Latest News from SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West

The Current State of Open Source Business Intelligence

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:00:00 EDT

Business Intelligence and Open Source sounds like an impossible combination. Over the last year, a number of niche vendors have started to probe this territory. The talk will discuss Open Source products that are available for reporting and data warehousing/data aggregation, and will make an attempt of answering the question: Is there such a thing as Open Source Business Intelligence?

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.

Open Source Project Management

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:45:00 EDT

This session will give an overview of management tools and patterns for very large (distributed) Enterprise projects including Business Process design UML (Use Cases) and tools such as Eclipse or Maven (1&2).

About Face: Designing an Open Source Engineering Team

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:00:00 EDT

Traditional software companies have created a very structured, restricted and focused engineering department methodology which works efficiently in a process oriented, proprietary environment.

Focusing on the "A"(rchitecture) in AJAX

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:00:00 EDT

Focusing on the 'A'(rchitecture) in AJAX

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.

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!

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.

Putting the "Enterprise" into Enterprise Open Source Software

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

CRM-Customer Relationship Management-is a business strategy, not a technology. Every organization employs some method of CRM whether it be a deck of index cards, a spreadsheet, or an expensive proprietary computer system. Until recently, sophisticated CRM systems were reserved exclusively for very large enterprises.

Making Web 2.0 Happen

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Making Web 2.0 Happen

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).

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.

Enterprise Open Source: Keynote by Marc Fleury of JBoss

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Born in Paris in 1968, Marc Fleury got his Ph.D in physics from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He started in Sales at Sun Microsystems France and then moved to the US where he worked on early java enablement of SAP at SAPLabs.

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.

AJAX and SOA: The Perfect Match

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

AJAX and SOA: The Perfect Match

From Enriched HTML to Client/SOA: The Four Quantum States of AJAX

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:45:00 EDT

Today there is a spectrum of architectural approaches to AJAX solutions. At the simple end of the spectrum, HTML pages are becoming enriched with simple AJAX behaviors exemplified by the likes of Yahoo! Maps, Google Suggest and a myriad of AJAX libraries and widgets that have now been published.

Enterprise-Level AJAX Thinking

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 09:00:00 EDT

This session, aimed at enterprise developers, will discuss how best to enrich your users' experience by the use of AJAX.

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.

Open Source Project Management: Tools & Patterns

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:45:00 EDT

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.

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.

Composite Software Presents: Data Services: A Critical Component of SOA

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EDT

IDC predicts that data services - services designed to access data in a well-defined, modular fashion - will exceed the number of process services in a service oriented architecture (SOA).

Engaging Interfaces with AJAX and Comet

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 16:00:00 EDT

Ajax and comet are great techniques for getting data to and from the server, But they do little to address the requirements of sophisticated web application user interfaces.

The Impact of Open Source Software on Web Services

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:00:00 EDT

The impact of open source software on web services transcends simply the use of actual open-source components; moving to a web services-based architecture requires a cultural shift in an organizations governance and application lifecycle management processes.

Designing a Commercial Open Source Business

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:00:00 EDT

Today one of the hottest new software development techniques leverages open source tools and open source distribution, however there's much more to an open source business model than just sharing code.

The Secret Ingredient to a Successful Open Source Project

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:00:00 EDT

When re-thinking the manufacturing process of enterprise software, most companies nowadays determine to leverage open source to boost popularity and attention onto their product lines.

From Open Source to Commercial Product and Back Again - The Ingres Story

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:00:00 EDT

This session will focus on Ingres's product rebirth and examine the technical lessons learned. From choosing the open source components from which to build a community site, to preparing and sanitizing the source code and evaluating build processes, SVP of Engineering Emma McGrattan will outline guiding principles for conquering skepticism about adopting an open source development and business model.

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!

Building a Virtual Many-to-One HA Cluster for Open Source Web & Mail

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EDT

When building highly available clusters one often chooses for 1 extra physical machine per service, hence creating an A-B fail-over schema. As the number of primary servers grows, your number of secondary servers grows accordingly. More complex setups have a many (N) to 1 fail-over schema.

Using Open Source for Network Security

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:00:00 EDT

In this session Alan Shimel will discuss trends in open source, focusing on the benefits and challenges of using open source for network security and with regulatory compliance. He will outline the many advantages to using open standards (which includes open source) in product development, especially in network security where integration has become the 'holy grail.'

Open Source Middleware for Service Oriented Architecture

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

This session concerns the use of open source middleware for service oriented architecture (SOA). For the SOA architect or developer wishing to build a SOA-based system today, we will show the current options available, in particular focussing on open-source implementations of ESB, CORBA and Java EE.

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.

Building an SOA Infrastructure on Open Source Technologies

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Open source technologies have played a role in Web services and SOA for years. As large commercial vendors introduce more extensive open source SOA solutions and traditional open source providers broaden their solutions to address more SOA requirements, it is now possible to build an enterprise-ready infrastructure for service-based integration on an open source foundation.

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.

Building Web Services using Windows Workflow Foundation

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

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.

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.

The Current State of Open Source Business Intelligence

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

Business Intelligence and Open Source sounds like an impossible combination, but over the last year, a number of niche vendors have started to probe this territory.

Open Source Takes the Mystery Out of Mobile E-mail

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:00:00 EDT

This session will be specifically tailored for developers and IT managers working on mobile e-mail and other mobile applications. While proprietary mobile e-mail companies protect their code and profits, the mobile open source approach boasts a transparent community of developers contributing to the code.

Frontier Technology: Pushing Ajax to the Limit

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

In an ideal world, there'd be no need for the patterns to be presented here. But in practice, the only way to produce truly rich applications is to push the boundaries of standard web technologies. This presentation will flesh out the Ajax edge cases - what we can and can't do, should and shouldn't do.

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.

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.

Governance, Security, and Management in a Service-Oriented World

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

In the newly 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? Most authorities in this field agree that management and security are complimentary foundations of an essential framework for SOA success, but what does that really mean and how do you achieve it?

Business Readiness Rating for Open Source Software

Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:00:00 EDT

Free and open source software such as the Firefox browser and the Apache web server has often been presented as an inexpensive alternative to expensive proprietary software. However, many businesses have been reluctant to adopt open source software, partly because they have not had a good way to identify those products that are suitable for widespread use and there is no way to evaluate based on operational support information such as bug resolution metrics.