Press Release - March 2, 2005
Near Infinity's Innovative Auditing Tool Highlighted at AOSD 05
March 2, 2005
Contact: Karen Upton, Director of Communications
(703) 904-7505
RESTON, VA - Representatives from Near Infinity Corporation described their unique use of aspect-oriented programming for creating a J2EE Auditing tool that requires no source code modifications on March 17 at the AOSD.05 conference in Chicago, Illinois.
The auditing tool, intelliPrints, was the subject of a practitioner report given at the conference by Near Infinity's Chief Operating Officer, Jeff Kunkle, and Chief Scientist, Matt Wizeman.
"By using aspect-oriented programming, we were able to make installation of intelliPrints completely transparent," said Wizeman. "In fact, application developers don't even need to be aware of what is being audited. It's something that would be much harder to do without AOP."
Rather than requiring developers to manually insert calls to the auditing code at each point where there is an audit event, intelliPrints calls code from multiple aspects, the basic elements of aspect-oriented programming. The result is a significant reduction in the time spent deploying audit code, both initially and each time there is a change in the audit requirements.
"Development teams benefit from this technology because they do not have to worry about coding audit calls by hand," said Kunkle. "Organizations benefit by having a single, consistent audit solution for all their enterprise applications."
Other unique features of intelliPrints include the ability to send real-time alerts based on customizable application and/or user-specific events, the ability to set up unique auditing for each application, and the ability to transport audit records to multiple destinations simultaneously without slowing down the audited application.
"The ease and speed of deployment, configurability, and the detail of the information collected all make intelliPrints an ideal solution for companies operating in a high-security environment," said Near Infinity CEO, Chris D'Agostino. "It's also useful for companies required to comply with HIPAA, the Patriot Act and Sarbanes-Oxley legislation."
Near Infinity Corporation provides enterprise software development and consulting services to help its customers create highly responsive, mature, data-driven applications.
The company, founded in 2002, is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, and has established itself as a leading software development company for several Fortune 100 companies.
Information on intelliPrints can be found at www.intelliprints.com.