Steve Martin of Microsoft writes, "Over the past few months we’ve seen an incredible wave of new platform products and technologies including Windows Server 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. You may remember that in the past BizTalk Server has updated features to support the most recent platform releases. With BizTalk Server 2006 once the RTM versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 were released, we did final testing and sent a new version of BizTalk Server out the door.

Jason Apergis writes, "...Now we can publish SmartObjects and Processes and WCF endpoints which can be looked up in a UDDI catalog. This will enable other platforms like Java to really easily start hooking into K2."

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One of the key aspects of SOA Governance is artifact management, specifically managing the dependencies between the artifacts. This is accomplished through a new breed of tools called SOA Registries. In this article, Joel Amoussou describes what he considers important requirements for a SOA Registry. Indexing of XML-formatted artifacts such as WSDL, XML Schemas, Schematron rules, XSLT transforms, Spring and Hibernate configuration files, data mapping specifications, WS-Policy documents, etc. Ideally users should be able to use languages such as XSLT and XQuery to

Ciphersbak writes, "With the release of PeopleTools 8.48, many of us have come across the Service Configuration page under Integration Broker. Though (Quote) PeopleSoft does not recommend any UDDI server(s) to be used (Unquote), but one can make definitely make use of the wide variety of Open Source (jUDDI) and bundled (Aqualogic Service Registry 3.0) UDDI Registeries.