Borland Speeds Deployment of Web Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 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. Edge East Conference NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002 Borland(R) Enterprise Server 5.1 Offers Proactive Management, Improved Performance, and Enhanced Support for Web Services Borland Software Corporation (company) Borland Software Corporation - A company that sells a variety of PC software development and database systems. Borland was founded in 1983 and initially became famous for their low-cost software, particularly Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo Prolog. (Nasdaq:BORL) today announced a new version of Borland(R) Enterprise Server 5.1 a mission-critical, 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. (TM) 1.3 compliant application server designed for highly scaled deployment of distributed applications and Web Services. The latest version of Borland Enterprise Server Borland Enterprise Server, also known as Borland Application Server, was Borland's J2EE Application Server. The product was developed in 1999 within the team of former Visigenic company that was acquired by Borland in 1997. 5.1 features enhanced support for Web Services, proactive application management, and improved performance. Borland Enterprise Server will be available during summer 2002 and will be featured at the Borland exhibit booth #110 during the Web Services Edge East 2002 Conference at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , June 24 - 27. "With Borland Enterprise Server 5.1, our development suite of business process management applications delivers ultimate performance and scalability," said Mark Crauwels, 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. of CARNOT, Inc., an innovative eProcess solutions company. "When choosing a deployment platform, our customers look for a solution that will help them grow their businesses without blowing their budgets. We recommend Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 not just because it makes our product perform reliably, but because it delivers the enterprise business functionality and scalability our customers need at a low overall cost of ownership." A recent benchmarking review conducted by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization (Australia) ), one of the world's largest and most diverse scientific research institutions, rated Borland Enterprise Server 5.0 the leading Java(TM) 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) platform application server (see Borland(R) Enterprise Server Gets Highest Rating in New Report on J2EE(TM) Application Servers, 6/24/02), one of the most reliable and scalable application servers available. Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 now features enhanced support for Web Services enabling companies to deploy existing applications as Web Services without having to modify them. Tight integration with Borland(R) JBuilder(TM) 7 development environment speeds development and deployment cycles and increases reliability, performance, and scalability of applications. Advanced management functions restore applications without human intervention to maximize uptime and reduce operational costs. "Borland's unique partitioning technology provides Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 a clear advantage in performance and scalability. The newly available management functionality in Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 helps customers keep their applications up and running and helps prevent revenue loss," said Alan Shoap, vice president and general manager at Borland. "With enhanced support for Web Services, Borland further delivers on its commitment to provide deployment solutions that help developers leverage existing applications and while taking advantage of the latest standards and advances in technology." New Features and Benefits of Borland Enterprise Server 5.1: -- Enhanced Support for Web Services--New set of Web Services providers automatically convert client SOAP requests and direct them to the appropriate Java(TM), CORBA(R), MDB (message-driven beans) or EJB(TM) (enterprise java beans) component. With Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 companies are able to expose existing applications as Web Services without rewriting them and integrate Web Services with other applications both within and outside their company. Utilizing this flexible Web Services runtime environment, businesses can leverage existing IT assets, facilitate supply chain integration, and potentially lower their cost of ownership. -- Tighter Integration with Borland(R) JBuilder(TM) 7--New version of Borland Enterprise Server is tightly integrated with Borland JBuilder 7 for faster, easier development and deployment cycles. A development license of Borland(R) Enterprise Server, AppServer(TM) Edition is optimized to provide high performance, scalability and reliability for J2EE applications built with JBuilder and ships standard with the Enterprise version of JBuilder 7 and the recently announced Borland(R) Enterprise Studio 4 for Java. -- New Management Hub - Based on Borland(R) AppCenter(TM), the new hub provides proactive management and monitoring that restores applications without human intervention. Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 can automatically issue start, stop, and ping commands at the component level to maximize application uptime and help reduce operational costs. -- Optimization Wizards - New set of visual, step-by-step wizards makes performance tuning and clustering easier. Optimizations that could take weeks or months with significant consulting resources may now potentially take a matter of hours, providing potential time and cost savings. -- New Borland Notification Service for CORBA(R): Borland(R) Enterprise Server 5.1, VisiBroker(R) Edition now features expanded support for distributed computing environments. Borland(R) VisiNotify(TM) service provides an easy-to-use, high-performance event notification service. Pricing and Availability Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 is expected to be available during summer 2002 on Microsoft(R) Windows(R), Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. Solaris(TM) and Red Hat(R) Linux(R) operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 will be available in three editions: the Web Edition, the VisiBroker Edition, and the AppServer Edition. A development license of Borland Enterprise Server, AppServer Edition ships with the Enterprise version of JBuilder 7. About Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 Borland Enterprise Server 5.1 is a unified software platform for deploying and managing a wide range of e-business applications and Web Services. Available in three editions, it is designed to meet the performance, reliability and scalability requirements of any size business with a low total cost of ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ). Providing an open and extensible application server foundation that supports ever-evolving standards including J2EE(TM), EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. , JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. , Servlet A Java application that runs in a Web server or application server and provides server-side processing such as accessing a database and e-commerce transactions. Widely used for Web processing, servlets are designed to handle HTTP requests (get, post, etc. , CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) A software-based interface from the Object Management Group (OMG) that allows software modules (objects) to communicate with each other no matter where they are located on a private network or the global (R), 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. , SOAP and .NET, Borland Enterprise Server can help companies to stay agile, cost-conscious and value-driven as they leverage the benefits of diverse technologies to achieve specific business objectives. For more information, visit http://borland.com/besappserver/index.html. 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