What are BEAs plans for the Web services market?
I would think that BEA should be pretty close to synonymous with Web services. We’re one of the original founders, with Microsoft and IBM, of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I). We’re actively involved in the Java Community Process around standardizing Web services interfaces with respect to Java and J2EE platforms. So if I were a developer, how would WebLogic Workshop help me? If you want to build a Web service, consume a Web service, or expose any of your existing enterprise data using Web services, then WebLogic Workshop makes it easy for you to create and repackage Web services and get information into and out of a highly-scalable cluster of J2EE application servers. WebLogic Workshop allows people to integrate those application servers into a Web services infrastructure across vendor boundaries and legacy applications. Workshop’s role in that dance is to enable people to deal directly with the business logic of the Web services. Workshop handles the plumbing of
