n-ary Re-launches Its Java ColdFusion Engine tagServlet.Business Editors DUMFRIES, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001 n-ary Limited has announced that it will re-launch its groundbreaking tagFusion product today under the name "tagServlet". tagServlet is a 100% pure J2EE application A J2EE application or an enterprise application is any deployable unit of J2EE functionality. This can be a single J2EE module or a group of modules packaged into an EAR file along with a J2EE application deployment descriptor. that renders web pages that were originally designed for the Allaire Corporation's (Nasdaq: ALLR) ColdFusion product. Initial tests suggest that tagServlet actually runs more efficiently than Allaire's own ColdFusion server. tagServlet supports the majority of the most commonly used CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) See ColdFusion. CFML - ColdFusion Markup Language tags in addition to supporting CFML's complete expression language. tagServlet has been undergoing thorough testing since July 2000 with a number of sites, including ShopSmart.com, the UK's largest shopping portal. Alan Williamson, 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 n-ary, commented, "Allaire has told us in no uncertain terms to refrain from using the tagFusion name, because users may believe tagFusion to be an Allaire product. Allaire have informed us they will begin legal proceedings All actions that are authorized or sanctioned by law and instituted in a court or a tribunal for the acquisition of rights or the enforcement of remedies. unless we change the name of our product." "This action surprised us, as we have been in discussion with Allaire since October last year about some collaboration, but last month Allaire retreated from the discussion table." "Changing the name at this stage is not a problem for us," Williamson continues. "We have decided to revert to its original name, tagServlet, which emphasizes our product as a Java servlet See servlet. (World-Wide Web) Java servlet - (By analogy with "applet") A Java program that runs as part of a network service, typically an HTTP server and responds to requests from clients. solution that renders tag-based web pages. The current version renders ColdFusion pages, but it is possible to make tagServlet render other tag-based markup languages. As our product is more than just another ColdFusion engine, the name tagServlet is in fact a much better name for it." Ceri Moran, Chief Operations Officer for n-ary, added: "In recent weeks we have seen a tremendous increase of interest in tagServlet. ColdFusion users have expressed to us concern about the merger of Allaire and MacroMedia (Nasdaq: MACR MACR Macromedia (stock symbol) MACR Missing Air Crew Report MACR Major Accident Control Regulations (UK) MACR Monthly Arrest and Citation Register MACR Modified And Combinable REMIC ). Although there are new products from them in the pipeline, tagServlet is here now, available for beta download." ABOUT N-ARY: n-ary Limited is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , headquartered in Dumfries, Scotland, United Kingdom. n-ary was founded in 1995 as the UK's first pure Java development company. n-ary CEO Alan Williamson has been involved with enterprise Java since the first release of the Servlet A Java application that runs in a Web server or application server and provides server-side processing such as accessing a database and e-commerce transactions. Widely used for Web processing, servlets are designed to handle HTTP requests (get, post, etc. API in 1996. Williamson is also Editor in Chief of Java Developer's Journal, the leading Java-specific print and online resource in the business and technology marketplace. |
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