http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2007, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I13/1207-2.asp All too often developers and architects focus on the technology of Web services when exploring options for how to realize SOA. Various technology stacks have emerged, listing and combining recommended Web services standards and extensions into frameworks that promise to provide everything needed to realize true service-orientation. While a fundamental consideration, these frameworks can be misleading in their scope and in their role as part of a "true" SOA initiative. This article challenges the importance of Web services technology stacks and highlights what they tend to miss and what you should take into consideration when planning your SOA project. SOA http://www.soamag.com/I13/1207-2.asp#When:10.12.07 http://www.soamag.com/I9/0707-1.asp The new OASIS CAM templates standard provides significant technology advances that reduce and spread out data service integration burdens. Furthermore, by providing an open public standard the CAM approach enables industry domains and e-government initiatives to freely share formal business rule sets and transaction use patterns directly in machine processable formats. In this article I explore the progress achieved to-date with CAM and look at opportunities for facilitating SOA data services. SOA http://www.soamag.com/I9/0707-1.asp#When:02.07.07