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WebLayers Center 5.0 focuses on IDE governance


By David Worthington
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July 31, 2009 —  WebLayers Center 5.0, a SOA governance, is geared toward reducing developer errors that result from policy violations, and toward managing multiple projects from a single system.

WebLayers delivered WebLayers Center 5.0 on July 28. The product integrates more deeply with supported IDEs, offering inline validation of artifacts within the environment, the ability to highlight code violations, and an "auto-correct" feature to apply suggested fixes, said John Favazza, vice president of engineering at WebLayers.

That integration is provided for Eclipse-based IDEs, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Oracle JDeveloper, regardless of whether developers are connected to the server or offline.

WebLayers' expanded management capabilities will reduce the frequency of defects that surface late in the software development life cycle, said Favazza.

WebLayers Center also now offers greater flexibility to enterprises to define corporate ground rules for SOA initiatives that happen at the departmental or project level. Each level of infrastructure has a module called a governor.

Governors integrate with software tools, application servers and containers for different platforms, including Java, .NET and legacy systems. Out-of-the-box policies have been added for Hewlett-Packard SOA Systinet, IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC), RTC for System i and z, Oracle JDeveloper, and Oracle Enterprise Repository.

"We've always been impressed with WebLayers' approach to SOA governance," said Jason Bloomberg, managing partner at ZapThink. "Their automated governors are an excellent approach to scaling SOA governance, and the centralized approach to policy creation combined with distributed policy enforcement puts WebLayers in a leadership position in the SOA governance marketplace."

In WebLayers Center 5.0, a centralized server manages governance policies within an entire organization. "Developers define policies in one spot and push them out to any governor, or to other WebLayers servers," Favazza explained.

"It is a centralized administrative server, but with distributed management and enforcement," he added.

For example, project teams may use different versions of those policies for their projects. A policy-versioning feature binds different versions of policies to different projects, Favazza explained. WebLayers has a library of policies for supported environments so that customers can "get governance up quickly," he said.

A feature called conformance center enables a software developer to see the results of policy tests on code, and to try out test case scenarios to gauge the impact of a policy change before it is deployed.

Also, WebLayers Center 5.0 has new libraries for IBM WebSphere MQ applications. "We are taking information and codifying it into the policy library so that people develop MQ applications in the appropriate way," Favazza said.




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