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IBM Makes Its SOA Test Bed


Big Blue is offering free guidance for SOA deployments

By David Worthington
November 1, 2007 — 
IBM is called “Big” Blue for a reason. With a breadth of customer experiences to draw on, the company is sharing some of its knowledge with developers who are planning to adopt a service-oriented architecture.

On Oct. 3, IBM opened up its “SOA Sandbox” test bed at its developerWorks Web site. SOA Sandbox targets architects and developers with free architectural guidance, best practices on leveraging legacy and packaged applications in SOA, a decisions guide for creating reusable services, a quick start guide with instructions on how to install IBM’s core SOA software, sample code and technical white papers.

Sandy Carter, IBM’s vice president of SOA and Web strategy, said that the company performed “deep dives” into adoption styles, with five separate moderated focus group studies. There is a big focus on the adapter area message broker, she said, because customers have heterogeneous software that otherwise doesn’t play well together.

The SOA Sandbox also hosts trial versions of IBM products, which are available as either services or downloadable trial software. The catalog includes Rational Software Architect, Rational Tester for SOA Quality, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere ESB WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Process Server, and adapters for Oracle and SAP applications.

Since this is the Web 2.0 era, IBM has packed new Web application interfaces into WebSphere. WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0 is compatible with both REST- (Representational State Transfer) and SOAP-based application design approaches.

Simultaneously, the company introduced IBM Optim, a new data governance product offering with roots in technology IBM acquired by purchasing Princeton Softech. Optim captures data at the business record level to insure the integrity of business information in a SOA environment, and has facilities to de-identify confidential client and employee information.

IBM also announced that it is updating Rational Asset Manager, the Rational Performance Tester Extension for SOA Quality, Rational Tester for SOA Quality, and WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, to better support its governance environment.


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