Clear Methods Enhances Steam Platform and Water Language for Pure Web Services.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2003

Steam Engine Version 3.10 includes powerful ways to handle XML,

access databases and simplify complex data representations

Clear Methods (www.clearmethods.com), a startup providing advanced XML and Web services technology, today announced the immediate availability of version 3.10 of its Steam(TM) platform, with features that add a new level of flexibility to Web services solutions. The latest release offers enhanced database access, extends XML to all tiers of computing and eliminates the need for wrappers when implementing Web services applications.

The Steam platform, which includes the Steam IDE tools and editor and the Steam Engine runtime environment, provides a flexible, secure, and easy to learn platform for Web services. Steam applications are developed in the Water language, an open, all-purpose, object-oriented language that makes it possible to express business logic in XML. Water uses ConciseXML, a mark-up syntax compatible with XML 1.0, but more concise, less ambiguous, and designed for both data and logic.

"Creating Web services with J2EE or .NET typically requires the use of more than a dozen different languages and programming models," said Mike Plusch, chief executive officer at Clear Methods. "Because Steam is a pure Web services platform, every thing is automatically a Web service; no wrapping in XML in required. Steam makes it possible to efficiently address a new level of complex business problems."

According to Jonathan Stephenson an analyst with CBDI, "Water represents an opportunity to clean up the mess of scripts and languages used to build interactive Web applications. Both enterprises and ISVs will find it well worth while to spend the short time required to learn this new, simpler approach for Web services applications."

"Water and Steam have allowed us to consolidate what would normally be multiple code-generating layers of applications into a single software systems architecture approach that is powerful, adaptable and user-friendly", said Dave Loda from Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. Dave is the founder and manager of the Applied Technologies Group, an internal innovation hub for United Technology's Pratt & Whitney division, and is working on developing a mobile, distributed computing architecture for the company's products to improve both supply chain efficiencies and customer support.

About Clear Methods

Clear Methods provides enterprises and independent software vendors with advanced Web services technology and solutions that dramatically speed the creation of flexible business software. The Clear Methods Steam platform is a pure Web services environment that enables the use of XML throughout the software lifecycle. Steam provides a compact, uniform, standards-based commercial product set for the open Water language.

Founded in 2001, Clear Methods is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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