Jini Community Approves First Standard

The Jini Community Approves the ServiceUI API, Contributed by Artima Software and Developed Collaboratively with Over 40 Jini Community Members, as the First Standard Passed Through the New Jini Community Decision Process

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 7 -- The Jini Community has approved the ServiceUI Application Programming Interface (API), the first Jini Community standard that has passed through the Jini Community Decision Process (JDP). Contributed by Artima Software and collaboratively developed with over 40 Jini Community members, the ServiceUI API standardizes an approach for attaching multiple user interfaces to a single Jini service, allowing the service to be accessed by users with varying preferences and accessibility requirements on computers and devices with varying user interface capabilities.

"The Jini Community has developed into a vibrant, self-governing organization. Its structure was designed to foster broad market adoption, technical advancement and industry standardization around Jini technology," said Mark Bauhaus, vice president of Java Web services at Sun Microsystems. "The approval of this first Jini standard reflects the success of the JDP, the increasing use of Jini technology in many emerging and evolving markets, and a significant milestone in the growing maturity of the Jini platform."

"Automotive dealerships benefit from Jini's service-oriented architecture, because Jini's dynamic service discovery capability makes local area networks self-healing, which reduces system administration costs, and increases system uptime," said Frank Sommers, CEO of Autospaces, a commercial Jini technology licensee and ServiceUI user."Service UIs allow end-users to interact with Jini services through rich client user interfaces, and thus fill an important role in Jini's industry adoption."

Additional information on the ServiceUI API can be found at: http://serviceui.jini.org/

Additional information on the Jini Community and the JDP can be found at: http://www.jini.org/

About Artima Software, Inc.

Artima Software, Inc., a privately held corporation, is publisher of Artima.com, a popular developer community website. Through its innovation and leadership in selected open and community source projects, such as the ServiceUI API and Artima SuiteRunner(TM), an open source testing toolkit, Artima Software draws developers to Artima.com. Artima Software's developer community website can be found at: http://www.artima.com/

ServiceUI and SuiteRunner are trademarks of Artima Software, Inc. Jini is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.