Thomas Gläser

This time the webMethods business unit got acquired by IBM ... so the webMethods integration platform is now part of the IBM Software business unit.

… back to the roots … member of the webMethods Integration Server core team … being responsible for all aspects of product development from building and testing to the core language sub-system … working on support for the MQTT protocol and decentralized applications (DApps) … joining the Shared Components/Terracotta team … helping out the Microservices iPaaS team … distributing my time between the next generation cloud native architecture and a new tracing sub-system implementation …

Designing and implementing a global suite-wide build automation system based on Gradle and Ivy. As artifact repository we used JFog's Artifactory for managing the build results, fully described at the build, module, and artifact level while supporting sub-systems such as Eclipse feature sub-systems and containers such as the Equinox OSGi container.

webMethods, Inc. got acquired by Software AG ... so webMethods became a business unit of Software AG.

Lead the overall effort to design and implement Optimize for SAP. Co-architect and developer of all SAP integration components within webMethods' product line. Designed SAP integration components interfacing with SAP via the RFC, BAPI, IDoc, and SOAP layers. Most popular product from this product group: webMethods SAP Adapter aka SAP Business Connector. Developed core components for our service oriented architecture including XSLT processing, SOAP stack, and content handler.