Java APIs for Integrated Networks

Java APIs for Integrated Networks (JAIN) is a collection of APIs based on Java technology that enable access to telephone and data networks. The company Sun Microsystems initiated this expansion of the Java platform in 1998 in order to be able to develop network services more quickly and easily. The JAIN Initiative, in which various providers from the telecommunications sector have come together, monitors the interface that is defined by the Java Specification Requests (JSR) in the Java Community Process (JCP).

See also

• JAIN SLEE - the specification of application servers for JAIN based applications.
• Parlay - a comparable collection of APIs, but independent of the programming language.
• Intelligent network - an architecture to implement value-added services in telephone networks.

Web links

• JAIN Reference (English)
• Opening Up Networks with JAIN Parlay - an article published in IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2000 (English; PDF file; 64 kB) (the article apparently no longer freely available)

Books

• Jain, Ravi; Bakker, John-Luc; & Anjum, Farooq (2004). Programming Converged Networks: Call Control in Java, XML and Parlay / OSA, Wiley Interscience, 2004. ISBN 0-471-26801-1
• Jepsen, Thomas C .; Anjum, Farooq; Bhar, Ravi Raj; Tait, Douglas (2001). "Java in Telecommunications: Solutions for Next Generation Networks" John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN 0-471-49826-2
• Mueller, Steve. APIs And Protocols For Convergent Network Services . McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN 0-07-138880-X