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Coexis announces next generation software for capital markets.

Syn~TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW

London March 27th 2003. Syn~ is a component based framework that facilitates the creation of enterprise-strength, distributed transaction-processing applications. It comes with a powerful and extensive library of components that can be used for creating applications to support the transaction processing in various industries, especially finance.

The framework delivers layers of reusable code that:

  • provides solid infrastructure to support enterprise-strength applications that can organically respond to change

  • provides reusable and extensible business components for industry wide and capital markets specific applications

  • preserves the value of applications by insulating business knowledge from underlying technology

Enterprise-scale Operation
The Syn~ architecture allows what is perceived by users as a single logical system - the 'Distributed Logical Server' – to be deployed across many different CPUs in multi-processor machines or in networked arrays of machines. Importantly, the physical deployment of the system is totally independent of the business logic of the applications so either can be modified without affecting the other. Syn~ therefore demonstrates an incremental scaling model. Greater throughput can be achieved by adding more resource into an array of processors transparently to the application software, thus facilitating seamless growth as the business develops. Recent tests have shown Syn~ can process millions of mission-critical, long-lifecycle transactions a day.


Core technology
Syn~ combines the best of current industry standards for leading edge technology. It is written in 100% Java making use of J2EE technology. It uses an Oracle 9i database as its primary means of persistence, but data can be integrated from other sources and our philosophy has been to maintain independence of the application from the persistence layer. Internal communication within the system uses the Java Messaging Service API, provided by products such as IBM Websphere MQ, and by a CORBA compliant ORB, specifically Visibroker, from Inprise.

External messaging can be provided by any JMS compatible messaging system such as Websphere MQ from IBM.

The solution configuration tools within the Syn~ platform operate as Eclipse plugs-in and therefore surface seamlessly in tools based on this standard, such as IBM Websphere Application Developer. Through this and related OMG based standards, UML models defined in modelling tools such as Rational Rose can also be directly brought into the Syn~ environment for further augmentation in order to create running solutions.

Note for editors
Please see separate releases: “Coexis announces next generation software . . . ” and “Syn~Apps overview” for more details.

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