Web services are supposed to work together to make life easier. Yet they only work well together if they're designed properly. WebLayers in Cambridge, Mass., has introduced an enterprise software tool to aid in effective governance of XML, Web services and SOA to ensure interoperability.
WebLayers Center 2.0 is actually the first release of the product and helps to certify that users are developing their schemas or Web services the right way, notes Anne Thomas Manes, VP and research director, application platform strategies, at Boston-based Burton Group.
Unlike other governance tools on the market, WebLayers Center focuses on the design and development process, Thomas Manes continues. Other governance tools, she adds, are focused later down the line. "I've looked, and I cannot find anything else out in the industry that does this," she says.
WebLayers Center includes governance policies--auditing and conformance capabilities through a set of checkpoints that plug into the process of design, development, deployment and operation--and active enforcement, a management interface that provides the ability to visualize and direct enterprise SOA development and conformance efforts.
