Arch2Arch the Website is now live! The newly redesigned Arch2Arch, now a fully fledged peer of the popular Dev2Dev Website, is a dedicated, comprehensive source of information for architects, with blogs, Webinars, articles, and a focus on SOA—all designed to give you the information you need to be even more successful.

Visit the new Arch2Arch Website today—and bookmark it or subscribe to the RSS feeds. We invite you to give feedback on the articles, participate in the blogs, and ping the Arch2Arch editor if you think something could be improved!

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Why invest in SOA governance? This article looks at the incentives for organizations to undertake an effective SOA governance model through a pragmatic assessment of cost and profit.

BEAParticipate is an exclusive event for our customers, with 2½ days of product, customer, and partner sessions all focused on BEA AquaLogic User Interaction and BEA AquaLogic BPM products. Come to learn more about BEA’s Business Interaction and Business Integration solutions. We will also be showcasing new Enterprise Web 2.0 products that will redefine “participation” for business users.

OpenJPA goes beyond the specification to include caching, dynamic fetch group configuration, custom mapping capabilities, save point capabilities, and memory and resource management. This Webinar will help you to create and deploy OpenJPA-based systems into enterprise environments.

In addition to enabling traditional integration scenarios, companies use BEA WebLogic Integration to build composite applications that create new capabilities by orchestrating activities across a series of back-end systems. Attend this Webinar to learn more about the role of BEA WebLogic Integration in an SOA.

Three new blogs deserve a look. In Towards SCA, Alex Miller provides insights into service component architecture and how BEA is using it. If you’re still treating data access and update like you did in pre-SOA days, Bradley Wright explains how and why you should change your approach in SOA: What About Data? And regular contributor Quinton Wall makes a case for the importance of design in SOA, with a plea for more design patterns in this area.

BEA now offers online self-study to accommodate your requirements. Many courses of interest to architects—including SOA Reference Architecture, SOA Organization and Governance, and SOA: Strategic Concepts and Principles—are now available online, with question-and-answer support via e-mail.