Natural. (Software Tools).Software AG, have released of the latest version of its development environment, Natural. With the pervasion per·vade tr.v. per·vad·ed, per·vad·ing, per·vades To be present throughout; permeate. See Synonyms at charge. [Latin perv of e-business and the World Wide Web, mainframes are experiencing a renaissance. To be able to utilise the benefits of these computer systems, users and developers need expanded functionality and direct integration with the Web. Through HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. support, Natural Version 5 for Windows enables development of mainframe applications for the Web and processing of 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. documents. Development takes place in Windows, and the finished application can then be deployed on various operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Natural's new XML toolkit allows applications to translate XML documents to and from Natural source code which gives organisations that already employ Natural a tool to process XML data using existing applications and store information from these applications in XML. Data from Natural applications can be represented on a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and Natural's support for HTTP allows Natural applications to communicate with the Internet and any company that employs this protocol. An organisation that develops its applications on a mainframe can put them on the Internet and utilise XML documents for communication, without retrofiting the applications with other tools, since the applications have been created with the Web in mind. www.software.ag.com |
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