How IBM Software Products Support Web 2.0
Taken from the Web 2.0 Developer Kit on developerWorks, the following provides an excellent description of how IBM Software products support Web 2.0. The website contains a wealth of excellent information, including podcasts from IBM's Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
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- IBM Lotus Connections. This easy-to-use social software provides new ways for your employees to connect, including Profiles,Communities, Blogs, Dogear, and Activities, all of which support access via RSS/ATOM allowing inclusion in users' mashups.
- IBM WebSphere Portal. Providing a portal framework, WebSphere Portal supports user contribution of content, enterprise mashups of pages using portlets and/or Google gadgets, and RSS and ATOM. IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory, IBM Lotus Domino Designer, and IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere software can generate Ajax portlets for improved responsiveness.
- IBM Lotus Quickr. This team collaboration software with many Web 2.0 features offers content libraries, team blogs and calendars, wikis, pre-built business templates, integration with popular desktop software and with scalable repositories, and access via RSS/ATOM allowing inclusion on users' mashups and conversely inclusion of external Atom/RSS feeds into places.
- IBM Lotus Expeditor. This universally managed client, which includes a server, client, and toolkit, extends composite applications (also known as business mashups) to laptops, desktops, PDAs, or Smartphones in occasionally connected environment. It helps increase responsiveness by deploying flexible mashups that aggregate both browser-based and non-browser applications that can be accessed online or offline.
- IBM Lotus Sametime. This enterprise instant messaging and Web conferencing software supports the creation of mashups, combining different applications or a mix of real-time and non-real-time data, instant polling, and free jam.
- IBM Lotus Forms. This open standards-based, electronic forms (eForms) software enables you to use interactive, online forms in a pure Web 2.0 environment. Lotus Forms makes it easier and faster for customers to extend business processes outside the firewall by offering the ability to create, fill, sign, and submit forms data via a Web browser without downloading additional software.
- Web 2.0 Starter Toolkit for IBM DB2. This conveniently packaged set of products and technologies that enable the quick creation of DB2 Web services and feeds using PHP technology.
- MQ (HTTP Bridge). This HTTP bridge provides simple access to message queues via REST.
- WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0.* This feature pack enhances J2EE applications with Web 2.0 and rich user experiences in Ajax.
- WebSphere sMash. Enables the creation of dynamic Web applications using scripting languages such as PHP and Groovy to solve situational business needs
- WebSphere Datapower. These easy-to-deploy network devices help developers focus on business problems without concern for security processing, data transformation, or proxying into their Web 2.0 application.
- IBM Rational Functional Tester. This testing solution enables functional testing of rich internet application and Flex applications.
- IBM Rational AppScan. This is the only Web security application scanner in the market to properly identify Ajax functionality and navigate those sections of the application that other scanners fail to automatically crawl.
- Rational Application Developer.* This application development tool provides capabilities that help extend existing J2EE applications with Ajax features and rich and dynamic user interfaces that ultimately deliver innovative capabilities to business users, partners, and customers.
- IBM Data Studio. This solution provides flexible data delivery supporting Web 2.0 messaging protocols (SOAP and REST) and common formats (Feeds, XSLT, JSON). IBM Data Studio speeds up data-driven application design, development, deployment, and management while improving data access efficiency, performance, and governance. Find out how to turn frequently used database operations as Web services to client applications. IBM Data Studio helps you service-enable database operations for reuse.
- IBM InfoSphere MashupHub. *MashupHub provides visual tools that can be used for creating, storing, transforming, and remixing feeds to be utilized in mashup and situational applications, and a central catalog for users to tag, rate, and share mashable assets.
- DB2. pureXML in DB2 9 offers you a way to store, access, and manage the XML data needed for this infrastructure that thrives on dXML. From Web services that are built on XML, to repositories that use XML as a medium, to the technologies that enable Web 2.0, pureXML technology offers technology that takes multiple source applications being cached in XML format and exposes them as a service to consuming applications.
