webMethods Glue

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

Product features

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

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.[4][7]

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]

Release history

Technologies/standards

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

References

  1. ^ a b c webMethods web services Development
  2. ^ a b orielly 2001 article on GLUE
  3. ^ webMethods to offer OEM license of Glue
  4. ^ a b c Glue3.0 release article
  5. ^ Glue detailed feature list
  6. ^ a b cnet article "WebMethods buys a new direction"
  7. ^ a b Glue 4.1 released Article
  8. ^ Glue featured in Microsoft Press book
  9. ^ webMethods Press release on The Mind Electric takeover
  10. ^ The Server Side Glue4.0 announcement
  11. ^ Announcing Glue 4.0
  12. ^ The Serverside Glue 4.1 announcement