IONA has just announced Artix, a new platform of service-oriented integration
tools.
The Artix family includes four initial products:
* Artix Encompass renovates existing applications built on disparate
middleware platforms so they may be re-used and extended without impacting
enterprise qualities of service.
* Artix Relay allows customers to build and deploy high-performance Web
services links between CORBA03, MQSeries03, Tuxedo03, TIBCO64, and
other middleware platforms to facilitate direct and reliable cross-platform
communication.
* Artix Mainframe exposes mainframe CICS and IMS transactions as Web services
without requiring mainframe application changes.
* Artix Migrate allows customers to abstract applications from legacy
middleware, so that dependent systems can be migrated to more strategic,
lower cost alternatives without disrupting ongoing operations.
The Technology Inside Artix
Artix is designed for IT organizations that need to unify their
heterogeneous, high-performance infrastructure without degrading performance
or reliability. Artix makes unique use of the Web Services Definition
Language (WSDL) to make this integration possible while deploying a
standards-based enterprise service contract model. Artix lets customers
define WSDL service contracts for a variety of enterprise infrastructure
platforms, including MQSeries, CORBA, CICS, IMS, Tuxedo, and TIBCO, and
publish these as reusable Web services. Artix also allows customers to build
new Web services in C++ that leverage the qualities of service of their
MQSeries, Tuxedo, TIBCO, and CORBA middleware backbones as Web services
transports.
Unlike "hub and spoke" designs common to EAI technologies, or dependence on a
single technology that platform vendors demand, Artix's distributed
architecture ensures that applications and systems remain independent and
loosely coupled, leaving them able to communicate with multiple systems using
a common interface. Artix' distributed scheme improves the scalability of
integration projects and eliminates single-points of failure in the system.
Links
Read Iona squeezes new life out of CORBA, middleware
Read the IONA Artix Press Release
Read IONA Artix Product Info
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