Progress Software SA, the local distributor of Sonic Software`s range of products, has launched SonicXQ, a Web services platform.
SonicXQ provides the foundation for building and deploying distributed services across the extended business with maximum reliability, security and scalability. The product supports remote procedure call (RPC) and document exchange from a unified platform.
"SonicXQ gives companies a highly reliable, agile and cost-effective approach for executing their Web services strategy," says Rick Parry, CEO at Progress Software SA. "Because reliability is the number one concern for businesses deploying distributed services, SonicXQ leverages Sonic`s proven messaging software."
The product enhances Web services by providing extensible mark-up language (XML) processing support and integration on a secure platform. Its key benefits include optimum interoperability, Web services standards and managed interactivity.
SonicXQ is fully standards-based and provides any-to-any application connectivity. It connects services within a distributed business allowing for fast and easy integration with limitless scalability and security, and without a single point of failure.
SonicXQ brings security to Web services by providing fully secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP/S) and SOAP support, as well as Web services description language (WSDL) generation for universal description, discovery integrate (UDDI) registries. Also, it allows any business process to be configured with intelligent routing and transformation of business documents (or messages) between multiple destinations. SonicXQ uses industry standards including XPath for content-based routing, extensible style sheet language transformation (XSLT) for translation, and XML for configurable message itineraries. It also offers support for Java connector architecture (JCA) adapters to manage standard connections with legacy systems. SonicXQ benefits include:
* A message-based architecture to support business processes on top of a reliable platform. Its message-based architecture intelligently routes and transforms critical business information between services according to configurable itineraries. This architecture combines proven messaging software with support for RPC and document exchange for future proof connectivity.
* Enterprise messaging which provides the foundation for distributed services. This is a distributed platform that guarantees once-and-only-once delivery of mission-critical business information between applications, systems and wireless devices over the Internet.
* Standardised connectivity that supports JCA adapters to transport common application connectivity to Web services through SOAP. This eliminates the need for costly and time-consuming proprietary adapters, and the need for partners to install and maintain vendor-specific software.
* Business processes support including a content-based routing service, itinerary manager, transformation service and connector toolkits that add business logic to any process by creating new services, and linking legacy systems for creating Web Services and integrating JCA adapters.
"A messaging infrastructure is a good foundation for reliable delivery of Web services," says Parry. "By integrating proven messaging software like Sonic, organisations will be better prepared for the movement to distributed services."
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