SOA Software announced the availability of Repository Manager version 6.3. Repository Manager 6.3, in concert with Policy Manager, introduces significant advances to SOA Software’s closed loop service governance automation solution, ensuring that fine-grained development-time policy decisions are automatically applied to the enterprise’s operating environment and allowing users to enforce development policies at runtime.

Kurt Stam writes: I'm proud to announce that the latest jUDDI code has been released as version 3.0.3. As always a huge thanks to all who were involved. This release addresses a number of issues reported by our users, and it adds some new functionality on XRegistration and case folding of Keys. All keys are now case folded to support databases that do not handle case sensitive comparisons. Note that this may lead to issues if you are upgrading from a previous version of jUDDI which contains non-case folded keys. It is therefore recommended to reinstall the database if possible.

At this year's EclipseCon conference, Red Hat announced the release of version 5.0 of its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform (SOA-P v5). According to a post on the JBoss blog by Pierre Fricke, Red Hat's JBoss SOA product line Director, JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform v5 is

XMLforMedia seeks to create a unified set of communication protocols to be used by the advertising industry. There are several parts to this project including a collection of XML schemas that provide a context for all facets of the media life cycle, from avail to invoice. Another part is an industry Registry for all trading partners to list their communication capabilities. The AAAA has created a committee with representatives from each media group to help shape the direction and composition of these documents.

Web Services are a great advance in our quest for the Service Oriented Enterprise, but most enterprises overlook the importance of a Service Registry (UDDI).  This article outlines reasons why UDDI is critical to successful SOA initiatives and reviews recent enhancements to the UDDI standard.   

What is a Service Registry?