Attachmate Mainframe Integration Connectivity Control Ships With Premiere of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2003 New Integrated Control Gives Developers Easy-To-Use Tools That Integrate Legacy Assets With New Applications Attachmate Corporation, with more than 20 years of innovation in the legacy application integration space, announced its position as the first mainframe integration tool bundled and distributed with BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. Workshop(TM) 8.1 from BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. (Nasdaq:BEAS). Via a new, integrated control, Attachmate myEXTRA!(TM) Smart Connector Enterprise Edition can capture legacy data and business logic 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 for use in new applications developed in BEA WebLogic Platform(TM) 8.1. BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. and Attachmate worked together to develop the Mainframe Integration Control so that developers can drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. transactions from legacy applications right from the WebLogic Workshop environment. "Attachmate complements BEA WebLogic Workshop, the industry's first unified development environment for the rapid development and integration of 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. and service-oriented applications, by extending the application developer's reach to legacy host assets with their new integrated Mainframe Integration Control," said Byron Sebastian, vice president and general manager, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Workshop, BEA Systems, Inc. "Together, Attachmate and BEA can make integrating legacy data and business logic with new application development easier than ever -- delivering increased productivity, faster time-to-value and lower cost of ownership -- adding up to a stronger competitive advantage." Attachmate's Integrated Control The Attachmate Mainframe Integration Control displays as a control in the WebLogic Workshop Data Palette Data Palette is an IT process and decision automation platform developed by Stratavia. It is intended as a highly scalable and flexible means for automating repetitive IT tasks, such as software upgrade and patch management, network and server provisioning, database maintenance, pane, and is designed to allow developers to drag and drop legacy transactions to WebLogic Workshop's main development area, integrating with the graphical workflow user interface. The Attachmate Mainframe Integration Control can process requests from the Workshop application once it has been deployed to BEA WebLogic Server(TM), and uses the Smart Connector's JCA (1) (Java Cryptography Architecture) An umbrella term from Sun for implementing security functions for the Java platform. It includes Sun's Java Security API as well as the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), which adds more programming interfaces for encryption Resource Adapter A Resource Adapter is an archive file format defined in the J2EE Connector Architecture specification. A Resource Adapter aRchive (RAR) file is the valid format for deployment of resource adapters on application servers. to execute operations against the legacy host system. A dedicated Website, at www.attachmate.com/WLW, can supply developers with sample tasks, tools, and information to get a feel for Attachmate's Mainframe Integration Control. "Organizations should look for strong partnership solutions that provide the best functionality in the market for legacy access and integration," said Yefim V. Natis, vice president and research director of Gartner Inc. "Working with BEA, Attachmate gives developers a simpler way to integrate legacy assets within a service-oriented architecture," explained Markus Nitschke, Attachmate VP, Marketing. "Attachmate brings comprehensive legacy application access to the BEA WebLogic Platform. With the ability to choose from host-based to non-host-based components, customers can directly integrate their critical legacy information when building enterprise-class applications." More information can be found on the BEA dev2dev Web site at: http://dev2dev.bea.com/products/wlworkshop81/index.jsp. About Attachmate Attachmate Corporation is a privately held, worldwide supplier of host data and business-logic access and management solutions for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises. The company provides solutions for direct, real-time access to back-office systems, Web-to-host and desktop-to-host solutions, and flexible enterprise application integration and Web services offerings. Attachmate(R) is a BEA(R) Star Partner, Microsoft(R) Gold Certified Partner, Unisys(R) Partner, and member of WS-I (Web Services Interoperability Organization, www.ws-i.org) A consortium founded by Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems and Intel that is dedicated to the development of Web services. Its goals are to provide guidance and education, to promote interoperability and to ensure that Web services . News is available at http://www.attachmate.com or by calling Attachmate worldwide headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, at 425-644-4010. (C) 2003 Attachmate Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Attachmate is a registered trademark and myEXTRA! is a trademark of Attachmate Corporation. BEA and WebLogic are registered trademarks and BEA WebLogic Enterprise The previous name for BEA's CORBA ORB, which later became part of the BEA Tuxedo platform. For a while, WebLogic Enterprise was the name of the entire product suite, but Enterprise was later dropped. See BEA Tuxedo. Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Integration, BEA WebLogic Portal, BEA WebLogic Platform and BEA WebLogic Workshop are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be the subject of intellectual property rights reserved by third parties. |
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