Cape Clear Ships Rapid Application Development Tool for Web Services.Business Editors CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 Cape Clear(TM) Software, a leading provider of Web Services technology, is today announcing the commercial release of its CapeStudio(TM) Web Services development product. CapeStudio is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool that enables software developers to build and deploy Web Services and to integrate software systems faster and easier than ever before. The released product incorporates feedback from over one thousand beta testers and adds new functionality, including support for Microsoft(R) BizTalk(R) schemas, a UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. browser, improved 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. mapping, and support for Enterprise JavaBeans(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. (TM)) generation from 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. . CapeStudio reduces the complexity involved in creating Web Services and mapping XML schemas by automating tasks and by providing intuitive graphical tools to aid understanding and productivity. It also provides functionality to automatically generate Java or Visual Basic code from Web Services Description Language “WSDL” redirects here. For other uses, see WSDL (disambiguation). The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dəl' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. (WSDL) files, thus significantly reducing the time and complexity involved in building a Web Service. CapeStudio also provides a completely graphical environment for defining bidirectional The ability to move, transfer or transmit in both directions. transformations between Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML) documents and Simple Object Access Protocol (protocol) Simple Object Access Protocol - (SOAP) A minimal set of conventions for invoking code using XML over HTTP. DevelopMentor, Microsoft Corporation, and UserLand Software submitted SOAP to the IETF as an internal draft in December 1999. Latest version: SOAP 1. (SOAP) messages. "The potential of Web Services as the platform for application and data integration has been widely accepted by vendors and users alike. But while there is a lot of hype, there are no development tools available that address the specific issues around creating and integrating Web Services," according to John Maughan, CapeStudio Business Manager at Cape Clear Software. "The value proposition for CapeStudio is simple: it reduces the learning curve and time needed to build Web Services, it shortens project lead times, and enables rapid prototyping. If anyone is 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. a means of quickly and easily building Web Services, this is it." CapeStudio is a standalone Web Services development environment that works with any Web Services platform that conforms to the industry standards: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). CapeStudio, together with Cape Clear's CapeConnect Web Services Platform, provide a compelling end-to-end design-to-deployment solution for Web Services. Features of CapeStudio: Graphical XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). Authoring CapeStudio provides an intuitive graphical environment for translating between diverse XML dialects so that data may be exchanged easily between systems. CapeStudio supports the mapping of XML using Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (World-Wide Web) Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations - (XSLT) A W3C standard for transforming XML documents into other XML documents or other formats. This was conceived as part of XSL but has been found to have wider applications. http://w3.org/TR/xslt. (XSLT). Simple mappings can be generated using 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. . Complex mappings are facilitated using specialized editors which allow XML Path Language (XPath) manipulation, expression building, translation using lookups, and conditional transforms to be created. Users can view, run, 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. the generated XSLT as they build the transform. The tool supports popular standards such as RosettaNet(TM), Commerce XML (cXML), XML Common Business Library(TM) (xCBL(TM)), and many more. Web Service Client Generation CapeStudio automatically creates Web Service clients from WSDL. This makes it easy for developers to include functionality provided by the Web Service into their applications without learning the intricacies of SOAP and WSDL or wasting time manually coding. EJB Generation from WSDL If pre-existing business logic is not available for the Web Service, the true Web Service developer will start by defining WSDL for the service. CapeStudio can then use this WSDL and automatically generate stateless Refers to software that does not keep track of configuration settings, transaction information or any other data for the next session. When a program "does not maintain state" (is stateless) or when the infrastructure of a system prevents a program from maintaining state, it cannot take session beans with corresponding Java classes and deployment descriptors for the service. This is a considerable productivity gain for Web Services developers and also yields consistency and a reduction in errors caused by manual coding. XML-to-SOAP mappings CapeStudio supports XML-to-XML, XML-to-SOAP, SOAP-to-SOAP and SOAP-to-XML mappings. This enables developers to easily transform XML documents into Web Service invocations and significantly reduces the workload involved in application integration. Open, Standards-Based Toolset CapeStudio adheres to industry standards such as XML, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, and XSLT. UDDI Browser CapeStudio includes a UDDI browser that allows users to browse UDDI repositories for Web Services both over the Internet and inside the firewall. Users can then automatically generate clients that can access the service Pricing and Availability CapeStudio is available immediately from http://www.capeclear.com/capestudio. CapeStudio costs $445 per user. More Resources: An online demonstration of CapeStudio is available at: http://www.capeclear.com/demo A technical white paper on CapeStudio is available at: http://www.capeclear.com/products/whitepapers/ CapeStudio_Product_Overview.pdf NOTE TO EDITORS: If you are interested in reviewing CapeStudio, please contact Tom Murphy at Cape Clear Software (tom.murphy@capeclear.com). Screen shots and artwork for CapeStudio are available at: http://www.capeclear.com/news/artwork.shtml. About Cape Clear Software Cape Clear Software (http://www.capeclear.com/) is automating the business Internet by providing the software products that corporations need to create Web Services. Utilizing leading industry standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, through products such as CapeConnect and CapeStudio, Cape Clear enables new business applications to be linked over the Internet from diverse technologies such as Java(TM), EJB, 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 (TM), and Microsoft .NET. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear is a privately held firm with offices in Dublin, London, Boston, California, Denver, and Washington D.C. Cape Clear and CapeConnect are trademarks of Cape Clear Software. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. |
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