Integration Server builds and deploys composite applications.
Press Release Summary:
WebSphere® Business Integration Server Foundation v5.1 builds on WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment v5.1 to provide standards-based integration platform for building and deploying Business Process Execution Language for BPEL and Web Service-based composite applications. It is intended for use by developers as unit test environment for testing enterprise applications. WBISF v5.1 can be used in conjunction with WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition v5.1.
Original Press Release:
IBM WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation, V5.1 - For Building and Deploying Service-Oriented Applications
Overview
Most companies today face a growing problem. The past 40 years
of IT evolution have left them with an enterprise-computing
infrastructure that is heterogeneous, widely distributed, and complex. Business logic and application data are typically scattered throughout the organization across multiple
software assets. Furthermore, companies can face constant
pressure to create new applications that integrate business logic and application data within the organization and with suppliers, partners, and customers in order to cut costs, build customer loyalties, and gain a competitive advantage. However, this integration remains complex, expensive, and risky.
What can you do to address these challenges?
WebSphere® Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) V5.1
builds on the best-in-class IBM WebSphere Application Server
Network Deployment (ND) V5.1 to provide a powerful standards-based integration platform for building and deploying Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) and Web
Service-based composite applications.
WBISF for Developers V5.1 is identical to WBISF V5.1 except it is
intended for use by developers as a "unit test" environment for testing enterprise applications. With WBISF for Developers, programmers can test and verify the quality of their code to help ensure that it meets certain criteria.
You can also use WBISF V5.1 in conjunction with WebSphere Studio
Application Developer (AD) Integration Edition V5.1 to build and
deploy composite applications that make it easy to reuse your existing infrastructure and that are designed to adapt to change.
New in WBISF V5.1 and WBISF for Developers V5.1
· Native deployment support for BPEL processes
· Improved tool support for WBISF capabilities such as business
rules
· Additional platform support for IBM z/OS® and IBM OS/400®
· New Eclipse-based application Assembly Toolkit
· Full support for all the features included in WebSphere
Application Server V5.1 including support for JDK 1.4.1, support for the June 2003 Board Approved Draft of the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0, Advanced Performance Advisors, and Request Metrics
Key prerequisites
For details on hardware and software requirements, visit the following Web site www.ibm.com/software/integration/wbisf/requirements/
Planned availability dates
· April 6, 2004, electronic deliverables
· April 26, 2004, physical deliverables
At a glance
WebSphere® Business Integration Server Foundation (WBISF) V5.1
and IBM WBISF for Developers V5.1 help you to:
· Improve IT responsiveness by leveraging a service-oriented
architecture to build modular applications that are designed
to adapt quickly to change.
· Extend and integrate your existing infrastructure by
creating reusable services out of a variety of back-end
systems using a broad portfolio of adapters and Web services
interfaces.
· Maximize developer productivity by quickly constructing new process-based applications using drag-and-drop development
tools to visually coordinate the interactions between your
software assets.
· Anticipate change by taking advantage of business rules to
embed adaptable business logic into your applications and
business processes.
· Protect your infrastructure investments by building on the
industry tested, industry supported WebSphere platform
to minimize development and administration costs and
maximize choice of solutions today and tomorrow.
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