Telelogic Announces Tau 3.1 for Model-Driven SOA and Enterprise Application Development
New Telelogic Tau Version Supports Rapid Development and Deployment of Java Enterprise Edition Service Applications
MALMÖ, Sweden and IRVINE, California – May 21, 2007 – Software developers can more rapidly respond to the dynamic needs for enterprise applications with Telelogic Tau® 3.1, which was announced today by Telelogic (Nordic Exchange/MidCap/TLOG).This new version of the company’s popular model-driven development (MDD) solution makes it easier to design and develop comprehensive service architectures and Web services for enterprise applications including those in IT, telecom, defense, finance and transportation.
“Enterprise IT applications are expanding in their capabilities, scope, and complexity at an astonishing rate. Government-mandated programs like IT Modernization depend on the ability to rapidly deploy, update, and manipulate the applications used to effectively implement distributed Web services,” says Stephen Hendrick, Group Vice President of IDC, Inc. “Model-driven SOA provides them the formal toolset they need to develop and manage these programs in an efficient, profitable, and provable manner.”
Building on the model-driven SOA infrastructure support announced by the company late last year, Telelogic Tau 3.1’s unique approach to enterprise application development supports the company’s commitment to support enterprise-wide SOA-enabled workflow. Developers benefit from an architecture-focused approach, which includes executable models that simulate application functionality and behavior from the very beginning of the lifecycle. This allows efficient design and highlights flaws and errors early on when they are cheaper and easier to correct. This model visually depicts the application’s architecture and deployable software code as one entity, which may be thoroughly tested and edited at every stage of the development process.
New Tau 3.1 features include:
- Expanded SOA functionality including automated import and generation of WSDL, XSD and generic XML framework details
- Expanded Java round-trip code support, including the Java Enterprise Edition Platform (Java EE 5) framework
- Enhanced C# language support, including fully automatic synchronization between architecture model and code
“Today’s ‘do more with less’ world demands that software application developers better leverage existing software assets. Model-driven development is a proven methodology for increasing productivity and the ability to respond to rapidly changing needs, while concurrently minimizing the risk of missed schedules,” says Greg Sikes, Executive Vice President, Modeling Solutions at Telelogic. “The new version of Tau simplifies the workload for those developers tasked with designing and developing comprehensive enterprise applications.”
Telelogic Tau 3.1 will be available in May 2007.