ScalAgent Distributed Technologies is a startup company spin-off
from INRIA and Bull, which aims at
developing and market advanced mediation solutions for large-scale Internet business infrastructure and
applications. Scalagent is the main developer and integrator for JORAM.
Collaborations
The Joseph Fourier university and the
LIG Lab have strong collaborations with Scalagent
concerning JORAM. The current research collaborations concern the following topics:
The performance evaluation of JORAM on a private cloud,
The design and implementation of an auto-scalable cloud messaging service,
JORAM improvement.
The LIG lab and ScalAgent are currently involved in the ANR INFRA ctrl-green and in the
FSN OpenCloudWare.
UJF/LIG contact: Noel De Palma
Sponsors and main user
France Telecom R&D is the main sponsor of many advanced
functions in Joram:
Clustering facilities,
High Availability Joram Server,
AMQP and JMS bridge,
WebSphere and WebLogic resources adapter.
The french space agency (CNES) uses Joram as main transport for its
new generation of Space Monitoring and Control (SM&C) middleware.
Bull is the main sponsor of the JCA1.5 Resource Adapter included in Joram
since version 4.1.
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has supported
Joram through many research projects. Currently ScalAgent D.T. is partner of 2 projects extending Joram:
SelfXL about Self-management of compleX
and Large scale systems.
ITEmIS about definition of a new generation SOA enabling IT and Embedded
Integrated Systems.
Thales Services SAS uses Joram for its Phoebus
product line, a generic tool for monitoring ground segment for spacecraft.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the people at YourKit for providing us a free license
for YourKit Java profiler the industry leader in Java Profiling.
It will be very useful in optimizing future releases of Joram.
Bull was one of the initial contributors of the JORAM open source
JMS messaging platform.
The G.I.E. Dyade was a BULL/INRIA advanced research joint venture. Its goals was the conception and development
of new technological components for future information systems.
INRIA is the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control.
It is a scientific and technological institute operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the
Ministry of Industry.
