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Complete Web Services

Cape Clear Software's Cape Clear 4 is the next generation of its Web Services development, deployment, and management suite. Cape Clear 4 is a set of three integrated products: Studio, Server, and Manager. They are all designed to work in tandem to create, test, deploy, and manage both Java and Microsoft .Net applications used in Web services.

	Figure 1. Graphical WSDL Editing.

Studio is the development suite that is designed for designing and developing Web services; Server is the server for deploying services and integrating those services with a variety of back-end systems and technologies; and Manager handles the configuration, deployment, and security of Web services.

Cape Clear 4 Studio provides a task-oriented development environment and can be integrated with IDEs like Eclipse and JBuilder through Apache Ant tasks. Web services can be deployed from within Studio. It automatically generates Web services from Java classes, EJBs, and CORBA IDL and generates JSP test clients, Java client proxies, and Java server skeletons. Also new in Cape Clear 4 is a graphical WSDL Editor supporting WSDL 1.1, which comes with wizards to quickly create new WSDL files (see Figure 1).

XML editing is a major component of this new release because Cape Clear senses a change in priorities among developers. "Previously, a lot of corporate developers were building their systems around Java, so they thought first and foremost around Java interfaces," said John McGuire, senior vice president of Cape Clear. "Now people are thinking about integration first, so they think about XML first. Then they think about converting that into .Net or Java."

Developers, he said, aren't thinking about the application first, they are thinking about the data, which means XML, and work on the application later. "The XML view says what's most important is the data being sent back and forth, so the concern is get the data taken care of first and then worry about whether I should build it in Java or .Net," said McGuire.

Cape Clear 4 Server has seen a three-fold increase in performance of processing SOAP messages over the previous release and supports a variety of transports, including HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, and JMS. It also supports advanced schema support for complex data types, clustering, and failover for large-scale deployments, and comes with a UDDI interface as well as interfaces for SQL and any XML interface.

Cape Clear 4 Manager exposes all aspects of platform configuration, deployment, and management as secure Web services and supports security features like JAAS Authentication, NT Domain Authentication, LDAP Authentication, SOAP Digital signatures, and SAML integration. Cape Clear 4 is available now for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Sun Solaris, with pricing starting at $10,000 per server.

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