Announcing Atomikos ExtremeTransactions 3.6

MECHELEN, BELGIUM, May 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Atomikos, a leading provider of transaction management software for SOA,
XTP and Open Source environments, announced today the latest release of
its commercial software product, Atomikos ExtremeTransactions(R). Version
3.6 of Atomikos ExtremeTransactions(R) introduces new and advanced web
services support aimed at making transaction management in SOA
environments faster, safer, and more reliable.

Strategic SOA-based business services are becoming a dominant element in
business transformation, allowing businesses to flexibly respond and
react quickly to changing business conditions. SOA-based transactions are
defined as tasks that are composed of one or more operations or related
interactions that may need to be cancelled or "rolled back" after the
point of execution.

There exist, however, many inherent challenges associated with the
execution of transactions in SOA environments. Standard web services
protocols, such as WS-STAR, used by many transaction management vendors
today, enable interoperability between web services, but do not address
widespread issues related to performance, speed and efficiency. These
standard protocols also provide little protection against hidden
independent transactions. Until now, organizations using transactions in
their SOA environments have had no guarantee that a transaction is
executed correctly and completely.

"Our cutting edge support for cross-service transactions allows for
improved governance of rollbacks by verifying that remote calls are
really part of the transaction. Using the new JAX-WS protocol, the sender
and receiver in a transactional web service interaction can specify and
enforce transaction preferences and assumptions through use of an
intermediary 'handler' eliminating some of the most common problems with
transactional web services today, such as hidden transactions and
unnoticed calls between transactional web services and non-transactional
web services," says Guy Pardon, Atomikos Chief Technology Officer.

With the 3.6 release of Atomikos ExtremeTransactions(R), Atomikos adds
state-of-the-art JAX-WS and SOAP support that makes it easier for
architects and development teams to build and invoke transactions that
span multiple web services. Both the classic (ACID-style) as well
Atomikos' patent-pending Try-Cancel/Confirm (TCC) approach are supported.
TCC is optimized for two-phase compensation-based transactions and
significantly reduces workflow complexity in SOA environments. Atomikos
ExtremeTransactions(R) eliminates the need for the modeling of error
paths, making the solution ideal for Service Oriented Architectures with
composite applications and complicated transaction trees.

Pricing & Availability

Atomikos ExtremeTransactions(R) version 3.6 is available today direct
from Atomikos for $4,065.05 USD and includes production support and full
feature access for 1 core CPU. Atomikos ExtremeTransactions(R) can be
purchased online through the Atomikos website at
http://www.atomikos.com/Main/BuyOnline.

About Atomikos ExtremeTransactions

For CTO's architects and developers in Extreme Transaction Processing
(XTP) or Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments where data
quality and performance is mission critical, Atomikos
ExtremeTransactions(R) is a transaction management system that automates
and manages both simple and highly distributed transaction processes,
preventing costly data corruption in the event of a system failure or
crash. The product's patent pending Try-Cancel/Confirm (TCC) approach is
optimized for two-phase compensation-based transactions significantly
reducing workflow complexity in SOA environments. There is no need for
the modeling of error paths, making the solution ideal for Service
Oriented Architectures with composite applications and complicated
transaction trees.

About Atomikos

Atomikos is a market leader in transaction management for XTP, SOA and
open source environments. Atomikos' software safeguards your critical
transactions and prevents costly data loss in the event of a system
failure or crash by automating the cancellation of failed business
transactions. For more information visit our website at www.atomikos.com
or contact us at sales@atomikos.com.

Contacts:
Atomikos BVBA
Guy Pardon
Chief Technology Officer
+32(0)15613055

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