SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 is a new book from Packt that teaches architects to design and build flexible and reusable SOA solutions using BizTalk Server 2009.

Steef-Jan Wiggers writes: One of new SOA capabilities in BizTalk Server 2009 are UDDI services. I found an article at Packt Publishing written by Richard Seroter...As I was reading the article it gave me an itch to try this UDDI stuff out myself. So I opened my BizTalk 2009 Sandbox (VPC environment) and noticed UDDI was not installed. To let you know what to do I decided to create this post to show how UDDI is installed on a BizTalk 2009 Development Environment...

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SOA Software today launched its market leading mainframe SOA solution SOLA for IMS transactions. SOLA is a comprehensive mainframe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) solution that cost effectively makes mainframe applications part of an SOA.  SOLA provides customers with a fast and easy process to expose mainframe applications as secure Web Services, and allows mainframe applications to consume Web Services.  Using SOLA, customers can leverage billions of dollars of existing mainframe investments when building an enterprise SOA. 

IO-DATA is a protocol on top of the XMPP protocol to allow machine-to-machine communication. Actually, much like SOAP, RPC, and other platforms. How IO-DATA differs lies to some extend to the transport layer: instead of using HTTP, it used the XMPP transport protocol, also used for Jabber chat clients. It basically allows clients like Taverna to chat with services running elsewhere.