Accelerates Software Projects, Ensures Effective Transition to Web-Based Business Systems
Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced the general availability of Advantage Gen for Enterprise Servers (Advantage Gen) release 6.5, a powerful solution that speeds development of J2EE applications and web services on mainframe and UNIX environments.
“Many Middle East enterprises are faced with the daunting task of quickly and cost effectively converting their legacy applications to embrace the new eBusiness model. This is exactly what Advantage Gen was designed to accomplish,” said Dr. Mansoor Turaif, Director of Computer Associates Middle East’s eBusiness Information Management unit. “With the newest features added to this proven set of tools, Advantage Gen 6.5 will empower development teams to quickly and effectively deliver quality enterprise-class applications that support the latest Internet technologies,” added Turaif.
J2EE and Web service solutions providers in the Middle East will now benefit from Advantage Gen’s ability to speed application development, while driving down cost and more effectively enabling eBusiness,” said Dr. Mansoor Turaif, Director of Computer Associates Middle East’s eBusiness Information Management unit.
Through automatic generation of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) for back-end servers, Advantage Gen 6.5 enables corporate development teams to quickly and effectively create J2EE applications. Robust XML proxy support enables rapid deployment of Web services solutions built on new and existing legacy and distributed applications.
“CA's Advantage Gen 6.5 combines the flexibility of J2EE with the productivity of model-based development. Using Advantage Gen we have been able to help customers generate EJBs and deliver J2EE solutions 10 times faster than with other development methods,” said Jay Wiener, president and CEO of CorTechs, Inc., a leading provider of quality assurance test automation software and services.
By separating business rules from specific technologies and platforms, Advantage Gen 6.5 enables customers to generate multiple business applications from the same underlying model as they add J2EE and Web services systems to their existing environments. Since development teams are liberated from the underlying complexity of these new technologies, they can concentrate on delivering effective applications that meet enterprise business requirements.
“CA’s Advantage Gen has a long and successful history of empowering IT departments to quickly deliver quality enterprise solutions using model-driven development techniques, which reflect OMG’s standard Model Driven Architecture,” said Richard Soley, chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group. “Its incorporation of J2EE technology will help organizations take greater advantage of Web-based application infrastructure, including Web services, while at the same time leveraging existing information resources running on various legacy platforms.”
EJBs generated by Advantage Gen 6.5 can interoperate with EJBs created from other sources to construct a business solution. A common staging area enables the final assembly and automatic deployment of EJBs. Combining the automated development and deployment environments provides customers with a proven solution for building new applications and transforming existing systems to J2EE and Web services.
“We are delighted with the success our customers have had using Advantage Gen to deliver enterprise-class J2EE solutions for mainframe and UNIX environments,” said Ricardo Antuna, CA vice president of marketing. “Advantage Gen continues to deliver exceptional value with its proven ability to accelerate development, reduce maintenance costs, and leverage existing technology investments.”
In support of its commitment to multi-platform application development and deployment, CA announced plans for upcoming releases of Advantage Gen to include support for .NET.
Editors' note:
Computer Associates Middle East (CA-ME) manages the Middle East operations of Computer Associates International (NYSE: CA). With headquarters in Riyadh, CA-ME employs over 80 professionals and maintains other offices in Al-Khobar and Jeddah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, as well as in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Our world-class solutions address all aspects of eBusiness management through industry-leading brands: Unicenter for infrastructure management; eTrust for security management; BrightStor for storage management; CleverPath for portal and business intelligence; AllFusion for application life cycle management; Advantage for data management and application development; and Jasmine for object-oriented database technology. Offering CA solutions that are used by 99% of Fortune 500 companies in over 100 countries as well as many of the largest organisations in government, banking, telecommunications, manufacturing, oil and gas sectors in the Middle East, CA-ME is the leading provider of eBusiness management solutions in the region. For more information please visit us at: http://www.ca-me.com.
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