Powerful tech companies collaborated with OASIS on their Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) standard. Those companies include IBM, DataPower, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi and Tibco and they demonstrated the interoperability of that standard at the Enterprise Management World conference in Bethesda, Maryland.
Interoperability remains a buzz word in the tech business as many companies want to be able streamline how their products work and how they work in relation to other products. OASIS continually works on universal standards for such areas and they’ve been working on WSDM.
Employing a weather station scenario, the WSDM OASIS InterOp demonstrates how management applications can go beyond centralized monitoring in an agent-based environment to achieve truly distributed, collaborative management in a world composed of both smart and simple resources. In the demonstration, the client depended on weather station services to send reports. By using WSDM, the manager was able to dynamically discover available weather stations, receive notification when a station was taken down for maintenance, and automatically redirect the client application to the next best weather station available, based entirely on a response time performance policy, without the client ever experiencing slowdowns or failures.
“This InterOp clearly illustrates WSDM’s ability to enable client applications to remain unaffected by changes in the status of services they invoke-all within a heterogeneous environment,” said Heather Kreger of IBM, co-chair of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee and participant in the InterOp. “WSDM can also be used to enrich business processes with management information and action, and to manage across organizational boundaries.”
WSDM was developed by members of the OASIS WSDM Technical Committee, which includes representatives of Actional, Amberpoint, BEA Systems, BMC Software, Computer Associates, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Novell, Oracle, SAP, SOA Software, TIBCO, and others. Participation remains open to all, and suppliers, end-users and system integrators are invited to join OASIS to advance the continued development and adoption of WSDM. OASIS hosts an open mail list for public comment and the wsdm-dev mailing list for exchanging information on implementing the standard.
“HP is excited about the progress that this represents in the features that a standardized management protocol provides. In particular, WSDM provides management features that are critical for the management of SOAs,” said Judi Cowell, director of software standards at Hewlett-Packard Company.
This development helps to further the goals of OASIS, which are to develop standards in many areas of e-business and helping to get those standards adopted.
John Stith is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.
