The Outlook Y-JBI: An E-Mail Based Approach to Prototyping the Joint Battlespace Infosphere

Abstract

One approach for rapidly implementing a prototype Joint Battlespace Infosphere (YJBI) publish and subscribe (P&S) system is to leverage the existing e-mail transport infrastructure. E-mail has the advantage of being standardized, pervasive, robust, and scalable. This Y-JBI is implemented though the peer-to-peer interaction of publisher and subscriber agents. These agent pass subscription requests, acknowledgements, and information objects to each other using Extensible Markup Language (XML) e-mail messages. Under this approach, Microsoft Exchange(Registered) is employed as the enterprise mail server with Microsoft Outlook(Registered) as the primary e-mail application servicing the JBI user. This system enables a direct flow of information from the publisher to subscriber-side fuselets that interface to Microsoft Office(Registered) planning tools.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA468222

Entities

People

  • Robert E. Marmelstein

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Battlespace
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Databases
  • Directories
  • Electronic Mail
  • Executives
  • Information Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Personal Digital Assistants
  • Web Browsers
  • Xml

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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