webMethods announced the free availability of its popular Web Automation Toolkit. The Toolkit is a development environment that enables companies to connect applications to existing web sites and introduces the ability to use web protocols to integrate business applications directly over the web - application to application, web site to web site, or web site to application. Companies can use the open standards of the web to connect business systems with those of their customers, suppliers and partners.
Although the Web Automation Toolkit uses XML for data exchange, it works with existing HTML, and does not require corporate developer expertise in XML. The Toolkit includes an HTML/XML parser and a groundbreaking XML RPC that enables any application to exchange data with any other application using just HTTP and XML.
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