Misc. questions about SAP's SOA software

Hello,
I am a computer science student at the Fachhochschule Aachen in Germany and I'm writing my master thesis about serviceoriented architectures.
Amongst other products I plan to present what SAP has to offer for SOA. But I'm missing some information, which I couldn't find at the website. I hope somebody can help me with my questions:
1) What are the products you need for building a basic SOA? Is the Application Server + Business Intelligence + Exchange Infrastructure enough? And how about something like an ESB? Is Exchange Infrastructure an ESB?
2) In my thesis I describe several standards that help with serviceoriented architectures. I want to check if these standards are implemented and if they are, in which product, which version and how extensively? These standards are:
- WS-Policy, WS-Adressing
- JBI (Java Business Integration)
- SCA/SDO (Service Component Architecture/Service Data Objects)
- BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)
- WS-CDL (Web Service Choreography Description Language)
Are there other important (open) standards i didn't mention (other than the real basic stuff, WSDL, SOAP etc)?
3) What tools does SAP provide for testing and debugging the services and processes?
4) What tools does SAP provide for Business Process Management? What about process modelling?
5) What support does SAP provide for new customers, that are building their first SOA?
I know there is much documentation about all this stuff, but this will take only 2-3 pages of my thesis, so I don't have time to read hundreds of pages of documentation.
Every help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Ok let me try...
1) One of the Key building blogs will be the SAP NetWeaver Process Integration 7.1. Its provides the ES Repository for Service Metadata and the ES Registry for the Service Endpoints. The Registry you use for finding and classifcation of your services. Any yes XI/PI could be used as ESB.
Another keybuilding block is the SAP NetWeaver Composition Enviroment 7.1. This one is used at Design and Runtime for Composite Process, Composite Views and Composite Application which consume Enterprise Services.
2) WS-Poilcy, WS-Adressing and BPEL is defenetly supported with PI 7.1(release planned for september 2007)
3) This a part of the NetWeaver Composition Enviroment. For Monitoring you need brokered Service communication... in this case you can use PI as integration Broker which is able to monitor your communication.
4) Exacutable Business Process(BPEL) are supported by PI 7.1
You are able to Design these processes with the Design tools of the PI.
For Highlevel Process modeling ARIS for SAP Netweaver is integrated.
So from High Level Process models drill down to theService Operations are all part of the Enterprise Service Repository and can be used to realise you business tasks.
5) SAP provide the ES Workplace and SAP Discovery System for Enterprise SOA
regards,
Robin

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    Hi,
    The Developer Edition allows individuals free of charge to test, evaluate, prototype and share add-on software code on code exchange This package comes with SAP's robust ABAP server. It also includes Web Dynpro for ABAP.
    Therefore, you will not find the other functionalities in this edition. It is only for developers to practice ABAP.
    Regards,
    Shitij

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