Wednesday, 8 November 2006

Software AG Releases Natural for Eclipse

Software AG has unveiled Natural for Eclipse, a full Eclipse-based environment for Natural 2006 application development. The development and deployment of Natural and Java business applications from a common development platform will ease the creation of SOA-ready, mission-critical enterprise applications for both mainframe and open systems. Software AG has partnered with innoWake, based in Ulm, Germany, to provide technology for Natural for Eclipse, the company stated.

Software AG touts the product by saying that the product is the latest addition to the Natural Productivity Package, which improves application developer productivity and helps customers reduce time and costs for application development and maintenance. In the Natural Productivity Package Professional Edition, Natural for Eclipse provides an open source based development environment for Natural applications deployed on Mainframe, Unix, Linux or Windows platforms. In the Enterprise Edition, Natural for Eclipse enables Java and Natural developers to collaborate on the development of Service-oriented applications and AJAX-based rich Internet applications.

Software AG’s Natural for Eclipse is currently available on the Windows and Linux platforms and can deploy onto mainframes, Unix, Linux and Windows.