Dave Wilby

The explosion of Web services has spawned significant new challenges for IT and the technologies they use. With the infrastructure requirements for WebLogic applications growing more complex, the addition of Web services suddenly expands the management focus to systems and applications residing outside of IT's control. Evolving technologies are addressing these requirements by monitoring the various application dependencies, integrations, and layers for WebLogic environments via component-level monitoring, correlation/analysis, and transaction mapping. This article highlights the challenges IT faces in maintaining Web services performance, the solutions available, and the industry/technology requirements needed for Web services management tools. Web Services: Current State of the Industry While Web services products are currently the focus of IT, the adoption of Web... (more)