Nexaweb Announces Version 3.0 of the Nexaweb Software Platform; Key Features Include New Visual Development Environment, Clustering and Support for Web Services.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004 Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. (www.nexaweb.com), the leading platform for building Enterprise Internet Applications, today announced the availability of Version 3.0. Used by enterprises to rapidly build and deploy rich enterprise Internet applications, the Nexaweb platform now includes a visual development environment, server clustering and support for Web services. "Version 3.0 takes us to the next level and will help our customers stay competitive," said Larry Geisel, Nexaweb 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. . "This version helps reinforce our commitment to open standards, enterprise-quality application development and enterprise-class scaling." New features in Version 3.0 include a visual development environment, server clustering, support for Web services, support for new client platforms and application servers, enhanced graphing capabilities and internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation . The new release helps strengthen Nexaweb's position at the forefront of the rich Internet application See RIA and rich client. development market. "A rich Internet application solution like Nexaweb Version 3.0 will appeal to business executives because it offers easily understandable benefits, such as increased end-user productivity and lower application deployment costs," said Tom Rhinelander, analyst with New Rowley Group. "But Nexaweb will also appeal to CIOs, as it delivers a host of IT-friendly features such as support for the popular Eclipse and other development environments, rapid application development tools and pre-built interface components, and Web services integration." Nexaweb Version 3.0 key features include: -- Nexaweb Studio Studio is a new visual design and development environment intended for use with an Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) that makes it easy to quickly build and deploy enterprise Internet applications. Studio ships fully integrated within the Eclipse IDE and is also available as a plug-in for use with other IDEs. Studio includes Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) templates and wizards to enable rapid prototyping, allows users to visually build rich user interfaces, offers drag-and-drop access to over 40 GUI widgets and features full database integration via standardized JDBC drivers. -- Server Clustering Nexaweb Version 3.0 allows for greater scalability through clustering of multiple instances of the Nexaweb Server. An individual Nexaweb Server can support over 1000 simultaneous client sessions, each capable of processing hundreds of transactions per second In a very generic sense, the term Transactions Per Second refers to the number of atomic actions performed by certain entity per second. In a more restrictied view, the term is usually used by DBMS vendor and user community to refer to the number of database transactions performed . When the total requirement grows, additional Nexaweb Server instances can be initiated and clustered to provide the desired scaling. -- Support for Web Services With Nexaweb Version 3.0, developers can easily build and deploy applications that consume Web services. Because a Nexaweb application is a standard J2EE application, developers have the flexibility to create backend Web services with their development tools of choice and can then use Nexaweb to create a User Interface (UI) to seamlessly expose those Web services. -- Ubiquitous Client Support Version 3.0 supports over 95 percent of browsers, making it one of the most compatible software products developed for the Internet. Supported browsers include Netscape 4.0+, Internet Explorer 4.0+, Mozilla and Safari. Supported client platforms include OS X, Redhat Linux, United Linux, SUSE Linux, Solaris, HPUX HPUX Hewlett-Packard Unix , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , AS/400 and all Windows operating systems. Nexaweb 3.0 also supports the newly announced Java Desktop System A comprehensive client software environment from Sun for its Solaris operating system. Java Desktop System (JDS), based on the Java 2 platform, includes the GNOME user interface, StarOffice application suite, Evolution e-mail and Mozilla browser. from Sun Microsystems. Such ubiquitous client support gives Nexaweb customers the most economic and hassle-free way to deploy enterprise Internet applications. -- Additional Application Server Support Nexaweb Version 3.0 supports a wide variety of application servers including: Sun Java Enterprise System Application Server, Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere, Oracle 9i Application Server and JBoss. -- Internationalization Version 3.0 is locale-aware and enables applications to be customized based on user locale or preference. Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS (Double Byte Character Set) A character code that uses one or two bytes to represent one character. It was developed for the Japanese, Chinese and Korean languages. See Unicode. (character) DBCS - (IBM) double-byte character set. ) support extends Nexaweb applications to languages requiring more than 256 characters, such as Korean (Hangeul), Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) and Japanese. -- Enhanced Graphing Capabilities New enhanced graphing includes over 30 fully extensible UI widgets and 15 new Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) A vector graphics format from the W3C for the Web that is expressed in XML. Introduced in 2001, SVG was designed to become the standard vector format just as GIFs and JPEGs have become the standard bitmaps for the Web. ) charts and graphs. The charts and graphs can be animated and automatically rendered on the client via real time data push from the server. Nexaweb Version 3.0 is available immediately. About Nexaweb Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provides the leading software platform for building and deploying Enterprise Internet Applications. Nexaweb customers enjoy more efficient business operations, faster time to market and competitive advantage. Nexaweb-powered applications offer the scalability and deployment efficiencies of the Internet while delivering the functionality and power of enterprise applications. With Nexaweb, businesses can deploy mission critical applications via the Internet on any device without compromise. Some of Nexaweb's key customers and partners include Best Western, Starwood, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Sun Microsystems, IBM and Oracle. For more information about Nexaweb, please visit www.nexaweb.com. 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