B.3. BEA

BEA Web Services architecture is based on J2EE. It has a comprehensive programming model with Weblogic features, such as IDE (developer workbench), UDDI registry, and UDDI browser. They support SOAP 1.2 and SOAP 1.2 with attachment. BEA has a new product, Java Adapter for Mainframe (J2EE Connector), for mainframe integration (for example, CICS and IMS).

All Weblogic Web Services automatically generate a home page (useful for testing) and user-defined data type components (using the ANT extension). http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/server/paper_webservices.pdf is a brief white paper describing BEA's Web Services capability.

BEA has contributed to Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI) with Sun Microsystems recently, WS-Coordination, ...

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