Local Macromedia distributor and Web enablement specialist, Dax Data, has announced the immediate availability of an update to Macromedia ColdFusion MX for Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE) to support the Sun ONE Application Server 7.
"The integration of ColdFusion MX with Sun ONE Application Server delivers productivity benefits for customers who want to use their existing skills to leverage the power of the Java platform," says Jeremy Matthews, managing director of Dax Data. "Thousands of customers rely on the standards-based Sun ONE platform to power their mission-critical applications and services."
The Sun software products are key components of Sun ONE - an open, integrated product portfolio enabling the development and delivery of Java Web services.
"Customers have seen significant value combining Macromedia ColdFusion MX and the Sun ONE platform," says Matthews. "ColdFusion is a way for them to increase developer productivity while reducing cost and time to deliver robust Java applications."
Deployed as a standard Java application, ColdFusion MX for Sun ONE provides an easy to use and learn productivity layer that enables development organisations to better leverage their investments in the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) infrastructure.
Lodewyk de Beer, solution architect at Sun Microsystems South Africa, agrees and explains that the Sun ONE Application Server is an application server that is fully compliant with J2EE technology, which allows it to use a wide variety of existing J2EE technology application components and resources available.
"What`s more, the platform edition of Sun ONE Application Server is free," he says. "This combined with the fact that J2EE technology is a leading middleware development technology, makes the integration of ColdFusion MX with Sun ONE Application Server the ideal platform to deliver the productivity benefits for customers who want to use their existing skills to leverage the power of the Java platform."
Using high-level ColdFusion scripting, built-in services, and seamless integration with the Java platform, ColdFusion MX provides a fast track to J2EE for developers who already know ASP, CFML, PHP or other scripting languages.
By adding the rapid server scripting of ColdFusion MX to their J2EE environment, organisations can empower non-Java developers to tightly collaborate with Java developers to deliver integrated, standards-based rich Internet applications while reducing costs and development time. The update is immediately available and a 30-day trial copy can be ordered from Dax Data by e-mailing: info@daxdata.co.za.
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Incorporated in September 1989, Dax Data has offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, is an IBM Business Partner, a Microsoft Solution Provider and holds local distribution rights for Macromedia, NetManage and DataMirror products as well as a number of other related international software products. The company has an extensive skills-base for these products, assisting southern African enterprises to tackle complex host-to-any connectivity issues, Internet-based delivery mechanisms and data replication solutions.
Dax Data and its partners offer value-added services around the Web-enablement of business applications - in effect, helping customers to maximise their investment in legacy systems by making the data, information and applications they contain available across multiple backend and client technologies.
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