BEVERLY, MA–(Marketwire – November 3, 2009) – Altova® (http://www.altova.com), creator of XMLSpy®, the business leadingXML editor, today announced the availability of Version 2010 (v2010) of the Altova MissionKit®, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools. Version 2010 delivers over 70 of customers’ “most wanted” features crossways the product line, from support for new technologies like WSDL 2.0 in XMLSpy and MapForce®, JSON in XMLSpy, and SysML in UModel®, to enhanced functionality for employed with XBRL in XMLSpy, a completely new stylesheet organisation option in StyleVision®, and much more. For users employed on the newest version of the Microsoft® Windows® platform, Version 2010 is also compatible with Windows 7.

“With the state of economy today, companies are exclusive buying the tools they need to get the job done efficiently and within budget. As always, at Altova we aim to provide our customers — both current and future — with affordable and easy-to-use tools that meet their needs, whether they are developers, database administrators, or IT power users,” said Alexander Falk, President and CEO for Altova. “To that end, we’ve responded to our customers’ feedback to add more than 70 of their ‘most wanted’ features to the latest version of the Altova MissionKit, delivering the most comprehensive support in the business for employed with XML, databases, and UML.”

Each of the tools available in the Altova MissionKit 2010 provides a host of new features and functionality:

– XMLSpy 2010 — coercive new functionality has been added to the XMLSpy XML editor, including one of the most often requested features: support for WSDL 2.0. This adds to existing support for WSDL 1.1, allowing developers to edit and validate either version of a WSDL file in XMLSpy’s unique illustration WSDL editor. XMLSpy modify supports one-click transmutation between WSDL 1.1 and WSDL 2.0 files, allowing for easy migration. XMLSpy 2010 also includes enhancements to its XBRL support, including a new XBRL Taxonomy Wizard for creating XBRL taxonomies in the illustration XBRL Taxonomy Editor, generation of comprehensive XBRL documentation, and new functionality for finding and sorting accumulation in large XBRL taxonomies and instance files. With v2010, XMLSpy adds to its long list of supported standards with new functionality for employed with the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). The new JSON application gives users the flexibility to edit JSON files using the aforementioned intuitive book and grid/tree views and intelligent editing options available for XML editing, and it modify provides one-click transmutation between XML and JSON files. Unlike any other XML editor, XMLSpy 2010 supports both JSON and XML, giving developers an easy way to work with JSON in the aforementioned environment where they’re developing XML-based AJAX, and Web services applications.

– MapForce 2010 — Several new features have been added to the MapForce data mapping tool in Version 2010. Users can now process accumulation from or into multiple files, making it easy to consolidate file collections or output accumulation from one file to many. As a complement to this feature, input or output file obloquy can now be used as parameters, sanctioning the user to generate dynamic mappings in which this information is circumscribed at run-time. MapForce 2010 EDI support has also been enhanced with EDI file validation in generated cipher and support for three additional EDIFACT messages. MapForce also now supports employed with WSDL 2.0 for building and connecting to Web services, and supports the use of xsi:type in XML documents.

– StyleVision 2010 — Version 2010 of StyleVision, Altova’s visual stylesheet designer, introduces new features and usability enhancements to streamline e-Form utilization and model organisation and portability for more efficient reporting based on XML, XBRL, and database sources. A new organisation paradigm allows users to create templates within layout containers or modify upload a blueprint image on which to base their design. This adds a new level of flexibility to the organisation process, sanctioning users to lay out their organisation first and add content after, in the aforementioned way they would approach common desktop publishing applications. Additionally, the new absolute positioning feature lets users specify exact coordinates for each element to absolutely position them in their designs. These features combine to provide StyleVision 2010 users with an invaluable tool for designing true electronic forms. model designers can also now utilize multiple page layouts within the aforementioned document, an extremely valuable feature for those employed with printed media. StyleVision 2010 also provides several new developer features, including: support for inline (HTML, XSLT, XSL:FO) processing commands, extension templates based on any XPath, importing external XSLT files, and a disable-output-escaping function for rendering cipher as-is, without it being transformed by a processor.

– trusty 2010 — Authentic® 2010 users will directly benefit from some of the new StyleVision features for true electronic forms organisation described above. The sophisticated e-Forms created in StyleVision 2010 are presented in trusty as a true WYSIWYG-interface for XML and database content editing, where coercive entry helpers and intelligent editing features allow users to easily get their accumulation into valid XML or database stores — without ever being exposed to the underlying technical syntax. Other usability enhancements added to trusty 2010 include a new paste as book option that enables trusty users to insert accumulation into e-Forms as marked up XML or text-only; and the ability to view user-defined HTML elements/blocks, generated output with the new disable-output-escaping functionality, and variables created in StyleVision organisation templates. trusty 2010 also includes a browser plug-in for Firefox, as well as support for the newest version of Internet Explorer, IE8. With the release of Version 2010, trusty is now offered in project and Community Editions, both of which are available as either as a desktop application or browser plug-in. The new trusty 2010 project Edition requires a paid license and provides advanced features for WYSIWYG XML and database content editing. trusty 2010 Browser-Plugin project Edition is offered on a 12 month license term basis. trusty 2010 Community Edition is available under a free license.

– UModel 2010 — New productivity-enhancing features have been added to Version 2010 of the UModel UML tool, including support for the Systems Modeling Language (SysML). SysML uses seven diagram types that are part of the UML specification and includes two additional diagrams — requirement diagrams and parametric diagrams. UModel 2010 supports all SysML v1.1 diagram types and elements with cipher generation in Java, C#, and Visual Basic. A new scripting environment and form application has also been added to allow users to automate UModel operations from within the UML tool itself. UModel 2010 also introduces a new option to generate multiple sequence diagrams from reverse engineered Java, C#, and Visual Basic application code.

– DatabaseSpy 2010 — DatabaseSpy® 2010 includes a coercive new visual database schema comparability feature that allows users to study database schemas within the aforementioned database type, or crossways database types (all major relational databases are supported). DatabaseSpy 2010 displays differences between database schemas in a illustration manner, and users can generate a change script to merge changes in either direction. DatabaseSpy 2010 can also now convert database structures between different database types, for example, to migrate from MySQL® to Oracle® or SQL Server®. Other often-requested usability features include calculation of information for selected results (count, total, average, sum, etc.) and result installation printing.

– DiffDog 2010 — In DiffDog® 2010, functionality has been extended for comparing and convergency XML and database content. DiffDog 2010 introduces a coercive XML Schema diff feature that allows users to study and merge XML Schemas as they evolve, and then generate an XSLT file to update corresponding XML instance documents according to the new schema. Alternatively, users can opt to generate an Altova MapForce mapping file based on the DiffDog comparability to further refine the transformation between schemas. Also new in DiffDog 2010 is database schema comparability and convergency functionality similar to that in DatabaseSpy 2010, as described above.

A complete list of all the new features added in the Altova MissionKit 2010 is available at:http://www.altova.com/whatsnew.html

To download a 30-day free trial of any Altova product, visit:http://www.altova.com/download.html

Availability and Pricing

Version 2010 of the Altova product distinction is available for acquire in the Altova Online Shop:https://shop.altova.com with prices starting at $49 (USD) per product. For optimum savings, customers can opt the Altova MissionKit, which includes up to eight Altova products for less than the price of two*. Altova recommends the acquire of its Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) with all code purchases. Learn more at:http://www.altova.com/support_package.html

About Altova

Altova® is the creator of XMLSpy® and other leading XML, database, and UML tools. A key player in the code tools business and the leader in XML utilization tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including 91 percent of the Fortune 500. An innovative, customer-focused company, Altova offers a product distinction that fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs for utilization teams in the world’s largest organizations to growing one-person shops. An active member of the concern Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG), Altova is committed to delivering standards-based, platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use. Founded in 1992, Altova is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. meet Altova on the Web at: http://www.altova.com.

Note to Editors:

*Pricing comparability is edition-specific and based on Altova MissionKit vs. two individual licenses of XMLSpy and MapForce.

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