AmberPoint Announces Java Versions of Web Services Management Software for Developers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2003 AmberPoint Express Now Provides Developers with Monitoring, Diagnosis and Debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. Capabilities on Both Leading 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. Platforms AmberPoint, Inc., the industry leader of Web services management software, today announced a version of its no-cost developer's tool for monitoring, diagnosing and debugging Java-based Web services. AmberPoint Express provides the monitoring and management capabilities IT organizations require to ensure that their Web services developments meet enterprise standards for performance and reliability. AmberPoint Express for the Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) .NET Framework was announced in October of this year. The initial Java versions of AmberPoint Express are designed for Web services built on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (Nasdaq:IBM) WebSphere, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. (Nasdaq:BEAS) WebLogic and Apache Axis Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. , and will be generally available in Q1 2004. Support for other Java development environments will follow. "Enterprises in the planning stages of Web services need a way for developers to validate To prove something to be sound or logical. Also to certify conformance to a standard. Contrast with "verify," which means to prove something to be correct. For example, data entry validity checking determines whether the data make sense (numbers fall within a range, numeric data their projects," said Daryl Plummer, group vice president and Chief Gartner Fellow at Gartner. "Solutions that allow companies to more confidently manage and deploy Web services will help to advance the long-term corporate adoption of Web services." AmberPoint Express is a developer's edition of AmberPoint's industry-leading enterprise-class Web services management solutions. It provides the monitoring and diagnostic capabilities developers require to gain insight into the runtime characteristics of their Web services in pre-production environments. Like all AmberPoint products, AmberPoint Express is completely standards-based and non-invasive -- requiring no additional coding to the Web services themselves. "AmberPoint Express will abbreviate our development cycles significantly," said Domenic Ravita, lead solutions architect at AgentWare, a leading provider of Web services-based solutions for the travel industry. "It gives us the ability to more easily understand and fine-tune the behavior of our Web services, saving us considerable time and effort." With support for Web services created in Java and on the Microsoft .NET See .NET. Framework, AmberPoint Express allows developers to send messages across heterogeneous Web services and view consolidated results across their entire application. With the monitoring and diagnostic tools in AmberPoint Express, developers can confidently bring their Web services from pilot to production, achieving faster time-to-deployment, gaining a clearer understanding of runtime characteristics and lowering their development costs. "The market definitely needs a cost-effective, multi-platform mechanism to project how Web services-based applications will perform in production environments," said Gregor Hohpe, senior architect at ThoughtWorks, a leading global systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. . "AmberPoint Express fills this gap by providing comprehensive instrumentation and diagnostic capabilities, enabling developers to more confidently bring their Web services into production." AmberPoint Express provides rich monitoring and diagnostic capabilities: -- Plug and Manage: Auto-discovery and management of Web services -- Performance Monitoring: View Web service performance in real time with easy-to-digest charts for response time, throughput and SOAP fault counts -- Analysis: Gain a quick understanding of performance bottlenecks and errors from drilling down into SOAP messages from performance graphs -- Diagnosis: Inspect SOAP messages for content, faults and errors in an easy-to-read fashion to understand and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. anomalous a·nom·a·lous adj. 1. Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule. 2. Equivocal, as in classification or nature. Web service behavior -- Testing: Resubmit Verb 1. resubmit - submit (information) again to a program or automatic system feed back return, render - give back; "render money" messages from history or auto-generate new SOAP messages based on 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. to fine-tune Web services "In working closely with our customers, we discovered their need to smoothly integrate management capabilities into the developer's experience," said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "AmberPoint meets that need, lowering development costs and fostering enterprise adoption of Web services. Our Java versions of AmberPoint Express will ensure that developers are fully equipped to build robust, production-ready Web services on any platform." In other news today, AmberPoint announced that it was named the most innovative Web services management vendor by analyst firm Ovum (see "AmberPoint Named Most Innovative and Most Influential Web Services Management Vendor by Respected Analyst Firm"). Availability Java versions of AmberPoint Express will be generally available at no cost from the AmberPoint website in the first quarter of 2004. AmberPoint Express for the Microsoft .NET Framework is now available. Over 7,000 copies of AmberPoint Express for the Microsoft .NET Framework were distributed to attendees at the October 2003 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. Users of AmberPoint Express will be able to easily upgrade to editions of AmberPoint with advanced features for managing more complex, distributed Web services-based systems. About AmberPoint AmberPoint, Inc., the leading provider of Web services management software, offers the most comprehensive solutions for making Web services production-ready, business-ready and easily manageable. With its modular, distributed architecture, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of business solutions built on Web services. Founded in 2001, AmberPoint is privately held with venture backing from Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. AmberPoint corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, Calif. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510-663-6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com. |
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