IONA® Technologies announced updates to IONA Artix™, the company's SOA infrastructure suite. With Artix, IONA offers Global 2000 customers an alternative to centralized and proprietary middleware stacks shortening implementation times, reducing costs and generating greater ROI from their existing IT assets.

The Artix suite includes Artix Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Artix Registry/Repository, Artix Data Services, Artix Orchestration, Artix Mainframe and SOA Management. The enhancements to Artix address customers' growing requirements for SOA governance, management and interoperability across complex, multi-protocol and multi-platform environments.

Artix Registry/Repository allows customers to utilize its active SOA governance capabilities to effectively develop, test, deploy and manage the lifecycle of services across their distributed SOA environments. Specifically, the updates include:

• Versioning support for services and other repository artifacts
• The ability to customize the repository data model
• An improved user interface for viewing a visual state of policies, services and containers, simplifying IT operations
• And the ability to publish services to a UDDI V3 registry