How Pramati Enables Faster Adoption of Web Services on the J2EE Platform

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "How Pramati Enables Faster Adoption of Web Services on the J2EE Platform"

Beatrice Marsh
8 years ago
Views:

1 white paper How Pramati Enables Faster Adoption of Web Services on the J2EE Platform Introduction How enterprises will adopt Web Services How Pramati enables faster adoption Orchestration, management services Why choose Pramati tools The future is for real c 07/02 Pramati Technologies, Pramati is a registered trademark of Pramati Technologies. Java and all Java-based marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks may belong to their respective owners.

Pramati Technologies, 2002. Pramati is a registered trademark of Pramati Technologies.

3 How Pramati Enables Faster Adoption of Web Services on the J2EE Platform How Pramati Enables Faster Adoption of Web Services on the J2EE Platform Pramati has adopted a strategy that enables enterprises to combine the power of Web Services with the J2EE platform. The vendor s Web Services strategy guarantees a standards-based implementation, and development and deployment tools, in line with what enterprises are looking for. Introduction Beneath all the hype and confusion about Web Services, there is a growing number of companies that are seriously looking to the technology for integrating their various applications over the web. To service their requirement, tool vendors would need to simplify the adoption of Web Services by providing tools that are easy to use for entrants and with advanced features for those who want to build power features. How enterprises will adopt Web Services From customer interactions, and in-house and independent analyst reports, we see Enterprise Web Services adoption happening in three phases 1. Phase One The initial forays will be into the publishing of non-critical applications over the intranet. Disparate systems would be connected and systems built for cross platform data exchange. This would lead to current components being exposed as Web Services that can be accessed ubiquitously. Phase Two As confidence continues to grow in the technology and skills mature, enterprises would deploy full-featured Web Services applications. Standards for transaction management, security and other services become crucial during this phase. Phase Three Systems would be exposed as services over extranet and Internet. This would potentially spawn new business models. How Pramati enables faster adoption As a J2EE server vendor with complementary development and deployment tools, Pramati has tailored its product packages for enterprises and ISV requirements. Pramati would continue to service that market with high performance platform support and productivity tools for essential Web Services technologies SOAP, UDDI and WSDL. Pramati currently provides the complete toolset to develop, test and publish Web Services on the J2EE platform. The extended Pramati Studio provides tools and 1 The timeline for the second and third phases of adoption is still blurred and would depend on reasons, not least of which are success of Phase One the early adoption and the health of corporate IT spending. Pramati support for the Phase Two is due early 2003.

The vendor s Web Services strategy guarantees a standards-based implementation, and development and deployment tools, in line with what enterprises are looking for.

4 4 wizards for publishing J2EE components as Web Services. The in-built UDDI directory, J2EE server and LDAP server ensure that the develop-test-debug-publish cycle is cut drastically. The smart Deploy Tool that ships with both Pramati Server and Pramati Studio prepares the Web Services that can be published on any compliant J2EE server. The Pramati Web Services kit enables enterprises and ISVs to rapidly develop and publish Web Services components using standard technologies that are available. Pramati Server provides complete support for SOAP-based communication. It is bundled with an internal UDDI registry to support enterprise level hosting of Web Services. It also comes with a bundled LDAP Server for extra-flexibility for enterprise-wide sharing of information. This will also allow enterprises to create private UDDI registries re-using their existing LDAP infrastructure, thus providing for reduced TCO. Orchestration, management services In Phase Two, enterprises would need tools to assemble and develop complex Web Services based application. Pramati will provide sophisticated integrated testing platform that will allow development teams to seamlessly debug across components in a Web Services as well as a clients. Pramati sees a requirement for a special focus on Web Services management and deployment to provide maximum flexibility for internal usage of Web Services. Active monitoring would also help gain the confidence of enterprise IT heads, serving as a catalyst for increased access to the Web Services. Pramati will also provide support for orchestration, empowering business analysts to modify and adapt business processes to changing customer requirements. Orchestration support will enable enterprises to build software systems that can be integrated dynamically, producing remarkable difference to TCO of software infrastructure. Paradigm shift Phase Three would bring about a non-linear change in the way software is developed, customized, and managed. Web Services will form an ideal technology infrastructure for management for software resources. Web service based management would allow for integrated management of enterprise-wide systems in cross platform deployment scenarios. Why choose Pramati tools As the technology adoption increases, there will be a plethora of tool vendors providing tools for developing, publishing, managing Web Services. One of the important investments from an enterprise for adoption will be in terms of evaluating and identifying the appropriate tools for their use.

The Pramati Web Services kit enables enterprises and ISVs to rapidly develop and publish Web Services components using standard technologies that are available.

5 How Pramati Enables Faster Adoption of Web Services on the J2EE Platform There will be a need for bundling relevant software with the core platform saving time and effort wasted in R&D, evaluation and negotiation. Pramati will limit the adoption costs by providing a comprehensive technology solution to the customers by partnering with right complementary tool vendors. These partnerships will be underlined by Pramati s guiding principle of delivering performance, ease of development and standards compliance to its customers worldwide. In keeping with the tradition of being on the leading edge of technology the first vendor to get J2EE 1.3 compliance Pramati plays an active role in specifying standards defining Web Services integration into J2EE, and is on target to be among the first to provide the full Web Services support as mandated by J2EE 1.4. Pramati will provide complete support for Java based XML technologies including, JAX-RPC and JAXR. The future is for real The greatest factor aiding the success of Web Services is the simplicity of the technology. This is also the area for most work ahead as it passes through adolescence of being a technology that adds basic data exchange capabilities to the web to a fullfledged platform for building enterprise systems. While enterprise characteristics of high-availability, scalability and security are still to be a part of the Web Services gamut, its time for enterprises to get their hands dirty and be in a position to move to the next level smoothly. Pramati will be a part of the revolution, ensuring that technology is powerful but not complex to use. For Web Services will remain the focal point for defining new ground in enterprise system development and deployment.

These partnerships will be underlined by Pramati s guiding principle of delivering performance, ease of development and standards compliance to its customers worldwide.

Increasing IT flexibility with IBM WebSphere ESB software.

ESB solutions White paper Increasing IT flexibility with IBM WebSphere ESB software. By Beth Hutchison, Katie Johnson and Marc-Thomas Schmidt, IBM Software Group December 2005 Page 2 Contents 2 Introduction