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FM::NEXUS Announces Beta of Web Services Plugin for FileMaker Pro
Oakland, CA, August 26, 2007 - FM::NEXUS (www.fmnexus.com) announces the public beta of the Web Services Plugin for FileMaker Pro.
The FM::Nexus Web Services plugin does all the heavy lifting
needed to integrate your database data directly with large and
small web services.
Web Services relies on WSDLs (web services definition languages)
to expose developers to a rich API published by all kinds of
vendors, large and small. No need to learn anything new, no SOAP
wrapper to write, no complex connections to maintain --- all you
have to do is make sure your computer is online, install our plugin
and the WSDLs you want to use, and go!
“We did our very best to make this easy for users. All
they have to do is drop a WSDL that they want to use into the WSDL
folder and functions become available from within FileMaker
Pro. It’s like magic!” said Vincenzo
P. Menanno, President of FM::Nexus. “If you can write a
FileMaker calculation you can interact with web services large and
small, such as Google, Amazon, the US Census, ZIP code indices,
stock information, and others, right from within
FileMaker.”
Go beyond what is possible with FileMaker’s Web Viewer
using the Web Services Plugin. FileMaker’s Web Viewer
does not sit inside the same calculation dependency as the
calculation engine. This makes it very difficult write
calculations that depend on data returned from a request. The Web
Viewer is a web browser, and as such you are forced to parse the
information returned. The site makes a change and any calculations
you have relied on to gather up information are now in need of
change.
Web Services Plugin solves these problems in that it lives inside
the calculation dependency tree so you can rely on calculations
waiting for a result to complete, either via scripting or via
calculation fields. It also uses a published API, thus ensuring
that you’ll be getting consistent results without
unexpected changes.
Don’t just look at web data; have your database interact
with web data easy and seamlessly. To find out more, download our
public beta and try out some of the many thousands of WSDLs that
are out there.
Vincenzo P. Menanno is the President FM::Nexus, author of
Inspector, Account Manager and Dragon Web Surveys. Vincenzo has
spoken at many FileMaker Developer Conferences and is the author of
the online training course
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=96
“Learning FileMaker Pro 7” for Lynda.com.
Contact Information:
Sales and support information for the FM::Nexus Web Services
Plugin are provided by beezwax datatools (
www.beezwax.net
).
For more information, call us at (888)853-4483 or email
info@beezwax.net
.
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