As to be better positioned to deliver testing and governance products that are geared towards setting up continuous testing and validation to ensure the high reliability and quality of multi-tier, composite SOA applications, Progress Software Corporation recently acquired Mindreef. It is interesting to note the quietness of the event that was reported only briefly by ZDNet bloggers Joe Kendrick and Dana Gardner.
Mindreef was a privately held firm founded in 2002 by Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun who leveraged their deep expertise in Microsoft Windows, Java, and device drivers’ debugging and testing to create the Mindreef SOAPscope products for SOA testing and validation. Mindreef was acquired by Progress Software and included in the Progress Actional product group in June 2008.
Prior to being acquired by Progress Software in early 2006, Actional Corporation was an independent leading provider of Web services management (WSM) software for visibility and run-time governance of distributed IT systems in a SOA. Actional’s SOA management products were incorporated under the product name Progress Actional within Progress’ Enterprise Infrastructure Division, and is now a major element of the Progress SOA Portfolio.
In a nutshell, Mindreef has already been wrapped into Progress Actional product group, since it addresses SOA management at the design and testing phase, while Actional primarily addresses SOA management at the production (run-time) phase (e.g., tracing transactional tables). Thus, Progress now has an expanded solution that addresses the quality and management of the full SOA lifecycle, from early concept and design thru go-live implementation, on-boarding new Web services, and overall SOA production management.
Frank Grossman, former chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Mindreef is now vice president (VP) of Technology for Progress Actional, reporting to Dan Foody, who is in charge of Progress Actional. For more information the acquisition’s rationale, see the frequently asked questions (FAQ) page here.
Since there is so much product integration in the planning stages at this point soon after announcement of the two recent acquisitions (the other one being of Iona Technologies), Progress hopes to have new slide decks to accompany analyst briefings on virtually all of its products over the next several months. Look for follow up blog posts from me at that time.
Zooming Into SOAPscope
Designed for easy use by architects, service and support personnel as well as SOA operations managers, the Mindreef SOAPscope product family comprises SOAPscope Server, SOAPscope Architect, SOAPscope Tester, and SOAPscope Developer.
Essentially, Mindreef products collect information about Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) transactions and use it to shed light on Web services communications. But while most of such logging tools store data in pesky flat files, SOAPscope stores it in a relational database for ease of use even by the folks who are not necessarily XML and SOAP experts.
Mindreef SOAPscope Server was initially called Mindreef Coral, and was re-released under the current name in mid 2006. Like many software testing tools, this collaborative testing product includes a “play” button when Web services are exercised based on specific scenarios. If services for some steps of the process scenario are not available, SOAPscope Server can even simulate them.
The collaborative team lifecycle support comes by means of a “playback” feature that shows what happened at each step along the way, so that different members of the team can inspect for their respective areas of concern. For instance, developers can check for syntax errors, while architects can test if a service that has been invoked many times could still eventually trigger a scenario that violates company policies.
Mindreef was a privately held firm founded in 2002 by Frank Grossman and Jim Moskun who leveraged their deep expertise in Microsoft Windows, Java, and device drivers’ debugging and testing to create the Mindreef SOAPscope products for SOA testing and validation. Mindreef was acquired by Progress Software and included in the Progress Actional product group in June 2008.
Prior to being acquired by Progress Software in early 2006, Actional Corporation was an independent leading provider of Web services management (WSM) software for visibility and run-time governance of distributed IT systems in a SOA. Actional’s SOA management products were incorporated under the product name Progress Actional within Progress’ Enterprise Infrastructure Division, and is now a major element of the Progress SOA Portfolio.
In a nutshell, Mindreef has already been wrapped into Progress Actional product group, since it addresses SOA management at the design and testing phase, while Actional primarily addresses SOA management at the production (run-time) phase (e.g., tracing transactional tables). Thus, Progress now has an expanded solution that addresses the quality and management of the full SOA lifecycle, from early concept and design thru go-live implementation, on-boarding new Web services, and overall SOA production management.
Frank Grossman, former chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of Mindreef is now vice president (VP) of Technology for Progress Actional, reporting to Dan Foody, who is in charge of Progress Actional. For more information the acquisition’s rationale, see the frequently asked questions (FAQ) page here.
Since there is so much product integration in the planning stages at this point soon after announcement of the two recent acquisitions (the other one being of Iona Technologies), Progress hopes to have new slide decks to accompany analyst briefings on virtually all of its products over the next several months. Look for follow up blog posts from me at that time.
Zooming Into SOAPscope
Designed for easy use by architects, service and support personnel as well as SOA operations managers, the Mindreef SOAPscope product family comprises SOAPscope Server, SOAPscope Architect, SOAPscope Tester, and SOAPscope Developer.
Essentially, Mindreef products collect information about Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) transactions and use it to shed light on Web services communications. But while most of such logging tools store data in pesky flat files, SOAPscope stores it in a relational database for ease of use even by the folks who are not necessarily XML and SOAP experts.
Mindreef SOAPscope Server was initially called Mindreef Coral, and was re-released under the current name in mid 2006. Like many software testing tools, this collaborative testing product includes a “play” button when Web services are exercised based on specific scenarios. If services for some steps of the process scenario are not available, SOAPscope Server can even simulate them.
The collaborative team lifecycle support comes by means of a “playback” feature that shows what happened at each step along the way, so that different members of the team can inspect for their respective areas of concern. For instance, developers can check for syntax errors, while architects can test if a service that has been invoked many times could still eventually trigger a scenario that violates company policies.
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