March 25, 2002 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IBM (ibm.com/software) today unveiled a new implementation of its suite of Web services. The new WebSphere, Tivoli, DB2, Lotus enables businesses to create, publish, securely deploy, host and manage Web services applications.
Ensuring the availability and performance of Web services technology through detailed analytics and QoS measurement, Tivoli Web Services Manager 1.7 manages and Secures the Web Services Infrastructure. The tool allows users to execute synthetic transactions to ensure availability of critical Web services systems, combining the functionality of two winning products, Tivoli Web Services Manager and Tivoli Application Performance Management.
Enhanced to simplify the process of building scalable, standards-based security architecture in an enterprise Web services environment, Tivoli Policy Director provides the broadest interoperability with WebSphere infrastructure software in access management. It also enables customers to leverage a common security model across WebSphere and non-WebSphere resources.
The interoperability is transparent to J2EE applications because no coding or deployment changes are needed at the application level. The software includes common security management, Web single sign-on, and enforcement of user access rights, privileges, and entitlements across the dynamic e-business infrastructure.
Databases and data management systems are key components in IBM’s Web services strategy. Web services enable the integration of real-time data into applications, and IBM’s DB2 database software, which also supports J2EE, the leading provider of enterprise information integration options. DB2 provides a full range of Web services capabilities within its data management portfolio.
IBM’s XML-based technologies will be showcased later this month with an Xperanto technology preview demonstrating the new XML query language XQuery, in combination with DB2 federation capabilities to integrate DB2 and non-DB2 data Web services and text search to address integration challenges in a real customer scenario.
IBM Lotus software fully supports Web services standards and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and enables Web Collaboration and Knowledge Management for Web Services. It also provides developers with the ability to integrate Lotus messaging and collaboration functionality into Web services applications.
Lotus recently announced a strategy to modularize products so they can be integrated with business applications using Web services and to embrace J2EE as the foundation for the componentization. Providing developers with flexible options for developing collaboration and knowledge-based applications suitable for all environments, this combination, in addition to Lotus Notes/Domino, supports J2EE and Web services standards.
