(March 20, 2002) - SilverStream Software, Inc. has announced the general availability of SilverStream eXtend™ Composer 3.5, the company's award-winning XML integration server that enables organizations to maximize the potential of new and existing business systems by transforming them into powerful Web services. A cornerstone of the SilverStream eXtend product suite, the 3.5 release of SilverStream eXtend Composer includes significant new features including the first commercially available process manager designed to build and orchestrate complex Web services interactions based on IBM's Web Services Flow Language (WSFL) specification.

With the growing acceptance of Web services as a key enterprise application architecture, organizations now have an open, standards-based solution for large-scale business integration and process automation. To meet the advanced requirements of process integration and management, eXtend Composer 3.5 now includes the Composer Process Manager. Composer Process Manager allows organizations to rapidly create new Web services compositions, deploy them as enterprise-level applications that are secure, scalable and highly reliable, and easily manage their runtime execution. Using eXtend Composer, organizations can rapidly repurpose enterprise business systems as Web services and assemble those services into higher-level process flows to integrate disparate systems and automate business processes.

With a robust standards-based architecture, eXtend Composer deploys its Web services to market-leading J2EE application servers to ensure the highest levels of performance, scalability, and reliability. In addition to comprehensive support for leading enterprise technologies including all XML vocabularies and J2EE, eXtend Composer also provides built-in support for emerging Web services standards such as SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and WSFL.

SilverStream eXtend Composer and the complete SilverStream eXtend product suite are available immediately. For more information, visit www.silverstream.com/extend.