Dennis Byron writes: UK-based Bloor Research has made its annual review of the business process management (BPM) market available for download on its web site (as with the ebizQ Gold Club, you have to join the Bloor community to get the report but there is no fee to join). I like the positioning terminology Bloor uses ("BPM is a holistic management practice") almost as much as I like my own mantra ("BPM is a value proposition"). Both statements make the point that BPM is not a technology or a product set.

Active Endpoints today announced that Trafigura, Ltd. has deployed a commodities market risk assessment system orchestrated by ActiveVOS. Trafigura is one of the world's leading international commodity traders, specializing in the oil, minerals and metals market. Trafigura's primary trading businesses are the supply and transport of crude oil, petroleum products, natural gas, liquefied natural gas and metals. It is the world's second largest independent non-ferrous trading company and the third largest independent oil trader.

SOA-EDA.Blogspot.com:- "It is going to look like I am collecting the whole SOA-library of Packt Publishing. Not because of any commercial interest or benefit, but because I discovered that their collection is very appealing to me as an IT-architect who realizes that practice is always about the "dirty details" (which I often used to call the "golden details" to our developers).

Java EE 5 Development with NetBeans 6 is a new book from Packt that focuses on the features of the popular NetBeans IDE, and shows users to improve Java EE development. Written by Chief Technology Officer of Ensode Technology, LLC, David Heffelfinger, this book covers the major Java EE APIs such as JSF, EJB 3 and JPA, and shows how to work with them in NetBeans.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book Oracle Modernization Solutions by the Technical Director Tom Laszewski, and the Product Manager Jason Williamson of the Modernization Solutions team at Oracle. Written by experts in Modernization Solutions, this book will show users how to modernize a legacy mainframe application using the modernization approaches of SOA Integration and Re-architecture.