Micro Focus announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM's Customer Information Control System (CICS), enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mainframe infrastructure in a simplified and even faster 2-Tier model. This additional support provides customers with more options for their service oriented architecture (SOA) deployment environment. In addition to CICS, SOA Express supports SOA deployments over .Net and J2EE application servers. As a result, organizations are able to migrate existing, core applications to an SOA as Web services regardless of platform or technology base.
SOA provides a strategic route to web enablement, integration and modernization of existing applications, providing rapid delivery of new business initiatives. Micro Focus SOA Express enables the reuse and modernization of existing mainframe applications without code changes by unlocking the business logic embedded within these applications and delivering them to an SOA. Standards based Web services can then be utilized by teams across the organization rendering proven COBOL business logic accessible to Java, .NET and Web teams for extension across the enterprise.
