KnowledgeTree Document Management Software Launches SOAP Web Services

KnowledgeTree™, the leading commercial open source document management software vendor for small to medium-sized organizations, today announced the release of SOAP Web Services, providing third-party software developers with powerful new ways of integrating with the KnowledgeTree™ document management system.

"KnowledgeTree Web Services provide software developers with exciting new opportunities to develop applications around KnowledgeTree's document repository, irrespective of the platform or language utilized by the developer. We're looking forward to seeing innovative new uses of KnowledgeTree, from both the KnowledgeTree open source community and our commercial users," says Lead Architect Conrad Vermeulen of KnowledgeTree developers Jam Warehouse.

KnowledgeTree's SOAP Web Services provide a language independent, and platform independent interface to the functional core of the document management system. They allow the creation of extensions for KnowledgeTree, and the ability to develop and access KnowledgeTree functionality using various languages including PHP, C#.NET, Delphi, Java, Python, Ruby, C/C++. To assist developers, client libraries are available in a number of different languages.

KnowledgeTree's WebDAV interface has also been released under an open source license, the KnowledgeTree Public License, as part of KnowledgeTree Open Source Edition. The WebDAV interface, previously only available in commercial editions of KnowledgeTree, is a platform-independent extension of the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively manage files within the KnowledgeTree document repository.

KnowledgeTree's vision is to make document management simple. The web-based and AJAX-enabled application is built on the popular open source LAMP (Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack. KnowledgeTree™ has significant community traction and has been downloaded more than 300 000 times to date. KnowledgeTree™ is used by small and big business alike, with users including Fortune 500 companies, community organizations, local and state governments and educational and scientific institutions around the world.

KnowledgeTree™ is available in three additions: KnowledgeTree™ Enterprise, KnowledgeTree™ SMB and KnowledgeTree™ Open Source. The commercial editions of KnowledgeTree™ are sold with access to priority support and offer additional functionality that provides a familiar Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office interface into the document repository and direct-to-repository scanning capability.

About KnowledgeTree - Document Management Made Simple
KnowledgeTree™ is a simple yet powerful, free, commercial open source and Web-based document management system built on the popular open source LAMP stack. It is the leading commercial open source document management system designed for the SMB and departmental user.

The application is available in three additions: KnowledgeTree Enterprise, KnowledgeTree SMB and KnowledgeTree Open Source. The commercial editions of KnowledgeTree are sold with access to priority support and offer additional functionality that provides a familiar Windows Explorer and Microsoft Office interface into the document repository and direct-to-repository scanning capability.

About Jam Warehouse
Jam Warehouse, the developers of KnowledgeTree, build business process management and web-based document management solutions for world-benchmarked organizations including international retailers, pre-press companies, newspaper groups, government entities, pharmaceutical and healthcare companies and even estate agencies. Jam Warehouse is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa with an office in London, United Kingdom.

Source: PRWeb

Real-Time Web Service Monitoring Solution Released for .NET

Houston, TX -- SoapKnox Inc. leading provider of Real-Time Web Service Monitoring solutions today announces the release of their Real-Time Web Service Monitoring for .NET. With this release IT departments can now trace and monitor their production Web Services running under .NET environment. Through a browser IT operational personnel will now be able to trace SOAP messages, view Web Service performance statistics; receive alerts when a Web Service error etc. through SoapKnox's seamless agent that operates natively inside IIS.

"The monitoring solution provides the following benefits to the IT department - increases productivity of Web Service operations team, increases efficiency of IT development team, lowers cost of operating Web Services, ensures smooth operations of Web Services resulting in better customer service" said Sanjesh Pathak Founder and CEO of SoapKnox, Inc.

The monitoring solution has the following features - on demand enable or disable Web Service monitoring, configurable monitor settings, get alerts through Email or SMS, instant access to Web Service fault information, search for particular Web Service execution etc. The monitoring solution works seamlessly within IIS without the need to modify Web Service implementation code or business logic.

For more information about the monitoring tool view a demo in flash at http://www.soapknox.com/demo

About SoapKnox, Inc.
SoapKnox is developing products to monitor in real-time Web Services for both Java as well as .NET platform. SoapKnox's Java products include monitoring tools for Web Services developed under WSO2 WSAS, WSO2 WSB, WebLogic, Apache Axis/Axis2, Apache Synapse, JBoss, IBM WebSphere, Apache Geronimo etc.

Source: PRWeb

What is a WSDL?

The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dull' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. Version 1.1 has not been endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Version 2.0, for which several drafts have been released, is expected to become a W3C recommendation.

WSDL is an XML-based service description on how to communicate using web services. The WSDL defines services as collections of network endpoints, or ports. WSDL specification provides an XML format for documents for this purpose.

The abstract definition of ports and messages is separated from their concrete use or instance, allowing the reuse of these definitions. A port is defined by associating a network address with a reusable binding, and a collection of ports define a service. Messages are abstract descriptions of the data being exchanged, and port types are abstract collections of supported operations. The concrete protocol and data format specifications for a particular port type constitutes a reusable binding, where the messages and operations are then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format. In this way, WSDL describes the public interface to the web service.

WSDL is often used in combination with SOAP and XML Schema to provide web services over the Internet. A client program connecting to a web service can read the WSDL to determine what functions are available on the server. Any special datatypes used are embedded in the WSDL file in the form of XML Schema. The client can then use SOAP to actually call one of the functions listed in the WSDL.

This definition is from The Wikipedia which is published under the GNU Free Documentation License.