Software AG brings Ruby on Rails interoperability to Tamino
ConvergenceAsia Staff
20/07/2007

Business infrastructure software company Software AG has published Tamino On Rails as an Open Source contribution under Sourceforge.net.

Tamino users can now take advantage of the speed and ease of development offered by Ruby on Rails to more quickly create new applications. Ruby on Rails is an open source framework for developing database-driven web applications. This package extends interoperability to the Tamino XML Server, Software AG's native XML database management system.

Due to its native support for all XML document types and schemas, Tamino can quickly configure multiple data sources into a single view, said Dr Peter Kščrpick, Software AG's executive board member with management responsibilities for the webMethods business line. "With minimal coding and configuration required, Ruby on Rails makes it comparatively easy to develop highly responsive applications and web site that fully leverage Tamino's extensibility. Furthermore, Tamino helps to overcome some of the lack of adaptability inherent in the framework due to the underlying support for complex data types and manipulations that it offers."

Tamino On Rails, v1.0 provides applications using Ruby and the Rails web application framework with access to XML-based data sets in XQuery-capable databases. By doing so, it minimises the time and effort needed to create web-based front ends to XML datasets while improving programmer productivity and accuracy.

The published software is available free-of-charge under the liberal Apache licence and can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/taminoonrails.

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