BELLEVUE, Wash. – Aug. 4, 2003 – Attachmate Corporation, delivering over 20 years of innovation in the legacy application integration space, announced full support for the recent availability of BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1™, an integrated platform that provides superior business integration through the convergence of application development and integration, from BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS), the world’s leading application infrastructure software company. Attachmate myEXTRA!™ Smart Connector Enterprise Edition is designed to capture legacy data and business logic as callable services for use in new applications developed in BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1.
Enterprise developers can programmatically integrate legacy data and business processes with new applications using Attachmate myEXTRA! Smart Connectors – without making changes to the host code. Together, Attachmate and BEA have worked closely to design a solution to easily integrate legacy data and business logic with new application development.
“Attachmate’s proven legacy integration strategy and solutions, coupled with BEA WebLogic Platform help extend an application developer’s reach to legacy host assets,” said Scott Edgington, vice president and general manager, global software partners, BEA Systems. “By speeding development time with easy-to-use development solutions, Attachmate and BEA can help lower total cost of ownership and increase productivity, adding up to a stronger competitive advantage.”
“Working with BEA to give the development community an easier way to integrate legacy assets within a service-oriented architecture makes it possible for application developers to reach a larger audience, regardless of their skill set,” explained Markus Nitschke,” VP, marketing, Attachmate. “Applications are coming from a variety of sources. BEA and Attachmate deliver these capabilities in an integrated, easy-to-use environment, which is extremely valuable.”
Secure access to legacy assets
myEXTRA! Smart Connectors can unlock legacy hosts such as IBM™ mainframe, AS/400®, and Unisys® host systems to encapsulate legacy data and business logic as callable services. Based on open standards and J2EE and .NET architectures, Smart Connectors are designed to provide secure access to legacy assets on back-end systems via:
EJB™, JavaBeans™, J2EE™ Connector Architecture Resource Adapter
.NET and COM(+)
Web services
About Attachmate
Attachmate Corporation is a privately held, worldwide supplier of host data and business logic access and management solutions for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies. Attachmate provides solutions for direct, real-time access to back-office systems, Web- and desktop-to-host solutions, plus flexible enterprise application integration and Web services. Information is available at http://www.attachmate.com or by calling Attachmate headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. at 425.644.4010.