SOA Web Services Session

Applying Business Rules Engines in SOA applications

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:00:00 EDT

This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to design and implement Business Rules Engine based projects to service-enable your enterprise. The implementation areas will apply to large enterprise applications with multiple dependencies.

Pragmatic Agile Model-Driven Architecture

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:45:00 EDT

Much of enterprise software is of woeful quality, many new projects often take a waterfall approach, and teams attempting to deliver enterprise apps often do so inconsistently. Come listen to one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto paint a picture of 3 ways to look at software development to achieve success.

What Powers Web 2.0 Mashups?

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:00:00 EDT

Web2.0 applications, such as Flickr, del.icio.us and Upcoming.org are getting more popular among web applications today. They often expose APIs that allow developers to build mashups, which combine various Web service for a greater good!

The Business Value of SOA

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 14:00:00 EDT

This session will answer the question: How can I use SOA to make my business more agile, efficient, responsive, and profitable? It will cut through the hype surrounding Service Oriented Architecture and explain what it means for the business.

Service-Level Automation in a Service-Oriented World

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:15:00 EDT

Uncertainty on how to support component services has grown and created a greater chasm between application development and operations. As organizations allow for partners, customers and even other business units to use component services, there can be great success.

Case Study: Making the Business Case for a Transition to SOA

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:30:00 EDT

This presentation is a real-world case study. It provides insights and the business rationale that was used by a major travel industry service provider to embark on a complete transformation of their legacy IT systems to SOA.

Developing Web Services with Eclipse and WTP

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

This session is a live demo of development of the Web Services using Eclipse and Web Tools Project (WTP).

Service-Oriented Development with Spring Framework

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

SOA is an Enterprise concept, but in order to achieve a SOA you either have to Service Enable existing applications and / or you have to build new applications that can take part in a SOA.

Building Web Services Using Windows Workflow Foundation

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) serves as a framework for integrating a workflow engine into applications. The same framework can be used to coordinate information flow between multiple Web Services. This allows developers to create long-running Business Process using WF workflows and expose them as Web Services to be consumed by external applications. Doing this provides a complete environment that provides tracking, state management, transaction support, concurrency constructs, and rules support for expressing business constraints. The goal of this session is to show developers how you can use the WF to support SOA-enabled services.

The SOA Client and the Web's Copernican Revolution

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:45:00 EDT

Before Copernicus, the sun was thought to revolve around the earth; to speak otherwise was to invite charges of heresy. Copernicus eventually reversed this popular notion by showing that earth in fact revolves around the sun. Similarly on the Web, the server has always been the center of the universe, with the client relegated to being more or less a dumb terminal, revolving at the periphery of a server-oriented architecture. Using the OpenLaszlo Ajax platform as an example, Laszlo Systems’ founder David Temkin will show how SOA, coupled with advanced Ajax applications, are changing the Web's center of gravity from the server to the client. Heresy or not, this session will prove that the client is becoming the center of today’s new Web architecture.

Agile Java Development with Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:45:00 EDT

This presentation provides software developers, architects, and technical leads, a fresh perspective on how to develop enterprise-class SOA Java applications rapidly, using Agile methods, plain-old Java objects (POJOs), the Spring Framework, Hibernate, and Eclipse.

Making Truly Great, "Blue-Chip" Software Products

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:00:00 EDT

Too many teams create very decent products that, for whatever reason, fail to rise above the crowd and truly capture the popular imagination. They are surprised when their products are mostly ignored by the marketplace, which seems to be captivated by some other shiny geegaw that's functionally inferior and more expensive.

Managing SOX in the Age of SOA

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:00:00 EDT

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is at the heart of many major IT initiatives and vendor offerings. However, while SOA has the potential to deliver business value through streamlined application integration, as well as integration with partners and suppliers, the open nature of SOA has the potential to cause problems for Sarbanes Oxley compliance. This presentation will look at compliance issues inherent in developing an SOA. Using a practical example, the presentation will examine COSO Control Objectives, Risks, and their supporting IT systems from the perspective of Sarbanes Oxley compliance.

What Is OpenAjax and Why Is It Important To Me?

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:15:00 EDT

In this session, David Boloker, CTO Emerging Technologies, and Adam Peller, Senior Engineer, IBM Software Group will discuss what OpenAjax is and how it will grow Ajax adoption to the next phase!

The Impact of Web 2.0 / AJAX on Mobile Applications

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

In this session, newly elected Web 2.0 Workgroup member Ajit Jaokar will discuss the wider impact of 'Web 2.0' ?sometimes referred to as the 'Global SOA'?including the use of AJAX especially for mobile applications.

Applying Process Orchestration in SOA Applications

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

This session will provide guidelines, best practices, and a methodology to design and design application leveraging Process Orchestration in the SOA initiatives. The implementation areas will apply to large enterprise applications with multiple dependencies.

SOA Best Practices: Concrete Examples, Working Implementations

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

In planning and building SOA, concrete examples often are useful: SOA designers, vendors and users can reference a wealth of abstract guidelines, descriptions of functional layers and sets of specific standards, or software that fulfill SOA requirements.

Building Web Services using Windows Workflow Foundation

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

An Enterprise-Grade Approach to SOA

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

SOA offers great promises to spawn a new wave of innovation and productivity gains impacting entire value chains. If most IT organizations have started pilot projects using some kind of web services toolkit, they also realize it will not be enough to reach the agility they need to align the business with IT.

SOA Web Services Keynote

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Coleman founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue.

Securing Federated Identity in a Web Services World

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

The ability to establish identities across domains to partners and customers is driving Web services security-related issues and standards, such as SAML and WS-Security. In this session we will discuss how federated identity is being used in Web services and will outline the security-related issues, the standards and specifications involved, and the importance in the growth of Web services.

Thinking in Services: Why Successful SOA Requires a New Way of Thinking

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

SOA is all about an approach to IT-a design encompassing all IT assets, and the design has to be mapped to technology. Historically, companies used CORBA or messaging systems such as WebSphere MQ to implement their SOA designs. Today, the preferred SOA infrastructure software is Web services based, including ESBs.

AJAX and SOA: The Perfect Match

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

While the enterprise uptake of SOA architectures can achieve great efficiencies and enhancements to back-end processes, SOA architectures often ignore a critical consideration: the end user. AJAX fills this gap perfectly.

Making Web Services Developer and Business Friendly

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

The term 'Web Services' was once synonymous with SOAP, but many improvements and variations have sprung up over the past few years. Some, like Yahoo!'s pioneering use of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), are targeted squarely at the new generation of Web 2.0 applications and eliminate the notion that Web Services must even involve XML. In this session, Yahoo! Technical Evangelist Jason Levitt describes the family of Yahoo! Web Services and how they are being used by developers and businesses worldwide.

SOA Enterprise Considerations

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:15:00 EDT

This session will provide business and IT stakeholders line of sight into critical components of architecting SOA. The service-driven enterprise is optimized around service-efficiently servicing customers, partners and employees-and accelerating the service response time of the business.

Service Oriented Architecture with J2EE Web Services in Jboss

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:00:00 EDT

In this session Anil Saldhana, a developer in the web services team at JBosswho also leads the Apache Scout project on Apache, will describe how J2EE Web Services in JBoss can be used to achieve a Service Oriented Architecture in an enterprise with heterogenous systems and different programming languages.

JSON: The Data Transport Format of the Stars

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:00:00 EDT

JSON is a universal data format. It provides an uncommonly effective bridge for moving data between systems and between languages.

What's MIA in SOA!

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:00:00 EDT

The promise of SOA is clear — Increased agility, reduced costs, tighter alignment between the business and the application logic that runs the business. What's missing however is the process to get from your existing enterprise application architecture to the promise of SOA, and the ability to ensure that once you get there, you stay there.

SOA and RIA Together: Developing with Adobe Flex and Java

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:00:00 EDT

Rich Internet Applications are perfect for consuming enterprise services. As SOA evolves toward reusable components that can be accessed inside and outside of the corporate intranets, they need to provide outside developers with customizable pre-built components that can be easily integrated in composite applications.

Achieving Optimal Application Performance in a SOA Environment

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:00:00 EDT

Cory Isaacson, president, Rogue Wave Software, will host a presentation and demonstration on achieving optimal application performance in a SOA environment.

VOIP as an Adjunct To Your SOA Framework

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:45:00 EDT

The concept of adding the phone system to your company’s SOA framework may sound radical. But as IP telephony systems become more commonplace, the phone system is “just another business application,” and it is natural to integrate it with other business systems. As vendors begin to support web services interfaces with WSDL and other tools, IT professionals are realizing they can execute integration projects that would have required telecom experts just a few months ago.

SOA Governance and Management Issues

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 04:45:00 EDT

In today's business environment, change is the only constant, which makes speed and agility a key basis for competitive advantage. This is why so many organizations are moving toward services oriented architectures as the new basis for IT. But despite the considerable promise of SOA, it adds new complexity that can introduce IT and business risk. This is why governance has become an imperative for SOA projects today. This session will discuss the requirements for governing an SOA and the importance of a governance foundation for optimizing the value and mitigating the risks of a service orientation. It will discuss how governance enables organizations to transform the complexity inherent to SOA from a risk factor to a value generator. It will also introduce an innovative new approach for using SOA governance as the means for automating corporate governance by using policies as the control point for enforcing business and regulatory mandates; and will provide insight around the emerging requirements for SOA testing, monitoring and management.

Extend AJAX with Adobe Flex

Wed, 31 May 2006 09:15:00 EDT

Adobe Flex is a complete application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications within the enterprise or across the web. Leveraging the ubiquitous cross-browser Flash Player, Flex enables developers to deploy applications that have the responsiveness and richness of desktop software and reach of the web. And by combining the best of AJAX and Flex, developers can now build next generation expressive, interactive applications that include vector graphics, audio, video, and charting.

When AJAX Isn't Enough: Cases for Rich Clients with the Flash Platform

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:00:00 EST

With the insurgence of rich clients in enterprise communications, technology leaders are faced with a wide array of solutions for creating productivity enhancing web clients. In this session, Jim will explore business cases and technology options for employing Flash based applications where AJAX capabilities don?t exist. The primary focus will be in corporate communications, web collaboration, content management, and presence management. Jim will discuss the role of Flex, Flex Enterprise Services, and Flash Media Server in creating stateful, rich media enabled applications for the web.

The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Delivering SOAs

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:45:00 EST

As SOA becomes the prevailing model for enterprise infrastructures, unique architectural challenges need to be mastered in order to fully enjoy the capabilities SOA provides. SOA infrastructure must support operational flexibility, a heterogeneous application environment, global deployment and the ability to be managed and monitored from a central point. The enterprise service bus (ESB) provides a common platform to address these requirements and enables organizational best practices to be developed through the use of a common toolset. Chappell will provide an insight on building and managing SOAs with an ESB. Attendees can learn how to identify the critical requirements for SOAs and reduce SOA project risk.

Governance, Security, and Management in a Service-Oriented World - When New and Old Collide

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:00:00 EST

Significant investments in the successful management and administration of many critical business systems have had mixed success over the years. In a new, more competitive age of regulation and globalization, SOA promises much in terms of business agility and efficiency, but how do we maintain visibility, control, and appropriate governance of this new and much more highly distributed service-oriented world?

Beyond BPM: Using Goal-Seeking Agents to Tackle Highly-Complex SOA Applications

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:00:00 EST

Solving complexity has been a continuing goal of application architects & developers since we started writing programs. While SOA techniques do a great job at standardizing the interface between systems and BPEL attempts to standardize the logic flow between services, they tend to break down when systems become overly complex and uncertainty is introduced into the system. An Agent-Oriented Goal-Seeking approach to building applications has been shown to reduce the complexity of building major real-world applications and to reduce total development time by up to 75%. Goal-seeking agents dynamically execute services based on goals, rules, and plans instead of traditional explicitly coded logic paths. As this session will show, Agent-Oriented development is backed by both cutting-edge computer-science research as well as real-world case studies. This session introduces goal-seeking agents and covers several case studies showing how they can be used to dramatically simplify complex programming situations and allow you to deliver applications faster.

Leveraging the "Global SOA" with Web 2.0

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:00:00 EST

The emerging Web 2.0 movement is emphasizing the same things as SOA -- which is rapidly emerging as the best practice for building services, reusing IT assets, and providing open access to data and functionality. Web 2.0 and SOA are in fact beginning to converge.

Implementing SOA Using Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:00:00 EST

Adobe provides the development community with the best tools available for rich internet development and dynamic web application development. Flash is the platform of choice for developing next generation web applications, the Flex 2 platform is Adobe's new rapid development environment for flash applications and is suited to developers (rather than designers), and Adobe ColdFusion is their J2EE based platform for rapid development of web applications.

Using the ESB to Power a B2B Gateway

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:00:00 EST

Business to Business (B2B) gateways have evolved to automate, consolidate and centralize B2B interactions with partners. The emergence of the ESB is alleviating many of the shortcomings of the prior generation of B2B solutions while offering intense benefits.