Actional Extends Comprehensive J2EE Support for Leading Application Servers; Actional Control Broker to leverage components for BEA WebLogic 6.0 and IBM WebSphere 3.5

Business Wire, August 27, 2001

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001

Actional(TM) Corporation, the leading developer of next generation application integration software, today announced it has renewed its commitment to J2EE standards by shipping support for two leading J2EE-compliant application servers, BEA WebLogic 6.0 and IBM WebSphere 3.5. Actional will enable WebLogic and WebSphere developers to access disparate applications without leaving their native development environment.

"J2EE will help companies standardize integration by taking out some of the complexity associated with linking large systems," said Dan Foody, CTO of Actional Corp. "By supporting more seamless collaboration between the J2EE server and enterprise IT, system level issues like transactions, security, connection management become more transparent and allow developers to focus more effort on their business processes."

The J2EE specification defines a standard platform for connecting to heterogeneous enterprise information systems such as enterprise resource planning, mainframe transaction processing, and database systems. The API defines a set of scalable, secure, and transactional mechanisms to support the integration of enterprise information systems with J2EE servers and enterprise applications.

About Actional

Actional develops next generation application integration software that uniquely solves integration requirements by leveraging your existing applications, systems and skill sets. It does this by allowing you to integrate from your Point-of-View. This means Actional's patented Point-of-View Browser, the fastest, easiest way to connect enterprise applications, allows developers to view, manage and connect functions, components and services from other applications, as if they were native to their development environment. This unique approach speeds the delivery of new functionality (e.g., Web Services), making them sharable across all applications in the IT infrastructure, in the native format of choice (i.e., your Point-of-View).

The company's customers include leaders in the Global 2000, with a focus on financial services, telecommunications, energy and utilities, manufacturing and the travel industry. The company's flagship product, the Actional Control Broker, was recently selected by eAI Journal as the 2001 Integration Product of the Year. The company is backed by New Enterprise Associates, NeoCarta Ventures, and International Capital Partners. Actional can be contacted at 800/808-2271 or info@actional.com. More information about the company can be found at www.actional.com.

Note to Editors: Actional and Control Broker are trademarks of Actional Corp. All other names mentioned above may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.