Executive Summary

 
 
By Timothy Dyck  |  Posted 2002-06-24 Email Print this article Print
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


: WASP 4.0 Release Candidate 1"> Executive Summary: WASP 4.0 Release Candidate 1

Systinets updated Web Applications and Services Platform is the best Web services deployment platform weve seen to date. Its precise and easily administered security controls are a generation ahead of other offerings. However, its tools integrate only with Java IDEs, so its primarily attractive to Java developers.

COST ANALYSIS

The WASP Web services tool kit is compellingly priced. Development tools are free, and the server is also free when deployed on single-CPU systems. For multi-CPU systems, the package costs a very reasonable $2,000 per CPU.

(+) Market-leading security controls for both Web service access and administrative tasks; tight IDE integration with leading Java tools; Java and C++ versions; low cost; works on its own or with Java Web application servers.

(-) Doesnt integrate with Microsoft tools or .Net languages; no cross-server performance monitoring tools; lacks simple test framework; only HTTP-based access control methods supported by administration tools.

EVALUATION SHORT LIST
  • Web service capabilities found in major Java application servers
  • Microsofts ASP .Net
  • www.systinet.com



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    Timothy Dyck is a Senior Analyst with eWEEK Labs. He has been testing and reviewing application server, database and middleware products and technologies for eWEEK since 1996. Prior to joining eWEEK, he worked at the LAN and WAN network operations center for a large telecommunications firm, in operating systems and development tools technical marketing for a large software company and in the IT department at a government agency. He has an honors bachelors degree of mathematics in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and a masters of arts degree in journalism from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.
     
     
     
     
     
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