The immediate availability of the latest version of its flagship service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business integration software, Sun Java(TM) Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) 6, has been announced today by Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun also released a high performance and unified solution that gives users a single view of their customer data and helps them more effectively manage customer relationships, a new master data management (MDM) suite. The first SOA platform by a major technology provider built on open source is Java CAPS 6.

To create an infrastructure that is more agile and better aligned with the needs of their organizations today, users are able, with Java CAPS 6, to leverage existing and new IT investments. Java CAPS 6, a lightweight and extensible platform, lets users rapidly add and integrate components in a modular fashion. New enhancements to Java CAPS include: advanced event processing and business process management capabilities, a modular Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for rapidly coupling applications and alignment with latest versions of the Sun GlassFish(TM) Enterprise Server and NetBeans(TM) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software.

Because they will have a single view of their customer data across disparate systems, organizations that are struggling to acquire and retain customers will benefit from Sun's MDM suite. This can allow them to identify their most valuable customers, leverage information across their organizations, implement opportunities to cross-sell and up-sell products and help reduce operational costs. Expanding the visibility of information and providing single “customer” views, whether the customer is a consumer, patient, citizen, subscriber or even another business, Sun's MDM suite works across multiple industries.

Senior manager, Carrefour Group, Frank Lacroix, declared: "By leveraging the large adoption of the open source community, Java CAPS and the underlying GlassFish runtime environment give us high performance, stability, high availability, and strong operational management facilities."