Increasing numbers of Fortune 2500 companies worldwide are implementing SOA to increase business and IT agility. In recent years, many of these companies are evolving from pilot SOA projects to department- and enterprise-wide SOA deployments. To realize their vision of SOA, enterprises need to not only create services but also manage them across the service life cycle—discovery, composition, interoperability, security, validation, deployment, operations, management, and administration. In addition, and most crucially, all "layers" of an architecture can be service-enabled—presentation services, business processes, business services, data services, and shared services.

BEA AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) 2.6 is an enterprise-class service bus designed for connecting, mediating, and managing interactions between heterogeneous services—not just Web services, but also Java,.Net, messaging services, and legacy end points. It uniquely combines the integration capabilities of an Enterprise Service Bus with operational service management in a single product with an efficient, seamless user experience. With its flexible deployment options, run-time policy enforcement, and automated integration with business service registries, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus is designed to handle the deployment, management, and governance challenges of implementing SOA at any scale. Through its intelligent, meta-data driven configuration interface, BEA AquaLogic Service Bus accelerates service integration and deployment through service mediation and management, essentially future-proofing the SOA from ongoing service end point changes. Built to meet exacting standards for Reliability, Availability, Scalability, and Performance, BEA Aqualogic Service Bus 2.6 provides best of breed capabilities for distributed deployments.