webMethods, Inc. recently announced successful demonstration of interoperability of the WS-Policy Candidate Recommendation specifications using the UDDI standard. The first-ever interoperability evaluation event for the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Services Policy 1.5 Framework and Attachment (WS-Policy) Candidate Recommendation specifications was hosted by webMethods.

The San Jose, Calif., company acquired Cleveland-based Flashline for its metadata repository and will incorporate that repository into the BEA AquaLogic family. The Flashline repository will become BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository and will be a complementary product to BEA's AquaLogic Service Registry offering, which is the company's UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) registry.