INTERSTAGE is an infrastructure for Web services and a J2EE-compliant application server that provides organizations with the core components needed to deploy applications on the Web. It provides an infrastructure that delivers performance and scalability to enable enterprises to build and run mission-critical applications. The flexible INTERSTAGE Application Server supports multiple programming languages, open standards including SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, RosettaNet,  ebXML and other Web Services standards, and multiple platforms for diverse IT environments.