(February 12, 2002) – Altova, Inc. has announced the release of the XML Spy 4.3 Suite, a comprehensive product-line of developer tools for advanced XML application development, consisting of the XML Spy 4.3 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the XML Spy 4.3 XSLT Designer, and the XML Spy 4.3 Document Editor.

XML Spy 4.3 Suite is the only tool on the market that lets developers tackle real-world Web services development on all of the major Web services platforms including Microsoft .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE). XML Spy Suite is the essential developer tool for testing & debugging Web services based on Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP).

XML Spy is the only tool to support graphical editing of XML Schemas which use Microsoft SQLXML schema extensions, a powerful technology which effectively bridges the gap between XML and relational data by creating XML views of relational data, abstracting away the underlying data format.

“Microsoft recognizes Altova's XML Spy 4 Suite as an industry leading XML development tool and we are pleased to have authoring support for SQLXML directly within XML Spy 4 Suite,” said Stan Sorensen, director of SQL Server Product Marketing at Microsoft Corporation. “Using XML Spy's powerful graphical schema editor, software developers and database administrators can easily create and edit XML schemas which simplify programming and data management.”

The XML Spy 4.3 Suite is available immediately for download and purchase from the XML Spy Online Shop, www.xmlspy.com/order. All current XML Spy 4.x customers are eligible to receive the new XML Spy 4.3 Suite as a free upgrade for their respective orders. See Web site for complete price-list including, multi-user or concurrent-user licenses, or contact sales@xmlspy.com.

Live demonstrations of XML Spy 4.3 Suite will held at SYS-CON’s Web Services Edge 2002 East International Web Services, Java, and XML Conference & Expo, booth #523, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center, NYC, June 24-27.