XAware Announces XA-Suite Release 4.2; New Version Increases Compatibility, Saves Time.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- XAware(TM), Inc., an enterprise software company specializing in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions, announces the release of XA-Suite 4.2(TM). The upgrades in XA-Suite 4.2 allow companies to significantly improve business agility and decrease time spent on development and maintenance of business services. XA-Suite 4.2 applies to many applications and industries including insurance, financial, manufacturing and telecom.

"XA-Suite 4.2 has many feature upgrades which ultimately lead to decreased implementation time and increased collaborative capabilities," says Darin Black, product manager for XAware. "This version allows customers to create applications and business services even more easily than with our previous versions."

Features

XAware's XA-Suite 4.2 features four significant upgrades. The first is J2EE BizDriver support in XA-Designer(TM). This allows XA-Designer to access J2EE managed resources, such as JMS or data connection pools managed by an application server, at design time and complete wizard driven processes using those resources, thereby eliminating the need to modify components from design time to run time environments. An entire level of testing is effectively removed.

The second upgrade gives the XA-Suite 4.2 the ability to support complex SQL statements. This feature makes XA-Designer compatible with widely used query generation and optimization tools, such as Toad, and allows developers to easily drag and drop map results. Wizard-driven edit functionality is also now fully supported for components containing complex SQL.

The third feature enables support for relative paths in XA-Designer. This feature allows easy integration with source control systems and allows multiple developers to more easily collaborate on projects.

The final upgraded feature provides customers of XA-Suite 4.2 the ability to generate, validate and consume web services in the most used industry-standard styles such as RPC encoded and literal, document/literal and document/literal wrapped.

IBM Compatibility

The new features provided in XA-Suite 4.2 were successfully deployed and tested at the IBM Innovation Center for Business Partners in Chicago.

"SOA is an increasingly important architectural requirement in the public sector market," said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. "XAware's unique approach to SOA is compatible with IBM's goals. We are excited to work with them to create advanced SOA applications."

The following platforms and operating systems were tested:

--IBM System i 520 i5 / V5R4

--IBM System i 520 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3

--IBM System p 570 AIX 5.3 TL 4

--IBM System p 570 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3

--IBM zSeries z990 zOS 1.7

--IBM zSeries z990 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3

XAware has also received the first two levels of certification, Connect and Extend, from IBM to be optimized for SOA.

XA-Suite Release 4.2 is a bundled service that is priced per CPU. For more information about pricing, please contact XAware at 719-884-5400 or [e-mail].

XAware, Inc.

XAware, Inc. is a privately-held enterprise software company that provides complete services solutions for the modeling, manufacturing, monitoring and management of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). XAware enables success for the business SOA model by bridging the gap between business processes and IT. This XML-based bridge is the Business Services Layer which is comprised of logical assemblies of IT data services and conditional processing. These business services can then be choreographed and re-choreographed to provide new business processes and give companies the agility necessary to keep up with today's ever changing business environment. XAware Business Service XCelerators (BSX), logically grouped catalogs of related and integrated business services, have been designed for and with insurance companies, financial market leaders and government agencies around the globe. For more information on XAware, visit www.xaware.com or call 719.884.5400.

XAware, XA-Designer and XA-Suite 4.2 are trademarks of XAware, Inc.