Web Services Toolkit

Overview

The Web Services Toolkit (WSTK) has been graduated.

WSTK has evolved into the ETTK for Web Services and Autonomic Computing (ETTK-WS).

The Emerging technologies team is expanding the scope of the toolkit to include autonomic and grid-related technologies and has therefore rebranded this technology to "ETTK for Web Services and Autonomic Computing" (ETTK-WS) in order to more accurately reflect its role in the new ETTK collection of technologies and prototypes. The ETTK-WS will continue to offer leading-edge prototyping of emerging Web services technologies for recently released specifications. The ETTK-WS can be downloaded here at alphaWorks. The ETTK-WS integrates emerging technologies from IBM Research Labs and IBM Software Groups into a consolidated package to showcase leading-edge technologies that may or may not make it into IBM products.

Enterprise-ready Web service technologies are now available in several IBM products. If you are interested in developing with a product-level development environment for Web services, IBM's WebSphere Studio Application Developer, along with WebSphere Application Server, is recommended. It allows creation, building, testing, publishing, and discovering of Web service-based applications that support UDDI, SOAP, WSDL, and XML.

In addition, the WebSphere SDK for Web services (WSDK), which has now graduated, provided a complete and integrated Web service infrastructure, including an application server and the IBM Java SDK for early access to IBM Web service products. Functionality of the WSDK was incorporated into the IBM WebSphere Studio family of products.

IBM has also developed the IBM Build to Manage Toolkits, which enable developers, ISVs, and solution providers to rapidly apply management standards from within existing development platforms. In particular, the IBM Build to Manage Toolkit for Web Services assists with implementation of Web services for system management using the Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard.