First community drop of the Service Software Factory now available!

The patterns & practices team released the first public drop of the (Web) Service Software Factory (Formerly known as Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit), which is now available from their new community site at http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/svcfactory.

The Service Software Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that have been built with the primary goal of helping to build high quality connected solutions in a more consistent way with less effort. In addition to the forms of guidance you may have already seen from the patterns & practices team, there is a new form of guidance in here, called a guidance package, that allows guidance to be automated from inside Visual Studio 2005 through the use of a wizard-based dialog than can be modified (by an architect perhaps) to fit the needs of a specific solution.