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Kenamea's "Application Network"
By Jon Udell
July 23, 2001
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Secure, reliable communications for next-generation Internet applications.
Benefits include single sign-on, reliable messaging, offline applications, event-driven notification to the desktop, highly interactive apps, encryption, and centralized access control.
Readers of this column know that I rarely use this space to focus on a new product or technology. But when the folks at Kenamea showed me what they've been working on, I couldn't resist. The Kenamea software, which CTO Bob Pasker (formerly a WebLogic cofounder) calls simply "a data communications platform," aims to solve several of the problems that plague web-based application development. Here are some of the problems that Kenamea sees, and the solutions it proposes.
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How do you achieve reliable, secure, transacted communications to the desktop — both in real time and also asynchronously, in a bidirectional manner, through firewalls and NATs?
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The Kenamea "harness" — which comes in desktop and server flavors — is a messaging engine that delivers these capabilities.
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How can you make better use of the browser, and the developer skills associated with it?
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Kenamea's client-side model relies on conventional HTML/JavaScript/CSS/DHTML coding skills. The desktop component enables developers to use these skills in new ways — to interact with a local datastore, and to exchange messages with an "application network" made up of peers and back-end services.
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How do you simplify authentication in a world full of web services?
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Users authenticate once to the desktop component, which can then connect to a range of services.
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