IONA and Altova Bundle XMLBus and XMLSPY in a Product Partnership That Simplifies Web Services Creation and Deployment.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WALTHAM, Mass. & BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2002 New Partnership Offers Award-Winning Orbix E2A E2A End to Anywhere (Orbix platform) XMLBus and World's Leading 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. Developer Environment - XMLSPY 5 on the Altova Online Shop IONA(R), the leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IONA), and Altova, the leading provider of XML development tools, today announced a strategic partnership that will include the bundling of Altova's XMLSPY 5 with IONA's Orbix E2A(TM) XMLBus(TM). IONA's Orbix E2A(TM) XMLBus provides a software infrastructure platform for the development, deployment, integration and management of secure Web services to support the integration of business applications within the enterprise. Altova's XMLSPY 5 supports the visual design, editing and validation of XML documents, 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. , XML schema and 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). stylesheets, which are core XML infrastructure technologies required to enable Web services. Using these products together, a software developer can quickly and easily create and deploy Web services using either legacy code written in 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), 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) or Java through the use of WSDL auto-generation utilities, or develop a new Web service application using visual tools for building WSDL and XML Schema. This flexibility in development creates previously unavailable opportunities for organizations to realize return on resource and technology investment, as well as improved extensibility of new XML-based applications. "Our customers are actively building Web services applications using XMLSPY's award winning WSDL editing and SOAP debugging facilities," said Alexander Falk, president and 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 Altova, Inc. "Our new partnership and product bundling with IONA is an essential step in enabling the XMLSPY developer community of over 700,000 registered users to build and deploy next generation Web services for application integration in production environments." "Many of IONA's customers, and IONA's own internal engineering team, use and value Altova's XMLSPY 5," said Joseph Schwartz, vice president of product management at IONA. "XMLSPY's WSDL and XML Schema editor abstract away the complexities of underlying XML syntax and provide a sensible, top-down approach Top-down approach A method of security selection that starts with asset allocation and works systematically through sector and industry allocation to individual security selection. to architecting Web services applications. Furthermore, XMLSPY's SOAP debugging capabilities augments IONA developer productivity by providing an advanced Web service testing and debugging console for Orbix E2A XMLBus." "The Altova and IONA product bundle provides XML developers a complete and economical solution for developing and implementing Web services from scratch or using legacy applications - a level of flexibility that is invaluable for today's developers," said Bob Sandie, vice president of global alliances at IONA. "We are thrilled to be working with Altova and offering this suite of Web services development and integration tools through Altova's Online Shop, one of the premier developer focused e-commerce websites on the Internet." Pricing and Download information: The IONA Orbix E2A XMLBus and Altova XMLSPY 5 product bundle is available immediately for purchase at the Altova Online Shop on the Web at: www.altova.com/order. The product bundling includes XMLSPY 5 Enterprise Edition and a one-year development license for the Orbix E2A XMLBus for a discounted price of $1399. After completing the order information, customers will receive a product key via email that can then be used to activate the product bundle. A free trial version of XMLSPY Enterprise Edition can be downloaded from www.altova.com/download. For more information about the new product bundling, please visit www.altova.com/iona. About Altova Altova is a leading provider of XML software development tools with offices in Beverly, MA and headquarters in Vienna, Austria. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. was founded in 1992 and has been actively involved in the XML market from the early conception of XML. Altova's XMLSPY is the leading choice of all Fortune 500 and Global 1,000 companies, with over 700,000 registered users worldwide. Altova is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) and the 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. Consortium (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 ). Visit Altova on the Web at http://www.altova.com. About IONA IONA is the leading e-Business Platform provider for Web Services Integration with more than 4,500 customers worldwide. IONA Orbix E2A(TM), which consists of the award-winning Orbix E2A Web Services Integration Platform and Orbix E2A Application Server Platform, enables the flow of information across disparate systems and the liberation of application assets for new business opportunities. Founded in 1991, IONA(R) (NASDAQ: IONA) is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts and offices worldwide. For additional information about IONA, visit our Web site at http://www.iona.com. Altova, XMLSPY, STYLEVISION, AUTHENTIC and AXAD are trademarks of Altova GmbH registered in numerous countries. The names of and reference to companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, E2A, End 2 Anywhere, End To Anywhere, Orbix E2A, IONA E2A, IONA e-Business Platform, iPortal Application Server, SureTrack, IONA XMLBus, Adaptive Runtime Technology, Orbacus, Orbix/E, IONA University and Total Business Integration are trademarks or registered trademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. Java and 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. are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc in the United States and other countries. CORBA is a trademark or registered trademark of the Object Management Group, Inc in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks that may appear herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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