Seagull Gets CICS Out of Mainframe
LegaSuite tools wrap transactions for use in Web services world
January 15, 2006 —
While the season for wrapping presents is passed, Seagull Software last month declared an open season for wrapping CICS transactions as Web services, with the release of its newly integrated LegaSuite for CICS.
LegaSuite is made of an integration server module, a GUI server module and a business process management engine module, according to Kim Addington, Seagull’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
“It’s middleware from an application stack perspective, but it can sit on the host or on another server in a distributed environment,” she said, noting that the software supports native CICS mainframe apps, or can run off the mainframe in distributed environments. She cited BEA’s WebLogic and IBM’s WebSphere application servers as well as NetWeaver and middleware from Sun (SeeBeyond), TIBCO and WebMethods as environments in which LegaSuite can be placed. Addington said her company has even had calls from customers that want to wrap client/server functions from the .NET environment into callable Web services.
Addington said Seagull believes the industry is at an important point in terms of the adoption of service-oriented architectures, but added that dealing with legacy systems has been an impediment. “With LegaSuite, you can publish a legacy service in one day with no code,” she claimed. Other integration vendors require a significant amount of coding to tie to legacy systems, and then only provide access to the data, Addington asserted. LegaSuite, with its BPM engine, can help businesses clear stacked-up change orders and provide an audit trail, tracking, logging and approval without changing anything in the underlying application, she said. The suite also includes modeling tools so business analysts can design the processes.
LegaSuite takes the CICS transaction, ignores the presentation layer, wraps the information for input and output, and publishes it as WSDL description, XML, a Java bean or a .NET component, said Ardy Franssen, vice president of product management. For CICS transactions that need a screen layer, LegaSuite can use the screen’s input and output formats as a means to access the host data, she explained.
License fees for LegaSuite development tools range from US$5,000 to $18,000; the runtime software price is determined by the platform, starting at $50,000.
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