The combination of DB2 and WebSphere Application Server allows for easier Web deployment and faster application development. The database, such as DB2, plays an important role in a Web Services environment as the information repository. For example, IBM's UDDI directory is built upon the combination of DB2 and WebSphere Application Server. The combination of DB2 and WebSphere also delivers Web services using the SOAP standard. IBM is also announcing today tighter integration of DB2 with the industry leading messaging queuing software, MQSeries.
Developers can treat messages queues as if they tables in the database .
This opens up a new world of data sources for data warehousing and applications including e-commerce. IBM invests in joint engineering practices with WebSphere Application Server and MQSeries at the DB2 Solutions Center in Toronto. Rigorous testing of these combined technologies enables powerful interaction, customer support and performance capabilities that is unsurpassed by the competition. No other software vendor provides this powerful combination of infrastructure software critical to a companies e-infrastructure. Using MQSeries and WebSphere Application Server coupled with XML standards, DB2 provides customers the fastest path to integrating their business to the extended e-infrastructure.