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
3.136.17.139