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WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation

 

Integration Platform:

WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation is an application server based integration platform for developers building and deploying composite applications. Provides Human Workflow Support alone with automated workflow and Business rules beans that allow easy creation of business processes. This is a tool to build Enterprise Services Boos (ESB)

Target Market:

Corporations that need to integrate their applications across and outside the enterprise.

WebSphere® Business Integration Server Express allows small and mid-size businesses cost-effectively integrate their applications.

Technologies:

• Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS)

• Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) Programming model extensions (PMEs)

• Eclipse-based development

• WBISF allows creating reusable services out of existing Web services, Java applications and legacy systems.

Components:

• Integration Broker

• MQWorkflow

• Interchange server

• WebSphere Business Integration tools.

For Developers:

• Needs to be used with WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5.1

• Supports unit tests

• Built on the WebSphere Studio development environment, WBISF provides a best-in-class integrated development environment for building, testing, integrating and deploying J2EE applications.

Current Version:

WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation V5.1

Hot News:

WebSphere Business Integration Server is a re-engineered server encompassing the functionality of both MQ Workflow and Interchange Server.

Known Issues:

Competitors:

BEA’s WebLogic integration