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 ...

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