The executive said the Redwood Shores, Calif., company recognizes that
IBM and Zend are also working to include high-level database integration
Distributed computing with Oracle software should get a
lot more efficient.
Oracle officials said the company has merged its Oracle BPEL Process Manager
with Oracle Web Services Manager engines to make it easier for customers to
deliver secure computer services to clients or partners.
Together, the products allow programmers to write secure Web services
leads to greater programming efficiencies, said Prakash Ramamurthy, vice
president of server technologies at Oracle.
How does this save time and money?
Ramamurthy said that without a single engine to choreograph business
processes and Web services, companies have to purchase a separate Web
services orchestration engine and Web services security management tool and
integrate them to get the same result.
customers are searching for an integrated portfolio from one vendor instead
of a bucket of parts from several providers.
The move comes as Oracle has been gradually putting the pieces together for
a comprehensive Web services and service oriented architecture (SOA)
BPEL Process Manager, which corrals business processes, comes from Oracle’s
purchase
of Collaxa last year, while the Web Services Manager was acquired
in the recent Oblix buy to help the company secure Web services delivery.
Web Services Manager has several utilities, including a graphical tool for
building new security and operations policies; a policy gateway to intercept
inbound requests and enforce policy; and policy agents to provide security by
plugging into an application or service.
In other distributed computing news, IBM and Zend launched Zend Core for
IBM, which is designed to help developers deploy IBM database applications
and services based on the popular PHP
Zend Core for IBM integrates IBM’s DB2 Universal Database and Cloudscape,
based on the Apache Software Foundation Derby project, with Zend’s open
source PHP environment. Native support for XML and Web Services makes the
product a cinch for SOAs.
frameworks and enhanced PHP Web services standards.
Oracle Choreographs Service Delivery
