As an example of how makers of middleware integration technologies are trying to reposition themselves for the Web services SOA world, Schmelzer pointed to the new product roadmap announced this week ...

Plus, Web services wrappers let enterprise developers create simple app-to-app connections without using commercial middleware at all. Not that MOM vendors appear seriously threatened.

The Linux Foundation announced that the OpenMAMA project has announced version 2.1 of the technology--the first release of open-source Middleware Agnostic Messaging API, or MAMA.