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 o... (more)