Nexaweb Expands Its Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOA Leadership With HP Governance Interoperability Framework Membership

BURLINGTON, MA, Jan 28 (MARKET WIRE) --
Nexaweb(R) Technologies, Inc., the leading application platform provider for
the
productivity-driven enterprise, today announced its membership to the HP
Governance Interoperability Framework (GIF).

GIF provides a collaborative, standards-based approach for publishing,
associating,
accessing and managing service-oriented architecture (SOA) metadata and
business service information across multiple vendors and technologies.

Nexaweb's membership to HP GIF bridges the gap between SOA and application
development, which helps to make it easier to build Web-based business
applications using governed services from a central repository. Using Nexaweb's
Enterprise Web Suite, enterprise architects and developers can quickly search
and retrieve artifacts and services from the HP SOA Systinet and use those
services to build and deploy governed, rich Internet, composite and enterprise
mashup applications.

"Organizations realize they must capitalize on their SOA initiatives,"
saidBob Buffone, chief architect at Nexaweb. "The time has come to leverage
allof the services they've created to support their application development
efforts. The
HP GIF program is important because it provides a governed way to standardize
and organize those services. We are further advancing this process by making
these services available as part of an integrated development process that
ensures
business applications automatically conform to business and IT governance
rules."

"As more and more enterprises roll out their service-oriented
architecture,it becomes increasingly important that the complete application
developmentstack can work within an SOA governance framework," said Avrami Tzur,
vice
president, SOA Software, HP. "Nexaweb's HP GIF membership and
interoperability with HP SOA Systinet make it possible for enterprises to
discover and manage policies at both application design-time and runtime. This
is
a very exciting development because it removes the complexities of consuming
governed SOA services and promotes the rapid development of Web-based
business applications."

Complete Application & SOA Governance with Nexaweb

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite is a complete application development and
deployment platform for Web-based business applications. A core component of
the
suite is Nexaweb Studio, an Integrated Development Environment that enables
visual, drag and drop application development and maintenance. Nexaweb Studio
interoperates with the HP SOA Systinet through an RSS interface.

Using a wizard, developers can retrieve services and place them into Nexaweb
Studio's Service Explorer. Designed to maintain information about the service
and information manager, the Service Explorer removes the need to import WSDL
files directly into the workspace. This creates a 'loose' coupling between the
implementation and the service, making it possible to maintain a
centrally-managed repository for all services.

A scenario using Nexaweb's Enterprise Web Suite to build a governed rich
Internet application might include the following steps:

1. The application architect or product manager logs into HP SOA Systinet
and creates an application artifact with all the metadata needed to
describe the application.
2. They then create a request for consumption on all services that will
be required by the application artifact. By creating the contract
between an application artifact and the service, solution providers
can make accurate impact analysis assessments.
3. Once the request is approved, the application architect or product
manager asks the developer to create the application and hands over
the requirements.
4. The developer uses Nexaweb Studio to create the application. During
the application creation process, Nexaweb Studio queries HP SOA
Systinet for the application's metadata and required services. Nexaweb
Studio will import all services and use the metadata about the
application to create it properly.
5. Using Nexaweb Studio the developer binds the inputs and outputs of the
service execution to the user interface.
6. At runtime Nexaweb Platform makes a request to the HP SOA Systinet to
retrieve the endpoints of the services. This abstraction makes it
possible to centrally manage all endpoint information. This is
important because the endpoints of services may change as a service
evolves.
7. The IT administrator managing the application can use the Nexaweb
Services console to choose the right implementation. This allows the
application to be changed at runtime and removes the need to hardcode
service endpoints.
8. The enterprise architect can validate an application's adherence to
Enterprise policies.

As a result of Nexaweb's GIF certification and the companies' joint
productinteroperability efforts, HP Systinet has joined Nexaweb's Web2SOA(TM)
program.

Nexaweb Web2SOA(TM) Ecosystem Program

Many organizations are reaching an inflection point in their SOA
initiatives.
They have developed an infrastructure and begun deploying services, but are
faced
with the challenge of how to go the 'Last Mile' and deliver these services to
end-users. Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem Program is designed to
help
customers capitalize on their SOA initiatives, leverage existing infrastructure
and quickly deliver rich, reliable and governed Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) and
Service-Oriented Business Applications (SOBA) to end-users via the Web --
enabling them to finally realize the productivity and ROI promise of SOA across
all
facets of the organization. Visit http://www.nexaweb.com to learn more about
our Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem Program.

About Nexaweb

Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite is an application development and
deployment
platform for building mission-critical, secure Web-based business applications.
With
Nexaweb, building enterprise-class Web applications that access legacy and
service-orienteddata systems is simple and doesn't require re-writing code. And
only Nexaweb's
EW2.0 solution is proven by more than 5,000 successful global deployments.
Founded in February 2000 and rooted in the MIT community, Nexaweb is based in
Burlington, Massachusetts. The company is privately held and funded by
institutional investors. For more information, visit www.nexaweb.com or call
(781) 345-5500.

Nexaweb and the Nexaweb logo are registered trademarks of Nexaweb, Inc.
Internet Messaging Bus and Web2SOA are trade marks of Nexaweb, Inc. All
other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.
No
use of a third-party mark is to be construed to mean such mark's owner
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