Dharma to deliver choice in legacy integration

BANGALORE: Dharma Systems, a provider of e-business solutions that create

online value from offline assets, has announced that it would deliver a choice

in backend legacy integration to e-business customers of Pramati Technologies

Ltd., a provider of application servers based on J2EE (Java 2 platform,

Enterprise Edition) standards.

The joint marketing agreement between the two companies will provide Pramati

Server customers with the option of using Dharma eUnify, an e-business solution

that enables business rules and information contained in existing applications

to be integrated into new e-business solutions, without recoding. By integrating

legacy, client/server and other packaged applications, Dharma eUnify simplifies

the creation of new applications that support e-business initiatives.

"Businesses want to leverage existing applications with web-based

solutions, not exclude or abandon them," says Dharma Systems president J.

Sasidhar.

For Pramati customers building Enterprise JavaBeans applications, Dharma

eUnify provides bi-directional access to applications via industry standard

JDBC, XML and ODBC techniques, states the company. Most developers will be able

to implement immediately because the need for custom data access coding,

knowledge of proprietary tools, or learning complex application interfaces is

eliminated. This significantly simplifies development and speeds deployment of

new applications, says a press release issued by the company.

The Dharma eUnify approach also makes it easy to enhance these new

applications with the incremental addition of new information sources. The

resulting solution easily integrates with other EAI (Enterprise Application

Integration) technologies, enabling the sharing and updating of information

throughout the organization. Pramati believes open standards are catalyzing the

software components marketplace. Standards boosts business confidence as

enterprises continuously recast applications to stay ahead of competitors on the

new web infrastructure. Pramati is committed to delivering products in that

space, to control the complexity that plagues the applications of the new

economy.