webMethods Glue

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webMethods Glue is an enterprise web services platform from webMethods to provide web services/SOAP capabilities to existing Java and C/C++ applications.^[1]

The Java based product enables developers to add enterprise web services integration to their legacy applications with little or no programming effort.^[1] It is intended as an embeddable product (small footprint^[2]) to quickly turn a non web service enabled application into one which exposes functionality as web services.^[3] Similar to the open source Apache Axis, the Glue product is about providing a layer of web service operability with existing applications.^[4]

Contents 1 Product Features 2 Product History 3 Release History 4 Technologies/Standards 5 References

[edit] Product Features

The following are the features of webMethods Glue^[5][2]

• little or no coding to expose application functionality as webServices
• standalone operation if required (does not require an application server)
• fast local messaging
• transparent Java/XML integration
• web services standards support
• small memory footprint

[edit] Product History

Created by The Mind Electric, GLUE as it was then named was the company's flagship product.^[6] It was released in two flavours: the free unsupported "Standard" version and the company supported but commercial licensed "Professional" edition.^[7][4]

In September 2003 GLUE featured in a Microsoft Press book titled "Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit."^[8].

The product was acquired by webMethods as part of the merger with The Mind Electric^[6]. The merger resulted in a rebranding of the product with the webMethods prefix to become "webMethods Glue".^[9]

[edit] Release History

• GLUE 3.0 - Aug 2002 ^[4]
• GLUE 4.0 - April 2003 ^[10][11]
• GLUE 4.1 - June 2003 ^[7][12]

[edit] Technologies/Standards

HTTP, Servlets, XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI^[1]

[edit] References