WebLayers Inc. this week will roll out its first commercial release—WebLayers Center 2.0—a product that analysts say is among the first enterprise tools to provide governance of XML, Web services and SOAs, starting at the design phase and running through the life of the services.

WebLayers Center 2.0 offers enterprise service-oriented architecture policy definition, configuration and management and features conformance mechanisms and checkpoints to help monitor compliance, said Motti Vaknin, chief executive of WebLayers, in Cambridge, Mass. The product features dashboards displaying compliance information and issues comprehensive reports related to governance.

Vaknin said WebLayers has been in stealth mode for about two years, yet "we are releasing the product as Version 2.0 because, the way we see it, Version 1.0 is already out there." Several large enterprise customers have already deployed it, he said.