Choosing the Right Web Services Management Platform
When you deploy any application, you are expected to have a plan for management and maintenance of that codebase: That's part of the job. But developers have been so busy learning Web services that management issues have taken a back seat. Use these requirements as a checklist for investigating products that should underlie your company's vital Web services and facilitate their long-term management.
by Justin Murray
January 21, 2003
s companies begin to implement Web services, IT managers are being confronted with the long-term ramifications of their deployment. Namely, management and support of Web services will ensure that they are well integrated, scalable, and maintainable. It is rare to find an organization that has considered these issues adequately in their current Web service implementations.
If you take only a cursory look at current Web services architectures, you might assume that once a Web service is deployed it can remain a viable entity. Pull the covers back and support issues become evident, such as:
What happens if the service crashes?
What happens if service resources become consumed?
What happens if performance becomes unacceptable?
And there are more concerns where those came from. Because Web service environments are inherently more intricate, it's unlikely that developers will be able to create a management model that can suit every service. For example, some services can return results through computation done right at the location of the service. However, most Web services need to get their results from databases or other applications within the corporate firewall, and this adds to complexity, vulnerability, and the potential for elements to fail. IT administrators in this position may even want to bring in developers with expertise to diagnose and fix problems in a production environment, although this adds to the overall cost of the service.
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s companies begin to implement Web services, IT managers are being confronted with the long-term ramifications of their deployment. Namely, management and support of Web services will ensure that they are well integrated, scalable, and maintainable. It is rare to find an organization that has considered these issues adequately in their current Web service implementations.
