(March 27, 200) - Compuware Corporation has announced the availability of Compuware OptimalJ 2.2, an enterprise application development environment for organizations that are adopting J2EE standards and Object Management Group’s (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to accelerate application development. OptimalJ 2.2 enhancements offer organizations a competitive edge in application development, integration, and maintenance including simplifying the integration of technologies such as CORBA, Java, CICS COBOL applications, and Web services.

OptimalJ 2.2 provides organizations that are adopting J2EE a way to accelerate the development, integration, and maintenance of their applications because it fully implements the MDA, by using patterns to automatically translate business models into working applications. Because it has fully implemented MDA, OptimalJ enables organizations to rapidly respond to change, increase development efficiency, and decrease maintenance costs.

Designers and developers can create a Web service using OptimalJ by simply elevating a generated Session Bean to a Web service. OptimalJ will automatically generate a WSDL file that other applications can use to invoke the new Web service. For existing Web services, OptimalJ automatically generates the Session Bean code needed to invoke the foreign Web service, based on the imported WSDL file.

OptimalJ 2.2 also supports Borland’s JBuilder IDE in addition to the NetBeans IDE. As a result, companies can leverage their existing JBuilder investment, while benefiting from the power of OptimalJ. Additionally, OptimalJ supports all leading application servers, databases and modeling tools, ensuring that existing technology investments are leveraged.

OptimalJ 2.2 is now available in two editions:

OptimalJ 2.2 Architecture Edition (OAE): OAE licenses start at $8,000 per named architect. OAE includes all the features of OPE plus support for creating, extending, applying and exchanging software design patterns using the OptimalJ pattern editor.

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