XAware Designer
XAware Designer is a set of Eclipse plug-ins for creating, testing, and deploying standards-compliant web services and data integration applications. The tool provides a visual, drag-and-drop design, debug, and deployment environment. Many of the features in XAware Designer are wizard-based, which expedites the development process. Services are built graphically as XML views (called BizDocuments) by combining industry standard schemas or XML data models, configurable Adapters (called BizComponents), complex conditional logic, Connectors and business rules.

To learn more about XAware’s core technology, view the XAware Technology Overview White Paper or watch the XAware Technology Overview.


XAware Designer Screenshot (Click to Enlarge)

Components developed with XAware Designer are reusable. For example, once you create a component for accessing a particular data set (e.g., customer file, product master, inbound XML message, outbound data feed), the same component can be used in any number of services. XAware Designer’s Component Catalog feature lists key information about each component, and automatically detects potential reusable components for a given application.

XAware Designer Key Features

  • Eclipse IDE plug-in for creating, testing, and deploying standards-compliant web services
  • Graphical display using UML Activity Diagrams
  • Web services are built using configurable and reusable components
  • Components and related meta data are cataloged and easily searched
  • Micro-workflow capability including conditional logic and business rule processing
  • Support for complex industry standard XML schemas including ACORD, CSIO, EDI, HL7, and NIEM
  • Full support of standards-compliant web services styles including RPC Encoded, RPC Literal, Document Literal and Document Literal Wrapped
  • Graphical drag-and-drop mapping of source elements to target data sources
  • Wizard-driven processes allow design-time access to J2EE-managed resources such as data connection pools managed by an application server
  • Wizard-driven support for configuring and mapping complex SQL or dropping in pre-built SQL expressions
  • Debugging and validation tools within the design environment speed service creation and testing
  • Simple packaging and deployment of services using XAware application archive (XAR) files

Designer is included in the price of XAware Engine. See information about the XAware Engine next.