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HP announced on Monday SOA governance software and services aimed at helping companies accelerate SOA adoption while reducing risks.

Web services security company Vordel has updated SOAPbox, its security testing tool for Web services.

A fault line runs beneath the groundswell that began a few years ago with XML Web services and continues today as SOA (service-oriented architecture). True, nearly everyone agrees that XML messaging is the right way to implement low-level, platform-agnostic services that can be composed into higher-level services that support enterprises business functions. Yet, here's also a sense that the standards process has run amok. IBM, Microsoft, and others have proposed so many Web services standards that a new collective noun had to be invented: WS-* (pronounced "WS star" or sometimes "WS splat"). The asterisk is a wild card that can stand for Addressing, Eventing, Policy, Routing, Reliability, ReliableMessaging, SecureConversation, Security, Transactions, Trust, and a frighteningly long list of other terms. Surveying this landscape, XML co-creator Tim Bray pronounced the WS-* stack "bloated, opaque, and insanely complex."

Reactivity and RSA Security have both leapt on the latest security spec with new products to protect Web apps -- something they hope will encourage companies to invest in software-as-a-service projects.

IBM said it is partnering with four companies that make XML (Extensible Markup Language) security products so that their products will work easily with IBM's Tivoli Access Manager management software.

Our call for predictions regarding the future of software development and Web services yielded a bumper crop of interesting insights.

Pushing its deep XML processing and networking experience, DataPower Technology Inc. turned its fortunes toward a crowded security ring on Monday with the release of its XS40 XML Security Gateway for securing Web services transactions.

Vordel Ltd. on Monday announced the launch of a Secure Partner Integration Solution to help large financial services institutions to securely and easily integrate their systems with partners using Web services.

The latest entrant looking to set a foothold in the crowding content-aware XML firewall space, Quadrasis, on Monday introduced its SOAP Content Inspector, developed with Xtradyne Technologies, to secure Web services environments.

Reactivity Inc. this week emerged as the newest entrant into the secure Web services messaging field with the debut of its Reactivity Service Firewall, a drop-in software product that supports and routes XML-based messaging and other Web services protocols stacks.

Despite the nascent promise of XML and Web services, one issue continues to hinder widespread adoption of the technology, according to both market observers and vendors: security.