webMethods Fabric is the worlds first standards-based, distributed, application management environment that truly enables the creation, deployment and management of Web services and the realization of an Enterprise Service-Oriented Architecture (ESOA). webMethods Fabric reduces the time, risks and costs associated with building, deploying and automatically managing next-generation distributed applications using Web services.

An ESOA provides enterprise-class quality of service capabilities such as load-balancing, auto-discovery, distributed security and failover that are currently lacking in traditional Service-Oriented Architectures. An ESOA should allow for the construction of business applications and services that are distributed, componentized, standards-based, open, scalable and completely vendor neutral. As the first solution that can implement an ESOA, webMethods Fabric enables enterprises to quickly go from small, static, brittle, ad-hoc networks of unmanaged Web services to larger, dynamic, robust, coordinated networks of managed services.

Unlike other current solutions, webMethods Fabric bridges the worlds of J2EE, .NET, Web services and legacy systems enabling customers to run any service, anywhere, anytime. By implementing webMethods Fabric, customers can incorporate all Web services created using thewebMethods Integration Platform, proprietary integration products from other vendors, application servers, and the new generation of service-oriented application modules being developed by packaged application vendors.