FileNet recently announced that it will support Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET 2003, specifically, the new Microsoft Web "Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0." This is an interesting development, inasmuch as the major ECM players have been working on integration with Java-based integrated development environments (IDEs), sometimes in conjunction with their own IDE-like software development kits. Although historically tight with Microsoft (FileNet's corporate webserver runs on Windows), FileNet became an early and aggressive supporter of J2EE, building its revamped "P8" platform on that standard. But the company has recently focused on a services-oriented approach, perhaps because some of its important legacy products (e.g. imaging) are based on COM architectures that don't fit neatly under P8's Java banner. One measure of the uptake of that approach will be the extent to which developers actually use Microsoft's .NET tools to integrate various point solutions within the FileNet stack...
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