Steven Smith

From today's integrated J2EE applications through the emergence of service-oriented architectures (SOA), enterprise Web applications are becoming more complex, dynamic, and vital to business success. The payoff is huge, but so are the new risks that have materialized. IT teams have an increasing need for new management solutions that provide visibility, analysis, and control of all tiers - from the application runtime environment to data, and through to Web services and business processes. What's a Web Application? Web applications today can take many forms. They can be .NET- or Java based, a Web service, an SOA component, a composite application, or a business process constructed through the orchestration of independent business functions. They can be customer-facing or a behind-the-scenes application. Any number of these applications can exist in a given environme... (more)