Today, Active Endpoints announced ActiveVOS 5.0.

We believe that app dev has to change. Actually, to be more blunt, we believe a revolution is in order to meet today’s business challenges. Building applications the old way is too expensive and too inflexible. Today, applications must not only be adaptable, they must easily incorporate people, processes and services. And they must be testable, maintainable and scalable.

Some administrators of servers will not give the developer access to the application server as owner 'oracle'. They use this account for installation and configuration of the Oracle software. More often this account is shared along the servers, so the password is the same. In this case they will not 'give' the developer access. If you have access to such a server with another account as 'oracle', you will notice that executing the build.xml for deployment will not work. The tasks in the build.xml is changing some files in the Oracle directory tree.

Nathalie Roman has been checking out the different capabilities and new features of the Adapter-framework in ESB and BPEL and shares her insights on nasty pitfalls and nice-to-knows in this article. On the subject of inserting master-detail data using DB Adapter functionality, Roman writes, "It's best to make use of stored procedures instead of the toplink mappings file.

Ever since the OpenSOA initiative published the white paper entitled: "Power Combination, SCA, OSGi and Spring", the combination of these three technologies has generated some interest. There is even a commercial implementation of such an infrastructure. Spring Dynamic Modules already combines Spring and OGSi, while Spring Beans can be used as an SCA component implementation. Lately, Tuscany's Java implementation was built on Apache's OSGi framework: Felix.

XAware, Inc. announced the general availability of XAware 5, the open source data integration solution for creating and managing composite data services for SOA and Web 2.0 applications. XAware's proven data integration software, now in its fifth generation, makes it easy to access and integrate data to and from any source. XAware enhances the productivity of other development tools and frameworks by building composite data services. These services provide real-time access to information and the ability to abstract, transform, aggregate and mashup data.