WebSphere Integration Developer (WID) is an integrated development environment

Integrated development environment

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development...

 for building applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA

Service-oriented architecture

In software engineering, a Service-Oriented Architecture is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of interoperable services. These services are well-defined business functionalities that are built as software components that can be reused for...

). It is the authoring tool for WebSphere Process Server

WebSphere Process Server

WebSphere Process Server is the runtime engine for artifacts produced in a business-driven development process. Technically, WebSphere Process Server is mounted on top of WebSphere Application Server and extends the WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus...

 and WebSphere ESB V6.0.

WID is built on top of IBM Rational Application Developer

Rational Application Developer

IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software is a commercial Eclipse-based integrated development environment , made by IBM's Rational Software division, for visually designing, constructing, testing, and deploying Web services, portals, and Java Enterprise Edition ...

 V7.0 Eclipse

Eclipse (software)

Eclipse is a multi-language software development environment comprising an integrated development environment and an extensible plug-in system...

 based technology.

Components

WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Integration Developer components are:

• Service components
  • Business State Machines
  • Business Process
    Business process
    A business process or business method is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks that produce a specific service or product for a particular customer or customers...
    
    es
  • Human Tasks
  • Business Rules
• Supporting Services
  • Interface Maps
  • Business Object Maps
  • Relationships
  • Selectors
  • Mediation Flows
  • Adapter
    Adapter pattern
    In computer programming, the adapter pattern is a design pattern that translates one interface for a class into a compatible interface...
    
    s
• SOA Core
  • Service component architecture
    Service Component Architecture
    Service Component Architecture is a software technology created by major software vendors including IBM and Oracle. SCA provides a model for composing applications that follow Service-Oriented Architecture principles...
    
    
  • Business Objects
  • Common Event Infrastructure

Compatibility

WID can interact with:

• IBM servers
  • WebSphere ESB Server v6.0
  • WebSphere Express Server v5.0, 5.1
  • WebSphere Process Server v6.0
  • WebSphere Server v5.0, 5.1, 6.0
• Apache Tomcat
  Apache Tomcat
  Apache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation...
  
  
  • Tomcat Server v3.2, 4.0, 5.0

External links

• Product page
• Introductory articles and tutorials
• Useful Links and Related Products
• [ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/library/medoc.ustuttgart_fi/STUD-2052/STUD-2052.pdf Pattern-based Evaluation of IBM WebSphere Integration Developer]