IBM unveils new WebSphere product line

IBM unveils new WebSphere product line: "IBM unveiled its latest set of service-oriented architecture offerings yesterday, filling out its WebSphere product line with a lightweight, Java-based enterprise service bus (ESB) and a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) engine. IBM also announced upgraded offerings for WebSphere Message Broker and its business modeling and monitoring tools.
New and upgraded offerings in the IBM SOA Foundation include:

-- The new, Java-based WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
-- The new WebSphere Integration Developer, an Eclipse-based tool for the development and integration of composite applications.
-- The new WebSphere Process Server, a BPEL engine that coordinates business processes with the new ESB, is built in to provide the messaging backbone.
-- The new WebSphere Everyplace Deployment, which monitors events in the application layer and sends alerts out to XML edge devices.
-- The upgraded WebSphere Message Broker.
-- The upgraded WebSphere Business Modeler, which allows business processes to be modeled prior to development.
-- The upgraded WebSphere Business Monitor, which provides a dashboard view of Web services performance."