Cohesions 2.0 provides coordination and synchronization of distributed processes resulting in consistent and reliable updates across multiple systems and services. Cohesions 2.0 actively aligns and manages the state of those loosely-coupled participating systems, inside and outside the firewall and across heterogeneous technical environments.

Cohesions 2.0 also provides Business Transaction Management for Web Services and BPEL-based (Business Process Execution Language) workflow processes. A number of new features have been incorporated into Cohesions 2.0 including:

Support for fully recoverable applications - transactions can be persisted, both at key points and at any stage, during the lifecycle thereby enabling recovery in the event of a system failure

Simplified Java API and programming model that is easy to code and implement

Increased scalability support for large numbers of concurrent, long running transactions

Full lifecycle support for applications deployed as J2EE EJBs

Support for IBM Websphere 5.1 and Apache Tomcat 4.1/Axis 1.1 application containers

Support for Red Hat Linux ES/AS 2.1 (kernel 2.4.9)

For end users Cohesions 2.0 addresses a wide range of business integration issues including:

Reliable data propagation to multiple downstream systems

Integrating portals with business applications

Delivering BPEL transactional capability

Creating reliable exchanges across virtual market places

Coordinating complex trades or orders

Synchronizing current and future production systems during parallel running

Tracking and coordination of payments, claims or escrow agreements

Technical advantages include:

Significant productivity gains in the development, testing and support of distributed business transactions

Application developers no longer require specialist transaction management skills

Reduced necessity for inter-application reconciliation and secondary repair systems

Accelerated adoption of and time-to-market for BPEL-based products

Cohesions 2.0 is also available for OEM integration, allowing software vendors to offer business transaction management capabilities in their own products through the calling of the Cohesions’ Java libraries. Cohesions 2.0 has been architected to:

Operate using multiple transaction protocols, whilst insulating vendors from any flux in transaction protocol standards by using a single, simple programming API

Operate over multiple transport protocols on each leg of a transaction which affords freedom to coordinate a mix of applications that use new and older technologies

Work across and alongside architectures that span Web Services, J2EE, .NET and native-process standalone deployments

Allow BPEL vendors to provide transaction support to their customers

Cohesions 2.0 operates in Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris and Linux environments.