Aonix® announces the First Fully Integrated Component-Based Development and Design Solution – Select Component Architect™

BOULDER, Colorado, 19 June, 2002: Aonix, a member of the Gores Technology Group and a leading provider of systems design solutions, today announced the availability of their new product Select Component Architect.

Select Component Architect is the first technology that combines the capability of existing design solutions (such as UML) with the powerful capabilities of a Component-Based Development (CBD) approach.

Today, developers using Select Component Architect will be able to architect, design and develop component-based applications in an environment that endorses the seamless reuse and assembly of components. Select Component Architect is ideally suited to organizations that are developing Web Services and Web-Based Applications (in environments such as IBM WebSphere or Microsoft.NET) as it encourages the “Plug and Play” of developed components within the application reducing development timescales and increasing effectiveness.

Ashley Abdo, CEO Aonix explains “Select Component Architect is a groundbreaking new product release for Aonix and offers the most significant addition to the Select Component Factory suite for some 2 years. We are confident our customers will be excited by the new and extended functionality with the product”.

The New Select Component Architect Features include:
Select Component Architect has “Drag and Drop” component reuse and publication, optimising and simplifying the component specification, publication and reuse process. The “Drag and Drop” facility allows analysts and developers to work in a comprehensive and integrated design and development environment.

Select Component Architect now has a built in requirements management which ensures your application design and development meet your business needs and objectives.

XMLSync™ a built in XML Schema Synchronizer for Select Component Architect will ensure that your XML Data Transport Schemas are defined suitability for your internal component and service communication. The XMLSync will generate your XML Schema, increasing quality and productivity. Its reverse engineering facilities help you understand existing XML Schemas and design them into your solutions.

Enhanced UML support for:

• Activity Diagrams
• Actor generalization
• Alternate interface notation (lollipop)
• User definable (custom) stereotypes
• Actors on Object Sequence Diagrams
• Operation decomposed to Object Sequence Diagram notation
• Use case <<include>> flows
• Array and Pointer on attributes, operations and parameters
• Derived class properties
• Enumeration literal optional values
• Class scoped typedefs – Optional parameters
• Plus much more

Enhanced Data modelling support for:

• Storage mapping
• Oracle and DB2 updates
• Type definitions in data modeling

New Document Generation Templates for CBD are available out of the box for quick and easy use. If you have the Microsoft Office Spelling Checker installed you can now use this to check your Select Component Architect diagrams for spelling mistakes.

Pricing and availability
Select Component Architect is priced $3,500 per user license or can be obtained as part of the Select Component Factory which is priced $6,300 per user license. Select Component Factory includes Select Component Architect, Select Component Manager, Reviewer for Select Component Architect, JSync and VBSync.

There is also a migration path, allowing Select Enterprise customers to move to Select Component Architect.