IBM Offers New Technologies for Developers, Service Providers

📅 January 9, 2002 - IBM has announced tools that allow developers and service providers to easily create, host and monitor Web services. The Web Services Hosting Technology, the Web Services Gateway, and the Web Services Toolkit 3.0 are available for free, trial download on alphaWorks, (alphaworks.ibm.com), the destination for IBM emerging technology.

IBM's Web Services Hosting Technology is a set of management tools thatsupport revenue-generating Web services. Web Services Hosting Technology isdesigned specifically for software developers and service providers,allowing them to bring Web services to a hosted environment regardless ofthe actual Web services implementation. It also supports the provisioningand metering of Web services without requiring code changes, decreasing timeto market and development expenses for an ISV or service provider. Inaddition, Web Services Hosting Technology allows service providers todevelop an integrated billing model.
As a method to provision and meter Web services, Web Services HostingTechnology enables service providers to:
Create models which associate a set of Web services with billingratesPresent available offers to registered users for subscriptionProvide a subscriber workspace for self-administration and Webservice accessAutomatically verify user authorization and generate billing duringWeb service invocationInvoice subscribers based on usage charges calculated by the ratingservice
For example, Web Services Hosting Technology can enable a business to host anew online Web service, and make it available via a public or private UDDIregistry site. Businesses can then set up accounts using Web ServicesHosting Technology to track usage of the Web service and bill accordingly.
"Web Services Hosting Technology is the first IBM alphaWorks releasedemonstrating an end-to-end Web services hosting scenario," said Bob Sutor,director of e-business standards strategy, IBM. "It provides increasedopportunity for developers and service providers to provision and meter Webservices without changing code or the actual service implementation."
In addition to Web Services Hosting Technology, the Web Services Gateway isnow available. The Web Services Gateway is a new technology that provides amore secure environment for Web services across firewalls. It acts as abridge between service providers and service requesters and is a singlepoint of control and access for a set of Web services. The Web ServicesGateway also allows the interception of service invocations between Internetand Intranet environments, enabling developers to create intermediarieswhich act on the message abstraction rather than requiring the creation ofnew interceptors for each access channel.
Also available, the Web Services Toolkit (WSTK) 3.0 is the latest offeringof Web services technology which provides developers with a runtimeenvironment, examples to design and execute Web services, and introductorymaterial to get started with Web services development. The first version ofthe IBM WSTK was posted on alphaWorks in July 2000.
The WSTK 3.0 consolidates Web services-related technologies from various IBMdevelopment and research labs. The functions of the WSTK are based onspecifications such as SOAP, WSDL, WS-Inspection and UDDI and run on bothLinux and Windows operating systems. New features and functions in the WSTK3.0 include:
Common utility services, which provide common infrastructurefunctionality to business services, allowing developers of business servicesto focus on their business domains rather than on support issues.SoapConnect for LotusScript, which enables LotusScript applicationsin Lotus Domino and Notes to consume Web services. It is a partialimplementation of the SOAP v1.1 standard for the LotusScript language.SoapConnect provides new LotusScript classes for constructing SOAP messages,invoking SOAP services, and using the returned data.WSDLdoc utility that parses a WSDL document and produces HTMLdocumentation that describes the Web service operations in an easy-to-readformat.Apache AXIS (SOAP 3.0) support. Apache AXIS is the third generationof Apache SOAP, and all of the IBM Web services demos have been upgraded tothis version. In addition, several new Web services features in AXIS aredemonstrated in the WSTK 3.0, such as an attachment for RPC and messaging.UDDI4J v2 preview, a client-side Java API that communicates with therecently announced UDDI v2 registries from IBM, Microsoft, HP and SAP.UDDI4J v2 conforms to the UDDI v2 specification.

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