensible packages and making them accessible through XML. Everyone, regardless of J2EE experience level, can now prototype, create, test, document, and deploy robust enterprise applications without repetitive coding of common business and infrastructure functions. The result is real application integration, with your existing and future databases, that costs less to maintain. To learn more please visit www.netspective.com

ObjectFrontier

FrontierSuite is a powerful JCA compliant persistence engine and a Model Driven Architecture (MDA) based platform for designing, developing and deploying both Java and J2EE applications. FrontierSuite for J2EE platform supports both EJB 1.1 and EJB 2.0. FrontierSuite's CMP can be plugged to industry leading EJB 2.0 compliant Application Servers and improve performance by up to 5000%. Built on industry standards, FrontierSuite provides a sophisticated and flexible development and deployment environment, and a powerful, highly configurable and scalable runtime environment (JMS based distributed caching).

ObjectVenture

ObjectVenture is dedicated to creating cutting-edge J2EE and reusable object technologies. Our products provide enterprise developers with the means to simplify and accelerate their J2EE development efforts. ObjectAssembler, our flagship product, is a comprehensive and visual J2EE development environment that supports framework, pattern, and component development. Our Roaming Wireless Framework extends any J2EE application server to easily wireless-enable J2EE applications in support of multiple wireless device types.

TechMetrix

TechMetrix Research is a technically-oriented analyst firm focused on e-business application development needs. TechMetrix Research has developed a unique evaluation approach to provide accurate information on software. Based in Boston, MA, the firm publishes comparison reports and product reviews, which are real helpers when it comes to making decisions, or simply keeping pace with the fast moving e-business market.

ThoughtInc

CocoBase Enterprise O/R is the leading O/R mapping tool, optimized for EJB and Java. CocoBase maps database tables, generates scaleable/high performance Java, CMP, BMP, JSP's. It also effortlessly deploys to all the most popular EJB J2EE application servers and IDE. Recent advances to the product allow transparent persistence over local and distributed environments and the integration of the popular UML/XMI compliant modeling tools (including Rational Rose and Together Control Center). Using Cocobase Enterprise O/R can cut the cost of development, deployment and maintenance of Java applications up to 85%.

Wakesoft

The Wakesoft Architecture Server is the first ready-to-deploy application architecture for J2EE. The product is a collection of 10 separate, but integrated, application frameworks for J2EE. The Wakesoft Frameworks solve complex J2EE problems and enable developers to focus on building their applications not their architecture. Wakesoft works with your existing J2EE environment including application servers, IDEs and modeling tools. Visit www.wakesoft.com to register for Webinar, request a White Paper, or learn more about application architecture.

WebGain Inc.

WebGain, Inc., automates the rapid creation, integration, and continuous improvement of enterprise-class e-business applications across a variety of application servers. WebGain Studio Professional, the company's flagship product, substantially reduces time to market for e-business applications and improves application completeness and quality. Privately held, WebGain, Inc., is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and is on the Web at www.webgain.com .

Whizlabs is a global leader in IT skill assessment and certification exam preparation. Whizlabs' suite of offerings include "IT certification exam simulators and online trainings" for various exams by Sun, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, BEA, Cisco and other leading IT vendors and "IT skill Assessment Management Solution" for Corporations, Training Institutes and Universities.

YASU Technologies

YASU Technologies provides reliable and scalable component-based solutions using J2EE technologies like EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), JSP, and other open technologies including XML. Its flagship product QuickRules, a business rules engine, reduces maintenance and enhancement costs by separating business rules from Java/J2EE applications. QuickRules includes an integrated development environment supporting business rule modeling, definition, and deployment. Visit www.yasutech.com to download a fully-functional free trail version. Contact rules-support@yasutech.com for any technical questions or evaluation support.

Application-Servers.com

Application-Servers.com is a French, quality informational resource for Enterprise Developers. Very similar to the scope and purpose to TheServerSide.com, Application-Servers.com is another useful place to keep up to date with J2EE news.

EjbInfo.com

EjbInfo.com is an information portal focused on the Websphere side of J2EE. Run by J2EE expert Billy Newport, EJBInfo.com regularly features useful techinical articles which TheServerSide.com often links to.

Enhydra.org

Enhydra.org is an open source community initially created by Lutris Technologies, Inc. It is similar to Apache, but with a focus on E-Business software revolving around the application server. Following the withdrawal of Lutris Technologies, the ObjectWeb Consortium has taken over sponsorship of Enhydra.org on June, 2002.

Javable.com

Javable.com is a quality Java Information portal targeted at Russian developers. Similar to TheServerSide.com in scope, Javable provides news, articles, reviews, etc.

javaHispano

javaHispano is a Java community geared towards spanish and latin people from all around the world. At javaHispano you can find daily news, articles, tutorials, discussion forums and resources aboud J2ME, J2SE and J2EE. javaHispano is intended for developers at a basic level to the advanced level. Feel free to visit and collaborate with us.

jMiddleware.com

EJB Expert Richard Monson-Haefel's jMiddleware.com provides a rich set of links to other sites, articles, and resources about different Java Middleware topics including J2EE, EJB, JMS, Servlets and JSP, and open source projects.

jRoundup.com

jRoundup.com is an online Java community that offers one of the largest collections of original or previously presented and published Java-related materials on the Web. Find what you want and need quickly. New content added daily. A great resource for the java developer. Visit: www.jRoundup.com

Object Watch

ObjectWatch offers several services to help make distributed objects work for you, including our classes. These give an overview of the architectural issues, the new algorithms you must understand to build distributed component based systems, the middle tier Microsoft technologies (COM+, MS-DTC, MSCS, and MSMQ), the relationship between these technologies and Microsoft's DNA architecture, the future of Microsoft technologies (COM+) and how COM+ compares to other work being done in the industry, especially Enterprise Java Beans and CORBA.

ObjectWeb Consortium

ObjectWeb is an open source software community created at the end of 1999 by France Telecom R&D, Bull and INRIA. Its goal is to develop innovative and coherent set of high-quality open source middleware components, including implementations of major relevant standards in the area of distributed systems (J2EETM, CORBATM, ...). Since 2002, ObjectWeb is organized as an open international consortium hosted by INRIA. ObjectWeb currently hosts projects such as: JOnAS, Jonathan, JORAM, JORM, JOTM, OpenCCM, ProActive and RmiJdbc.

WROX Dev Junction

The Wrox Dev Junction scheme is a new way for Wrox to support community sites and bring together the great resources available online in a central resource. At Wrox we pride ourselves on the high quality information that we provide. Our motto - Programmer to Programmer - reflects the way we work. We feel it is vitally important to forge close ties within the programming community, making sure that we are providing you with the information you need.