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IONA Artix Data Services aims to reduce hand coding


By David Worthington
May 20, 2008 — 
A maker of SOA infrastructure has created a transport abstraction layer and data mapping feature that it claims will help its solution shorten the data services development life cycle by reducing hand coding.

Today, IONA Technologies made Artix Data Services 7.3 generally available. Artix Data Services is a graphical development tool for modeling data structures and semantics, and it can also configure reusable data transformation and validation services.

When developers expose applications as services in a SOA, it becomes necessary to support the underlying data models of those services. Artix Data Services includes a transport abstraction layer that integrates 50 common message transports to assist developers when changing and testing transports.

The data service integrates with transports and performs data mediation; this approach means there is less coding, said Ray Christopher, senior product marketing manager at IONA.

As data models acquire more elements, developers require tools to be more productive when creating transformations, said Christopher. He added that Artix Data Services now provides so-called “smart mappings” that include auto layout and transform route highlighting, data conversions, and a search feature to help developers navigate data models.

Another new productivity feature is Artix’s use of aliases. Users can define alternate names for message structures that are meaningful to them.

“Aliases help IT and business people communicate. Business folks use data models for their own purposes,” explained Christopher. Artix Data Services, he claimed, “helps define business views of data models, and [creates] automatic HTML documentation.”

Finally, the new version broadens IONA’s developer platform support. Artix Data Services Designer is now compatible with Mac OS X and Solaris as well as Linux and Windows.


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