When To Use WebSphere DataPower?
• Ease of use is a pre-dominant consideration • Simple experience of drop-in installation and admin-based configuration with no or minimal development required • You are transforming between XML-and-XML or XML-and-any other format • Your interaction patterns are relatively simple • Your mediation requirements are met by the existing DP mediations and minimal extensibility is needed • You are using XML-based or WS-Security extensively • You require use of advanced Web services standards • You need to minimize message latency when adding an ESB layer • You are doing extensive XML processing combined with high performance requirements • Your ESB must be in production very quickly
