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Christian Nagel, Clemens Vasters, Juval Lowy, Sam Gentile, and Sebastian Weber talk about the topic Don Box presented at TechEd 2004 Europe and brought up last night at dinner:  Business Agents, or code name “BOA”.

As Christian puts it:

BOA will integrate the business aspects with SOA.

BOA does not stand on its own, it is a large project consisting of many cool features I'm not allowed to talk about. However, you can be sure it integrates with today's technologies, so you need not to have restless nights creating your solutions today. BOA will integrate seamless with BizTalk; BOA will support the long tail of legacy technologies. Don't scrap your old COM+ components.

BML (pronounced Bimmel), the Business Markup Language, will make your life easier - at least with the help of a visual editor :-)

That's great news!  I have wondered what happens after you complete your SO layer.  I will stay tuned ...