LANSA, a leading provider of application development, modernization, and integration software, has announced its participation in the IBM SOA Specialty program after successfully completing IBMÆs rigorous SOA technical and business requirements testing. With this achievement, LANSA Integrator supports the IBM SOA Foundation, a single, integrated platform that combines the industryÆs top application server and integration capabilities.
"SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables," said Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere, IBM Software Group. "LANSAÆs commitment to SOA provides their customers with a powerful way to align their IT infrastructures with real business issues."
LANSA Integrator provides a framework that allows easy integration between Java programs and business applications using LANSAÆs Java Service Manager and a range of shipped Java services. Included among the shipped services are the SOAP Agent and SOAP Server services used to implement Web services. SOAP is an XML-based protocol for exchanging information over HTTP. Using these services, organizations can enter the world of Web services with relative ease.
LANSA Integrator offers a wizard-based approach to Web service development and hides the complexities of the protocols to present a simplified interface to developers. LANSA Integrator facilitates the mapping of XML data and automatically generates the supporting Java and XML objects.
"LANSA is pleased to have been accepted by IBM into this exclusive program for promoting SOA standards and usage," said John Siniscal, president of LANSA Americas. "Every IBM customer needs to be looking at how SOA solutions can improve their business agility by extending their legacy systems to new users and access paths. SOA technology will impact companies the same way the Internet did a decade earlier."
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