IBM

IBM also offers a complete set of solutions for your SOA building blocks.

Services

IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) is the JEE application server that can run web services, both SOAP Web Services and RESTful Web Services.

Events

IBM has a number of products available to handle events: JMS in WebSphere Application Server, IBM WebSphere MQ, IBM WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere Operational Decision Management, and IBM Business Monitor.

JMS and IBM WebSphere MQ are similar to JMS as offered by Oracle on WebLogic Server and to Oracle Advanced Queuing (Oracle AQ). IBM WebSphere Message Broker is built on top of IBM WebSphere MQ, giving MQ ESB like capabilities, for example data transformation.

WebSphere Operational Decision Management and WebSphere Business Monitor warrant a little more discussion, you will learn about them next.

WebSphere Operational Decision Management

WebSphere Operational Decision Management consists of two components: WebSphere Decision Center and WebSphere Decision...