Sparx Systems Releases Much Anticipated SoaML Profile

CRESWICK, AUSTRALIA, Jun 01 (MARKET WIRE) --
Sparx Systems, a leading vendor of modeling tools based on open
standards, today announced its release of new tool support for the
Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language (SoaML). The SoaML
profile is now an out-of-the-box inclusion with the latest release of
Sparx Systems' award-winning modeling platform, Enterprise Architect 7.5.

SoaML is a draft specification from the Object Management Group (OMG),
which provides a metamodel for designing services within a
service-oriented architecture. The specification extends OMG's Unified
Modeling Language (UML), thus enabling a visual and semantically rigorous
approach to defining services. The UML profile for SoaML is of interest
to business analysts, architects and developers throughout the process of
establishing a service-oriented architecture. This includes the
specification of systems of services, individual service interfaces, and
service implementations. The profile also provides for automatic
generation of downstream artifacts using Model-Driven Architect (MDA)
approaches.

Complementing the standard SoaML modeling constructs, Sparx Systems has
added two new diagram types to Enterprise Architect supporting the
underlying SoaML concepts. Each SoaML diagram is linked to a specific
toolbox, which provides context-sensitive guidance for SoaML modeling.
Sparx Systems has leveraged its successful Model Driven Generation (MDG)
customization framework to implement the SoaML profile. "Using the MDG
technology, we've achieved a seamless addition of the new SoaML profile
into Enterprise Architect's core modeling platform. It also paves the way
for further enhancements including SoaML-specific model validation and
integration with Enterprise Architect's Quick Linker for rapid model
development," commented Ben Constable, Chief Operations Officer of Sparx
Systems.

This latest release from Sparx Systems is a direct response to increased
interest among its customers in SoaML, since the draft specification was
published by OMG earlier this year. "The new SoaML profile adds to
Enterprise Architect's strong support for SOA, and ties in with existing
capabilities for modeling and generating Web Services, XML Schema and
more recently BPEL", noted Constable. "We've built the SoaML profile
directly into Enterprise Architect, making it available to users of the
Corporate edition and above. So this is in keeping with our tradition of
delivering affordably priced, high-end modeling tools," he explained.

Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect version 7.5 (Build 845) together with
built-in SoaML support, is immediately available for download and
evaluation from:

http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial.html

About Sparx Systems

Sparx Systems (www.sparxsystems.com) specializes in high performance and
scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction
of software intensive systems.

With customers in industries ranging from aerospace and automotive
engineering to finance, defense, government, entertainment and
telecommunications, Sparx Systems is a leading vendor of innovative
solutions based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its related
specifications. A Contributing Member of the Object Management Group
(OMG), Sparx Systems is committed to realizing the potential of
model-driven development based on open standards.

The company's flagship product, Enterprise Architect, has received
numerous accolades since its commercial release in August, 2000. Now at
version 7.5, Enterprise Architect is the design tool of choice for close
to 200,000 registered users world-wide.

Contacts:
Sparx Systems Pty Ltd
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www.sparxsystems.com

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