Bowstreet Releases Portlet Factory for IBM WebSphere 5.5; Further Increases Productivity of WebSphere Developers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002 Bowstreet, a pioneer in adaptive Web applications, today announced the availability of Bowstreet(TM) Portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. Factory (BPF BPF Berkeley Packet Filter BPF British Property Federation (UK) BPF Bonnes Pratiques de Fabrication (Good Manufacturing Practice) BPF British Plastics Federation BPF Band-Pass Filter ) 5.5, offering deeper integration with 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) WebSphere (R), increased automation, and enhanced Web services interoperability The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is an industry consortium chartered to promote interoperability amongst the stack of web services specifications. to further speed the development of highly adaptive portlets for the IBM WebSphere Portal environment. BPF 5.5 includes integration with the WebSphere Studio family of products, and even greater levels of automation for developing highly customized, dynamic portlets through a new Portlet Wizard and new Builders. New features include: -- Portlet Wizard to help developers leverage J2EE technology to rapidly create custom portlets from data sources and legacy applications. -- Builders for database, JMS, and page automation, empowering developers to create custom portlets that leverage technologies such as JDBC, JNDI, JSP, and JMS, requiring only a high-level conceptual understanding of these technologies. From one schema, developers can generate an entire HTML form, complete with the appropriate UI controls, field-level validation, and labels that can easily be internationalized. -- Enhanced functionality for creating and consuming web services based on Bowstreet's active participation in the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization. "This announcement significantly helps the programmer community rapidly generate rich, customized portlets and is extremely complementary to IBM's Portal offering," stated Larry Bowden, Vice President, IBM Portals Solutions Software Group. "The new integration with WebSphere Studio further increases the productivity of development teams by providing powerful tools for the creation of highly adaptive portlets for WebSphere Portal, accessible from within the WebSphere Studio IDE." As enterprise portals continue to mature, companies are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to reduce the time, effort, and cost of building and maintaining custom portal See personal portal. applications. The seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of BPF with IBM WebSphere enables development teams to quickly build highly adaptive portlets that leverage all of the strengths of the 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. platform. "Enterprises are demanding robust customization capabilities to rapidly create and maintain portlets that can adapt to their business requirements," said Michael George, 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. , Bowstreet. "The new functionality and integration offered in BPF 5.5 offers WebSphere Portal customers even greater return on their investments through the ability to easily create highly customized, dynamic portlets as a seamless extension of the IBM platform." BPF 5.5 represents Bowstreet's continued commitment to apply its innovative automation technology to dramatically reduce the costs and time-to-market of application development, enabling customers' to harness the full power of their existing J2EE infrastructure. Bowstreet Portlet Factory 5.5 is available immediately and a free 60-day trial can be found at www.bowstreet.com/portlets. About Bowstreet Bowstreet(TM) changes the economics of Web application development and maintenance through its award-winning automation framework and patent-pending reusable software components. With Bowstreet, development teams can rapidly build adaptive portlets, Web Services, or J2EE Web applications that stand-alone or integrate directly into an existing infrastructure. Unlike with traditional RAD tools, Bowstreet-built applications are inherently designed for maximum adaptability, allowing for the creation of multiple iterations from a single model without the need for costly reprogramming Reprogramming refers to erasure and remodeling of epigenetic marks, such as DNA methylation, during mammalian development[1]. After fertilization some cells of the newly formed embryo migrate to the germinal ridge and will eventually become the germ cells . The Bowstreet development framework is used by more than 50 companies including Calpine, Cisco, Dupont, GM, John Crane, Northwestern Mutual, and State Street. Bowstreet is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Portsmouth, New Hampshire is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire in the United States of America. It is the fourth-largest community in the county[1], with a population of 20,784 as of the 2000 census. and has offices in Chicago, San Francisco, and London. www.bowstreet.com. Bowstreet is a trademark of Bowstreet, Inc. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners. |
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