“In working closely with our customers, we discovered their need to smoothly integrate management capabilities into the developer’s experience,” said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO. “AmberPoint meets that need, lowering development costs and fostering enterprise adoption of Web services. Our Java versions of AmberPoint Express will ensure that developers are fully equipped to build robust, production-ready Web services on any platform.”
The initial Java versions of AmberPoint Express are designed for Web services built on IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Apache Axis, and will be generally available in Q1 2004. Support for other Java development environments will follow.
“Enterprises in the planning stages of Web services need a way for developers to validate their projects,” said Daryl Plummer, group vice president and Chief Gartner Fellow at Gartner. “Solutions that allow companies to more confidently manage and deploy Web services will help to advance the long-term corporate adoption of Web services.”
AmberPoint Express is a developer’s edition of AmberPoint’s industry-leading enterprise-class Web services management solutions. It provides the monitoring and diagnostic capabilities developers require to gain insight into the runtime characteristics of their Web services in pre-production environments. Like all AmberPoint products, AmberPoint Express is completely standards-based and non-invasive—requiring no additional coding to the Web services themselves.
“AmberPoint Express will abbreviate our development cycles significantly,” said Domenic Ravita, lead solutions architect at AgentWare, a leading provider of Web services-based solutions for the travel industry. “It gives us the ability to more easily understand and fine-tune the behavior of our Web services, saving us considerable time and effort.”
With support for Web services created in Java and on the Microsoft .NET Framework, AmberPoint Express allows developers to send messages across heterogeneous Web services and view consolidated results across their entire application. With the monitoring and diagnostic tools in AmberPoint Express, developers can confidently bring their Web services from pilot to production, achieving faster time-to-deployment, gaining a clearer understanding of runtime characteristics and lowering their development costs.
“The market definitely needs a cost-effective, multi-platform mechanism to project how Web services-based applications will perform in production environments,” said Gregor Hohpe, senior architect at
ThoughtWorks, a leading global systems integrator. “AmberPoint Express fills this gap by providing comprehensive instrumentation and diagnostic capabilities, enabling developers to more confidently bring their Web services into production.”
AmberPoint Express provides rich monitoring and diagnostic capabilities:
In other news today, AmberPoint announced that it was named the most innovative Web services management vendor by analyst firm Ovum (see “AmberPoint Named Most Innovative and Most Influential Web Services Management Vendor by Respected Analyst Firm”).
Availability,
Java versions of AmberPoint Express will be generally available at no cost from the AmberPoint website in the first quarter of 2004. AmberPoint Express for the Microsoft .NET Framework is now available.
Over 7,000 copies of AmberPoint Express for the Microsoft .NET Framework were distributed to attendees at the October 2003 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. Users of AmberPoint Express will be able to easily upgrade to editions of AmberPoint with advanced features for managing more complex, distributed Web services-based systems.
Press Contacts:
AmberPoint, Inc.
510-433-6553
bdever@amberpoint.com
Kim Abreu
Atomic Public Relations
415-553-4305
kim@atomicpr.com
