31 May 2001: LogicScope Launches XML-Based Middleware

UK-based software company Logicscope Realisations has released LiveXML an XML standards-based middleware. The product will enable banks to communicate between legacy and new Internet-based systems to deliver market data and transactions over a wide area network.

LogicScope has already signed up customers for LiveXML, says LogicScope’s director Nick Dyne. Ex-it, which provides an Internet banking and broking systems platform, is using LiveXML as an interface into a variety of data sources. Electronic Broking Services (EBS) is using LiveXML for distributing transactions messages via a WAN, and consulting company Cicada Corp. is also using LiveXML.

LiveXML is aimed at clients that want to leverage their existing information and transaction systems to deliver messages either internally or externally into a variety of applications, including browsers. According to Dyne, “LiveXML is new-age messaging for old and new-age systems.”

The product leverages LogicScope’s existing interfaces into data distribution systems such as Tibco’s TIB, Reuters’ Triarch, the Bridge Trading Room System and CSK’s Invision. It operates in the same area as Tibco’s Rendezvous messaging layer and IBM’s MQ Series.

The service is intended to be Document Type Definition (DTD) independent and includes an XML parser to manage the variant XML flavors, and also includes an XML router to route the messages. The transport protocols used are the standard TCP/IP and HTTP protocols. LiveXML is written in Java and has a C++ interface to manage the integration of legacy products.