Corporate IT operations are quickly ramping up Web services projects to preserve existing investments in mainframes and other legacy systems by unlocking their data for use in new Web-based applications. For example, the 17th Judicial Court of Florida is building a real-time case management system based on Web services that's expected to be in production this fall.
The new system will use Shadow z/Events event management tools from Neon Systems Inc. along with the Web services.
The Neon tools will reside on the clerk of the court's VSAM mainframe and juvenile and court administration databases to "listen" for new data updates, said Les Pearson, systems and programming manager with the Judicial Information Systems department at the Fort Lauderdale-based court.
