SOA – Any experience in WebSphere Integration Developer (WID)?

My company (a large organization) is developing a “roadmap” to develop their rather old, tangled system alliance into an SOA model. Some people are working hard to use Websphere Integration Developer and Websphere Process Server are the de facto platforms for developing future applications…Because they think IBM is a stable supplier, these tools are made for enterprises, they drink “business agility” BPEL kool-aid etc.

Does anyone have positive or negative thoughts about this platform? Do GUI tools help to eliminate monotonic/redundant coding…or just ambiguous and make things difficult to maintain? Basically, do these benefits justify complexity?

My experience with the IBM Java toolset is very painful. The number of days to install many different versions of different components They are not compatible with each other. I found that the error in component A was told to update to see if it was fixed, updating component A interrupted components B and C, told to update these, etc.

I found that the IBM extension of Eclipse is more Stable, faster, and provide more features (because its stable version is several versions ahead of WID/RAD).

I suggest not to develop tools in the IBM way. As for the process server, my experience Less, but the people in my team who use it seem to like it, just like I like WID. Not a lot.

My company (a large organization) is developing A “roadmap” to develop their rather old, tangled system alliance into an SOA model. Some people are working hard to use Websphere Integration Developer and Websphere Process Server as the de facto platform for developing future applications…because they think IBM is one Stable suppliers, these tools are made for enterprises, they drink “business agility” BPEL kool-aid etc.

Does anyone have positive or negative thoughts about this platform? Do GUI tools help to eliminate monotonic/redundant coding…or just ambiguous and make things difficult to maintain? Basically, do these benefits justify complexity?

My experience of using the IBM Java toolset is very painful. The days to install many different versions of different components are not compatible with each other, and I found that the error in component A was notified Update to see if it is fixed, update component A interrupts components B and C, tell to update these, etc.

I found that Eclipse’s IBM extension is more stable, faster, and provides more features (because Its stable version is several versions earlier than WID/RAD).

I suggest not to develop tools in the IBM way. As for the process server, I have less experience, but the people in my team who use it seem Like it, just like I like WID. Not a lot.

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