Tito Costa has been named to two Java™ Specification Requests (JSR) expert groups within Sun’s Java Community Process (JCP) program.

San Diego, CA (May 13th, 2002) - Tito Costa, Uppli's founder, will participate in the expert group led by Panasonic, Inc. to define next generation's instant messaging and presence services for Java 2 Platform, Standard and Micro Edition.
JSR 164 - JAIN™ SIMPLE Presence and JSR 165 - JAIN™ SIMPLE Instant Messaging will develop a JAIN™ API based on IETF standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and SIMPLE.

SIP has emerged as the de facto industry standard for session management over IP networks; SIMPLE is an IETF working group that defined a set of extensions to SIP to support presence and instant messaging. SIP and SIMPLE combined will grant interoperability and scalability to instant messaging services over wireline and mobile internet.

About Uppli

Uppli licenses wireless applications to carriers, handset manufacturers and reselling partners.
Our networking applications are compliant with Java 2 Micro Edition Platform developed by SUN Microsystems in association with the most important handset manufacturers.
Uppli is working on wireless killer applications such as Instant Messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing.
Uppli's partners include Cash-U, Tira Wireless, PinPoint, SignalSoft, Antepo, IntroMobile and Bekoo.com. Further information is available at the company's web site at http://www.uppli.com.