Cape Clear Software Lowers the Cost of Integration with World's First Web Services Integration Platform
(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 11, 2002 ) [CAMPBELL, Calif. - March 11, 2002] Cape Clear(tm) Software, a leading provider of Web Services technology, has announced the latest release of CapeConnect(tm), a fully-featured, Web Services-based application integration platform. CapeConnect 3.5 enables organizations to integrate applications and systems faster, easier and more cost-effectively than traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions. Thanks to its adherence to industry standards such as XML, SOAP and UDDI, CapeConnect brings EAI to the mainstream at an affordable cost. Cape Clear has today also released the latest version of its integrated Web Services development environment, CapeStudio(tm) 3.
"Pointing out that the emperor has no clothes has never been popular, but I think the EAI closet looks pretty bare," according to Annrai O'Toole, chief executive officer at Cape Clear Software. "Web Services is going to succeed where EAI has failed by offering a fast, easy and affordable means to tie applications and systems together, all based on industry standards. We'd like to welcome everyone to prêt-à-porter integration."
In tandem with the launch of CapeConnect 3.5, Cape Clear has also created the EAI Solutions Group (ESG). ESG is already working with partners and customers to assist in the design and implementation of Web Services-based EAI applications.
"Web Services is already a proven means of integrating applications and systems," according to Ravi Panja, CTO at Insync Information Systems. "The key to the success of Web Services is simplicity and cost. Web Services enables companies to undertake integration projects that previously would have been unaffordable in terms of cost and time. Using Cape Clear's CapeConnect and CapeStudio products we are able to deliver real business integration, resulting in more effective business processes and easier sharing of information and data throughout the client's enterprise."
"Cape Clear's CapeConnect is a complete Web Services integration product that allows you to automatically expose your existing Java, EJB and CORBA components as Web Services without writing code. We were impressed with the usability of the product and the ease of use of the Web Services. CapeConnect is capable of interfacing with a wide forum of current technologies which is key today with the multiple clients that we are currently working with," said John Gillespie, CEO at Kinetrix.
"We work with clients across multiple industries," said Howard Block, founder and principal at NuWave Solutions. "A common requirement of all these businesses is the need to access and integrate information and business processes. Our data integration team is working on these projects every day and we are well aware of the issues involved. Web Services offers a real alternative to traditional application integration solutions. We are working with Cape Clear to deliver Web Services-based integration solutions to a wide diversity of organizations. The reduced time and resources required by Web Services is a great opportunity to solve integration issues that companies have previously worked around because solving them with traditional technology was prohibitively expensive."
"Web Services is beginning to redefine how applications and systems are being integrated," commented Casey Crellin at Valtech. "When universal Web Services standards arrive they will provide a new platform to share information between applications and between organizations. Cape Clear with CapeConnect is providing the tools that bring application integration to a wider set of customers and is constructed with the emerging webservice standards at the core. Organizations who previously evaluated integration but were concerned about the high technology investment are now re-evaluating it thanks the promises of Web Services. Valtech is working with Cape Clear to bring Web Services-based integration to companies throughout the United States and Europe."
"Every organization faces a challenge in integrating and sharing information between their own IT systems and those of their business partners," said Jeffrey Hertzberg, CEO at Xenotrope. "Existing technology-based approaches to integration require material investment and that has restricted its success. The arrival of Web Services offers a new angle on integration. With standards that provide universal interoperability, Web Services enables integration at a significantly lower cost. We're working with Cape Clear to take advantage of the functionality CapeConnect offers in integrating applications inside and outside the enterprise."
CapeConnect Features
CapeConnect is a complete Web Services integration platform that allows developers to automatically expose existing Java, EJB, .NET, and CORBA components as Web Services without writing code. CapeConnect is capable of connecting a wide range of technologies (including Java, J2EE, CORBA, C , COM, C#, Visual Basic, and Perl) using Web Services standards such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. CapeConnect 3.5 introduces a range of new functionality including:
Application Integration Using Web Services
Cape Clear adds support for EAI systems with the addition of XML mapping technology that can connect an arbitrary XML data source with any Web Service hosted within CapeConnect. New business process logic can be inserted into the message stream via an interceptor API. Finally, CapeConnect offers a rich array of legacy connectors to enable access to mission critical data in a timely manner
Complete .NET Support
CapeConnect 3.5 has complete support for Microsoft .NET, ensuring that Web Services-based applications created on different environments such as Java, J2EE, and CORBA can seamlessly interoperate with the latest release of .NET. This release has been successfully tested against the release candidates of Microsoft's .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.
Improved Database Support
CapeConnect 3.5 enables SQL databases to be exposed as Web Services, allowing the rapid creation of Web Services to access enterprise data. This SQL Web Service approach can be used with any database supporting JDBC.
UDDI Enhancements
Cape Clear has upgraded the UDDI functionality within CapeConnect 3.5. This includes support for UDDI registries on Oracle databases, improved search facilities, and a major upgrade of CapeConnect's UDDI graphical interface.
Diverse Web Services Interoperability
Through the SOAPBuilders forum, CapeConnect 3.5 has been successfully tested for interoperability with many commercial Web Services products.
Support for Complex Legacy Applications
This latest release of CapeConnect generates WSDL and XML Schema that accurately reflects the complex and object-oriented nature of existing back-end systems through support for polymorphism. Developers also have more control over the WSDL generation and SOAP serialization of their applications through the use of JavaBean design patterns, which are supported by CapeConnect.
Native J2EE Deployment
CapeConnect 3.5 can be deployed either as a stand-alone platform or as a native J2EE application within leading J2EE application servers, such as WebLogic and WebSphere.
Increased Developer Flexibility
The large number of developers already using CapeConnect has driven a wide range of demands for increased flexibility in extending and customizing the CapeConnect Web Services platform. As a result CapeConnect 3.5 exposes a range of new APIs, including its SOAP parser, authentication module, serialization, transports, SOAP headers and HTTP Basic Authentication support.
Pricing and availability
CapeConnect 3.5 is available immediately and can be downloaded from http://www.capeclear.com . CapeConnect 3.5 has development pricing from $2,500 and runtime pricing from $10,000. It supports Windows NT/2000, Sun Solaris and Linux. For more sales information e-mail: info@capeclear.com or call (866) 227 3226.
About Cape Clear Software
Cape Clear Software (http://www.capeclear.com) has one focus: creating Web Services technology that reduces the business costs of software development and integration. CapeConnect is a Web Services based platform for enterprise integration that is simple, fast, and cost-effective to deploy and maintain. CapeStudio is an integrated Web Services development environment, simplifying design, development, integration, and deployment of Web Services applications using XML, WSDL, and UDDI. Cape Clear's products link packaged business applications, such as ERP and CRM, and diverse technologies, such as Java, J2EE, CORBA, and Microsoft .NET, across intranets and the Internet. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear is a privately held firm with offices in Dublin, London, California, Colorado and Massachusetts.
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For further PRESS information:
Tom Murphy
Cape Clear Software
Tel: USA (866) 219 5944 / International: 353 (1) 241 9937
E-mail: tom.murphy@capeclear.com
Cape Clear, CapeConnect and CapeStudio are trademarks of Cape Clear Software. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
"Pointing out that the emperor has no clothes has never been popular, but I think the EAI closet looks pretty bare," according to Annrai O'Toole, chief executive officer at Cape Clear Software. "Web Services is going to succeed where EAI has failed by offering a fast, easy and affordable means to tie applications and systems together, all based on industry standards. We'd like to welcome everyone to prêt-à-porter integration."
In tandem with the launch of CapeConnect 3.5, Cape Clear has also created the EAI Solutions Group (ESG). ESG is already working with partners and customers to assist in the design and implementation of Web Services-based EAI applications.
"Web Services is already a proven means of integrating applications and systems," according to Ravi Panja, CTO at Insync Information Systems. "The key to the success of Web Services is simplicity and cost. Web Services enables companies to undertake integration projects that previously would have been unaffordable in terms of cost and time. Using Cape Clear's CapeConnect and CapeStudio products we are able to deliver real business integration, resulting in more effective business processes and easier sharing of information and data throughout the client's enterprise."
"Cape Clear's CapeConnect is a complete Web Services integration product that allows you to automatically expose your existing Java, EJB and CORBA components as Web Services without writing code. We were impressed with the usability of the product and the ease of use of the Web Services. CapeConnect is capable of interfacing with a wide forum of current technologies which is key today with the multiple clients that we are currently working with," said John Gillespie, CEO at Kinetrix.
"We work with clients across multiple industries," said Howard Block, founder and principal at NuWave Solutions. "A common requirement of all these businesses is the need to access and integrate information and business processes. Our data integration team is working on these projects every day and we are well aware of the issues involved. Web Services offers a real alternative to traditional application integration solutions. We are working with Cape Clear to deliver Web Services-based integration solutions to a wide diversity of organizations. The reduced time and resources required by Web Services is a great opportunity to solve integration issues that companies have previously worked around because solving them with traditional technology was prohibitively expensive."
"Web Services is beginning to redefine how applications and systems are being integrated," commented Casey Crellin at Valtech. "When universal Web Services standards arrive they will provide a new platform to share information between applications and between organizations. Cape Clear with CapeConnect is providing the tools that bring application integration to a wider set of customers and is constructed with the emerging webservice standards at the core. Organizations who previously evaluated integration but were concerned about the high technology investment are now re-evaluating it thanks the promises of Web Services. Valtech is working with Cape Clear to bring Web Services-based integration to companies throughout the United States and Europe."
"Every organization faces a challenge in integrating and sharing information between their own IT systems and those of their business partners," said Jeffrey Hertzberg, CEO at Xenotrope. "Existing technology-based approaches to integration require material investment and that has restricted its success. The arrival of Web Services offers a new angle on integration. With standards that provide universal interoperability, Web Services enables integration at a significantly lower cost. We're working with Cape Clear to take advantage of the functionality CapeConnect offers in integrating applications inside and outside the enterprise."
CapeConnect Features
CapeConnect is a complete Web Services integration platform that allows developers to automatically expose existing Java, EJB, .NET, and CORBA components as Web Services without writing code. CapeConnect is capable of connecting a wide range of technologies (including Java, J2EE, CORBA, C , COM, C#, Visual Basic, and Perl) using Web Services standards such as SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. CapeConnect 3.5 introduces a range of new functionality including:
Application Integration Using Web Services
Cape Clear adds support for EAI systems with the addition of XML mapping technology that can connect an arbitrary XML data source with any Web Service hosted within CapeConnect. New business process logic can be inserted into the message stream via an interceptor API. Finally, CapeConnect offers a rich array of legacy connectors to enable access to mission critical data in a timely manner
Complete .NET Support
CapeConnect 3.5 has complete support for Microsoft .NET, ensuring that Web Services-based applications created on different environments such as Java, J2EE, and CORBA can seamlessly interoperate with the latest release of .NET. This release has been successfully tested against the release candidates of Microsoft's .NET Framework Software Development Kit (SDK) and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET.
Improved Database Support
CapeConnect 3.5 enables SQL databases to be exposed as Web Services, allowing the rapid creation of Web Services to access enterprise data. This SQL Web Service approach can be used with any database supporting JDBC.
UDDI Enhancements
Cape Clear has upgraded the UDDI functionality within CapeConnect 3.5. This includes support for UDDI registries on Oracle databases, improved search facilities, and a major upgrade of CapeConnect's UDDI graphical interface.
Diverse Web Services Interoperability
Through the SOAPBuilders forum, CapeConnect 3.5 has been successfully tested for interoperability with many commercial Web Services products.
Support for Complex Legacy Applications
This latest release of CapeConnect generates WSDL and XML Schema that accurately reflects the complex and object-oriented nature of existing back-end systems through support for polymorphism. Developers also have more control over the WSDL generation and SOAP serialization of their applications through the use of JavaBean design patterns, which are supported by CapeConnect.
Native J2EE Deployment
CapeConnect 3.5 can be deployed either as a stand-alone platform or as a native J2EE application within leading J2EE application servers, such as WebLogic and WebSphere.
Increased Developer Flexibility
The large number of developers already using CapeConnect has driven a wide range of demands for increased flexibility in extending and customizing the CapeConnect Web Services platform. As a result CapeConnect 3.5 exposes a range of new APIs, including its SOAP parser, authentication module, serialization, transports, SOAP headers and HTTP Basic Authentication support.
Pricing and availability
CapeConnect 3.5 is available immediately and can be downloaded from http://www.capeclear.com . CapeConnect 3.5 has development pricing from $2,500 and runtime pricing from $10,000. It supports Windows NT/2000, Sun Solaris and Linux. For more sales information e-mail: info@capeclear.com or call (866) 227 3226.
About Cape Clear Software
Cape Clear Software (http://www.capeclear.com) has one focus: creating Web Services technology that reduces the business costs of software development and integration. CapeConnect is a Web Services based platform for enterprise integration that is simple, fast, and cost-effective to deploy and maintain. CapeStudio is an integrated Web Services development environment, simplifying design, development, integration, and deployment of Web Services applications using XML, WSDL, and UDDI. Cape Clear's products link packaged business applications, such as ERP and CRM, and diverse technologies, such as Java, J2EE, CORBA, and Microsoft .NET, across intranets and the Internet. Founded in 1999, Cape Clear is a privately held firm with offices in Dublin, London, California, Colorado and Massachusetts.
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For further PRESS information:
Tom Murphy
Cape Clear Software
Tel: USA (866) 219 5944 / International: 353 (1) 241 9937
E-mail: tom.murphy@capeclear.com
Cape Clear, CapeConnect and CapeStudio are trademarks of Cape Clear Software. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
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