Architects, developers and IT operations managers working with Web services in production need visibility into the operation and performance of XML-based services. Managed Methods offers a wide variety of functionality and installation options at a cost effective price. JaxView’s functionality includes runtime governance, policy enforcement, management, agent-less visibility and availability. To ensure complete visibility into your web services environment or the desired functionality to fit your needs, JaxView offers both passive (real user / real time) and active monitoring (synthetic services and transactions). Now, Managed Methods is offering the first 5 active monitors for free to complement its cost effective licensing model and enable smaller environments to get simple availability. Active monitoring within JaxView will emulate how a web service will perform by running synthetic tests. Passive monitoring is the real time and real user monitoring. The active monitoring portion of JaxView will emulate how a web service performs and responds, when a synthetic request is sent to the web service and response is received, on a schedule. JaxView will create and send a synthetic request to the service and measure how long that transaction took. As well, JaxView also monitors the response to make sure it’s a valid response as well as monitoring the actual response. Active monitors create a synthetic SOAP request that queries the Web service and then monitors that response. If the response is below a specific threshold the monitoring engine will send off an alert. The active monitoring in JaxView also gives you a heartbeat of the web service. Therefore, if the web service is down it can alert someone or execute a script to re-launch the web service. “We see customers invoking their web services in an active fashion to keep the web service intialized, therefore allowing it to perform better when a "real client" is accessing it.” said Julie Cobb, Director of Sales at Managed Methods. “We are excited to offer a free version of JaxView active monitoring for up to 5 monitors to enhance our cost effective offering and allow customers with tight budgets to benefit from JaxView.” JaxView is a cost effective solution for runtime governance, policy enforcement, management, agentless visibility and availability for web services or SOA . JaxView is lightweight and easy to install. For a free 2 week evaluation go to www.managedmethods.com About Managed Methods Managed Methods provides Web services management and runtime SOA governance solutions focused on the needs of IT operations. We draw on over ten years of system management experience to build products that fit the dynamic pace and requirements of production IT environments. Based on open standards, our JaxView products are designed for ease of installation and integration into SOA environments. Every aspect of JaxView from integration, metric engine, alerting, data persistent, and aggregation is customizable. No matter what stage of SOA implementation you are at JaxView can help you monitor, manage, and secure your Web services. www.managedmethods.com