Standards
One of IONA's driving principles as a provider of high performance, distributed interoperability solutions for mission-critical computing is to deliver to our customers the value inherent in relevant industry standards such as CORBA, Web services, Java, and others.
IONA's technical staff closely monitors and provides necessary influence at a variety of leading industry forums, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), the Java Community Process (JCP), Object Management Group (OMG), Telecommunications Management Forum (TMF), Web Services Interoperability (WS-I), the Microsoft/IBM Web Services Workshop Process, and the Open Service Oriented Architecture's Service Component Architecture (SCA).
CORBA
CORBA is, by many measures, the most successful distributed computing standard ever developed and deployed. Thousands of large organizations depend daily upon CORBA and CORBA-enabled service-oriented architectures (SOA) to process financial transactions, route and manage telephone and other network traffic, and manufacture a wide range of goods.
IONA is a longstanding member of the Object Management Group (OMG) and significantly contributed to virtually every key CORBA specification used by real-world applications, including IIOP, CSI_V2, OTS, C++ language bindings, ORB Core, Naming, Portable Object Adapter (POA), and others.
Many of these key CORBA specifications also have been adopted by the JCP into Java Enterprise Edition-compliant application servers, including the Java Transaction Service (JTS), based on OTS, RMI/IIOP for interoperability, JNDI for directory services, and CSI_V2 within the Java AA Security service.
Web services
Web services specifications such as SOAP, WSDL, and the WS-* family are currently the leading distributed computing standards for interfacing, interoperability, and quality of service policies. Web services are often called "CORBA for the Web" because of their many derivative concepts and ideas.
IONA has been active in Web services standardization from the beginning. IONA was part of the vendor team that submitted SOAP, XKMS, SOAP with Attachments, and WSDL to the W3C. Members of IONA's staff continue to be actively involved in the development of many major Web services standards, including SOAP, WSDL, WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-BPEL, WS-Transactions (WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-Coordination, and WS-BusinessActivity), WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Secure Exchange, to name only a few.
IONA has actively participated in Web services related working groups and technical committees at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). We also participate, wherever possible, in the Web Services Workshop process sponsored by Microsoft and IBM.
Together with our partners, IONA delivers configurable, high performance Web services based solutions for SOA, integration, and interoperability, including reliability, security, and transactionality for our customers. The value of these standards is obtained through cost effective deployment of IONA's industry leading technology and proven services. IONA's distributed, microkernel container quickly and easily provides the value of Web services to a wide variety of industries, applications, and solutions.
Java Community Process
For several years, IONA has participated in Java Specification Request (JSR)s relevant to high performance distributed computing. IONA's contribution to the JCP centers around the adaptation of relevant CORBA and Web services specifications to the Java Enterprise Environment, including interoperability, transactions, management, directory service, security services, and various APIs for Web services, such as registry, JAX-RPC, JAX-WS, JWSDL, JAXB, JAXM, etc.
Telecommunications
IONA's long-standing heritage in the telecommunications industry includes active participation in developing key standards within organizations such as the TeleMangement Forum (TMF), Parlay, and 3GPP.
For example, the Multi Technology Network Management (MTNM) standard developed by the TMF is based on CORBA, and members of IONA's technical staff contributed significantly to the specification. It is a widely adopted network management standard among service providers, many of whom use IONA products for its implementation.
The Multi-Technology Operation Systems Interface (MTOSI) is a Web services based TMF standard that allows providers to leverage existing infrastructure to deliver new services based on SOA. IONA is actively involved in driving the MTOSI standards and its adoption. Key service provider and equipment vendors use IONA products to deploy solutions based on MTOSI.
The Parlay group defines standards such as 'Parlay OSA' and 'Parlay X' that allow mobile operators to build services based on APIs that are standards-based. Among the two Parlay gateway standards, Parlay OSA is CORBA based and Parlay X is based on Web services. IONA is actively involved in driving the Parlay standards and its joint submission of the 'Parlay WS' specification, an improvement to the coarse grained 'Parlay X' standard, with Marconi and AePONA has been accepted as a standard.
Financial Services
IONA is on several financial messaging standards bodies including FpML. The Artix Data Services product provides rich support for many financial services data models including SWIFTNet FIN, SWIFTSolutions, SEPA, ISO20022, FpML, DTCC Deriv/SERV, SwapsWire, TWIST, CREST and FIX.
Open SOA
IONA was invited to join the Service Component Architecture effort as founding members. IONA staff are active in this current effort in all its major areas, including assembly metadata (which is used in the Eclipse SOA Tools Platform project), policy, and language implementations for Java, COBOL, and C.
The goal of the SCA family of specifications is to simplify the deployment and assembly of Web services into SOA based applications. SCA defines a component model for service oriented computing that highlights a strong policy configuration component, and includes the ability to assemble components developed in multiple programming languages, including Java, BPEL, C++, COBOL, PHP, and others.
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