Software AG has developed an open source project offering interoperability between the Ruby on Rails Web development framework and the Tamino XML Server. Tamino On Rails is an open source contribution found here on SourceForge.net. With it, Tamino users can leverage Ruby on Rails to more quickly develop new applications, according to Software AG. Tamino is an XML server for data management based on Internet tech Software AG has developed an open source project offering interoperability between the Ruby on Rails Web development framework and the Tamino XML Server.Tamino On Rails is an open source contribution found here on SourceForge.net. With it, Tamino users can leverage Ruby on Rails to more quickly develop new applications, according to Software AG. Tamino is an XML server for data management based on Internet technologies, featuring an XML engine to process and exchange XML documents. “Due to its native support for all XML document types and schemas, Tamino can quickly configure multiple data sources into a single view. This makes it a premier platform for creating highly-dynamic, multi-channel Web applications,” said Dr. Peter Kürpick, a Software AG executive board member, in a statement released by the company. “With minimal coding and configuration required, Ruby on Rails makes it comparatively easy to develop highly responsive applications and Web [sites] that fully leverage Tamino’s extensibility. Furthermore, Tamino helps to overcome some of the lack of adaptability inherent in the framework due to the underlying support for complex data types and manipulations that it offers.”Tamino on Rails version 1.0 provides applications using Ruby on Rails with access to XML-based data sets in XQuery-capable databases. Featured in the project are adapters to build Web-based front ends for database applications. Technology Industry