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Nexaweb Expands its Enterprise Web 2.0 and SOA Leadership with HP Governance Interoperability Framework Membership
Nexaweb Expands with HP's SOA Governance Leadership
Jan. 28, 2008 12:00 PM
Nexaweb announced its membership to the HP Governance
Interoperability Framework (GIF).
GIF provides a collaborative, standards-based approach for
publishing, associating, accessing and managing service-oriented architecture
(SOA) metadata and business service information across multiple vendors and
technologies.
Nexaweb’s membership to HP GIF bridges the gap between SOA
and application development, which helps to make it easier to build Web-based
business applications using governed services from a central repository. Using
Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web Suite, enterprise architects and developers can
quickly search and retrieve artifacts and services from the HP SOA Systinet and
use those services to build and deploy governed, rich Internet, composite and
enterprise mashup applications.
“Organizations realize they must capitalize on their SOA initiatives,”
said Bob Buffone, chief architect at Nexaweb. “The time has come to leverage
all of the services they’ve created to support their application development
efforts. The HP GIF program is important because it provides a governed way to
standardize and organize those services. We are further advancing this process
by making these services available as part of an integrated development process
that ensures business applications automatically conform to business and IT
governance rules.”
“As more and more enterprises roll out their
service-oriented architecture, it becomes increasingly important that the
complete application development stack can work within an SOA governance
framework,” said Avrami Tzur, vice president, SOA Software, HP. “Nexaweb’s HP
GIF membership and interoperability with HP SOA Systinet make it possible for
enterprises to discover and manage policies at both application design-time and
runtime. This is a very exciting development because it removes the
complexities of consuming governed SOA services and promotes the rapid
development of Web-based business applications.”
Complete
Application & SOA Governance with Nexaweb
Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web Suite is a complete application
development and deployment platform for Web-based business applications.
A core component of the suite is Nexaweb Studio, an Integrated Development
Environment that enables visual, drag and drop application development and
maintenance. Nexaweb Studio interoperates with the HP SOA Systinet through
an RSS interface.
Using a wizard, developers can retrieve services and place
them into Nexaweb Studio’s Service Explorer. Designed to maintain
information about the service and information manager, the Service Explorer
removes the need to import WSDL files directly into the workspace. This
creates a ‘loose’ coupling between the implementation and the service, making
it possible to maintain a centrally-managed repository for all services.
A scenario using Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web Suite to build a
governed rich Internet application might include the following steps:
- The application architect or product manager logs into HP
SOA Systinet and creates an application artifact with all the metadata needed
to describe the application.
- They then create a request for consumption on all services
that will be required by the application artifact. By creating the
contract between an application artifact and the service, solution providers
can make accurate impact analysis assessments.
- Once the request is approved, the application architect or
product manager asks the developer to create the application and hands over the
requirements.
- The developer uses Nexaweb Studio to create the application.
During the application creation process, Nexaweb Studio queries HP SOA Systinet
for the application’s metadata and required services. Nexaweb Studio will
import all services and use the metadata about the application to create it
properly.
- Using Nexaweb Studio the developer binds the inputs and
outputs of the service execution to the user interface.
- At runtime Nexaweb Platform makes a request to the HP SOA
Systinet to retrieve the endpoints of the services. This abstraction
makes it possible to centrally manage all endpoint information. This is
important because the endpoints of services may change as a service evolves.
- The IT administrator managing the application can use the
Nexaweb Services console to choose the right implementation. This allows the
application to be changed at runtime and removes the need to hardcode service
endpoints.
- The enterprise architect can validate an application’s
adherence to Enterprise
policies.
- As a result of Nexaweb’s GIF certification and the
companies’ joint product interoperability efforts, HP Systinet has joined
Nexaweb’s Web2SOA™ program.
Nexaweb Web2SOA Ecosystem Program
Many organizations are reaching an inflection point in their
SOA initiatives. They have developed an infrastructure and begun deploying
services, but are faced with the challenge of how to go the ‘Last Mile’ and
deliver these services to end-users. Nexaweb’s Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem
Program is designed to help customers capitalize on their
SOA initiatives, leverage existing infrastructure and quickly deliver rich,
reliable and governed Enterprise Web 2.0 (EW2.0) and Service-Oriented Business
Applications (SOBA) to end-users via the Web - enabling them to finally
realize the productivity and ROI promise of SOA across all facets of the
organization. Visit http://www.nexaweb.com
to learn more about our Enterprise Web 2.0 & SOA Ecosystem Program.
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