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Rogue Wave LEIF Selected for Carnegie Mellon Study on Development Tool Evaluation Standards
Business Wire, July 12, 2005
BOULDER, Colo. -- Study Evaluates Software Development Tools in Model Problem; Rogue Wave(R) LEIF Outperforms in Interoperability and Compatibility, Quality and Cost of Vendor Support Metrics
Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX) providing reusable software components and services that facilitate application development, today announced that its LEIF Web services product, one of three vendors selected for full evaluation from a field of 11, has performed well under rigorous testing by the Professional Development Center Scholars at Carnegie Mellon University -- West Coast Campus in a model problem study. The study focused on creating an evaluation framework for identifying and evaluating rapid integration tools, with LEIF outpacing other evaluated tools in areas including vendor support, compatibility, flexibility, performance and interoperability.
The report, entitled "Rapid Integration Tools for Rapid Application Development," was based on a model problem selected to closely mirror common legacy software integration challenges frequently found in business settings. Rogue Wave(R) LEIF, IBM Websphere and IBM Rational Rapid Developer products were each selected for evaluation based on specific criteria including the tools' ability to solve a wide range of Enterprise Application Integration problems, communicate between Java and C components, as well as the products' length of commercial availability and track record of success. The full version of the report is available at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/documents/04.reports/04tr023.html.> "As an increasing number of organizations are facing challenges similar to our model problem in adopting Web services, making a standard evaluation framework for integration tools is increasingly important," said Amit Midha, one of the authors of this report. "Through our research, we saw that these tools are integral to increasing the efficiency of integrating legacy components. LEIF proved to be easily integrated and tailored for specific needs, and to provide added value when working with C applications."
In the model problem used by the three-member team of research scholars, the system solutions were tested on how well the tools aided in integrating information from multiple legacy bond trading systems while minimizing minutiae of bond pricing from multiple traders and providing advanced analytic functionality -- all in a single user interface.
"We are proud that LEIF was selected to be part of Carnegie Mellon research, as LEIF was developed to specifically bridge the gap between C and Java based applications and ease the transition to a service-oriented architecture," said Tim Triemstra, vice president of product management, Rogue Wave Software division, Quovadx. "We welcome the creation of evaluation frameworks such as this and look forward to continually improving and adding to our product offerings to support the increasingly complex needs of our clients."
The three integration tools were evaluated based on performance in each of seventeen attributes within seven categories. The seven categories include: business, evaluation specific performance, external reference specific performance, vendor support, tool-specific performance and integration.
Rogue Wave LEIF is a framework for creating scalable high-performance service-based applications based on new or existing C programs. LEIF allows companies to use existing applications and systems to create new service-oriented applications in less time and integrate disparate systems faster and less expensively, thereby eliminating the need to rewrite existing business logic contained in legacy applications. LEIF is designed to allow customers to easily transition to a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
The latest version of the product, LEIF 2.5, was made available today and adds several key features that provide software developers with added flexibility to ease development of SOA-based applications. New features include:
--Direct access to XML elements in their original format
--Support for MIME attachments in SOAP messages
--Support for XML Schema constructs
About Rogue Wave Software
Rogue Wave Software, a division of Quovadx, Inc. (Nasdaq: QVDX), provides reusable software components and services to professional developers for enterprise-class, high-performance application development. Today, thousands of developers at some of the world's leading companies have used Rogue Wave(R) products to develop mission-critical applications. Rogue Wave Software operates throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit http://www.roguewave.com.
Rogue Wave is a registered mark of Quovadx, Inc. All other company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated.
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