Follow-up to SOA Master Class

I've gone through their hands on lab of the X-Registry. First impressions, very extensive and very easy to use. It had a flawless install and no issues running through the on-line labs. It is worth checking out.

While I was on their site, this popped up -

CISCO Buys Reactivity for $135M
SOA Master Class - Wednesday, 21 February 2007

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Consolidation continues in the SOA market space.

webMethods Launches Free Trial Download of Industry-Leading SOA Governance Solution @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE

A very nice move by webMethods. I highly recommend going over to http://www.soamasterclass.com and checking this out. You are not going to get very many opportunities like this with SOA governance products.

UDDI Part 2

In my previous post I talked about working with MS's UDDI server. The Burton report that was released goes into a lot of detail about the big players in the Web Services management space like Systinet (Now owned by HP) and Infravio (Now owned by webMethods). The report really trashes MS's UDDI offering. I can certainly understand that, there is not much to it other than it's free with Windows Server 2003.

The bigger story however is the cost of the products mentioned above. They are expensive and thats all I going to say about that. So I'm curious now. How many folks are going out and buying these types of products versus building their own home grown solutions?

Windows Can Run Unmodified on SUSE in a Xen Environment @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE

Virtualization continues to heat up. Speaking of heating up, the last part of the article is on Servers & Global Warming. I wonder how long it will take Sun to latch on to this report.

UDDI set to emerge from the shadows of obscurity | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com

Finally some talk about UDDI. This has been a very quiet topic for a while. I wonder if folks have been so busy selling their org's on Web Services that they are now turning their attention to managing them. At any rate there are not a lot of stand alone UDDI providers out there. Most come as part of a larger Web Services management suite.

I have been working with the UDDI provider built-in to Windows Server 2003. It is pretty basic and of course Microsoft changed the nomenclature of the standard UDDI pieces. But in the end it does work and I have even managed to get the UDDI client built-in to the webMethods Integration Server to talk to it.

JAX-WS 2.1 RI is released!

Good stuff. Much better than the old days.