What’s New in 2008

• Top-down system design: Design business solutions before choosing technology.
• Conform to Web Services Description Language (WSDL): Update Web services to automatically conform to a WSDL contract Web Application Projects: Generate and maintain Web Application Projects just as you create Web sites using visual designers.
• Architectural Roles: Introduce elements that play specific predefined architectural roles within architectural patterns into the design.

Feature Highlights

• Application Designer to visually define service-oriented applications and generate code
• System Designer to compose applications into systems or reusable subsystems and validate the resulting configurations
• Deployment Designer to validate application designs against a target datacenter and identify issues before deployment begins
• Logical Datacenter Designer to visualize the logical structure of datacenters, specify operational policies, and validate applications prior to deployment