Vincent Perrot

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

 

BEA Systems		Ericsson Inc.		Goswami, Subrata
Motorola		NEC Corporation		Nokia Corporation
Oracle		Sun Microsystems, Inc.		Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

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This JSR was completed under JCP 2.1/JSPA 1.

Original Java Specification Request (JSR)

Identification | Request | Contributions | Additional Information

Original Summary: This JSR will specify the set of APIs, which are common across the OSS through Java JSRs. This will provide consistency by reducing duplication of common interfaces and classes among these JSRs.

Section 1. Identification

Submitting Member: Sun Microsystems, Inc

Name of Contact Person: Daniel Lutoff

E-Mail Address: daniel.lutoff@sun.com

Telephone Number: +33 4 76 18 82 50

Fax Number: +33 4 76 18 83 50

Specification Lead: Daniel Lutoff

E-Mail Address: daniel.lutoff@sun.com

Telephone Number: +33 4 76 18 82 50

Fax Number: +33 4 76 18 83 50

Initial Expert Group Membership:

Co-Submitting Member: BEA
Name of Contact Person: saify Lanewala
E-mail: saify.lanewala@bea.com

Co-Submitting Member: Ericsson
Name of Contact Person: Stefan Aberg
E-mail: stefan.aberg@emw.ericsson.se
Telephone Number: +46 31 747 1997
Fax Number: +46 31 747 2942

Co-Submitting Member: Motorola
Name of Contact Person: David Raymer
E-mail: David.Raymer@motorola.com

Co-Submitting Member: Nokia
Name of Contact Person: Stefan Vaillant
E-mail: Stefan.Vaillant@nokia.com
Telephone Number: +49 211 9412
Fax Number: +49 211 9412 3988

Co-Submitting Member: Nortel Networks
Name of Contact Person: Pierre Gauthier
E-Mail: yaic@nortelnetworks.com
Telephone Number: +1 613 763 2281
Fax Number: +1 613 765 7387

Co-Submitting Member: NEC
Name of Contact Person: Shingo Fukui
E-Mail Address: s-fukui@ax.jp.nec.com

Co-Submitting Member: Telcordia Technologies
Name of Contact Person: Rick Porter
E-mail: fdpo@research.telcordia.com
Telephone Number: +1 973 829 4490
Fax Number: +1 973 829 5981

Section 2: Request

2.1 Please describe the proposed Specification:

The OSS through Java initiative (OSS/J) is focused on the operations and business support systems ("back office systems") of service providers. The OSS/J APIs are targeted at OSS developers within network equipment vendors, independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators, and service providers.

There are currently three different OSS/J JSRs which are in, or completing, public review (OSS Service Activation API -JSR 89-, OSS Quality of Service API -JSR 90- and OSS Trouble Ticket API -JSR 91-). In addition, two new OSS/J JSRs (OSS IP Billing API -JSR 130- and OSS Inventory API -JSR 142) have been initiated and the initiative expects more OSS/J JSRs to initiate in the near future.

As a result of tight collaboration among the members of the OSS/J initiative, these JSRs have a consistent architecture and they share common design patterns. As a result, they have common base interfaces and classes, such as data types and exception definitions.

This specification will document and specify these common base interfaces and classes to avoid duplication of these interfaces and classes in each of the above OSS/J JSRs and to maintain consistency of these interfaces and classes across these JSRs.

2.2 What is the target Java platform? (i.e., desktop, server, personal, embedded, card, etc.)

The target platform for this JSR (and abovementioned OSS/J JSRs) is Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

2.3 What need of the Java community will be addressed by the proposed specification?

This specification will address the need to provide standardization conventions allowing interoperability of OSS components and reducing the cost of their integration in an end-to-end OSS solution.

2.4 Why isn't this need met by existing specifications?

Currently, no existing J2EE specification provides a standard Common OSS API. Existing OSS APIs need a common JSR to capture these common interfaces and classes to avoid duplication of classes and code in each OSS/J API and maintain consistency across OSS/J APIs.

2.5 Please give a short description of the underlying technology or technologies:

The OSS/J APIs, including the OSS Common APIs will be based on standard J2EE services. The most important J2EE APIs for this JSR will be the following:

EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans). To facilitate the integration of OSS components, the OSS/J APIs will define standard EJB interfaces.

JMS (Java Message Service) Besides the ability to execute synchronous (EJB) methods calls, there is also a need to send asynchronous messages. For this, JMS is being considered to be most viable.

2.6 Is there a proposed package name for the API Specification? (i.e., javapi.something, org.something, etc.)

The API will have one or several packages and the prefix for all packages will be "javax.oss".

2.7 Does the proposed specification have any dependencies on specific operating systems, CPUs, or I/O devices that you know of?

The specification has no dependency on operating systems, CPUs, or I/O devices.

2.8 Are there any security issues that cannot be addressed by the current security model?

None anticipated.

2.9 Are there any internationalization or localization issues?

None anticipated.

2.10 Are there any existing specifications that might be rendered obsolete, deprecated, or in need of revision as a result of this work?

Once this JSR reaches final release, the three more mature OSS related APIs (JSR 89, JSR 90 and JSR 91) will be updated to reference the common OSS JSR. Newer OSS JSRs (JSR 130 and JSR 142) will depend on this JSR for common base interfaces and classes.

2.11 Please describe the anticipated schedule for the development of this specification.

Community Review September 2001
Public Review Closed 19 December 2001
Proposed Final Draft 28 January 2002
Final Approval Ballot 11 February 2002
Final Release 25 February 2002

2.12 Please describe the anticipated working model for the Expert Group working on developing this specification.

We believe this aggressive schedule can be achieved because this JSR's expert group will draw from the experts of the abovementioned OSS/J JSRs. These experts have already worked collaboratively to agree on a common architecture and base infrastructure for JSR 89, JSR 90 and JSR 91. Many of the common interfaces and classes that will be included in this JSR have already been specified and reviewed via JSR 89, JSR 90, and JSR 91.

Section 3: Contributions

3.1 Please list any existing documents, specifications, or implementations that describe the technology. Please include links to the documents if they are publicly available.

OSS Service Activation (JSR 89)
OSS Quality of Service (JSR 90)
OSS Trouble Ticket (JSR 91)
OSS IP Billing (JSR 130)
OSS Inventory API (JSR 142)

3.2 Explanation of how these items might be used as a starting point for the work.

This specification will start with the results of the above mentioned JSR specifications.