Re: Web Services with IBM solutions

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

What type of systems do you need to communicate with? What types of
messaging?

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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
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>
>
> -----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
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