svn commit: r1052954 - /incubator/river/site/trunk/content/river/success-stories.mdtext

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Author: thobbs
Date: Sun Dec 26 21:23:25 2010
New Revision: 1052954

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1052954&view=rev
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Added story from Sucden

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    incubator/river/site/trunk/content/river/success-stories.mdtext

Modified: incubator/river/site/trunk/content/river/success-stories.mdtext
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/river/site/trunk/content/river/success-stories.mdtext?rev=1052954&r1=1052953&r2=1052954&view=diff
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   1. Extensible service development & deployment support:
       1. POJOs
       1. Spring
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+##Sucden Financial Limited 
+
+> [Sucden Financial Limited](http://www.sucdenfinancial.com/) develops
+> its own futures and options trading system called STAR, built
+> primarily on the Java and Jini (Apache River) technologies.
+> 
+> The development of the system began when I joined Sucden almost ten
+> years ago, beginning with connection to the Liffe derivatives
+> exchange. It soon became the company’s primary trading system, and
+> connectivity to the ICE and LME exchanges quickly followed.
+> 
+> With many local and remote users and ever increasing trading volumes,
+> the typically n-tier architecture was difficult to upgrade, suffered
+> from problems with scalability and was very susceptible to
+> communications failures between it and the exchange host systems.
+> 
+> In 2006 we started a project to migrate to a service oriented
+> architecture, specifically choosing Jini as a 100% Java solution. Jini
+> had been around for a long time and I always thought it held great
+> promise for our kinds of application, which needed very high
+> throughput and fault tolerance – we (myself, Phil Harron and Hector
+> Angel), were itching to use it for something useful. We hired IncaX
+> consultants Phil Bishop and Nigel Warren to help us get going on the
+> project. In 2007, Tom Hobbs and Ian Wood joined us and we began
+> building all kinds of service management tools and infrastructure to
+> encapsulate the complexities of Jini. A new kind of STAR was finally
+> born early in 2009.
+> 
+> Jini has allowed us to move all our business logic into services,
+> allowing for superb scalability, redundant exchange connections, and
+> fault tolerant patterns which enable us to upgrade and perform
+> maintenance in a live scenario. The system can monitor itself and
+> alert support staff of problems automatically.
+> 
+> To visualize and manage the entire system, we built [an application on
+> the Netbeans platform](http://netbeans.dzone.com/nb-financial-management-console where we can)
+> immediately see the interaction between services and generally monitor
+> the health of the system as a whole. This is an ideal platform on
+> which to present the Jini service UIs.
+> 
+> We are looking forward to upgrading to the Apache River code in 2011
+> and hope that the renewed efforts on this open source project will
+> help to spread the word about this excellent technology far and wide."
+
+Mark Phipps
+Front Office Development Manager, Sucden Financial Limited.
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