Microsoft ships new Host Integration beta
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A beta of Host Integration Server 2004 will be available Monday, Microsoft said. The software, geared at linking the Windows world with legacy systems, sports an updated Transaction Integrator (TI) with support for mainframe and AS/400 programs as well as XML Web services, said Paul Larsen, group program manager. The new "TI can extend mainframe and AS/400 programs as XML Web services. The TI designer runs in the Visual Studio shell and allows for Windows program to make calls as clients to mainframes as servers. The corollary is now it also supports host-initiated processing to allow mainframes and AS/400s to act as clients to Windows servers," Larsen said.