Eclipse based Tooling

NXTware IME for CORBA is an Eclipse-based engineering environment that makes difficult legacy middleware to easier to manage and more cost effective to maintain and integrate.  The NXTware with CORBA tooling provides the wizards, configurations and deployment tools for users of commercial and Open Source CORBA ORBs.  

NXTware manages the maintenance, modernization and integration process so that engineers who are not CORBA specialist can accomplish important maintenance and integration task in minutes -- in fact generating services and clients for SOA with a single button click. Benefits of the NXTware IME for CORBA include:

• Auto-setup of commercial and Open Source ORBs (Visibroker, Orbix, JacORB, TOA ORB, Etc)
• One button generation of Orb providers and consumers
• Automated generation of data access classes, data providers and poolers
• Federated CORBA services
• Loosely coupled CORBA search and locator services
• One button generation of SOA Interfaces and integration services

CORBA Replatforming

As the enterprise CORBA market growth slows due to market maturation, CORBA ORB vendor’s revenue growth has also diminished. Currently the primary revenue stream for the larger ORB vendors is maintenance -- while new revenue opportunity is limited. As a result, these vendors have taken the reasonable strategy of maximizing the revenue stream for maintenance while reducing costs. The outcome of this strategy is reduced support capabilities and development effort.

For customers whose infrastructure and applications are at a relatively steady state this may not, at least for the moment, present a problem. However, many customers are finding that inadequate support, lack of fixes/features, and increasing cost of maintenance are effecting their competitive advantage and productivity.

eCube provides ORB migration services that provide releif for:

• Increasing cost of maintenance
• Inadequate support
• Backlog of needed fixes or enhancements
• Lack of support for new platforms
• Poor performance
• Security concerns

Integration tools

The NXTware IME is designed specifically for maintenance engineers and those needing to integrate applications based on CORBA middleware. Its unique blend of features and benefits make it a stand out as an integration tool. Using NXTware IME users can imtegrate legacy COBOL, C, C++ and other legacy systems with CORBA and CORBA with contemporary platforms such as SOAP, .NET and message oriented middleware.

• Enables less-experienced engineers to be more productive with visual tools
• Focuses on business value, not on CORBA "plumbing"
• Enables CORBA services to fully participate in SOA environments
• Interoperate from IDL to SOA registry