Clerity Solutions has introduced new software and services that enable legacy mainframe applications and rehosted workloads to play strategic roles in SOA and Web Services initiatives.

Building on a heritage of maximizing the value of core IT assets while lowering total cost of ownership, Clerity Service Builder and Clerity Web Connect allow organizations to easily expose legacy assets as secure Web Services and rapidly transform inflexible screen-based applications into modern, user-friendly Web applications.

Using Clerity Service Builder, companies can assemble and deploy multi-step, multi-operation composite business services from 3270-based CICS, IMS, and UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE) transactions, in addition to COMMAREA and native data Web Services. Clerity Service Builder's runtime environment runs on a mainframe or rehosted platform, eliminating the need for costly and complex middleware. An intuitive drag-and-drop development tool is included to compose business services and it is pre-integrated with key technologies to make generated services instantly recognizable and accessible within a SOA environment. These services can be utilized by .NET and Java-based application environments; no special understanding of SOAP, XML, WSDL, or HTTP protocols is required.