Re: Web Services with IBM solutions

[Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. That helps put things into perspective. I have a better idea of how to go about doing further research on these technologies.

Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:57 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Services with IBM solutions

I haven't used any of these products, so I can only offer a brief bird's eye 
(high-level) overview.

If you have an interface in an ILE program that you're interested in exposing as 
a web service, you can use IWS wizzards to generate a WSDL and Java components 
to call your RPG program from Websphere.  You can offer the WSDL to enable web 
service clients to generate an interface that matches yours.

Message Broker is a highly engineered product that you might use to exchange 
messages between otherwise disparate systems, using various protocols.  I use 
the term "product", but in order to use and deploy it, you're probably going to 
need somebody from IBM Global Services to help you under a business systems 
integration project.

If Message Broker is a job for Global Services, then Enterprise Service Bus is 
even more so.  It's a collection of technologies under one brand name.  After 
you hire IBM to help you implement a business integration strategy they may be 
likely to recommend ESB in conjunction with Message Broker.

Large scale business process integration is serious business for IBM.

-Nathan





----- Original Message ----
From: Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 1:26:17 PM
Subject: [WEB400] Web Services with IBM solutions

Sorry, I intended to make this a new thread...

I was recently asked to look at options for messaging on the IBMi. The first IBM 
solutions that I happened to come across were WebSphere Message Broker, 
WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, and Integrated Web Services. 


I'm not limiting my search to IBM solutions, but I would like to know more about 
them.

What are some of the pros and cons of these three IBM solutions? Has anyone used 
these solutions? What were your experiences?

Thanks,
Kelly