Green Hat’s GH Tester is the essential tool for organizations working with SOA platforms from vendors such as IBM, BEA, Sonic, TIBCO, Software AG and Oracle as well as any JMS or SOAP implementation. The creation of automated, repeatable tests is carried out using an intuitive graphical user interface, achieving the power of a custom-written program in a fraction of the time. User-friendly screens allow the display, creation and manipulation of your message catalogue and comprehensive reports detail the test results. These not only provide information on test success or failure, but also on the performance of the application under test. GH Tester’s transport agnostic approach allows users with more than one integration technology to standardize on a single automated testing tool, and, the combined SOA and BPM validation capability provides a means of testing all aspects of their SOA projects, including exception handling and manual processes.

SOAWorld Magazine’s “SOA World Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards”
SOA World Magazine announced that nominations are now open for the SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards, which recognize excellence in the software, solutions, or services provided by the industry's top vendors. SYS-CON's Readers' Choice Awards, also known as the "Oscars of the Software Industry," has been one of the most prestigious industry award programs for more than a decade. This year's SOA awards will be given in 19 categories and the award-winning products and services will be selected by SOA World Magazine readers. Winners will be announced at the SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East, June 23-24 in New York City.

Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

Nominated Products and Services by Category: 
Best App Server
Best Automation Tool
Best BPM Engine
Best Framework
Best IDE
Best Integration Tool
Best Legacy Adapter
Best Open Source SOA Tool
Best Portal Platform
Best Security Solution
Best SOA or XML Site
Best SOA or XML Training
Best SOA Platform
Best SOA Testing Tool
Best SOA Tool
Best SOA/Web Services Book
Best Web Services Utility
Best XML Database
Best XML Parser

SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 Sponsors
In 2007, SOA World Conference & Expo was sponsored by the world’s leading SOA companies including Active Endpoints, BEA Systems, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, TIBCO Software, WSO2, IBM, Parasoft, webMethods, Sybase, B-hive, iTKO, Managed Methods, Mellanox Technologies, Nastel, NextAxiom, RingCube, Two Roads Professional Resources, Web Age Solutions, Solstice Software, Fiorano Software, iTKO, Layer 7 Technologies, PushToTest, Ruby on Gears, Farata Systems, Tenfold, Thinstall, Trivera Technologies, BZMedia, Extension Media, GoingToMeet, ITtoolbox, Methods & Tools, SDTimes, Software Test & Performance, TechTracker Media, ZapThink, OASIS, and SOA Consortium.

• Mindreef Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choices Awards"
• Mindreef Nominated for Best SOA Tool By SOAWorld Magazine's "Readers' Choices Awards"
• iTKO Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choices Awards"
• Fiorano Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• Intel Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• DataDirect Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• HP Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• WSO2 Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• MomentumSI Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOAWorld Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• SOA World Magazine 6th Annual "Readers' Choice Awards" Nominations Open
• Magic Software Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"
• Green Hat Nominated for SYS-CON's "SOA World Magazine Readers' Choice Awards"