The re:new toolset addresses reuse as well as new development requirements for IBM i and .NET
looksoftware announced at COMMON a new application development toolset that it's calling re:new. The toolset will enable IBM i customers to extend existing applications and also rapidly deliver new functionality that leverages the .NET framework, according to Marcus Dee, looksoftware CEO. The resulting applications may blend existing and new functionality, with the automated development process being five to ten times faster than traditional manual coding, he said.
Using re:new, companies can significantly reduce time to value by leveraging framework-based generation to provide pure SOA-based applications. With re:new, developers can modernize existing systems, build new ones, or produce a mixture of both. re:new supports multi-channel User Experience (UX) delivery including a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) based rich client and the cross-platform Web-based Silverlight RIA.
"looksoftware has traditionally offered IBM i customers the opportunity to preserve their legacy assets via reuse" said Dee. "Our Path Forward announcements extend our reuse focus to include integrated support for new development, to provide our customers and ISV partners with long term paths forward.”
re:new allows developers to quickly and easily provide integration and interoperability with existing IBM i applications. It produces loosely-coupled agile service oriented software that includes backend operational management, security, and authentication. This ensures best practices and dramatically reduces programming time throughout the development lifecycle.
Fueling and retail management systems provider MECO, has successfully implemented the re:new technology to reuse its customized Infor System/21 back-end ERP. re:new has enabled MECO to deliver major new functionality that streamlines business processes by integrating the IBM i with its Microsoft-based front-end. IT manager Albert M Johnson said, "I'm a long time IBM i customer and thanks to re:new, I'm now an IBM i customer with a services oriented architecture in place and we have a future--I can see the path forward!”
re:new leverages Surround Technologies’ development framework, together with looksoftware's soarchitect, and existing support for multi-channel clients, to provide the most effective UX.
About looksoftware
For 15 years, looksoftware has been successfully releasing the hidden value in legacy software applications which contain years of proven business rules and processes. Its software tools promote the retention and reuse of core business systems running on IBM servers without the cost, risk and disruption of replacing or rewriting such systems. For new requirements and recreating legacy functionality, looksoftware’s integrated suite includes rapid application development support to generate new services oriented applications. looksoftware’s modern solution delivery suite combines the rapid ROI and costs savings offered by reuse-based modernization approaches, with integrated support for rapid application development supporting modern technologies including RPG Open Access, .NET and Java. The broad functionality offered includes multi-channel UX support including mobile, rich and RIA UX, service-enablement of existing applications, and generation of pure SOA applications.
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