In April 2001, Auldenfire Sweden established the Enterprise Systems Architecture Laboratory (ESAL) as a framework for developing and evaluating tools and techniques in the areas of MDA™ and Integration Services.

The remit of the laboratory is as follows:

Provide a sandbox area for Case and other tool evaluations

The sandbox area is a set of servers and client workstations where tools can be installed and tested without affecting the rest of the Group's systems. Auldenfire's customers and project staff typically use the sandbox to evaluate tools and set up configurations for development work.

Enable the development and test of customised solutions to prototype/proof of concept level

The laboratory provides a complete design and development environment for architecture tools and configurations.

The environment consists of CASE workstations running Rational Rose Enterprise Edition, developer workstations for J2EE, C++, Oracle, MS SQL, and DB2 application builds, and a central server-based configuration management repository. At present, the following solutions are under development:

• MDA Repository and maintenance tools
• Code Generation Engine
• Distributed EAI Repository
• Distributed EAI Directory

Provide a framework for architectural and enterprise system design training

The laboratory has a number of training environments configured to support Auldenfire's architecture courses.

The ESA Laboratory is located in Stockholm, Sweden.

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