Category: JAINSLEE

JAINSLEE – Developer and business benefits

JAIN SLEE is the Java open standard for a SLEE ( Service Logic Execution Environment ). It is a  Java programming language API for developing and deploying network services.

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 Evolution of Open- Standard Platform (JAINSLEE)

There is a strong evolution being seen in CSP space. Now operators are looking forward to implement the open standard for intelligent networks. It reduces their dependency on proprietary platforms and on vendor’s road maps. Open –source platform gives operator flexibility to develop their own applications without being dependent on vendor. An open, standards based, service logic execution environment (SLEE) that integrates with current and future networks is the key to providing innovative and revenue generating services. Providing one (standards based) carrier grade execution environment that integrates SS7, SIP, OSA/Parlay, OSS/BSS and J2EE environments offers significant benefits to operator.

Business benefits of SIP JAINSLEE based platform

  1. Network Independence: The JAIN SLEE framework is independent of any particular network protocol, API or network topology. This is supported through the resource adaptor architecture
  2. Portable Services: Application components can be developed and then deployed on JAIN SLEE compliant platforms from different vendors without recompilation or source code modification.
  3. Supports Complex Applications: JAIN SLEE application components can have state, can be composed from other components, can create and destroy other application components, can invoke other application components both synchronously and asynchronously, and can invoke resource adaptors.
  4. Industry Standard: JAIN SLEE is specified via the Java Community Process which allows multiple companies and individuals to collaborate in developing Java technology specifications.
  5. In order to reduce the operating cost of legacy infrastructure more and more operators are investing and implementing open source platform. These new platforms bring agility and new service delivery capability to CSP.
  6. The JAINSLEE based platform can be used to develop and deploy carrier-grade applications that use SS7-based protocols such as INAP and CAP, IP protocols such as SIP and Diameter, and IT / Web protocols, such as HTTP Servlet, XML and Service Orientated Architectures (SOA).

Fundamental Concepts :

  • Application can be written once and run on many different implementations of JAIN SLEE.
  • Applications can access resources and protocols across multiple networks from within the JAIN SLEE environment.
  • Follows the ACID transaction .
  • component model for structuring the application logic of communications applications as a collection of reusable
  • object-orientated components, and for  composing these components into higher level and more sophisticated services.
  • SLEE specification also defines the management interfaces used to administer the application environment and also
  • defines set of standard Facilities (such as the Timer Facility, Trace Facility, and Alarm Facility so on  )
  •  Extension framework to allow new external protocols and systems (such as MSCs, MMSCs, SMSCs, Softswitchs, CSCFs, HLRs) to be integrated.

Characteristics of SLEE specification

• Event based model, asynchronous, support for composition

• Container manages component state

• Container manages garbage collection of components

• Transaction boundaries for demarcation and semantics of state replication

• Strongly typed event handling signatures

• 3rd party event driven components

• Management of lifecycle of Server, Services, Provisioned state

• Versioned services, upgrade of services, existing activities stay on existing service instances, new activities are directed to instances of upgraded services

• Independent of network technology/ protocols/elements through resource adaptor architecture

Entities :

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Service

A service in JAIN SLEE terminology is a managed field replaceable unit.

The system administrator of a JAIN SLEE controls the life cycle (including deployment, undeployment and on-line upgrade) of a service. The program code can include Java classes Profiles, and Service Building Blocks.

Profile

A JAIN SLEE Profi le contains provisioned service or subscriber data.

Service Building Blocks running inside the JAINSLEE may access profiles as part of their application logic.

Service Building Block

The element of re-use defined by JAINSLEE is the Service Building Block (SBB).

An SBB is a software component that sends and receives events and performs computational logic based on the receipt of events and its current state. SBBs are stateful.

The program code for an SBB is comprised of Java classes.

Event

An event represents an occurrence that may require application processing.

An event may originate from a number of different sources, for example, an external resource such as a communications protocol stack, from the SLEE itself, or from application components within the SLEE.

Resources and Resource ADAPTERS

Resources are external entities that interact with other systems outside of the SLEE, such as network elements (HLR, MSC, etc), protocol stacks, directories and databases.

A Resource Adaptor implements the interfacing of a Resource into the JAINSLEE environment.

JAIN SLEE

•Jain SLEE :- JAIN is a Sun Java standards initiative and part of the Java Community Process.
JAIN specifies a comprehensive range of APIs that target converged IP and PSTN networks, including APIs for

– High-level application development (such as service provider APIs and the Service Logic Execution Environment (SLEE))

– call control

– signalling at the protocol level (such as SIP, MGCP and SS7)

•For telephony, data and wireless communications networks, the Java APIs defined through.

– service portability

– network independence

– open development

•A Service Logic Execution Environment (SLEE) is high-throughput, low-latency, event-processing application environment.
•JAIN SLEE  is designed specifically to allow implementations of a standard to meet the stringent requirements of communications applications (such as network-signaling applications).

Goals of JAIN SLEE are:

– Portable services and network independence.

– Hosting on an extensible platform.

– services and SLEE platform available from many vendors.

Key Features are  :

•Industry standard :- JSLEE is the industry-agreed standard for an application server that meets the specific needs of telecommunications networks.
•Network independence:-The JSLEE programming model enables network independence for the application developer. The model is independent of any particular network protocol, API or network topology.
•Converged services:- JSLEE provides the means to create genuinely converged services, which can run across multiple network technologies.
•Network migrations :-As JSLEE provides a generic, horizontal platform across many protocols, independent of the network technology, it provides the ideal enabler technology for smooth transition between networks.
•Global market—global services:-JSLEE-compliant applications, hosted on a JSLEE application server are network agnostic. A single platform can be used across disparate networks
•Robust and reliable:- As with the enterprise application server space, deploying applications on a standard application server that has been tested and deployed in many other networks reduces logic errors, and produces more reliable applications
•Standard object orientated component  architecture

Scope of JAINSLEE applications

•The principal features of the JSLEE programming model are :

– programs written in Java

-asynchronous programming paradigm

-well-defined event-delivery semantics

-component-based, object-oriented approach

-transactional model

-“profiles” of information, which represent provisioned data

-usage interfaces that support gathering service statistics

-support for standard Java APIs (such as JNDI and JDBC), and optionally, support integration with J2EE

-standard facilities for traces, alarms and timers, for use by the applications that are hosted on the SLEE

•Resource adaptors

-The JSLEE provides integration capabilities using a plug-in architecture known as the resource adapter

architecture. Resource adaptors (RAs) provide interconnection with the “outside” world, for example,

interfaces to communication protocol stacks, directory services or external systems.

•SLEE management

-The JSLEE specification also defines the management capabilities of the SLEE. It adopts the Java standard

in this area, Java for Management Extensions (JMX).

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Features set JAINSLEE vs SIP/J2EE

Feature Set JAINSLEE vs SIP/J2EE
Portability Portability of JAINSLEE is limited to number of available applications servers on the market.
Complexity 1) SIP Servlet components handle directly SIP signaling, there is no abstraction layer so there is no loss in network features. 2) If a comparison between SIP Servlets and JAIN SLEE is made it can be said that JAIN SLEE is a more complex specification than SIP Servlets and it seems that JAIN SLEE has not gained much support in the SDP industry which has been dominated by servers running J2EE.
Protocol Agnosticism Lagre number of protocols are supported in JAINSLEE using resource adapters.
Failure Handling JAINSLEE uses ACID (Atomicity,Consistency, Isolation, and Durability) properties of transactions and features of the SLEE programming model for failure handling.
Network Abstraction Capability JAINSLEE define a high level API that developers must use to access network resources.
Expandibility Expandability means whether the technology supports the addition of new protocol stack into the SDP.For that purpose the technology must provide a sort of plug-in architecture.
Flexibility Flexibility is high or low depending on the level of abstraction of network protocols.