Brian Barbash

SpiritSoft 100 Medway Road Suite 203 Milford, MA 01757 Test Environment: Pentium III, 256Mb RAM, Windows 2000 Price: $9,700 per developer Server run-time: $5,500 per CPU Client run-time: $5,000 per 50 users $3,000 per adaptor per server (Adaptors for IBM MQ series, RV5, RV6, ETX, MSMQ, etc.) FOR SALES INFORMATION: Tel: 1 508 473-3227 E-mail: sales@spirit-soft.com Editor's Note: SpiritWave 5.0, the newest version of this messaging system, was released after this review was written. SpiritWave 5.0 is the first open JMS framework to provide multi-plug adaptors to integrate any proprietary legacy message-oriented middleware (MOM) system. These multi-plug drivers enable easier development of distributed systems by neutralizing the dependency on vendor-specific interfaces and by managing these proprietary MOM systems so IT managers don't have to. SpiritWave 5.0 includes drivers for... (more)

eXtend Composer by SilverStream

SilverStream eXtend Composer is part of the SilverStream eXtend family that provides a visual development environment used to create service-oriented applications. Composer allows developers to create services that gather data from multiple disparate sources, apply appropriate business logic, and return the results. The finished components meet J2EE standards and will execute on compliant application servers. Composer explicitly supports SilverStream's eXtend Application Server, IBM's WebSphere, and BEA's WebLogic. Composer itself consists of three components: eXtend Composer, eXt... (more)

XMLSPY 5 Enterprise Edition

XMLSPY Enterprise Edition version 5 provides a powerful set of XML tools and utilities to develop and test XML-based applications and Web services. Several new features that expand on its XML tool base are available in this new version, including a WSDL editor, XSL stylesheet debugger, and Java code generator. And as before, XMLSPY continues to provide powerful utilities for developing schema, DTD, and XML documents. WSDL Editor The WSDL editor is a new utility available within the main XMLSPY IDE that provides a graphical editor for WSDL documents. This tool presents a WSDL str... (more)

Forum Systems XWall Web Services Firewall

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 service... (more)

CapeConnect Two for J2EEby Cape Clear

Two distinct initiatives have come to the forefront as means by which applications can be presented as Web-based services: Microsoft's .NET and the J2EE platform. Application servers and toolsets are beginning to tailor themselves to the Web services paradigm as the concept matures. One such product is Cape Clear's CapeConnect Two for J2EE. CapeConnect provides an environment in which Java and J2EE components may be presented as Web services accessible via SOAP calls, defined by WSDL, and cataloged by UDDI. Figure 1 illustrates CapeConnect's architecture. SOAP clients access the CapeConnect W... (more)