XML document process looks to code-free SOA development

In 2003 when SOA was in its early stages the founders of a UK-based startup, Hyfinity Ltd., filed a patent for a development process using “declarative composite services,” says Nigel Denham, the company’s business development manager. It is a patent that the major vendors in the SOA space may now wish they had and may have to license, said Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst with ZapThink LLC.

It is a viable strategy because the startup has proved the value of the underlying technology in Rapid RIA, Schmelzer said.

“The company’s rethinking the Von Neumann machine in XML terms,” the analyst said. “Instead of thinking of a computer as something you program, it’s something that you control via XML to create the application. It’s an interesting twist on what people are talking about with regards to declarative SOA, declarative BPM and the RIA approach.”

Arguing that current tools and technologies are making SOA development more complex, Schmelzer’s colleague Jason Bloomberg wrote a ZapThink technology note earlier this year praising Hyfinity’s declarative, document-centric approach to Internet application creation that leverages services in the SOA context.

“Only by combining the agility that SOA provides with the rich user interfaces of RIAs can companies evolve their Web applications in a flexible, cost-effective manner,” he wrote. “Rising to the challenge of providing adequate tooling for this new class of application is Hyfinity, which offers a combination platform and studio environment for building RIAs that consume and compose Web services in the context of SOA. Hyfinity combines the best of both worlds — rich user interfaces and loosely coupled, agile services in a straightforward, declarative environment that increases time to value and productivity for enterprise application creators.”

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Hyfinity – The Gold Standard in Application Tooling for Enterprises who are Implementing SOA and Building Rich Composite Web Applications

Hyfinity, the innovative SOA Development Technology company, announced that in a recent report by the SOA specialist advisory firm ZapThink, their Rapid RIA technology was praised for delivering an innovative and effective approach that automates many of the mundane development tasks associated with traditional web development tools and frameworks.

For enterprises with complex web based development projects, this approach facilitates extremely significant business benefits such as dramatically reduced development time, effort and cost and significantly improved time to value in terms of application delivery for use by the business.

ZapThink are the leading advisory firm operating specifically in our space. Given their broad view of the SOA market we are naturally delighted that they have taken such a favourable view of our technology.
Hyfinity’s Rapid RIA Builder technology has been successfully used by leading Global and Fortune 50 organisations as well as GIS and CRM technology companies. Markets range from UK Local Government, through Financial Services, Automotive to US Healthcare.

Below are extracts from ”Hyfinity: Enabling Rich, Composite, Web Applications’ by Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink

“Web application development is becoming increasingly complex, time consuming, and brittle. For many organizations, the addition of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies like Ajax look promising, but actually introduce further complexity into an already burdened application development process. In fact, traditional code-centric approaches to building applications aren’t up to the task of keeping up with the new generation of rich, collaborative applications known broadly as Enterprise Web 2.0.”

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Hyfinity Releases MVC 2.7 and Delivers Ajax + SOA without Code

“Combining the new, powerful, and innovative features of MVC v2.7 with Hyfinity’s well established declarative and document centric development platform, the offering presents a compelling value proposition,” says Ronald Schmelzer, senior analyst, ZapThink, LLC. “Positioned where the market is heading with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Rich Internet Applications (RIA), and the Enterprise Mashup markets converging, the solution provides a platform that can rapidly consume services and compose Rich Web based Composite Applications services in a declarative manner, leveraging true value from Service-Oriented Architectures.”

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RIA meets SOA

“AJAX wasn’t invented, it was discovered and as such it brings with it the pros and cons of JavaScript and XML,” says Jason Bloomberg, senior analyst with ZapThink in Uxbridge, MA. Developers must wrestle with the differences between JavaScript implementations on different browsers as well as having to support various schemas and capabilities exposed by servers. “Without SOA, AJAX is just the next generation of JavaScript,” says Bloomberg, “it just allows you to come up with new ways to do drag and drop.”

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US Healthcare Giant Replaces Mission Critical Legacy Application with RIA + SOA solution in Just 5 Months

A Fortune 50 Healthcare organisation has successfully deployed a mission critical Rich; Web based Composite Application built directly from Web Services. Most significantly, this giant organisation followed a document centric, compositional approach to their SOA development, as opposed to a traditional coding one, by using innovative software technology from Hyfinity. Hyfinity’s MVC product automated much of the development, driving massive savings in project time, effort and cost compared to alternative programmer centric approaches.

“It’s quite significant that a large enterprise is implementing SOA by following a compositional approach to building mission critical rich, Web applications,” said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, Zapthink. “Hyfinity’s solution is at the critical hotspot at the intersection of RIA and SOA, and their solution for a 9,000 user call centre, where all transactions must be completed in less than two seconds, heralds the future of rich, flexible applications created from compositions of services.”

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Hyfinity: Enabling Rich, Composite Web Applications

Web application development is becoming increasingly complex, time consuming, and brittle. For many organizations, the addition of Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies like Ajax look promising, but actually introduce further complexity into an already burdened application development process. In fact, traditional code-centric approaches to building applications aren’t up to the task of keeping up with the new generation of rich, collaborative applications known broadly as Web 2.0.

What organizations seek is a declarative, document-centric apporach to Internet application creation that leverages Services in the context of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Only by combining the agility that SOA provides with the rich user interfaces of RIAs can companies evolve their Web applications in a flexible, cost-effective manner.

Rising to the challenge of providing adequate tooling for this new class of application is Hyfinity, which offers a combination platform and studio environment for building RIAs that consume and compose Web Services in the context of SOA. Hyfinity combines the best of both worlds — rich user interfaces and loosely coupled, agile Services in a straightforward, declarative environment that increases time to value and productivity for enterprise application creators.