Software AG has announced significant enhancements to ApplinX, its software tool that extends valuable legacy systems to the Web and to a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The upgrade, ApplinX Version 5.1, enables faster and easier creation of Web-based applications and Web services based on legacy applications on Mainframe and iSeries platforms. Specifically, it includes "no-coding-required" Web screen creation, the ability to invoke external Web services and the ability to register Web services in any UDDI compliant registry.
Software AG South Africa director, Devon Dalbock said: "ApplinX provides the simplest and most convenient way to create powerful Web services from a legacy system, which can then be used in a service-oriented architecture.
"Once they experience how quickly and easily they can personally create these Web services, without having to learn Java, HTML, .NET or legacy code, companies realise the potential to deliver rapid results to their business users while planning for a long-term SOA strategy."
Detailed new capabilities included in Version 5.1 are:
* UDDI registration of Web services - the ability to publish a Web service in any UDDI registry, including Software AG's recently announced CentraSite registry and repository. CentraSite includes a UDDI v3.0 compliant registry.
* Web screen creation without coding - An intelligent transformation function that recognises repeating patterns across (potentially) thousands of green screen interfaces and automatically transforms them into modern Web interfaces.
* Invoking external Web services - the ability to bring an externally-created Web service into new applications based on the "flow" of procedures that ApplinX creates by combining multiple terminal screens.
Software AG customers currently using ApplinX to create Web components and Web services include:
* Tulsa County Government, in the United States, improved access to county property records and legal documents and saved an estimated $300 000 by choosing to modernise instead of replace the legacy system.
* WienIT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Public Utilities Holding Company for the city of Vienna, Web-enabled its Cobol-based personnel administration system across 425 different locations (1 250 users).
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