Sun announces a new initiative to help people buy into Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Find, assemble and deliver applications based on a services-oriented architecture using Java Web services. As part of Kitty Hawk, Java Enterprise System is intended to simplify administration, management, security, and provisioning of services in an SOA. For example, a Java Enterprise System registry will provide centralized control of services, versioning, metadata management, services registration, and lookup, according to Sun.
Featured components in Java Enterprise System are identity services, Web and application services, portal, communication and collaboration, availability services, and security.