Data Services are increasingly generating interest in Service Oriented Architectures, whether it is for Master Data Management (MDM), Customer Data Integration (CDI) or as a core SalesForce.com API.

WSO2 released last summer a Data Services Framework as part of their Web Services Application Server (WSAS) to make it easier to create data services from SQL databases.

Last week, David Webber wrote an article about the OASIS Content Assembly Mechanism (CAM) specification and its relation to data services. While most people give up on defining an XML Schema definition to validate the result of queries, CAM provides template that allow for the definition of validation data services for XML-based transactions. Dave adds: