webMethods Fabric is shipping to customers. webMethods Fabric is a standards-based, vendor-neutral Web services application management environment that truly enables the creation, deployment and management of Web services and the implementation of an Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (ESOA).
An ESOA provides enterprise-class quality of service capabilities such as load-balancing, auto-discovery, distributed security and failover that are currently lacking in traditional Service-Oriented Architectures. An ESOA should allow for the construction of business applications and services that are distributed, componentized, standards-based, open, scalable and completely vendor neutral. As the first solution that can implement an ESOA, webMethods Fabric enables enterprises to quickly go from small, static, brittle, ad-hoc networks of unmanaged Web services to larger, dynamic, robust, coordinated networks of managed services.
By being forced to focus only on J2EE, .NET or some other isolated platform, customers have been unable to bridge all the architectures and technologies across their enterprise. webMethods Fabric effectively bridges the worlds of J2EE, .NET and legacy systems, allowing enterprises to run any service, anywhere, anytime. By implementing webMethods Fabric, customers can incorporate all Web services created using the webMethods Integration Platform, proprietary integration products from other vendors, application servers, and the new generation of service-oriented application modules being developed by packaged applications vendors.
"Today webMethods ships the first critical step towards achieving a completely standards-based and enterprise-class service-oriented architecture," said Graham Glass, Chief Technology Officer, webMethods, Inc. "The power of webMethods Fabric is that it enables the implementation of an Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture, which can dramatically transform enterprise software development, deployment and maintenance, while reducing the time, risks and costs associated with building, deploying and automatically managing next-generation distributed applications using Web services."
webMethods Fabric creates an organic, distributed environment for cohesively managing multiple service endpoints, regardless of their origin. The distributed nature of webMethods Fabric means that the intelligence is in the Fabric itself, not at the nodes or on one central server -- eliminating the risk of a single point of failure. webMethods Fabric includes necessary features such as service registration, dynamic discovery, console-based management, failover, distributed security, XML message processing, monitoring, auditing, exception handling, clustering and reliable messaging -- and is a complete Web Services Application Management solution.