Altova XMLSpy Selected as Most Innovative XML Application by Readership of SOA Web Services Journal; Leading XML Development Environment Wins Prestigious SYS-CON Media Readers' Choice Award.BEVERLY, Mass. -- Altova(R) (www.altova.com), creator of XMLSpy(R) and other 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. , 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 been named Most Innovative XML Application in the 2005 SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. Web Services Journal Readers' Choice Awards presented by SYS-CON Media. Also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," more than 17,000 readers chose the winning products and tools in the SYS-CON awards program. Altova XMLSpy is the industry standard XML development environment for modeling, editing, debugging, and transforming all XML-related technologies, and automatically generating runtime code from schemas in multiple programming languages. It features advanced XML, 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. , XML Schema The definition of an XML document, which includes the XML tags and their interrelationships. Residing within the document itself, an XML schema may be used to verify the integrity of the content. , 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). 1.0/2.0, XPath 1.0/2.0, XQuery, 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. , SOAP, and code generation capabilities. In addition to winning the Most Innovative XML Application award, XMLSpy was also named a finalist in six other awards categories by SOA Web Services Journal readers, including: --Best XML Parser --Best XML Utility --Best GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. for SOA/Web Services --Best SOA/Web Services Testing Tool --Best SOA/Web Services Legacy Adapter or Utility --Best SOA/Web Services Automation Tool Readers also named the Altova XML Suite a finalist for Best .NET Providers/Tools in the 2005 .NET Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Awards. The XML Suite integrates five highly-complementary tools - XMLSpy, MapForce(R), StyleVision(R), SemanticWorks(TM), and SchemaAgent(TM) - to meet a broad range of XML development needs such as XML editing, schema development and management, data mapping and integration, stylesheet design, Semantic Web development, Web services creation, code-generation, and debugging. "Each year in the Readers' Choice Awards there are just one or two companies whose range and scope is so wide and deep, and market penetration so successful, that the readers of our magazines reward it with more than one Readers' Choice Award," said SYS-CON Group Publisher and Editorial Director Jeremy Geelan. "SYS-CON Media warmly congratulates Altova for performing better in 2005 than anyone else in the world. It is a remarkable achievement, and we are very proud of our publications' proactive role in helping to facilitate this community-driven recognition process." "It's a tremendous honor for XMLSpy to be named the most innovative XML application in the market, particularly since the designation is coming directly from the developer community," said Tim Hale, Director of Marketing for Altova. "There is a mutual respect between Altova and the developers that use our applications. We thank the readers of SOA Web Services Journal and .NET Developers' Journal for affirming the advantages they have gained by using Altova tools and we look forward to providing them with even greater benefits in the future." About Altova Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software, services, and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data administration, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 2 million clients worldwide, including virtually every Fortune 500 company. With customers ranging from vast development teams in the world's largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova's line of software applications and custom-tailored professional and educational services 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 www.altova.com. Altova, XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, SemanticWorks, and SchemaAgent 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. |
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