Cognicase Announces the General Availability of Version
3.0 of its Advanced Tool for the Development of
Interactive Web Applications: NATWEB
JUNE 8, 1999
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--COGNICASE Inc. (Nasdaq : "COGI") and its
European subsidiary, Nat Systems, announce the general
availability of their version 3.0 of advanced tool for the
development of interactive Web applications. NatWeb 3.0 enables
the generation of both Java applet based user interfaces and the
generation of ActiveX components and offers improved production management.
This new version integrates the possibility to call server
services from Java and ActiveX components on the browser. NatWeb
now enables the sharing of application context between servers and
Java components or ActiveX clients.
NatWeb is a tool to easily build state-of-the-art Web
applications. The NatWeb applications and development environment
generate components based on the latest technology (HTML, Java,
ActiveX), while its 4GL programming language (NCL) does not
require any expertise of this new technology. NatWeb enables
developers to generate whatever require (Java classes, ActiveX
objects ...) from the same source code. NatWeb has superior
capabilities to create links between legacy systems and
transactional web sites.
NatWeb 3.0 comes with a monitoring tool for the NatWeb application
server. It generates reports in HTML format, including
statistical information regarding the deployment environment :
average response time (per server, per page or overall), the
number of times a page is accessed, the number of users connected,etc ...
Based on Nat Systems' experience with versions 1.0 and 2.0, the
technical architecture underlying the NatWeb application server
has been improved to respond to the following requirements : /T/
- Automatic spawning : the NatWeb servers process will be spawned
automatically at server startup or when process die because of
an application crash. This ensures server availability;
- Dead lock management : a "no response" time out will be
available to kill NatWeb server process that are stuck (into a
never ending loop, a database deadlock, and so on);
- Windows NT service : the NatWeb 3.0 server will be configurable
as a service for Windows NT. Therefore, it will be possible to
allow Windows NT, to manage the NatWeb server by itself./T/
Furthermore, NatWeb 3.0 comes with a remote context manager. It
is now possible to handle (read and write) the context for a
remote service called from a Java applet or an ActiveX. Other new
features include improved management of HTML pages and a
persistence API that stores/restores a user context.
About Nat System and COGNICASE
Nat Systems, the Company's European subsidiary, designs, develops,
commercializes and supports a wide range of software solutions and
components designed for the development and deployment of large-
scale client/server, Internet and Intranet applications.
With its NatStar and NatWeb development environments, Nat Systems
has acquired a leadership position in the field of client/server
application deployment in heterogeneous and distributed
architecture. Consequently, NatWeb is now a market benchmark.
Nat Systems has a base of more than 50 customers and more than 300
developers around the world using NatWeb product. Among the
customers who have used the NatWeb development tool are companies
from the banking and financial sectors such as Macif,
Nagelmackers, AGF, Dresdner Bank, BBL (Bank Brussels Lambert),
important government players in France including the Ministry of
Economy, the Ministry of Finance and the Department of Industry,
Douanes Francaises as well as various large corporations such as
3Suisses, Dassault and Sogei.
Founded in 1991, COGNICASE is an international provider of value-
added information technology consulting services, solutions and
software. The company offers a full range of IT solutions
including complete and partial outsourcing, WEB/E-commerce
development, ERP implementation, client/server application
development, network architecture, management and development of
client/server software, Web-based development tools, as well as
software for automated internet application conversion and
platform migration. The company has over 2,300 professionals
serving customers from offices located in 15 cities in North
America, Europe and Australia.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995
(US), which involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of a
number of factors, including factors that the Company may not
currently foresee, the Company's actual results could differ
materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements.
Certain other factors that might cause the Company's actual
results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements
include the Company's ability to (i) successfully develop
additional products and services and new applications for its
existing products and services and otherwise respond to rapid
changes in technology, (ii) successfully compete in its industry
for customers and developers and other personnel with expertise in
information technology, (iii) successfully identify and consummate
acquisitions on favorable terms and integrate acquired businesses,
and (iv) successfully manage its growth and changing business, as
well as those factors set forth under the heading "Risk Factors"
in its 1998 annual report. |
