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Article Excerpt
Tools to create Web services and to put Web services "wrappers" around existing software features are proliferating rapidly. But tools to help enterprises keep track of these new components remain relatively rare.
Earlier this year Greg Clark, chief operating officer of E2open, described such tools for managing Web services as the biggest missing aspect of Web services. At the time he saw relatively few solutions. E2open, a venture capital and industry-backed collaboration network for high-tech and electronics manufacturers, is building its infrastructure on XML Web services for easier integration with the many legacy systems its owners and clients use.
Since then, both startups and established software tool vendors that provide similar features for other software components are moving to after these "orchestration" capabilities for Web services. But the tools remain immature because the needs of corporate users are evolving as the core technologies of Web services evolve.
The FactPoint Group uses the term orchestration to describe the types of services required to track, utilize, and assemble Web services components into broader applications. Others use manageability, but we prefer orchestration because it implies not just managing the software bits (which would be "manageability") but the business processes that are encapsulated in Web services. Fundamentally, Web services is about business processes, not simply software.
In research published in June, The FactPoint Group found that early adopters of Web services are relatively satisfied with today's Web services tools and protocols for the fairly simple Web services applications that have been built to date.
But as these users look ahead,...
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