Software AG Announces Enhancements to its ApplinX Legacy Modernization Product
September 13 2005 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
ApplinX to Support the Open Source Eclipse Development Environment,
the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD Operating System, and Additional
Languages Software AG, Inc. today announced enhancements for its
ApplinX legacy modernization software, including support for the
open source Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), the
Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD operating system, as well as Arabic,
Farsi and Turkish languages. The enhancements to ApplinX will
further ease the task of creating standard programmatic components
(including Web screens and Web services) from legacy systems that
can be readily incorporated into modern environments such as Java,
.NET and enterprise portals. The announcement was made at the
Gartner Application Development & Enterprise Architecture
Summits. Capitalizing on legacy systems' longstanding strengths of
reliability, security and high performance, ApplinX provides the
ability to preserve and extend legacy applications and integrate
them into Web services and SOA environments. ApplinX lets users
combine multiple screens into a single Web page, and automatically
generates Web components and Web services based upon XML, SOAP and
WSDL standards. Furthermore, ApplinX' user-friendly composing and
administration tools enable developers to achieve rapid results
using their existing Java and/or .NET programming skills.
Additional ease-of-use benefits include: -- No need for developers
to understand or access legacy application code -- No need for
developers to write new code -- No special technical training
required to use the product -- No need to install new software on
the legacy host -- No need for client terminals or local terminal
emulation software "With the new version of ApplinX we continue to
help customers around the world drive their legacy systems
forward," said Joe Gentry, Vice President of Enterprise Transaction
Systems for Software AG. "Our support for a wide variety of legacy
systems within a single modernization product gives our customers
the power to adapt, while ApplinX's no-coding, point-and-click
approach allows developers with no legacy skills whatsoever to
achieve rapid modernization results within weeks or even days."
Eclipse IDE Support Because ApplinX now supports the globally
accepted Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), open
source developers can achieve legacy modernization using their
familiar toolset, thus increasing developer productivity. For more
information on Eclipse, visit http://www.eclipse.org. Additional
Language Support The new version of ApplinX adds support for
Arabic, Farsi and Turkish - alongside its current support for all
Western languages, plus double-byte languages (Japanese, Chinese
and Korean) as well as Hebrew, Russian and Thai. The result is that
ApplinX now addresses the requirements of virtually every global
organization that needs to modernize legacy systems built in a
variety of languages. ApplinX now brings a wide variety of legacy
modernization options to the approximately 1000 companies
(predominantly in Europe) that use the Fujitsu-Siemens BS2000/OSD
(9750) operating system. Additional enhancements to ApplinX include
support for Natural(R) data uploads and downloads, the ability to
make global changes to a group of screens, instant extensions, and
support for HTML Document Object Model (DOM). To download a 30-day
trial version of ApplinX, go to:
http://www1.softwareag.com/Corporate/products/applinx/
download/default.asp. (Due to the length of this URL, it may be
necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet
browser's URL address field.) More about ApplinX ApplinX is part of
Software AG's Enterprise Legacy Integrator (ELI) product portfolio,
which enables organizations to save costs and enhance productivity
by preserving and extending the value of their current technology
investments. ApplinX conforms to virtually any organization's
pre-defined infrastructure and standards. ApplinX can be deployed
within any J2EE application server environment and communicates
with a comprehensive set of legacy platforms, including the zSeries
and IBM mainframe (3270), iSeries - former AS/400 (5250), Unisys
(T27), Fujitsu (6680), Natural UNIX, HP3000, Tandem (6530), and now
Siemens OSD/BS2000 (9750). Development plug-ins provide the ApplinX
Server components within a Java development environment, such as
OptimalJ, and now, Eclipse. ApplinX supports J2EE-compliant
application servers such as IBM WebSphere, Sun iPlanet, BEA
WebLogic, Oracle 9i and others. ApplinX also provides a
comprehensive .NET legacy integration infrastructure and .NET
application framework, including automatic generation of components
for .NET. Certain legacy business processes may be encapsulated as
part of .NET-based composite applications, and certain legacy
applications may be extended to a .NET Web interface or SharePoint
portal. In addition, legacy data may be accessed and updated from a
BizTalk Server. About Software AG, Inc. (North America) Software
AG, Inc. is based in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area and
provides enterprise-class data management and integration solutions
to customers in sectors such as local, state and federal
government, insurance and public retirement. Software AG, Inc.'s
customers include the U.S. Navy, American Fidelity Assurance
Company, The California State Public Employee Retirement System
(CalPERS), NYC Department of Buildings, the State of Alaska and the
County of Sacramento. Visit us at www.softwareagusa.com Software AG
provides a real-time single view of strategic business information
by integrating applications and systems, in addition to modernizing
mainframe and open system IT environments. Around 2,500 employees
in 59 countries support the mission-critical systems of 3,000
customers around the world. The company maintains four R&D
facilities across three continents. Founded in 1969, Software AG
today is Europe's largest and most established systems software
provider. It is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany and is listed
on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (TecDAX, ISIN DE 0003304002 / SOW).
In 2004 Software AG posted 411 million euros in total revenue. The
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