The IBM Web Services Gateway is a middleware component that provides a framework between the internet and intranet environments during Web service invocations. With the Web Services Gateway developers and IT Managers can safely "externalize" a Web service so that it can be invoked by clients from outside the firewall. Without this technology, users have to go through several programming and deployment issues to make selected services available to clients outside the firewall. This technology will help business integration scenarios where processes that are exposed as Web services can be externalized to partners and customers.
