IBM pushes Web services, e-business in WebSphere upgrade. Version 5.0 to ship Tuesday [InfoWorld: Web Services]
Web services features include the Axis 3.0 open-source SOAP parser for improving Web services requests by a factor of four to five, and support of Web Services Invocation Framework, an IBM technology that enables Web services to be deployed over networking protocols such as CORBA IIOP, MQSeries, and JMS. Web services over AOL Instant Messaging also is supported.
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In addition, using Parallel Sysplex technology, multiple mainframes can be linked together as one system. Mainframes also offer a workload management mechanism for managing service-level agreements.
IBM is really good at leveraging the Open Source: they involve some of their top engineers, like Sam Ruby in the Apache community, then they really leverage that by integrating the latest and greatest of the Open Source, like Axis; then they add some value added proprietary software that is necessary to industrial strength sites, like WSIF. And some proprietary soft that runs only on their proprietary hardware, so that if you really want some advanced features you have to buy their hardware.
Clever.
The good scalable WS stack will be useful for the Grid computing area: Websphere will be their vehicle of choice to implement the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
Other functions of WebSphere 5.0 include HTTP clustering for sharing workloads between multiple application servers, and servlet-level clustering for managing the link between the Web and application servers.
I need to look at what their docs to see what this means exactly. I thought they already had that in Websphere 4.01. BEA had these features since Weblogic 6.1 !
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