Software AG enhances ApplinX legacy modernization tool.Software AG have announced enhancements to ApplinX, a software tool that extends valuable legacy systems to the Web and to a Service-Oriented Architecture See SOA. (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ). Software AG's ApplinX version 5.1 has been upgraded to enable faster and easier creation of Web-based applications and Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. based on legacy applications on Mainframe and iSeries platforms. Specific upgrades to ApplinX version 5.1 include "no-coding-required" Web screen creation, the ability to invoke external Web services and the ability to register Web services in any UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. compliant registry. ApplinX lets users combine multiple screens into a single Web page, and automatically generates Web components and Web services based upon 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. , SOAP and 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. standards. These components and services are compatible with Java and .NET environments, and can be readily incorporated into an SOA. New capabilities supported by ApplinX version 5.1 include: UDDI registration of Web services--the ability to publish a Web service in any UDDI registry, including Software AG's recently announced CentraSite registry and repository. CentraSite includes a UDDI v3.0 compliant registry. Web screen creation without coding--An intelligent transformation function that recognizes repeating patterns across (potentially) thousands of green screen interfaces and automatically transforms them into modem Web interfaces. Invoking external Web services--the ability to bring an externally-created Web service into new applications based on the "flow" of procedures that ApplinX creates by combining multiple terminal screens. www.softwareag.com |
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