XML editing in XMLSpy, Altova's flagship product.

Founded in 1992, Altova is a commercial software development company with headquarters in Beverly, MA, USA and Vienna, Austria that produces integrated XML, UML, and data management software development tools. Their flagship product is the XMLSpy XML editor and development environment, though they have recently broadened their product line to include data integration, UML, and Web services development tools and removed their free XMLSpy Home Edition.^[1] Their Authentic product is still available under a free license, and all other products are available for a free, 30-day trial.

Products

Altova?s products include:^[2]

• XMLSpy ? XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies
• MapForce ? graphical data mapping, conversion, and integration tool
  • MapForce FlexText ? graphical utility for parsing flat files
• StyleVision ? multipurpose visual stylesheet design tool
• UModel ? UML modeling tool
• DatabaseSpy ? multi-database data management, query, and design tool
• DiffDog ? XML-aware file and directory differencing tool
• SchemaAgent ? graphical XML Schema, XSLT, WSDL and management tool
• SemanticWorks ? visual RDF and OWL editor
• Authentic ? free WYSIWYG XML authoring tool and database content editor
• MissionKit - Altova's software bundle, available in a variety of different configurations

Key features of Altova products

• Altova?s products have a reputation for being highly graphical and responsive^[3], and are targeted toward non-technical staff as well as software developers^[4].
• Altova XML tools are standards-conformant with established standards released by the W3C such as XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT 1.0/2.0, XPath 1.0/2.0, WSDL, SOAP, XQuery, XHTML, RDF, and OWL.^[5]
• Altova products generate code in multiple formats (XSLT, XQuery, Java, C++, and C#) that run on many different operating systems.^[6]
• Altova has recently added support for Office Open XML, the document format used in Microsoft Office 2007, to four of its tools: XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, and DiffDog.^[7]

See also

• XML
• XML Schema
• XMLSpy
• Alexander Falk

External links

• Altova Web site
• XML Aficionado, blog of Altova CEO, Alexander Falk

References

1. ↑ "Altova Refreshes XML Suite", ''Redmond Developer News'' May 2008
2. ↑ Altova website
3. ↑ "Hands-On Product Report" ''Redmond Developer News'' October 2007
4. ↑ Altova website
5. ↑ Altova website
6. ↑ Product Review: Altova Enterprise Suite ''SOA World Magazine'' August 2005
7. ↑ "TechEd, Open XML, and HDR Photography" ''XML Aficionado'' June 9, 2008