Mindreef

Most companies building Web services encounter inoperability issues when services are implemented and consumed using tools from different vendors. To mitigate that, organizations mandate that WSDL contracts conform to the WS-I Basic Profile. It is common practice to augment industry standard policies with additional requirements or best practices created by corporate and lead architects who focus on infrastructure. Their goal is to ensure that contracts interoperate with the specific toolkits and frameworks that a company has adopted.

Rigorous testing alone cannot impose quality where it doesn't exist. Even well-written services cannot guarantee broad interoperability unless standards and best practices are well designed and adhered to throughout an organization and throughout the development lifecycle.

Whether you're building a single web service, or laying the foundation for an entire SOA, a contract (WSDL) first approach is essential to designing reusable, interoperable web services. As you are designing your contract, Mindreef provides insight into these complexities as well as expert feedback into the design.

Mindreef Policy Rules Manager provides the ability to establish SOA design standards by easily combining industry policy sets (e.g. WS-I Basic Profile, WS-Security) with customized organizational best practices.

• Author and edit your own corporate policy governance rules (e.g. namespace conventions. message headers) using XPath and Javascript
• Setup, edit and publish individual profiles
• Create a highly customized design-time governance solution that can be easily shared throughout an entire organization with our compliance notification system.

Mindreef Policy Rules Manager an add-on to SOAPscope Server and SOAPscope Workstation 6.0, is easy-to-use and makes policy compliance a natural party of ever architect's, developer's, and tester's work; it can easily be integrated into your nightly build process. This compliance ensures adherence to established industry and organizational best practices, and enables SOA team members to build better services that meet interoperability goals.