With AGF, developers can edit and enforce business and technical policies. Alerts are sent to business users when an application conflicts with an established policy.

The policy editor plugs into the SOA registry and repository, which keeps track of SOA artifacts, including Web services. CentraSite was developed by both Software AG and Fujitsu.

"What's great about the pluggable architecture is that first of all, we can very, very quickly enhance the product without going through major release cycles," said Matt Durham, vice president of market development at Software AG.

Through the policy editor, developers can take ad hoc or proprietary policies, such as policy written in a Word document, and copy and enforce them.

An example of a business policy that could be enforced would be a policy on who is allowed to fly at a certain class. A technical policy could involve, for example, making one service usage contingent on another service.