Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Tuxedo Now In An Extra Strong SOA Flavour

BEA Systems has released the latest version of Tuxedo and SALT (Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo) at the BEAWorld event held in Barcelona, Spain.

Along with these products, Tuxedo has also launched a new product for monitoring and tracing Tuxedo-based applications and systems, Tuxedo System and Application Monitor (TSAM).

A company release said all the launches include several new features that are unmatched in helping to ensure enterprises can preserve and extend the life of mature, mission- critical applications written in C, C++ and COBOL without compromise while allowing these applications to be leveraged for SOA.

Coinciding with the release of Tuxedo 10, TSAM joins the Tuxedo product family and delivers a comprehensive solution for end-to-end transaction and services monitoring. This can enable customers to set and monitor response time Service Level Agreements (SLAs), investigate performance and behavior of live application services and improve capacity planning by using comprehensive utilization metrics for all components of the Tuxedo infrastructure.

Version 10 also includes several new security enhancements and support for the latest SOA and security standards. Further the product provides enhanced support for standards-based session and message encryption, user authentication and password encryption, helping to ensure the safety of the world's most demanding applications.

A cost effective and SOA-ready mainframe replacement technology, Tuxedo 10 is designed to enable customers to leverage their existing enterprise assets by extending them to a SOA to create next generation applications.

Services Architecture Leveraging Tuxedo (SALT), a standards-based, bi-directional gateway that supports any programming language or programming model, continues to act as a client for SOAP/HTTP(s)-based web services. Building on the feature-rich capabilities inherent in version 1.1, SALT 2.0 provides bi-directional Web services support that can help enable IT departments to create Web services instantly in a configuration-driven model with no programming required. Therefore, enterprises can speed up the time to market of new composite applications development and better align IT and SOA strategies. Additional enhancements to SALT with version 2.0 include adoption of WS security for User name profile and X.509 based authentication, enhanced data reporting, and support for custom standards-based data schemes that all provide greater security and flexibility in creating web services from Tuxedo-based applications.

"BEA recognises the need to preserve mission-critical legacy applications and leverage those assets for SOA while lowering the overall total cost of ownership (TCO)," said Wai Wong, executive vice president of products for BEA Systems Inc. "That is why BEA is the first company to provide a mainframe replacement technology that is designed to extend applications to SOA, lower maintenance costs and provide better performance on transactional-oriented applications."