 JCAPS (Java Composite Application Platform Suite) is a composite application suite from Sun Microsystem Inc. that provides a unified, comprehensive and standard based design and management components and APIs to develop, deploy, manage, and monitor an SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).
The unified and comprehensive suite facilitates an enterprise to composite applications from existing investments as well as deliver new business services with a lower total cost of ownership.
The JCAPS enables the business enterprise to build a flexible architecture that can respond to business initiatives in a timely manner and streamlines and simplifies the process of managing business processes. The JCAPS provides an integrated view of data across systems by integrating customer data to create a common and single data view connecting back-end systems and spanning right from the physical stores to online points of presence.
Sun's Integration/WebServices/BPM platform
Offerings
Java CAPS delivers a true SOA infrastructure, with a strong foundation of application server and identity support as well as a portal interface to support user collaboration with composite applications. In addition to the full Java CAPS functionality, Sun offers several highly targeted suites that help organizations facing specific business challenges.
What's Inside Java CAPS?
Java CAPS contains everything you need to develop and deploy a service-oriented architecture (SOA) platform and composite applications. With Java CAPS, you can reuse existing applications, deliver new services, and integrate legacy and packaged applications within an existing infrastructure without the need for extensive coding. In addition, Java CAPS combines business process modeling and orchestration, convenient interface design, metadata management, and strong development tools—all in a comprehensive platform built on open standards.
Need Support?
Since JCAPS Suite is not a Freeware. SUN provides support to its customers. Customers can signup at http://goldstar.seebeyond.com/support/support_request.asp and request for username/password to register their incidents or search the knowledge base. As per pur experience they are quite good, the team can solve your issues/answer your queries in a decent amount of time frame. Incase of difficulties, it would get escalated to Engineering who would then look after the issue that you are facing. Please note registration is required and clients can ONLY SIGNUP at http://goldstar.seebeyond.com/support/
FAQ:
http://developers.sun.com/docs/javacaps/ataglance/needhelp/index.jsp
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Manesh is a Sr. EAI Consultant, at present working in Singapore (Little Red Dot). 
