"Web Services is the clarion call of the computer software industry at present. How should we understand the term? Because of the diversity of interpretation in the industry, the easiest way is to be general and assert that Web Services means XML in motion. If the network is the computer, Web Services comprise the software that runs on it."
Simon Phipps, Chief Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems
Business Benefits:
Decrease time to market by leveraging Web services technologies as a means to deploy or integrate business systems. The use of a repeatable Web services framework and a common set of services without significant effort frees developers to focus instead on value-added business logic.
Reduce total cost of ownership by delivering a scalable, secure, manageable, reliable infrastructure that is predominantly delivered by a single vendor -- Sun.
Provide the customer with significant flexibility to integrate other vendor components as necessary by virtue of the open-standards architecture.
The Sun Advantage
Sun provides the first fully integrated development and deployment platform for Java Web Services. The tightly integrated combination of Sun ONE Studio 4, Enterprise Edition for Java, Sun Java System Application Server 7 (formerly Sun ONE Application Server 7), Sun ONE Integration Server, and Sun ONE Application Framework 2.0 software enables rapid development and deployment of Web Services.
Development:
The Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition is the industry's leading standards-based platform for Java Web Services and application development. It comprises an integrated suite of development tools and deployment-ready servers spanning portal, Network Identity, application, and integration functionality.
Deployment:
The Sun Java System Application Server 7, along with the Sun ONE Integration Server, provides a high-performance platform for deploying Java Web Services. It includes the Sun Java System Message Queue (formerly Sun ONE Message Queue) provider that is up to 10x faster than IBM's MQSeries through the integration of a high-performance HTTP engine from the Sun Java System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Server).
White Papers
Security and the Sun ONE Web Server
A lack of proper security in the Web tier can cause extensive downtime for Internet sites. The Sun ONE Web Server addresses this with an outstanding record of stability -- due in large part to its highly robust security features.
Securing Web Services - Concepts, Standards, and Requirements
Many surveys have indicated that security is the main inhibitor for Web Services deployment. This paper, the first in a series, is an effort to help understand the concepts, standards and requirements for successfully architecting, implementing, and managing the Web Services security infrastructure.
Sun Java System Application Server: A Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) compatible platform for developing and delivering Java Web Services. It is based on the Java WSDP standards implementation.
Sun Java Studio (formerly Sun ONE Studio): An integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid creation of Web applications and services.
Sun ONE Integration Server: Provides Web services-based integration for EAI, B2B, and MOM through XML, SOAP, WSDL, and ebXML support.
Sun ONE Integration Server Secure Trading Agent: A lightweight, peer-to-peer, Web services-enabled solution -- based on all Java technology -- to securely and reliably exchange B2B documents over the Internet.
Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition: The most complete and integrated environment available for the development of Web service-based enterprise software applications. It completely redefines the concept of a Web services platform by integrating portal, Network Identity, application, integration, and developer tools functionality.
Sun Java System Web Server (formerly Sun ONE Web Server): One of the most secure and highly available Web servers on the market, enabling organizations to deliver content to end users at high trust and service levels.
Integrate enterprise business applications and trading partners with the Xtensible
Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
technologies found in both the Sun ONE Integration Server EAI and B2B Editions.
Solutions
WiSPA (Web integrated Services and Process Automation) is a complete e-business and e-government solution, made available by partnership between CSC, Sun, and ProActivity. WiSPA provides rapid development and deployment of end-to-end Web services and business applications architecture, based on open standards, including the sharing of people, processes, and applications using Sun ONE technology and other smart toolsets.
The WiSPA solution is offered to clients as a flexible service, which may include an early Proof of Concept that is tailored to the clients' needs and includes the following:
Sun Java System architecture, including the Sun ONE Integration Server EAI Edition
Sun hardware and software platform (if required)
Sun Services- to deliver the solution
Other WiSPA costings: toolsets, consultancy and support provided by CSC
Rapid discovery, documentation, validation, design, and optimization of business processes by ProActivity
Whether you're a business manager trying to get to market quicker, or an individual software developer learning new Sun technologies and need assistance, our professional technical support staff and tools can help.
