Tarari Silicon Accelerates Java XML Systems; Tarari Expands Reach of Fast XML Processing Technology to the Enterprise with Modern, Efficient API Optimized for Plug-In Hardware Acceleration.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tarari, Inc., the award-winning acceleration company, today announced its new Random Access XML for Java (RAX-J), a clean, efficient API that runs on top of Tarari's family of silicon-based Content Processors and allows DOM and SAX processing stacks to be optimized in enterprise applications. Tarari's "Content Processor" products are ASICs, production boards, and embedded software components designed to snap into networking, appliance, blade, and server systems. The announcement is being made at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco -- full-conference attendees are welcome to attend the "XML Processing With RAX-J," Birds of a Feather Session on Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at 10:30 p.m. in Hall E135.

XML continues to be adopted as the "lingua franca" of the Internet, but the programming inefficiency of this text-based protocol leads to inefficient applications that bog down enterprise systems. IBM researchers such as Nicola and John(1) have established that "...the desired response times and transaction rates over XML data can not be achieved without major improvements in XML parsing technology."

The Tarari RAX-J API is a Java-based approach to an "XML cursor" that is easy to work with and improves XML application efficiency up to 400 percent, even without hardware acceleration. However, RAX-J has been specifically designed to support plug-in hardware acceleration, which will result in even greater performance gains, and RAX-J includes optimized versions of XPath, XSLT, and XML Security, so developers can continue to rely on these easy-to-use, standard XML operations.

"DOM and SAX simply were not designed with today's high-volume, transaction-intensive XML applications in mind, and the result is both programming and performance inefficiency," said Ronald Schmelzer, analyst at research firm ZapThink. "Tarari's RAX-J replaces this obsolete and inefficient method of parsing XML with an approach that promises to help improve performance, and thus ROI, of XML on the network. Combined with Tarari hardware acceleration, RAX-J enables developers to build end-to-end, standards-based XML applications with unprecedented performance."

Tarari's RAX-J has been designed for today's enterprise applications and handles web services in a very efficient way. The XML cursor approach dramatically improves how an XML document is modeled and navigated. Using Tarari's RAX-J -- without any hardware acceleration -- will deliver a 60 to 400 percent improvement in overall XML processing based on optimized XML parsing, better memory handling, and improvements to the underlying implementation of XML operations. RAX-J also takes full advantage of plug-in hardware acceleration using the Tarari silicon which results in further performance increases. RAX-J complies with all key XML standards and offers complete implementations of the following W3C standards: XML 1.0, Namespaces in XML, XML Schema 1.0, XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.1, Canonical XML 1.0, and Exclusive XML Cannonicalization 1.0.

"Tarari now offers a complete Java API stack built on modern, clean programming principles, which also supports all the benefits of Tarari's plug-in hardware acceleration," said Randy Smerik, president/CEO and co-Founder, Tarari, Inc. "Now our customers can have a Java-based approach to fast XML processing that transparently leverages specialized silicon chips. This is a true `industry first.' Our initial feedback from customers is that RAX-J is a huge success and the best-designed Java API they've ever worked with."

Tarari's RAX-J is compatible with XML RAX -- a network-centric XML processing technology. Both use the same XML RAX Content Processor silicon. RAX is widely deployed in networking devices, servers, and gateways. RAX-J and RAX enable enterprise application developers and network switch, server, blade, and appliance vendors to create a variety of new applications such as:

--Gigabit message classification and routing

--High transaction rate publish and subscribe systems

--Advanced SOAP message processing

--High-performance XML security firewalls

--VoIP call tracking, billing, and other real-time, event-driven transactional solutions

--XML Threat Management

--Transactional XML applications

--Any high-speed XML application

Availability

OEMs, ISVs, and corporate developers interested in evaluating Tarari RAX-J should purchase the Tarari XML/Web Services Development Kit, which is available immediately and consists of a Tarari XML RAX Content Processor on a Tarari Grand Prix series PCI-X card and the Tarari RAX-J API. An upgrade program is available for previous RAX customers. For more information, contact [e-mail]. For additional technical information, visit www.tarari.com/raxj.

About Tarari, Inc.

Tarari, the award-winning acceleration company headquartered in San Diego, designs and develops Content Processor silicon to allow original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to accelerate and offload compute-intensive, complex algorithms used in XML/Web Services, Network Security, and Digital Media environments. Tarari is a fabless semiconductor company whose product line primarily includes ASICs, but Tarari also offers boards and software acceleration components designed for network equipment, appliance, and server vendors, as well as independent software vendors. Tarari is a privately held company with venture backing from Crosspoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Miramar Venture Partners, XMLFund, and Intel Capital. For more information, visit www.tarari.com, e-mail: [e-mail] or call 858-385-5131.

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1 - Matthias Nicola, Jasmi John: "XML Parsing: A Threat to Database Performance," 12th Intl. Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'2003, New Orleans, November 2003.