The IBM SOA Business Catalog is a comprehensive online directory of validated, reusable SOA content from IBM SOA Business Partners. IBM assets can be found on developerWorks in the download section of the SOA and Web services zone. The IBM SOA Business Catalog promotes code type assets in three different scenarios that connect, extend, and exploit the IBM SOA Foundation Products. The types of content that you may discover include:
- Scenario 1: Connect - include adapters, web services, and portlets, etc that aggregate and consume services
- Scenario 2: Extend - enhance the IBM SOA Foundation products from solutions ranging from plug-ins to business process models to message flows
- Scenario 3: Exploit - leverage the IBM SOA Foundation products in their solutions, for example, composite business services built with the IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric
These reusable SOA assets help:
- Speed time to value
- Jumpstart SOA environments
- Enhance the flexibility of current SOA environments