This technology has graduated.

RAMP Toolkit has been included in the WebSphere Web Services Feature Pack.

Brian Price is a software developer at the IBM Research Triangle Park campus. As part of the Emerging Technologies Tookit development team, Mr. Price has been involved with the implementation of emerging Web service standards and specifications for several years.

Rick Allen is a software engineer working in IBM's Emerging Technologies Group. Since starting on the UDDI Business Registry in early 2002, he has worked on several projects related to fulfilling the promise of interoperable Web services. Currently, Mr. Allen is a member of the WS-I Sample Applications Working Group, in addition to his work providing early support for the Reliable Asynchronous Messaging Profile.

Alfredo da Silva is an advisory software engineer with IBM Emerging Software Standards in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He holds an M.S. from Unicamp, Brazil, and has been involved with Emerging Technologies and the Emerging Technologies Toolkit for several years.

Ginny Ghezzo is a senior software engineer at IBM with the Strategy and Technology group. She manages a group of extremely talented developers who are working on the current and next generations of software standards related to Service-Oriented Architecture, Web services, and other technologies effecting the IT industry.

Matthew Marum is an intern with IBM in Research Triangle Park. He worked on the IBM Rational ClearQuest client for Eclipse 3.0 and has spent the last few months working in Emerging Technologies. He will graduate in December 2005 with a B.S. in computer science from North Carolina State University.

For platform(s):

• Linux
• Windows
• Other

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For topics:

• asynchronous
• Messaging

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For standards:

• Reliable Asynchronous Message Profile (RAMP)
• Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM)
• Web Services Secure Conversation (WS-SC)

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For products:

• Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK)
• WebSphere Application Server (WAS)