09/14/2005

Red Oak Software, Inc., a provider of "Transaction Integration" solutions, today announced that it has released Legacy Composer – Eclipse Edition to general availability. The company said Legacy Composer is the first legacy application integration solution built entirely on the open source Java development environment Eclipse SDK with a singular design goal to simplify the integration of complex legacy applications across the enterprise.

The company provided the following details:

Legacy Composer is a flexible solution for real-time, non-intrusive integration of all legacy applications. It enables customers to easily develop, deploy and maintain access to their legacy systems and data by automatically transforming host application functionality into Legacy Business Objects - Java beans and Web services - that can then be used in any integration solution.

All components of Legacy Composer are written in Java and have been designed for development within Eclipse and for deployment via server-based implementations. Developers use the Legacy Composer Workbench which includes a recorder and various visual editors that efficiently capture host application functionality and data. The Workbench is implemented as an Eclipse feature plug-in and allows the developer full access to all the capabilities of the Eclipse SDK – namely editors, debuggers, compilers, etc.

As an Eclipse feature, Legacy Composer Workbench users also have seamless access to the Eclipse Web Tools Platform, which provides automated deployment wizards for Web Services, J2EE projects, Java projects and servlets.

The Eclipse Edition of Legacy Composer is an advanced, state-of-the art product that enables the most effective and efficient integration of all key legacy application transactions and data into any of the major enterprise systems used by large businesses today.

“Our customers are some of the most sophisticated IT organizations in the world and their legacy system integrations reflect this fact. Their applications are large, complex and strategically important components of their overall technology structure. They have told us that 85 percent or more of the total cost of implementing a legacy solution is for system integration professional services.

"So our singular objective for Legacy Composer was to design and develop the most efficient legacy integration product available, enabling our customers to further reduce the time, expense and risk traditionally associated with integration projects,” said George Cummings, Red Oak president and chief executive officer.