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Voyager Edge™ Intelligent Distributed Computing Platform Connect Windows, Linux, Symbian (CDC) and other mobile OSs with a single API and unrivaled location-based peer-to-peer/group collaboration

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Put a Server in Your Pocket The hype surrounding the mobile communications platforms is easy to identify, however finding apps that truly revolutionize the way we live are paradoxically in short supply. True next-generation applications will be pervasive and impact every aspect of our lives: how we work, learn, communicate, receive medical care, shop, play, protect ourselves and defend our nation. These applications will open up a new world of business opportunities for the entrepreneur and established corporations alike. Gartner predicts a future of mobile 'ambient business', where consumers explore their environment to find relevant value propositions. Data will be selectively pushed to the user based on context, matching the users' needs, interests, mood, location and even recent behavior. Location, combined with personal presence, creates transient communities, which offers an opportunity for better use of [wireless] time or marketing. -- Nick Jones, Gartner Says Corporate Mobility Becomes Mainstream and Outlines the Shape of the Future with Mobile Business 2.0, April 3, 2006 Creating Intelligent Distributed Device Communities Next-generation Mobile 2.0 applications must reach beyond the internet into embedded and mobile devices that communicate and share knowledge with other devices. Future apps will power wireless learning machines that know the user's behaviors and habits, and based on the user's state (location, work or play, time/day, etc) these devices will be able to deduce the user's needs and proactively deliver information without requiring the user to perform an active search. Such devices must run on multiple wireless networks, as well as embedded or wireless (edge) devices while maintaining interoperability with many different enterprise systems. Voyager Edge is that next-generation platform that will enable the development of these new applications and extend legacy applications into the future. Intelligence: Beyond Client-Server Voyager Edge's takes social and business networking to the next level by creating dynamic ad-hoc device communities with guaranteed peer-to-peer, peer-to-group and peer-to-enterprise messaging. Applications can transcend the traditional client-server model so that each device is intelligent, transactional and communicates peer-to-peer and peer-to-group without the need for centralized servers. Voyager Edge's reliable messaging capabilities eliminate a single point of failure, which is a significant weakness of client-server frameworks. The inclusion of dynamic registration to and discovery from a decentralized, federated “yellow pages”, or agent service description, in addition to the long-supported white pages integration enables location-based intelligence and content delivery. Based on a user-defined profile, a Voyager application can proactively deliver information without waiting for the user to request information. These unique capabilities are designed for highly distributed networks, such as telephone carriers, dynamic gaming providers, malls, stadiums, parks, transportation networks, or any other entity that needs to push and receive information and communicate with all Wi-Fi enabled devices that have subscribed to them. Mobility: Freedom from the Enterprise Voyager Edge offers powerful edge-to-enterprise integration within widely distributed heterogeneous environments with the advantage of Voyager's minimal footprint, which is essential to constrained wireless and embedded environments. This is accomplished though simplified JMS messaging transactions via transparently remote components and a single API that can publish and subscribe messages to any device, including PDAs, Smartphones, sensors, laptops, and servers, regardless of which virtual machine - Java VM or .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) - they are running on, or moving to. Voyager Edge liberates software from any communication or device constraints to introduce coordinated knowledge sharing, problem solving and transactions that span dynamically assembled device communities. Furthermore, Voyager's “yellow pages capability open up a whole new world of micro commerce through location-based, dynamic, ad-hoc content delivery. Interoperability: Java to .Net Next generation applications are characterized by seamless integration with .NET, JEE and legacy (MVS, CORBA, etc.) enterprise systems and services, and any combination thereof, in either a traditional Web Services architecture, or in a high performance manner. These Mobile 2.0 applications may often need to communicate with more than one enterprise or organization. With Voyager, developers can rapidly build intelligent mobile applications to run on multiple wireless devices and networks, while maintaining interoperability with many heterogeneous enterprise systems. Most recently, Voyager added sophisticated messaging capabilities that bridge any Java Message Service (JMS) compliant service with Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ), giving each platform access to the each other's architecture on any embedded or edge device. Classes written in Java, C#, VB.NET and Managed C++ can be turned into mobile agents without any modification. Beyond the Internet: Building Location-Based Services for Multi-platform Device Communities Get White Paper at Dr Dobbs Journal Building a Mobile 2.0 World: Information and Process Sharing within Wireless Ad-Hoc Communities Download White paper More Voyager Edge White Papers

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Voyager Edge User Guides
The Voyager Edge User Guide and Feature Specific Guides provide in-depth, feature rich discussion on using Voyager to solve your distributing computing and enterprise performance issues.
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Additional Resources:
Voyager Architecture Best Practices This paper describes some architectural best practices when developing software systems with Voyager in the context of Voyager features and capabilities. Go to White Papers
Voyager - SOA without all the Framework Baggage This paper discusses using Voyager to solve problems without wasting your time learning overly complex SOA code and configurations. Go to White Papers
High Volume Transaction Processing in Enterprise Applications As part of Recursion Software's Adaptive Technology Approach, our products support a binary protocol in addition to the standard Web Services protocols. This paper documents the performance and scalability of Voyager's binary protocol (Release 4.8). Go to White Papers

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Voyager Edge™

Voyager Edge is characterized by the following features: Seamless integration between Java and .NET with no additional coding required Communicate with other nodes using SOAP, IIOP, XML-RPC, RMI and our own extremely fast, secure, binary protocol VRMP Exposed as a Remote Component (accessible via protocols above), with just 2 lines of code, for access from any client language - requires no changes to pre-existing classes Publish and subscribe to any combination of enterprise JMS and MSMQ Servers Run on a wide range of wireless/handheld/embedded devices via support for 15 embedded operating systems Register and be discovered via decentralized, federated white and yellow page services Communicate with dynamically created groups of nodes, a.k.a peer-groups using its decentralized messaging service Easily integrated with RETE-based rules and Database engines Managed via any JMX-complaint console (jconsole, mc4j) using an extensive set of JMX-based Components and API's Run on any combination of IPV4 and IPV6 networks

Customer Accolades
“We've been using Voyager for more than two years. It is a mission-critical component of our development tool set. Not only is the product exceptional, but their technical staff is extremely responsive and knowledgeable as well. They are on top of JAVA development in a big way. Voyager is reasonably priced and as a result we continue use it more and more in product development. The fact that Voyager integrates CORBA and the recent addition of SOAP and COM make it even more attractive.”-- Hunnu Huhdanpaa, Development Manager CES International “With Voyager Messaging, it's message-oriented middleware (MOM) product for J2EE, Recursion Software has joined the select ranks of companies like BEA, HP, IBM and Sonic Software. ”-- Rick Wayne, Software Development Magazine “Over the years, Voyager is the only software package we have used through several newer versions of our product, multiple updates to the Java language, and several operating systems changes without significant porting or compatibility problems. We deploy on almost all Windows platforms, and several versions of Sun Solaris™ and Voyager works without noticeable difference on all of them, even in mixed networks. Deployment itself is easy since you only have to package a few libraries.”-- Richard Spaninks, Development Manager Invensys Systems. N.V.