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New Release Enhances Support for Secure Web Services and the Latest WS-I Profiles
Hollis, NH — September 14, 2004 —
Mindreef, Inc. announced today the availability of Mindreef SOAPscope
4.0, the company's flagship Web Services Diagnostics System. SOAPscope
is the first product that allows for the complete capture and assembly
of all evidence related to a Web services problem. With Version 4.0,
SOAPscope is now the first to enable seamless sharing of these
artifacts between developers, testers, operations and support teams —
expediting the problem solving process and overcoming "finger pointing"
delays. SOAPscope 4.0 also offers a number of significant new features
including support for secure Web services using SSL certificates, and
the industry’s first diagnostic support for the newly released WS-I
Basic Profile 1.1 and WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0.
"SOAPscope is evolving as Web services are evolving. Now that many
companies have deployed Web services and are building more complex
applications, it is important to move beyond point-to-point development
and testing diagnostics and involve support and operations in the
problem solving process," says Mark Ericson, co-founder and CTO of
Mindreef. "This team lifecycle approach to diagnostics is the future
for delivering agile SOAs."
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) include loosely-coupled
collections of Web services. Solving problems that occur between these
services is a process that involves multiple parties, both within and
potentially outside of the organization’s firewall. SOAPscope 4.0
introduces two new important concepts that advance the role of
diagnostics for SOAs: "Workspace" creates a place to easily collect and
organize problem data, while "Packaging" is the first file format to
enable clear and consistent sharing of the problem data with the
appropriate specialist. SOAPscope's diagnostic tools (debugging,
testing, tuning) then allow the specialist to operate on the problem
data and quickly solve the problem.
"SOAPscope has been invaluable in testing and diagnosing our enterprise
scale Web services," said Simon Fell, senior member of technical staff
at salesforce.com and author of PocketSOAP. "The new Packaging feature
in SOAPscope 4.0 is an excellent way to support customers and
collaborate as a team. A must have for every WS-Developer."
Mindreef SOAPscope 4.0
SOAPscope 4.0 is a Web services diagnostics system for examining,
debugging, testing, tuning and supporting Web services. Workspace makes
it very easy to gather WSDL and relevant SOAP messages and all other
artifacts related to a problem. Hidden elements like WSDL import files
and SwA/MIME attachments to SOAP messages are automatically included.
Once the artifacts are gathered, the Workspace can be exported and
emailed to the developer. Developers import the artifacts into their
Workspace, where the problem can be reproduced using SOAPscope’s
Message Resend or WSDL Invoke features, or diagnosed with SOAPscope
tools.
New features include:
SOAPscope Packaging: Workspaces may be saved to a package file for
archival and sharing. Use Packaging to create artifacts of your testing
process or capture and share problems between customers, support,
operations, test, and development.
WSDL Closures: WSDL documents may reference other documents, which
may also reference documents. The complete hierarchy is called a WSDL
closure. SOAPscope 4.0 is the first tool that can compare, analyze or
graphically view a WSDL closure.
Support for New Standards and Technologies: Industry’s first
product to support testing against the newest WS-I standards including
the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and WS-I Attachments Profile Version 1.0.
Attachment support includes features to test, debug and support
services that include SwA/MIME attachments.
Improved Scalability: As the sophistication of Web Services is
increasing, customer demands on SOAPscope are scaling as well. Release
4.0 is tuned for better throughput, memory utilization, scalability,
reliability and performance.
Mindreef SOAPscope 4.0 is priced at $99 for a one-year subscription
that includes support and all major and minor upgrades. SOAPscope 4.0
is available immediately for download at www.mindreef.com.
About Mindreef
Mindreef is delivering the industry’s first comprehensive Web Services
Diagnostics system, enabling application developers, service
developers, testers, operations and support staff to address the
problem-solving challenges of distributed applications. Mindreef is a
private company, venture backed by Kodiak Venture Partners. For more
information, visit www.mindreef.com. |
