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Six months after the launch of the AquaLogic product family, BEA Systems has announced new enhancements to its AquaLogic ESB product. Version 2.1 of BEA's AquaLogic Service Bus builds upon the vendor's initial rollout of AquaLogic tools, and includes faster configuration capabilities, the vendor said.

Version 2.1 also includes a new test console, which simplifies testing new services and service changes before deployment; and tighter integration with AquaLogic Service Registry, which will accelerate service provisioning. The new ESB release also includes enhanced security policy management with support of SAML 1.1; and support for B2B and EDI use cases through interoperability with Cyclone Interchange. Release 2.1 also includes additional monitoring capabilities, including additional new alert metrics and mechanisms to collect and view statistics.

AquaLogic Service Bus enables integration developers and architects to very quickly set up integration between services, and allow that service interaction to dynamically change, BEA said.

Over the next two years, BEA plans to combine aspects of the WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic product families to provide common portal infrastructure services, application services and tools that can be used with future versions of both WebLogic Portal and AquaLogic Interaction. BEA's ability to offer a common portal infrastructure comes in part from its recent acquisition of Plumtree Software, a provider of enterprise portal solutions.

In addition, BEA today announced that AquaLogic Enterprise Security 2.1 would be available later this month. AquaLogic Enterprise Security 2.1's new features include extension of fine-grained authorization capabilities to support data-level security through integration with AquaLogic Data Services Platform, further standards support with XACML 2.0 and SAML 1.1, and enhanced administration via a Web Services Interface. The product is also in evaluation for Common Criteria certification EAL4.

BEA also announced an SOA Certification Program for enterprise architects. The program is tailored to architects who oversee the design of enterprise applications and infrastructures that leverage BEA technologies, and is designed to certify users on the BEA SOA Domain Model. For more information about the program, go to http://certification.bea.com .

For more information, visit bea.com/aqualogic .

For a Q&A with BEA executives on the vendor's AquaLogic and JRockit announcements, click here .