B.7 IBM

IBM is a highly diversified technology vendor of Web Services developer tools, application server, and infrastructure platform. It has a Research and Development unit called alphaWorks that provides new Web Services tools. "Graduated" (mature) tools will be incorporated into the WebSphere product line or other commercial products. Figure B-4 shows the current WebSphere product architecture.

Application Server

• WebSphere Application Server 5.0 (Enterprise, Advanced)

Web Services Supporting Products

• DB2 (UDB) with XML Extender

• WebSphere MQ (including MQ Series with JMS)

• UDDI registry

Developer Tools

• WebSphere Studio

• WebSphere Studio Application Developer

• Web Services Toolkit 3.3.2

• Web Services Gateway

• Web Services Invocation Framework

• UDDI Explorer

• Lotus Domino

Web Services Technology

• UDDI4J

• SOAP4J

• XML Security Suite (XSS)

• BPWS4J (for Business Process Execution Language for Web Services)

References

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere/index.jsp?tab=highlights

http://alphaworks.ibm.com/ webservices

Figure B-4. IBM WebSphere Architecture