Databases
The Sun Mobility Platform Telematics demo, co-developed by Oracle and Sun, was showcased at Oracle Open World this week. It was shown as part of a presentation on Monday and at the Berkeley DB (BDB) booth for the rest of the week. The demo shows a simulation of vehicles synchronizing events collected on a local database (BDB) to a back-end Oracle database. Events collected from vehicle sensors are stored in an embedded BDB database and periodically synchronized; in addition, critical events are reported immediately using the capabilities of the Mobile platform. A JavaFX front-end was developed to increase the demo's coolness factor. There's a link to a short screencast in this blog.
Mobility
As Ryan described in his recent blog, we now have support for Java SE clients in the Mobility Platform. Mahesh Sharma, a student and Sun ambassador in India, has been working on a port of this library to the Android platform. As part of his work, Mahesh also ported the UI of our MusicDb demo and has proven that Android is a great plaform to run SGMP applications.
Community
The Mobility Platform team has been working on a number of new features and enhancements since the release of GlassFish Mobility Platform v1.1 in February 2009. One of those features is the ability to run the Mobility Platform software on top of Glassfish ESB. There is a clear synergy between the Mobility Platform and Glassfish ESB. The former is all about mobilizing the enterprise, while the latter is about integration of enterprise and legacy information systems. By running the Mobility Platform on top of Glassfish ESB, as opposed to just Glassfish, it is possible to write enterprise connectors that sit on the enterprise bus and can mobilize all sorts of information systems.
