Firewalls have long been a mainstay of corporate security - but when it comes to Web services, they may well provide no security at all, because they can only filter at the packet level, and can't examine the contents of messages. Considering that Web services traffic may account for 25 percent of all enterprise traffic by 2006 according to the ZapThink Web services consulting group, that is a serious problem for any business looking to use Web services.

Mural is an open source community with the purpose of developing an ecosystem of products that solve the problems in Master Data Management (MDM) through a collaborative community-driven approach. Leveraging the OpenESB and Netbeans communities, the Mural community seeks to build a foundational open-source data management infrastructure to form the basis of MDM initiatives (i.e., CDI, PIM, etc.) and of traditional data warehousing and business intelligence initiatives. It will also provide data services for SOA initiatives and Enterprise Web 2.0.