Jean-Christophe Martin's blog - soa tag

IBM acquires Webify

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:32:00 GMT

Today, IBM announced that they are acquiring Webify:

ARMONK, NY - 02 Aug 2006: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it acquired Webify Solutions, an Austin, Texas-based, privately held provider of industry-specific software and services for building service oriented architectures (SOA).

Webify provides what they call Industry Fabrics :

The Webify Industry Fabric is an integrated environment for policy driven sourcing, assembly, delivery and governance of business services and composite business services. It consists of six complementary modules that allows companies to source, provision, deliver, and govern industry-specific business services, processes, content, and events from a variety of internal and external sources.

They have fabrics for the following industries:

Healthcare
Banking
Telecom
Insurance

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HelloWorld service engine from Petals deployed on openESB

Thu, 25 May 2006 22:07:36 GMT

The next step after playing with the openESB platform in a previous blog entry, more as a user, and look at what it takes to develop a service engine. I found on the web a tutorial on writing a service engine for ObjectWeb's Petals. They give a pre-packaged Hello World service engine. I tried to install it on top of the openESB starter kit. It's quite simple :

in the Runtime panel, expand the Sun Java System Application Server node, then the JBI node.
right click on the Service Engines node, select Install "New Service Engine"
point to the .zip file, and you are done.

Here is the result :

Next step is to understand how to activate the Service Engine, and extend it.

Invoking JAX-WS 2.0 web Service from BPEL process using Netbeans 5.5 Enterprise pack

Wed, 24 May 2006 16:53:01 GMT

This entry tries to explain how to put together a simple BPEL process invoking a web service created using the JAX-WS 2.0. This uses the Java EE 5 Tools Bundle Beta It's quite simple in fact ...