Web Services Management
Connect with Senior Technology Editor Lori MacVittie as she begins testing for her upcoming comparative review of Web services management products.
March 19, 2004
What do we consider appropriate for this review?
We will consider products offering Web Services Management functionality. This requires that the product provide logging and audit trails, SLA (service level agreement) features, reporting functionality, request routing, and alerts and notifications.
We will be judging products based on the following criteria:
Performance (based on zero-failure tolerance levels)
Messages per second
Total throughput
Response time
Management/Configuration
Skill sets required
Delegation capabilities
Deployment requirements
Web Services Management Features
SLA
Alerts/Notifications
Logging/Audit trails
SOAP specific features (endpoint obfuscation, WSDL aggregation, attachments, transformation capabilities, etc.)
Security Features (WSSE support, schema validation, etc.)
Exception and fault management
Transport protocols (HTTP, FTP, etc.)
Standards Support
Interoperability with .Net and J2EE
SOAP 1.1
WSDL 1.0
UDDI / WSIL
Price
Price will be evaluated on the basis of features provided and judged comparatively
Product Requirements
To be considered for participation in this review, the products must support the following:
SOAP 1.1
WSDL 1.0
SLA
Logging and auditing trails
Request routing
Schema validation
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