Attachmate Announces Support for Industry-Leading J2EE 1.4 Compatible Application Servers; Smart Connector demos scheduled at April 26 J2EE 1.4 Kickoff Event.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2004 Attachmate Corporation, 20-year experts in legacy integration, today announced that Attachmate(R) myEXTRA!(TM) Smart Connectors are verified on 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. 1.4 to support J2EE(TM) 1.4 Compatible Application Servers. Attachmate will demo Smart Connectors at the J2EE 1.4 Kickoff event for press and analysts, April 26, 2004, in San Francisco. This event is designed to showcase the J2EE 1.4 ecosystem -- with platform vendors, tool vendors, connector and component vendors that contribute to the success of the J2EE platform. In addition to Attachmate, other participants include Sun Microsystems, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , 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) , Oracle, SAP and Borland. Attachmate will demonstrate how myEXTRA! Smart Connectors capture legacy data and transactions as industry-standard interfaces for use in modern application development, via the J2EE Connector Architecture. Smart Connectors deliver comprehensive connectivity to legacy data and business logic. By providing a wide range of standard interfaces to legacy data sources and applications, Smart Connectors enable any client to access any legacy resource, ensuring that the solutions developed today will work tomorrow. "Attachmate's comprehensive set of J2EE-compatible connectors with easy-to-use tools take the complexity of our integrating legacy assets from back-end resources," said Carla Dimond, senior group manager, Market Development, for Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ). "Industry-wide adoption of a mature J2EE Connector Architecture specification improves the economics of business integration in favor of customers, by providing increased choice, flexibility, and reuse." "Attachmate Smart Connectors help enterprises implement a service-oriented architecture (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. ) to granularly access legacy data and business logic and encapsulate en·cap·su·late v. 1. To form a capsule or sheath around. 2. To become encapsulated. en·cap it as callable Callable Applies mainly to convertible securities. Redeemable by the issuer before the scheduled maturity under specific conditions and at a stated price, which usually begins at a premium to par and declines annually. services," stated Markus Nitschke, Attachmate vice president, Corporate Marketing. "This approach makes legacy data and applications reusable and extensible for a broader audience within new application development, and end users benefit from Smart Connector J2EE compatibility." Sun connector information is at http://wwws.sun.com/software/connectors/index.html. About Attachmate A Sun-selected legacy integration ISV (Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. , Attachmate is the only all-mainframe connectivity expert in the industry, with technology and services for worldwide enterprises to leverage valuable mainframe investments. A Sun(TM) iForce(sm) Partner, Microsoft(R) Gold Certified Partner, and Unisys(R) partner, Attachmate delivers productivity-focused innovation to customers. Information: http://www.attachmate.com or call 425-644-4010. (C) 2004 Attachmate Corporation |
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