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Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2004
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At its core, WSBANG (pronounced "whiz-bang") - the Web services
broker and network gateway, is a Web services proxy.

It plugs right into your network and provides caching, monitoring,
metering, micropayment tracking, reporting, and security and encryption.

Administrators set policy centrally and enforce it consistently across the
enterprise.

WSBANG intercepts and enables you to transform and enrich SOAP
messages. The fully-extensible, value-added pathway lets you create custom
"actors" (software routines) to achieve exactly the result you require.

You can even syndicate applications and control presentation via XSL
stylesheets.

Systems managers will be glad to know that WSBANG is SNMP-compliant, so it
works seamlessly with all the infrastructure and familiar monitoring
tools.

WSBANG can be configured either as a set of Java classes that run
over popular commercially-available application servers or as a 1U
rack-mountable network appliance for greater security, all of which makes
WSBANG retain its usefulness as your Web services needs grow.

The WSBANG feature set breaks down, broadly speaking, into two types:

• Basic features that allow for management and administration of Web services;
  


• Value added features that allow for higher-level services to be created and deployed for strategic advantage.
  

WSBANG monitors the behavior of all the Web services for purposes
of reliability and SLA (Service Level Agreement) compliance. It monitors
the following types of behavior: uptime, performance and response times,
and WSDL specification and endpoint location changes.

It meters consumption of Web services for the purposes of departmental
charge-backs, invoice reconciliation and subscription compliance. WSBANG
can be integrated with electronic payment systems.

WSBANG has the ability to cache recurring requests for the same
information, thus improving response time.

Its open architecture which allows you to easily “plug in”
non-WSBANG value-added services such as IBM MQ Series, custom
developed java classes, etc.

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