StrikeIron Announces Free Desktop Premium Version of the StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer.RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. -- Allows easier browsing and understanding of internal 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. along with direct access to the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace for external commercial Web services StrikeIron(TM) Inc., the worldwide leader of Web services commercialization through the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace(TM), today announced that they are expanding the free tools available for working with the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace to include the downloadable Premium version of the StrikeIron Web Services Analyzer for Windows. The desktop based Premium Analyzer allows users to easily browse through both internal and external directories and includes direct access to the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace. Users can quickly and easily understand the data structures, data requirements, behavior and results of a Web services and select the right Web Service for their needs without any programming and any additional software. StrikeIron is making this product available for free to accelerate the usability of Web services in general, and to accelerate the integration of StrikeIron Marketplace commercial Web services and Web services being utilized internally, to develop and extend Service Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. Architectures. "In the past software developers, Website builders Most web site builders are proprietary tools provided by web hosting companies which cater to people who wish to build their own websites without learning the technical aspects of web page production. and business analysts spent hours locating Web services, reviewing complex 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 and writing code in order to understand a Web service's behavior," said Bob Brauer, 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 StrikeIron. "By offering this free downloadable tool users will be able to quickly take advantage of the rapidly increasing number of Web services available throughout the world." The Premium Analyzer is a significantly enhanced version of the online Analyzer available on the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network. The Premium Analyzer provides integrated access to StrikeIron's Web Services Marketplace allowing users to work with the broadest range of commercially available external Web services to enhance their 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. implementations, applications and Web sites with live, real time data and extended functionality. In addition, the Premium edition of the Analyzer provides 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. access to allow users to search and work with multiple UDDI directories, thus offering a much faster way to enable broader usage of internal assets. ISVs and developers can take further advantage of this product by integrating it into their applications to demonstrate new real-time functionality and data that are Web services based. The StrikeIron Analyzer premium version is available as a free download on the StrikeIron Web Services Business Network at www.strikeiron.com. Some of the Analyzer's benefits and features include: Benefits --Easier and faster understanding of a Web service's applicability and value. --Eliminates the frustration of pouring through hard-to-read XML documents or class generators to discover the expected behavior of a Web service. --Speeds the development process as any Web service can be invoked with sample data without writing code --Reduces investment because additional software is not required to invoke To activate a program, routine, function or process. a Web service. --Enables Web services users to quickly and easily try multiple Web services in multiple ways. --Enables Web services developers to test multiple scenarios with their Web services before publishing them to the Web Services Marketplace. --Serves as a Universal Web Services Client for Service Oriented Architectures, allowing any SOAP-based Web service within the SOA to be analyzed, invoked, tested, and otherwise consumed so its behavior and applicability can be better understood. Features --Executes Web services dynamically, with an easy-to-use point-and-click interface that requires no code development or compiling for understanding a Web service --Includes direct access to the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, the largest commercial marketplace of Web services. --Presents the Web service in a familiar, graphical tree view for faster understanding. --Presents output in a table view that can be saved to other applications, like Microsoft Excel (tool) Microsoft Excel - A spreadsheet program from Microsoft, part of their Microsoft Office suite of productivity tools for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. Excel is probably the most widely used spreadsheet in the world. Latest version: Excel 97, as of 1997-01-14. . --Supports access and analysis of Web services in any standards based UDDI. --Drills down into input and output SOAP messages --Customizable functionality, such as adding your own directories and saving your Favorite Web services to eliminate having to repeat the search and analysis steps. --Supports major 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. authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. types including Basic, NTLM NTLM NT LAN Manager (Microsoft Windows) and Digest --Save and reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. a workspace and Web services' input values --Proxy server support, logs and history support and the ability to print Web services trees About StrikeIron Based in Research Triangle Park, NC, StrikeIron, Inc. is the leader in Web services commercialization with its breakthrough StrikeIron Web Services Business Network(TM) (WSBizNet(TM)). WSBizNet includes the premier StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace(TM) as the central ecommerce location for anyone to easily buy and sell Web services. The StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace provides the most reliable and trusted commercial Web services available in the market across the broadest spectrum of business needs. The Aurora Funds, Inc. and NC IDEA provided funding for StrikeIron after recognizing the significant opportunity presented by Web services and this unique management team. For more information, visit www.strikeiron.com. StrikeIron, Web Services Business Network, WSBizNet, StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, StrikeIron Marketplace Powered, and Web Services Marketplace, are trademarks of StrikeIron, Inc. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. |
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