webMethods Glue is an enterprise web service

Web service

A Web service is a method of communication between two electronic devices over the web.The W3C defines a "Web service" as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network". It has an interface described in a machine-processable format...

s platform from webMethods

WebMethods

webMethods is an enterprise software company, acquired by Software AG, focused on application integration, business process integration and B2B partner integration. Founded in 1996, the company pioneered the use of web services to connect software applications together within a single organization...

 to provide web services/SOAP

SOAP

SOAP, originally defined as Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services in computer networks...

 capabilities to existing Java

Java (programming language)

Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...

 and C

C (programming language)

C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....

/C++

C++

C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...

 applications.

The Java based product enables developers to add enterprise web services integration to their legacy applications with little or no programming effort. It is intended as an embeddable product (small footprint) to quickly turn a non web service enabled application into one which exposes functionality as web services.
Similar to the open source Apache Axis

Apache Axis

Apache Axis is an open source, XML based Web service framework. It consists of a Java and a C++ implementation of the SOAP server, and various utilities and APIs for generating and deploying Web service applications. Using Apache Axis, developers can create interoperable, distributed computing...

, the Glue product is about providing a layer of web service operability with existing applications.

Product features

The following are the features of webMethods Glue

• little or no coding to expose application functionality as webServices
• standalone operation if required (does not require an application server)
• fast local messaging
• transparent Java/XML integration
• web services standards support
• small memory footprint

Product history

Created by The Mind Electric, GLUE as it was then named was the company's flagship product. It was released in two flavours: the free unsupported "Standard" version and the company supported but commercial licensed "Professional" edition.

In September 2003 GLUE featured in a Microsoft Press book titled "Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit.".

The product was acquired by webMethods

WebMethods

webMethods is an enterprise software company, acquired by Software AG, focused on application integration, business process integration and B2B partner integration. Founded in 1996, the company pioneered the use of web services to connect software applications together within a single organization...

 as part of the merger with The Mind Electric. The merger resulted in a rebranding of the product with the webMethods prefix to become "webMethods Glue".