Security is important. Anyone in the business of designing, developing,
hosting, or managing business applications understands this fundamental
statement. Web services present unique challenges such that the integrity and
security of the content of the exchanged documents is just as important as
the integrity of the communications link between the trading partners.
Addressing this broad definition of Web services security is the Forum XWall
Web Services Firewall from Forum Systems. Within a network topology, it
serves as the entry point to an enterprise's collection of Web services and
is available as a hardware or software component. As its name implies, the
product serves in a traditional firewall capacity such that it may be used to
protect resources from external req... (more)
ParaSoft's WebKing 2.0 Web testing software is a tool to assist developers in
testing and deploying dynamic Web sites. It applies traditional C/C++ and
Java testing techniques to the Web environment to identify a multitude of
potential errors in a site. WebKing also provides a publishing mechanism to
automate the testing and transfer of a site's components.
Installation
The installation p... (more)
With Web services becoming more prevalent in organizations, keeping tabs on
performance, analyzing problems, and managing overall quality of service is
as important as ever. One tool that provides a monitoring and analysis
solution specifically for Web services is SIFT 1.5 by Service Integrity.
SIFT is designed to seamlessly integrate with existing Web services to
provide extensive runtim... (more)
A number of solutions exist for creating Java-based Web services from a
variety of different providers. Options range from individual processing
engines that plug into existing application servers to large enterprise-class
platforms in which Web services is one of many components. Each option
provides its own set of challenges and benefits while addressing different
types of requirements... (more)
In a service-oriented architecture, the ultimate goal is to quickly and
easily build new applications as composites of existing services. Building
out the independent services in a manner that supports reuse is itself very
challenging. However, several tools are beginning to appear to easily bring
applications together once the critical mass of applications is achieved. One
such tool is ... (more)
Brian R. Barbash is the product review editor for Web Services Journal. He is a senior consultant and technical architect for Envision Consulting, a unit of IMS Health, providing management consulting and systems integration that focuses on contracting, pricing, and account management in the pharmaceutical industry.
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