JOLAP Interface Specification Nears Final Draft Under Java Community Process(SM) (JCP)

By reusing both the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) and Java Metadata Interface (JMI) as the foundations for an operational API for OLAP systems deployed in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE (TM)) environment, JOLAP provides an open standards-based approach to advanced analytics and bus...

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Published in:PR Newswire p. 1
Format: Newsletter
Language:English
Published: New York PR Newswire Association LLC 25.11.2002
Subjects:
Alliances
Application programming interface
Business analytics
Business intelligence software
Chief technology officers
Cost control
Customers
Initiatives
Internet
Interoperability
Java
Metadata
Open standards
Performance management
Trademarks
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California
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Summary:By reusing both the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) and Java Metadata Interface (JMI) as the foundations for an operational API for OLAP systems deployed in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE (TM)) environment, JOLAP provides an open standards-based approach to advanced analytics and business performance management. This enhances the capabilities of any analytic application client to readily integrate with OLAP services that support the JOLAP interface. JOLAP is designed to be the OLAP counterpart of the highly successful JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) Application Programming Interface (API) for data managed by relational databases. The Java community will benefit from a single, industry-standard API that makes it possible to create business analysis applications that can be deployed across any JOLAP-compliant OLAP data resource. Vendors of OLAP servers supporting the JOLAP standard will be able to implement a standard API that will be readily usable by a wide range of applications and components running on the Java platform. Initially proposed by Hyperion (Nasdaq: HYSL), JOLAP was quick to gain the support of Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL), Unisys (NYSE: UIS), and other vendors who are working with Hyperion within the JCP Program. JOLAP leverages the widely endorsed CWM, providing interoperability between data warehousing and e-business tools, applications and repositories based on Object Management Group ( http://www.omg.org/ ) open standards specifications. JOLAP also incorporates the recently completed JMI standard, which provides a standards-based access mechanism for managing metadata in the Java(TM) and J2EE(TM) environment.