Transoft releases Screen Component Adapter for migration

Transoft (770.933.1965) has released the Transoft Screen Component Adapter for HP 3000 MPE applications, a product which makes the business rules and data in these applications available as either J2EE or Microsoft ..NET services.

The Screen Component Adapter “provides users with an alternative to a pure migration,” according to company officials. In response to HP’s end of support of the platform, “Some customers see this as an opportunity to rewrite their applications using modern development architectures such as J2EE and Microsoft .NET.” The Transoft tool offers “a seamless, scalable and non-intrusive interface layer between the existing MPE applications and new application modules.”

Transoft’s CEO Paul Holland said the tool could be used to make gradual shifts away from the HP 3000. “Companies frequently forget they cannot deploy a new application until they have developed it to a point where it performs all the functions the existing application does,” Holland said. “Our proven adapter technology has been used by many companies to provide a bridging layer between the new and the old business rules. As a result, organizations can implement new functionality modules as soon as they are available, while still keeping online the areas of functionality which haven’t yet been re-written.”

The new software is part of Transoft’s family of Intelligent Adapter products. The Adapters can be used in conjunction with Transoft’s eToolbox, a Java framework for rapid development of new Web