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򐂰 WebSphere Partner Gateway Enterprise

This edition has the same features of WebSphere Partner Gateway

Advanced. Its main differentiator is that a user of WebSphere Partner

Gateway Enterprise is licensed to implement more connections than

WebSphere Partner Gateway Advanced.

WebSphere Partner Gateway offers the following features:

򐂰 Applies security management using SSL, public-key cryptography, certificate

validation, authentication, AS1, AS2.

򐂰 Document Manager component of WebSphere Partner Gateway provides the

mediation capabilities like message routing, transformation and validation. It

can also handle digital signature verification.

򐂰 Business-to-business capabilities allow us to specify the type of documents

and also specific document attributes that each partner is allowed to send and

receive.

򐂰 Non-repudiation repository

򐂰 Partner profile management

򐂰 Customization of document-handling and workflow through

user exits. User

exits can be used to extend or modify an existing document-handling function

or to create entirely new ones for transport & business protocol options not

offered by WebSphere Partner Gateway.

More information about IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway V6 can be found at:

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wspartnergateway/

5.2 Development product descriptions

This section describes products discussed and used in development scenarios

throughout this book.

5.2.1 IBM Rational Application Developer V6

Rational Application Developer is an integrated development environment with

full support for the J2EE programming model including EJB development, Web

services, Web applications and Java. In previous releases, this product was

known as WebSphere Studio Application Developer. This tool includes integrated

portal development, UML editing, code analysis, automated test and deployment

tools, built-in version control, and team tools. Everything needed to allow a

developer to be productive, and make sure written code is well designed,

scalable, and ready for production is included in Rational Application Developer.

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Additionally everything is provided for version control and protection when

developers work in large teams or on complex projects. Rational Application

Developer is optimized for IBM WebSphere software.

Rational Application Developer V6.0 is part of the Rational Software

Development Platform used to develop applications to be deployed to IBM

WebSphere Application Server V6.0, V5.0.x, and IBM WebSphere Portal

V5.0.2.2 and V5.1. The Rational Software Development Platform provides an

integrated development environment (IDE) and tooling used to design, develop,

test, debug, and deploy applications in support of the application development

life cycle.

The IBM Rational Software Development Platform is built upon the IBM Eclipse

SDK 3.0, which is an IBM supported version of the Eclipse V3.0 Workbench

containing many new features, and a new look and feel. When used with the

Rational Software Development Platform, developers can access a broad range

of requirements directly from Rational Application Developer for WebSphere

software:

򐂰 Rational Web Developer tools for accelerated use of portal, SOA and J2EE

򐂰 Shorten the Java learning curve with use of drag-and-drop components and

point-and-click database connectivity

򐂰 Automated tools for applying coding standard reviews, component, and Web

service unit testing and multi-tier runtime analysis to help improve code

quality

򐂰 Business applications integrated with Web services and SOA

More information can be found at the IBM Rational Application Developer Web

site:

http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/application

5.2.2 IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer

Integration Edition V5.1

IBM WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition builds on the

complete set of functionality offered by WebSphere Studio Application Developer

to deliver a development environment designed to deliver on-demand e-business

applications by simplifying build-to-integrate tasks, accelerating large-scale

application development, and enabling real-time application flexibility for

applications that deploy to WebSphere Business Integration Server Foundation

V51. WebSphere Studio Application Developer Integration Edition V5 is used to

develop processes for Business Process Choreographer.

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The visual process editor provides intuitive drag-and-drop tools to easily

compose and choreograph application interactions and dynamic workflows

among J2EE components, Web services, existing applications, and human

activities. Developers can quickly and easily build, debug, and deploy complex

applications using powerful workflow tools and advanced messaging capabilities

to streamline and automate business processes. New services can be added, or

existing services modified, without affecting the other components in the

business process.

More information can be found at the IBM Web site:

http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/studiointegration/about/