CA Intros New Powerful Rapid Application Development Environment

A new powerful rapid application development environment launched by CA enables model-driven development of Microsoft .NET (News - Alert) Framework, J2EE and IBM i Web services.

 

Named CA (News - Alert) Plex r6.1, the new release enables developers to apply model-driven techniques to Web services development across multiple platforms as well as aids IT organizations to deliver sophisticated and highly manageable SOA-based business solutions.

 

As the CA Plex r6.1 can model and generate .NET-based services based on Microsoft’s (News - Alert) Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), it facilitates the “mixing and matching” of diverse .NET-based services across the enterprise and with business partners.

 

WCF is the unified communication technology for .NET developers and by supporting this technology, CA Plex applications can now utilize a variety of .NET technologies, to enable Business Process Automation modeling from a single, intuitive development environment. CA Plex 6.1 also supports the Windows Vista operating system on the developer desktop.

 

The offering also allows mutual customers to address demanding business requirements even in the most heterogeneous enterprise computing environments.

 

Other enhancements include easy viewing and documenting of group model updates, improved APIs for extending the CA Plex environment programmatically, and IPv6 support.

 

Speaking about the frequently changing business practices, Tami Boston, Information Systems Analyst at the State of Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB) said that the current economy is forcing state agencies to downsize and do more with less.

 

“CA continues to improve CA Plex in ways that allow the CDB technology staff to tackle these challenges and meet project deadlines, despite the constraints on developer headcount,” he added.