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Mindreef Puts Up SOAPscope Server, Sinks Coral


By Edward J. Correia
June 1, 2006 — 
In terms of branding, SOAPscope hit the nail on the head, but Coral was off the mark.

That’s the message from Mindreef, which in mid-June is scheduled to unveil SOAPscope Server, a rebranded and enhanced version of the collaborative SOA development platform it unveiled late last year under the name Coral.

SOAPscope Server 5.2 will run on Linux servers and support DB2, Oracle and MySQL databases. Coral worked only with Windows and SQL Server. Also at that time, the company plans to update its flagship SOAPscope Web services diagnostics tool to version 5.2.

Frank Grossman, Mindreef’s president and co-founder, said, “Customers were saying, ‘We’ve got SOAPscope, but what’s Coral?’” The name change, he said, was to help customers understand what Mindreef sees as a logical next step beyond testing to collaborative SOA development.

“[Coral] got confused in the market with other products, like registries,” added Jim Murphy, Mindreef’s lead architect, who noted his company’s platform offers far broader capabilities.

Grossman said the new version also will enable LDAP-registered users to access SOAPscope Server objects without being a registered SOAPscope Server user. “A developer can simply send a URL to someone, and they can see and playback the problem,” Grossman said.

Pricing for SOAPscope Server had not been finalized at press time, but Grossman said Mindreef will offer organizations a choice between subscription pricing, as with SOAPscope, and perpetual licensing with annual maintenance. Coral pricing was US$499 per seat per year.

Unwitting Migration
The transition to SOAPscope Server actually began on May 9, when the company unveiled SOAPscope 5.1 with features similar to those of the server edition and tighter integration with it.

One such feature is support for multiple workspaces, a concept Mindreef introduced with Coral. Workspaces permit developers to switch between multiple work sessions. Workspaces can be saved and migrated to the SOAPscope Server.

Also new is automated testing, which Grossman described as the ability to “hit a play button and have a series of messages replay themselves in an application-to-application environment. [That] can really automate the process for testers,” he said.

According to Murphy, Web service Invoke/Resend, a popular SOAPscope feature, has been significantly enhanced. Developers can now edit a message in XML and view the changes in SOAPscope’s Pseudocode View. “We produce forms so you can fill them in and it will produce a SOAP envelope and Pseudocode to send it out for ad hoc testing,” said Murphy.

SOAPscope 5.1 pricing has increased to $299 per user per year from $99. The upgrade is free for current licensees.


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