Altova XMLSpy Named Best-selling XML Tool for Fifth Consecutive Year.Industry-Leading XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Development Environment Earns the 2006 Programmer's Paradise Riding the Crest Award BEVERLY, Mass. -- Altova[R] ( http://www.altova.com ), creator of XMLSpy[R] and other leading XML, data management, UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. , and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. tools, today announced that Altova XMLSpy has received the prestigious 2006 Programmer's Paradise Riding the Crest[R] Award in the XML Tools category. Programmer's Paradise[R], a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group[TM], Inc. is an award-winning marketer of technical software and hardware, and offers thousands of products that aid programmer efficiency. The award, given annually, recognizes the products that its customers have selected most often and "ride high on the wave" above all others. This marks the fifth consecutive year that XMLSpy has been named the best-selling XML development tool. Altova XMLSpy is the world's leading XML editor An XML editor is a markup language editor with added functionality to facilitate the editing of XML. This could be done in plain text in a text editor, with all the code visible. and the industry-standard development environment for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML-related technologies (XML, XML Schema, DTD (Document Type Definition) A language that describes the contents of an SGML document. The DTD is also used with XML, and the DTD definitions may be embedded within an XML document or in a separate file. , XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). , XPath, XQuery, SOAP, WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. , and more). XMLSpy is also used to automatically generate class files from XML Schemas in multiple programming languages (Java, C#, C++). For J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. , Eclipse, .NET, and database developers that need the latest XML, Web services, and database technologies, XMLSpy is the ultimate productivity enhancer. "In winning its fifth consecutive award it is evident that Altova XMLSpy continues to be the tool of choice for XML development," said Jeff Largiader, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Programmer's Paradise. "Being selected by its peers for five consecutive years is a testament to Altova's ability to provide its customers with the most innovative XML technology year after year." "We are honored to be recognized by Programmer's Paradise and the developer community as the purveyor (World-Wide Web) Purveyor - A World-Wide Web server for Windows NT and Windows 95 (when available). http://process.com/. E-mail: <info@process.com>. of the world's best-selling XML tool," said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. "Our customer-focused approach and ability to come to market quickly with the most useful features and latest industry standards has propelled Altova to industry leadership as the first choice in XML and software development tools." For more information on Altova XMLSpy go to: http://www.altova.com/xmlspy The Riding the Crest Awards are determined by total sales in each category featuring at least three competitive products. A complete list of Riding the Crest Award winners can be viewed on the Programmer's Paradise Web site at: http://www.programmers.com/ridingthecrest About Altova Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 2.5 million clients worldwide, including virtually every Fortune 500 company. Enabling customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software tools fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) and Object Management Group (OMG (1) See Object Management Group. (2) "Oh my God!" See digispeak. OMG - Object Management Group ) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. Visit Altova on the Web at http://www.altova.com. Altova, XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, and MissionKit are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Altova GmbH in the United States and/or other countries. The names of and reference to other companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. Optimized by Newsforce |
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