Jacada Adds Full Web Services Support with Release 3.6 of Jacada Integrator.

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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2002

Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA) today announced general availability of Jacada Integrator 3.6, which adds full Web services support to Jacada's legacy integration offering.

Without altering the existing application, this new functionality exposes existing business logic and data locked up in legacy systems as open, reusable Web services. This latest version of Jacada Integrator continues the evolution of the world's leading legacy integration solution and represents Jacada's commitment to incorporating legacy application logic and data into the world of distributed computing.

According to Gartner, Web services is expected to become the dominant mode of deployment for new application solutions for Fortune 2000 companies by the year 2004. This architectural transformation is being driven by the need for a more flexible enterprise architecture to accommodate rapidly changing technological and market demands.

"When developing a Web services strategy, it is necessary to consider the role legacy systems will play in the architectural mix," said Mike Chandler, director of product management for Jacada. "Mainframe and midrange systems still house over 70% of the core data and applications that run today's business processes. Using Jacada Integrator to make valuable legacy business processes available as Web services, allows organizations to take a non-invasive, low-risk approach toward delivering loosely coupled software components over the Internet."

With this new release, Jacada Integrator now offers a risk-free approach to testing and implementing Web services. Support for Web services is just the latest in a long list of `client types' supported in Jacada Integrator, including XML, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Server Pages, Active Server Pages, Java and Component Object Model (COM) application programming interfaces (APIs), and special adapters for MQSeries, Siebel eBusiness Applications, and SeeBeyond. Reusable services created using Jacada Integrator can be quickly redeployed as Web services, literally with the push of a button. An organization can use Jacada Integrator today to integrate legacy systems with new applications and Web initiatives using any number of client-side adapters - putting organizations only a click away from Web services when needed.

"It has long been Jacada's commitment to insulate our customers from changing interface standards," said Chandler. "Investments made with Jacada Integrator today can be completely leveraged in the future as new client environments, such as Web services, emerge."

Development with Jacada Integrator is accomplished using the product's visual-modeling tool, MapMaker, which allows developers to model transactions by automatically analyzing the host application, not writing scripts. MapMaker navigates through the screens that will be used to accomplish the desired transaction or transactions and builds an actual map of the application flow. From this map, developers choose a particular transactional path of screens, and associated actions, inputs and outputs to create a Web service. Jacada Integrator provides all the necessary components for creating and using Web services including the automatic generation of the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) files and a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) listener for invoking the new Web service.

Jacada Integrator 3.6 is generally available and pricing starts at $9,000.

About Jacada Integrator - With over 200 installations to date, Jacada Integrator is the leading, non-intrusive solution for rapidly integrating core legacy business systems, including the data and processes in those systems, with any front-office, call center, CRM, or Web application as well as a wide variety of middleware solutions. Bridging the gap between old and new data, Jacada Integrator creates reusable components out of applications running on IBM zSeries mainframe, IBM iSeries midrange, and UNIX hosts and deploys these components as XML, Enterprise JavaBeans, Java Server Pages, Active Server Pages, and Web services.

About Jacada - Jacada Ltd. is the leading provider of solutions for all things legacy. Jacada addresses the need for extending and integrating legacy applications into today's modern computing environments through automated integration, web-to-host, modernization, extension and terminal emulation products. Jacada solutions are in use today at major corporations and government organizations such as AIG, Bank of America, Caterpillar, Citibank, Delta Air Lines, The Federal Reserve Bank, Porsche Cars North America, Prudential, and the US Department of Interior. Jacada operates globally with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya, Israel; and London, England. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574.

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