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webMethods is one of the popular tool to implement EAI and B2B technologies. It is founded in 1996 and then acquired by SoftwareAg in 2007. Earlier, it was having EAI tool called Active Works. It support many protocol like HTTP, HTTPS, AS1,AS2,AS3,SOAP etc. It also supports many e-standards Like XML RosettaNet, and EDI, etc. Its main competitors are TIBCO, Vitria, Seebeyond and IBM WebSphere MQ product series.
It gives very good graphical tool to create simple and complex integration logic. SoftwareAg has finally launched webMethods 8 which is having below key feature:
- Unified, Eclipse-based development across webMethods Suite: webMethods Designer
- Streamlined install
- Improved ease of design, deployment and operations
- Easily design, deploy and re-use Web services.
- Efficiently govern SOA-based initiatives.
- Eliminate point-to-point integration challenges.
Apart from above feature, webMethods 8 also includes a new service mediation solution - webMethods Mediator which ensures that the growth of SOA does not compromise its own ongoing utilization. With webMethods 8, organizations can be ready for growth when the business demands it.
webMethods provides different adapter to communicate different servers like SAP, Oracle, MQ etc and it is very easy to configure at user side.
webMethods is having different components that can be categorized as follow:
- Run-Time Components
- webMethods Integration Server
The platform's central run-time component and the primary engine for the execution of integration logic. It is the main entry point for the systems and applications that you want to integrate.
- webMethods Broker
High speed message router serves as the message backbone for the webMethods platform.
- webMethods Adapters
Servers as the Interface to the Back-end systems and expose the data and business logic associated with a particular back-end resource
- webMethods Mainframe
Serves as agent between Integration server and the Mainframe systems,
- webMethods Trading Networks & eStandard Modules
Business document gateway to build and manage a B2B document exchange with your partners
- webMethods Workflow
Enables implementation of Business approval processes involving manual interactions.
- Design-Time Components
- webMethods Modeler
Design and implement business processes models.
- webMethods Workflow Designer
Develop and deploy workflows
- webMethods Developer
Used to build, edit and test the Integration logic
- webMethods Trading Networks Console
Define partner profiles, document types and processing rules
- Administrative And Monitoring Components
- webMethods Administrator
Allows configuring and administration of all webMethods servers.
- webMethods Monitor
Retrieve information about processes, workflow, services and documents
- webMethods Manager (now called as "Optimizer")
Maintains information about resources (Integration Server, Workflow servers, Business processes
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