The Hershey Company Selects Skyway Software to Deliver Model-Centric Java Applications Across Highly Distributed Environments

Tampa, FL, August 14, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Skyway Software, the experts in simplifying software delivery, recently entered into a relationship with The Hershey Company. The Hershey Company markets such iconic brands as Hershey's, Reese's, Hershey's Kisses, and Ice Breakers and is the largest North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and sugar confectionery products, with annual revenues of nearly $5 billion and more than 13,000 employees worldwide.

In this new relationship, The Hershey Company will use Skyway Builder – a model-centric Java development and deployment tool for delivering custom software applications – to build, test, and deploy internal solutions throughout its highly distributed development environment. Sean Walsh, President and CEO of Skyway Software, announces, “the opportunity to work together with a world-class, widely-known consumer goods organization like The Hershey Company is a tremendous honor. The fact that our solution, Skyway Builder, and our Team of Solution Architects helps them maximize productivity is very exciting to us.”

About Skyway Builder

With Skyway Builder, Java developers finally get an open source set of plug-ins for Eclipse that offer a seamless blend of coding and modeling for delivering Web Services and Web Applications to the Spring Framework. Skyway Builder is easy to learn and use, extensible for individual or corporate use, and transparent with full access to underlying Java code. Unlike any other open-source application development tool, Skyway Builder provides comprehensive modeling capabilities at three distinct application layers (Web/UI layer, service layer, and data layer) and fully functional solutions may be delivered easily to a wide variety of open-source and commercial infrastructures. Additional information about Skyway Builder is available on the Skyway Community site located at www.skywayperspectives.org.

About Skyway Software

Skyway Software provides technology and processes to IT organizations that simplify their software delivery process - often times reducing application development and deployment schedules by 30 percent or more. Some of the world's largest enterprises rely on model-centric Skyway Builder and its iterative, enabling methodology Skyway Collaborative Software Delivery to facilitate collaborative development and deployment of SOA-based solutions. Skyway Builder utilizes Eclipse to create an easy to use - yet distinctly flexible - modeling solution as a seamless blend of coding and modeling for building and deploying Rich Internet Applications and Web Services. These models generate standard Java code that conforms to industry best practices for deploying to the Spring Framework and Spring MVC in a web-server-only environment and/or in a full Java EE container. The modeled solutions are equally portable across open-source infrastructure stacks or across diverse commercial infrastructure stacks. Founded in 2001, Skyway Software is headquartered in Tampa. For more information, call +1 (813) 288-9355 or visit www.skywaysoftware.com.

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