Infiniflow is a highly automated, standards-based, innovative software platform for running service-oriented composite applications across distributed compute resources.

Customers have referred to Infiniflow as providing a Cloud Computing platform, a SaaS platform, Application Virtualization or an Autonomic Runtime and Gartner have classified Infiniflow as a lightweight, next generation, distributed Application Server. We call it a Service Fabric. Infiniflow is all of these.

So while a precise market definition may not be readily available, it is clear that Infiniflow is leading the way in providing a platform to support the fundamental shift that is underway in the manner in which applications are built and run. Infiniflow makes it easy to add resilience, scalability, performance and agility while taking advantage of the cost benefits of the commoditization of computer hardware.

For Infiniflow, a composite application is an application that consists of a number of re-usable OSGI components. With Infiniflow the application has enhanced runtime properites and is known as a System, which is defined below.

A distributed composite application built from a number of re-usable OSGi components, is known to Infiniflow as a System.

A System may be comprised of both business logic and middleware infrastructure. System components may be coarse grained,  such as a third party HTTP Server, or fine-grained, such as in-house developed services which are themselves comprised of a number of finer grained components. A  System  may be used standalone or its output may be used as an input for another System, with the collection of Systems providing a higher order Business Service.

Please see the OSGi section in the Technology & Standards page.

Please see the SCA section in the Technology & Standards page.

Gartner has recognized Paremus as a Visionary in the Enterprise Application Server marketplace. Infiniflow can be viewed as a highly resilient, highly scalable, lightweight, distributed application server that operates on a collection of low-cost computers. With transparent support for the Spring Framework it is easy to take POJO-based applications and migrate them from a traditional monolithic, expensive application server to Infiniflow and enjoy the significant CAPEX and OPEX benefits that Infiniflow provides. Other programming models are supported by using the industry standard, wrapper approach.

Infiniflow supports almost all application requirements ranging from embedded systems supporting widely distributed network devices to conventional, compute-intensive analytical 'grid' applications to high-volume, flow-oriented transactional systems.

Yes, Infiniflow offers integrated transactional support.

Infiniflow is designed for true autonomic operation through self-assembly, self-healing, self-managing, self-scaling and self-auditing capabilities. The Infiniflow Service Fabric, Runtime Services, Operational Services and applications running across Infiniflow will:

• automatically recover from failures and self-repair without human intervention,
• automatically assemble the components required to execute an Infiniflow composite application
• dynamically allocate resources to meet SLAs defined by business policies.

Infiniflow is fully compatible with Web Services, but as a simple, lightweight and high-performance SOA, designed to meet the speed and reliability demanded by business users, Infiniflow does not rely on the use of Web Services within the Service Fabric. Typically Infiniflow uses Web Services for external connectivity to customers and partners or for fabric edge connectivity to existing non-fabric enabled systems. An Infiniflow composite application can therefore benefit from the fine-grained, highly resilient, highly scalable and agile Infiniflow capabilities while presenting itself to the outside world as a Web Service interface.

While it is certainly reasonable to use Infiniflow for new applications, many existing applications may be easily migrated to Infiniflow. With native Spring and other POJO (plain-old-Java-objects model) support, applications based on these can be transparently deployed on the Infiniflow runtime and take advantage of the enhanced distribution, resilience, scalablity and general agility offered. Applications written in other non-POJO programming models are supported by using the industry standard, wrapper approach.

Not at all. Any application components that are OSGi-enabled can be run on the Infiniflow Service Fabric. The current versions of Spring and Eclipse plugins (since version 3) automatically generate OSGi components, so applications developed using these frameworks can run on Infiniflow without modification.

In the simplest case all that is required to OSGi-enable an application previously deployed inside a jar, is to add a few simple entries to the jar manifest file. Infiniflow documentation provides guidance on adding components and services and developing Infiniflow applications.

Infiniflow is a commercial licensed and supported software product for use within production environments. The Newton project, donated by Paremus, is an open source (GPL) project providing a subset of the Infiniflow functionality. Key benefits that Infiniflow offers above Newton include a Management GUI, full scalability, a security framework and commercial support.

Simply register for a free 30 day evaluation download and try Infiniflow for yourself.

Infiniflow is available from Paremus and our System Integration partners. Please contact us at sales@paremus.com for further information.