Middleware Makes Data Sharing Easier for N.J. Police
Trudy Walsh, Government Computer News

The New Jersey State Police, pretty much like every other law enforcement organization in the past five years or so, has been working on improving its data sharing capabilities. Wanting to take a standards-based approach, NJSP decided to use Crossflo Data Exchange (CDX), a browser-based middleware solution from Crossflo Systems Inc. The software provides secure cross-domain data sharing across disparate platforms and different data structures, said Joe Ramirez, Crossflo's director of technical integration services. Written in Java 2 Enterprise Edition, CDX supports the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM), the law enforcement data standard developed by the Justice Department. Specifically, NSJP is using CDX to help extract incident and arrest data from its Records Management System (RMS) and integrate it with the state police's Statewide Intelligence Management System (SIMS). The state police recently upgraded to the browser-based CDX Version 3.2, which supports more data sources, including Web services and message queuing systems.

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