Transoft
Launches COBOL Componentization Tool to Reduce Component
Development Time in Half
New Transoft Component Extractor
Allows Faster Development of e-Business Applications
December 7, 2001 - Transoft, a leading international
provider of application assembly, transformation and integration
products and services, today announced the next evolutionary
step in its Transoft Component Adapters (TCA) product
set with the release of the Transoft Component Extractor
(TCE). Aimed at thousands of end-users and ISVs with in-house
software development staff, this new solution will further
reduce the cost of developing new Web and Windows®
applications and integrating them with existing core applications.
According to Transoft, with an increasing demand for
modern e-business applications integrated to core systems
to achieve 'real time' straight-through processing, there
is a growing need to extract services from COBOL applications
rapidly and cost effectively. With the release of Transoft
Component Extractor, the time spent by application developers
to manually extract services can now be cut on the average
by 50 percent. These time savings are possible because
TCE provides an automated means of extraction, providing
quicker application development and deployment.
Sold as an optional add-on to the popular Transoft Component
Adapter IDE (Interactive Development Environment), Transoft
Component Extractor augments TCA by providing a graphical
development environment that interactively mines application
and Web services from core application procedural code
for use in developing new applications. This revolutionary
way to create new applications not only reduces project
time, risk and cost, but also ensures seamless integration
of the new with the old.
"Organizations are clearly recognizing the need
to gain further return on investment from their core business
systems through componentization of critical business
rules," said Paul Holland, CEO of Transoft. "Unfortunately,
extracting valuable nuggets of logic from spaghetti-like
legacy code can be tricky and prone to error. Transoft
Component Extractor boosts developer productivity by automating
the repetitive parts of the process with an easy-to-use,
graphical tool."
Clients can already attest to TCE's efficiency. When
asked about its COBOL extraction functionality, Malcolm
Chenery, Senior Business Manager of Rubicon (a tech-based
management consulting company) said that creating services
with Transoft Component Extractor "takes half the
time" as opposed to creating the equivalent services
by hand.
How Does TCE Work?
Transoft Component Extractor features an interactive graphical
development environment, a COBOL syntax-sensitive, color-coded
text editor and a component clipboard. The clipboard provides
a full view of the data files, data items and procedural
statements that have been selected for extraction.
Development time is further reduced by TCE's automated
process of collating and wrapping relevant code, subroutines
and data into specific "services" within components.
This process reduces not only coding time but also human
errors and time spent on testing and bug fixing.
At any point in the creation of a service, manual editing
is allowed in an integrated, fully-featured editor. Since
all code is in COBOL, the use of the existing developers'
skills is maximized. Other componentization products in
the market feature wrapper code in an object-oriented
language, something that demands extra proficiency - and
more development time, cost and risk.
"Transoft has touted the benefits of componentization
of existing applications for many years, so we are excited
and confident about TCE's ability to simplify and speed
up this process," Paul Holland said. "Although
COBOL is our first targeted language, the product has
been designed to be source-language independent. We foresee
announcing other versions of the product that will support
additional programming languages."
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