This chapter has provided a very basic overview.

JUMPER Index is a Semantic Web server that provides references to structured data residing anywhere, and in any format.

It is software for building JUMP models within your favorite modeling tool. JUMP allows you to consolidate the relevant detail from other models, such as PDM or LDM, into the consolidated view that the JUMP framework provides.

JUMP is a lightweight meta-language specification within the RDF/OWL framework. It captures the required integration detail as a data object for correctly profilling and converting the data. It presents the data as an easily searched, interpreted, and integrated utility that can be leveraged across your entire organization or between customers and partners.

The JUMP Browser and JUMPER Indexing software work together.

JUMP, which stands for the Java Metamodel Protocol, was originally designed to provide XML entity references and sibling order for marshalling data objects through machine processable modeling formats. The models have proven increasingly valuable as a more generalized method of documenting metadata equivalence in data integration projects significantly reducing the amount of human resources, costs, time-to-implement, and risks of data integration.

The JUMPER community is pioneering the first truly open, standards-based, platform-independent, object oriented metadata model for delivering data as a utility as part of your SOA strategy.