Communications Features

SIP Communicator in Google Summer of Code 2009

Emil Ivov — 2008-03-24

The SIP Communicator project has once again been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code program as a part of its 2009 edition. If you're a student and you want to write open source this summer (and get a paid to do so ;) ) pick up one of the SIP Communicator summer of code projects. Deadline for applications is April 3!.

Accendia Iris Server 2.3 Released

Emil Ivov — 2008-04-12

Accendia Iris Server is a complete communications solution for developing Java client/server applications. At core the technology implements RPC calls over a bidirectional wire protocol with the following key features:

Binary wire protocol designed to reduce CPU cycles used to marshal and unmarshal messages and the volume of data transferred;
Non-blocking sockets solution with a fixed number of processing threads;
Server memory footprint <15Mb;
Callback invocations from the server are performed over the socket connection initiated by the client allowing the deployment of the client behind a firewall;
Support for asynchronous client invocations, meaning the client is not waiting for a response from the server, allows fast data uploads from the client to the server and reduces the volume of data transferred on the network;
A downstreaming mechanism for downloading large hierarchical data structures from the server without creating large buffers;
Integrated authentication and access control;
Support for client session and application lifecycle management.

SIP Communicator in Google Summer of Code 2008

Emil Ivov — 2008-03-18

The SIP Communicator project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2008 edition of Google Summer of Code. If you're a student and you want to write open source this summer (and get a stipend to do so) pick up one of the SIP Communicator summer of code projects. Deadline extended until Monday, April 7!.

Incubator graduation for JDiameter

Emil Ivov — 2007-11-06

Congratulations to the JDiameter project for their graduation and promotion out of the incubator. JDiameter is API and default implementation of the Diameter protocol (based on RFC 3588) written in Java. API can be used for commercial realizations of a stack and appendices such as NASREQ (RFC 4005), EAP-based authentication (RFC 4072), Credit-Control (RFC 4006), or even some of the 3GPP applications (Sh, Ro, Cx and ets.).

SIP Communicator 1.0-alpha2 Released

Emil Ivov — 2007-03-11

After almost a year of development the SIP Communicator team is proud to announce that the 1.0-alpha2 release is now available for download. Among other things the alpha2 release adds to SIP Communicator the following features:

Support for new protocols such as SIP (SIMPLE), Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Bonjour, Jingle,
Support for IRC and Jabber chat rooms (work in progress)
Support for RSS flows
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Support for avatars and contact photos
More reliable configuration and meta contact list files

Many other new features have been added, improved, and stabilized, so go and see for yourself!

Many other new features have been added, improved, and stabilized, so go and see for yourself! All the target milestones scheduled for the alpha2 release have been reached and the issues closed.

Incubator graduation for JeNet

Emil Ivov — 2007-03-19

Congratulations to project JeNet, for its promotion out of the incubator. JeNet is an all Java implementation of the eNet network protocol.
Features:

100% Java eNet port (no native libaries).
UDP based.
Reliable/unreliable and sequenced/unsequenced packet sending.
Fully interoperable with the original eNet library.
Content agnostic.
Configurable outgoing/incoming bandwidths.
Built-in ping.
Multiple channels/peer.

SIP Communicator in Google Summer of Code 2007

Emil Ivov — 2007-03-15

The SIP Communicator project has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code. If you're a student and you want to write open source this summer (and get a stipend to do so) pick up one of the SIP Communicator summer of code projects. The deadline for joining is March 24.

Release and incubator graduation for the Meldware Communication Suite

Emil Ivov — 2007-02-26

Buni releases Meldware Communication Suite 1.0M7. Meldware is a Java-based, multi-platform, Groupware suite which includes an Email server (IMAP/SMTP/POP), Calendar Server (iCal and soon WCAP), WebMail/WebCalendar (Flash), and Graphical Administration tool. Meldware makes extensive use of Java techologies not for the love of Java but for the promise of write once and read anywhere including Java EE, Java WebStart, and JAAS. Meldware's software is developed collaboratively between java.net and Buni.org open source communities guided by the Buni vision and Do-ocratic software develoment principals. Meldware's support for multiple platforms, extensibility, programming model, ease of administration/installation, bias for open standards and technologies will make its upcoming 1.0 release (when combined with Mozilla's Thunderbird + Lightning) a frontrunner to challenge Microsoft's Exchange platform. No more PST files!

Sun's Content Delivery Server becomes OpenCDS

Emil Ivov — 2007-01-24

Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that it is releasing its Sun Java(TM) System Content Delivery Server to the open source community. Content Delivery Server is a mobile content delivery and management platform that enables mobile operators to launch and sustain content services more cost-effectively. The source code is available today under the the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) at http://opencds.dev.java.net/.

By sharing Content Delivery Server with the open source community, Sun will expand the product's footprint to a wider market. Increased ubiquity for Content Delivery Server means more systems integrators (SIs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) will engage on the Content Delivery Server platform, increasing the available options. Sun will continue to be a key driver behind product development, product roadmap, marketing and building the community. Access to the source code enables the customer or SI to enhance and customize OpenCDS to meet their needs.

Demo Available:
Myocds.net is a demonstration portal for mobile content delivery based on the Open Content Delivery Server (OpenCDS) project (https://opencds.dev.java.net/pages/demo/). This is a subproject under OpenCDS driven by community involvement. Myocds.net demonstrates the continued innovation and vitality of the OpenCDS project.

SIP Communicator 1.0-alpha1 Released

Emil Ivov — 30/12/2006

After more than a year of intensive development the SIP Communicator project team is proud to announce a very first alpha1 release which is now available for download. The release offers support for instant messaging and presence for the Jabber, MSN and ICQ protocols, as well as support for 1 to 1 phone calls with SIP. The application is available in packages for Windows, Linux (Fedora, Debian and others), and Mac OS X.

Gartner starts serious coverage of event driven architectures

2006-03-20

Gartner published a new research document titled: "Cool Vendors in Platform Middleware, Event-Driven Application Servers, 2006". The paper is written by Massimo Pezzini and Yefim V. Natis. Yefim is a well known researcher in the middleware space. The abstract reads:

Event-driven application servers are among the most-innovative evolutions in application platforms. Although still leading-edge technology, several commercial products, such as those from jNETx, OpenCloud and WareLite, are emerging in the market.

The paper also mentions Mobicents as a viable Open Source alternative for JSLEE containers.

JBAN Project Graduates out of the incubator

2006-02-25

Congratulations to the JBAN project, which made a beta release with binaries and basic documentation. If you are interested in bluetooth on mobile phones, take a look at it.
Using JSR82 Bluetooth discovery agent and MIDP connection framework, JBAN allows unlimited devices to form a network dynamically, and the devices can be of any type as long as they support Java and Bluetooth.

A SEA Change towards IP Convergence

2006-02-06

Rakesh Radhakrishnan at the Sun Microsystems Telco division, published a paper on IP Convergence. Rakesh attempts to align major Industry Standards Initiatives within what is known as the "Communications Media and Entertainment" - CME Industry that enables Open Architectures in a Converged IP Centric World. CME includes all traditional Wireless (Cingular, Vodafone, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, etc.), Wireline/Telcos (Verizon Communications, SBC, BT, etc.) Cable (Cox, Comcast, etc.), Content (Disney, TW, etc.), Media and Entertainment Initiatives around IPTV, VOD, Digital Music, VOIP, etc. Follow the link to read the full paper.

Insider look at 'Open IMS'

2005-11-24

IMS Insider explores the subject of a community driven Open IMS platform where industry players pool resources for the mutual benefit of greater ecosystem, faster time to market and better interoperability.

Aepona Announces Full Complement of JAVA Support

2005-10-27

Telecommunications Software Firm Works with Mobicents To Develop Open Source Parlay Resource Adapters for JAIN-SLEE

Mobicents Examples 1.0 Beta 1 Released

2005-10-02

A set of practical examples is released to accompany the Mobicents server and IDE. The examples in this release feature a comprehensive Resource Adaptor Tutorial by Michael Maretzke and a practical SLEE Wake Up Call service by Francesco Moggia. Download here.

Mobicents EclipSLEE 1.0 Beta 1 Released!

2005-10-01

This is the first public binary release of the Open Source SLEE tool. It allows rapid creation, development and deployment of SLEE services. Read the Getting Started Guide and try it out.

Mobicents Server 1.0b1 Released!

2005-09-24

1.0b1 is the first beta quality release of Mobicents. At this point the core engine is reasonably stable with support for auto deployment, persistence and basic High Availability. The performance is also acceptable for a wide range of applications except for high end carrier grade deployments. In the near future the team plans for more testing and tuning of scalability. New practical examples and an HA testing framework are also in the works. A few more beta releases are expected in the coming months before 1.0 final.

Open Cloud contributes IDE to Mobicents

2005-08-16

Open Cloud generously contributed a fully functional SLEE development tool to the Mobicents project. The tool is an Eclipse plugin, which simplifies the process of creating and deploying VoIP services. Result of several years of research and development, this contribution represents a significant investment by the leading SLEE vendor to the Open Source community. https://eclipslee.dev.java.net/
The Mobicents team greatly appreciates the contribution and is looking forward to continue the productive relationship with Open Cloud.
Both teams are also starting collaborative work on standardizing the SIP Resource Adaptor Type and Service Building Blocks so that SIP applications are interoperable between the two popular SLEE platforms - Mobicents and Rhino.
http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=1155&tstart=0
http://www.mobicents.org
http://www.opencloud.com/slee/intro.html

Mobicents performs

2005-08-06

Ranga, Fran, Leon and the rest of the team achieved dramatic performance enhancements in July. Mobicents reached 6 cps (calls per second) tested with SIPP. This is easily satisfying the requirements of any SMB PBX. Next milestone is carrier grade performance and high availability. The sub-project of focus now is High Availability Demo.

Wonderful things happen at JavaOne - Java PBX appliance is born!

2005-06-28

The introduction of Mobicents - the first open source JAIN SLEE implementation and JBox - the first Java SE capable embedded device result in the First Java PBX appliance prototype.

Mobicents - The First and Only Open Source Implementation of JAIN SLEE celebrates 1.0 Certification

2005-06-21

The Mobicents team announced availability of of Mobicents 1.0a - the first and only fully certified open source implementation of the JAIN-SLEE 1.0 standard for event oriented applications. JAIN-SLEE is a container standard much like EJB that is suited for a wide variety of event-oriented applications such as IP Telephony Servies, Distributed Interactive Simulation, online gaming, monitoring and control.

JAIN SLEE, SIP Servlets, and Parlay/OSA

2005-06-08

Three emerging VoIP middleware standards aiming at the Service Delivery Platform for Next Generation Intelligent Networks. Do you know how they relate to each other? Read the article and share your thoughts.