This "Power Panel" - moderated by AJAXWorld Magazine Editor-in-Chief Dion Hinchcliffe (pictured below) - will be held 12:20 - 1:15 Tues. 3 October. The theme is "Web-Oriented Architecture: SOA + The Web + REST"

Building modern SOAs and Web 2.0 sites requires a design style that goes with the "grain" of the Web. REST, a natural extension of HTTP created by the co-inventor of HTTP, is getting a lot of attention these days because it's easy to work with, aligns well with the Web, and is very high performance.

Used architecturally, REST is called Web-Oriented Architecture or WOA. But whither SOAP, the canoncial Web services protocol up to now? This panel will discuss that and more, including:

• REST has been with us for a while, why is it taking off now?
• What's going to happen to SOAP-based SOAs?
• What are IBM, Microsoft, and BEA doing about REST support in their products?
• REST seems to make Ajax programming much easier than SOAP, why?

  SUMMARY:
  
  Web-Oriented Architecture: SOA + The Web + REST (Oct 3)
  Moderator: Dion Hinchcliffe
  
  12:20-1:15 PM - Keynote Hall
  
  PARTICIPANTS:
  
  Jason Levitt - AJAX Evangelist, Yahoo!
  Matt Mihic - Chief Architect and VP of Engineering, Rearden Commerce
  Douglas Crockford - Creator of JSON
  David Temkin - Founder & CTO Laszlo
  Bob Zurek - Director of Advanced Technologies, IBM