Hewlett-Packard trotted out the new HP SOA Systinet 3.0 registry today, capping a year of announcements that create a services oriented architecture (SOA) lifecycle portfolio, and extends the governance function broadly -- a cradle to grave approach -- that spans from design time to run time and all the way up to project portfolio management (PPM). The newest market leading Systinet UDDI registry forms the cockpit for managing not only services, but with the newly added Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) support, takes the helm for business processes, too.

Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance product JaxView 4.5. While providing full support for the SOA and Web service management for the IT operations, JaxView 4.5 expanded runtime policy enforcement features and expanded integration to UDDI registries. "We are exceptionally pleased with our customer adoption of JaxView agentless deployment for SOA visibility and SOA management.

Microsoft Corp. today provided an update on its plans for BizTalk Server 2009, which is on track for availability during the first half of 2009.

OASIS, the international open standards consortium, has formed a new group to define a lightweight subset of the Web services protocol suite that will make it easy to find, share, and control devices on a network. The OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile (WS-DD) Technical Committee will enable printers, storage devices, sensors, building security devices, entertainment systems, energy management equipment, hand-held computers, cell phones, remote controls, and many other devices to be identified, communicated with, and controlled using Web services.