Apache Tuscany provides an open-source services infrastructure for building SOA. It is based on the widely supported Service Component Architecture (SCA) specification. With the Tuscany implementation of SCA, application developers can easily create or reuse services in different languages (BPEL, Java or various scripting languages) and assemble and deploy them in a distributed environment. This session will introduce SCA and explain how this open source implementation of SCA will simplify the building of SOA solutions.

The integration approaches of today's content management systems, where solutions are individually programmed against each of the proprietary APIs, cannot scale and the Enterprise Content management (ECM) industry is answering that call through the development of standardized programming interfaces for ECM systems. In this session, attendees will review the resulting initiative to produce a Web Services-based standard for ECM and develop a better understanding of both existing and developing standards including XML, BPEL, JCR (JSR-170), XForms, and XML Schema. Attendees will also analyze and discern the suitability of each standard to various deployment architectures and problem domains.

As a small start-up, Interface21 has developed a large, loyal community around the Spring Framework and Spring Portfolio projects. Venture capitalists have invested millions in open source companies and large vendors like IBM and BEA have spent millions of dollars attempting to crank up their marketing machines around their open source projects. In general, these efforts have not resulted in successful communities. In this presentation, we will explore the characteristics that all successful open source communities share as well as unsuccessful open source projects and how these characteristics are changing over time.

This session will dive straight into the middle of a real-world Open Source SOA implementation, showing how all the facets of how the SOA Big Rules are attained within the solution. This will cover an in-depth walkthrough, by example and demos, of : How to implement large xmlschema driven document/literal Web services using partly Java EE 5 and partly J2EE 1.4; How security is enabled through certificate based authentication with WS-Security; How the services are orchestrated with WS-BPEL; and how JSR-168 portlets leverages the end user experience and how these are exposed using WSRP. The solution is based strictly on Open Source Software and a guide for picking the right frameworks and the right products in the myriad of these, will be addressed as well. Prerequisites: Knowledge of Java technology, IDEs, XML, and interest in SOA.

SYS-CON Events (www.events.sys-con.com) announced today the 11th international SOAWorld Conference & Expo (www.soaworld2007.com) will take place on June 25-27, 2006, in New York, NY. With a faculty of more than 100 distinguished experts presenting 80+ sessions, keynotes and panels, 'SOAWorld 2007' is the premier SOA and Web Services event of the year.

The momentum behind Service Oriented systems is intense and the hype machine is in full swing. Consequently, it is tempting to believe that if you slap a SOAP/REST/JSON/etc. wrapper around all your enterprise systems, you will be able to cash in on the service oriented ROI. The fact is, there are right ways and wrong ways to design a SOA. In this session, you will learn about SOA patterns for system integration, message brokering, and data management to name of few. SOA Quality of Service (QoS) and the top five SOA anti-patterns will also be discussed.

The success of any SOA project requires that one must gain an understanding of the true nature, performance characteristics, and availability of the business transactions that flows in real-time through these and their supporting IT infrastructure. Taking an architectural approach, this session will discuss the requirements for runtime governance in such an environment and the affect that these requirements will have on security. For example, SOA services can be vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks and other problems resulting in costly service level failures. Only the synergy of transaction-oriented operational and security management can achieve visibility into such problems before they grow serious. This session will discuss best practices so that you can be prepared to deliver verifiably reliable and successful services, and effectively triage SOA business transaction failures and risks in real-time.

The adoption of Web Services and Service Oriented architecture (SOA) paradigms to perform more critical online transactions has resulted in the urgent need to audit and assess these applications for security vulnerabilities. Many enterprises are currently developing new Web Services and/or adding and acquiring Web Services functionality into existing applications and with cyber crime also on the rise, Web services security is more important than ever and businesses must incorporate security best practices into application development. In order for Web services to reach its full potential, inherent security issues must be recognized and addressed.

Arjé Cahn, CTO of Open Source Content Management developer Hippo, will be speaking at Enterprise Open Source Conference 2007, being held 25-27 June at The Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. He runs the Hippo open source team at www.hippocms.org. and has earned his merits in the open source world with an Apache committership.

The Reference Model for SOA is an OASIS standard that provides a vocabulary for service-oriented applications, alowing people to achieve a common understanding when they talk about services. Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, will be giving a session at SOAWorld 2007 explain how to use the reference model in discussions with vendors, stakeholders, development staff, business analysts and others that participate in the development of services.

Jeff Nick, SVP and CTO of EMC, will be delivering the June 26 keynote at SOA World Conference & Expo 2007, which is colocating with Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 at The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City, 25-27 June, 2007. At the end of keynote presentation by the CTO of EMC, 'Services Oriented Infrastructure in a Web 2.0, Virtualized World,' delegates will understand the impact of service orientation on IT infrastructure; they will also understand the relevant architectures, technologies and standards.

SOA World 2007 East Conference & Expo and Enterprise Open Source 2007 East Conference & Expo, both to be held June 25-26, 2007, in New York City, announced that the conference 'Call for Papers' is now open. Topics include all development and management aspects of Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture plus all development and management aspects of Open Source technology.

'It's clear that many of the services we consume and manage going forward will be services that exist outside of the enterprise, such as subscription services from guys like Salesforce.com, or perhaps emerging Web services marketplaces,' says David S. Linthicum, who will be giving a session at SOA Web Services Edge 2007 in New York City in June.

The webMethods Infravio X-Registry and the iTKO LISA 3.5 SOA Testing Framework respectively address the need for lifecycle governance and testing within an SOA. Building upon this foundation, the two companies are working collaboratively to produce a joint solution that will allow enterprises to more easily scale their SOA implementations. More specifically, the initiative is designed to improve the long-term manageability of each implementation while reducing its ongoing maintenance costs. iTKO and webMethods will also engage in joint sales and marketing activities in support of the partnership.

Sastry Malladi, currently a Principal Architect at eBay, driving the SOA architecture for the eBay ecommerce platform, has joined the 2007 Speaker Faculty for the 11th international SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2007. He will give a session on 'SOA Deployment Challenges in the Real World' in The Roosevelt Hotel, June 25-27, 2007.

Metallect CEO Guy Hoffman outlined what he called a five-step program to developing a service-oriented architecture, during his presentation, 'What's MIA in SOA?' at the SOA Web Services Edge conference at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on June 5.

Metallect Corporation today announced the availability of a Metallect IQ Server plug-in for the Eclipse Platform. Developers working within Eclipse can now conduct impact analysis and dependency mapping of application logic across all applications and supporting databases with integrated access to IQ Server.

James Crawford, VP/Engineering for Composite Software, outlined the challenges and benfits of integrating data services into a service-oriented architecture (SOA), at the SOA Web Services Edge Conference and Exhibition at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

Rogue Wave Software President outlined the challenge of adopting a complex SOA strategy in a business environment, during his presentation at the SOA Web Services Edge Conference and Exhibition at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on Monday, June 5.

Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman outlined a vision of the future in which broadband access, open source software, and the creation of true service-oriented architectures (SOAs) deliver a variety of services to customers who are given much more choice than they are given today.

SugarCRM co-founder Clint Oram will also deliver a session at the conference entitled 'The Secret Ingredient to a Successful Open Source Project.' '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,' said Oram. 'But converting projects into products is not easy, and some secret ingredients that aren't covered in the code sharing are vital for generating future success.'

Cassatt's Daniel Knight 'will confront the often forgotten issue of designing the data center to adapt to the changing infrastructure needs of component services in an SOA environment,' in a session at the SOA Web Services Edge event in New York in June.

Rogue Wave President Cory Isaacson will lead participants through a demonstration of how parallel processing can be used in a SOA approach to achieve speed, performance and throughput in business-critical applications, at the SOA Web Services Edge event in New York.

'The promise of SOA is clear,' Guy Hoffman says. '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.'

SYS-CON Events (www.event s.sys-con.com)announced today that the SOA Web Services / Enterprise Open SourceConference will be sponsored by the world's leading SOA and Open Source companies, including Adobe, Backbase, CalAmp, Cassatt, Centric CRM, Chariot Solutions, Composite Software, Exadel, Metallect, Optaros, OSS Nokalva, Parasoft, Rogue Wave Software, SugarCRM, and Web Age Solutions.

Bill Coleman, founder and CEO of Cassatt Corp., will address how the software industry is being disrupted by, among other things, open source during his keynote on Monday, June 5 at the SOA Web Services Edge Conference and Expo in New York. Bill Coleman is also the 'B' in BEA and was vice president of software services at Sun when SunOS was transformed into Solaris. He provides a preview of his June keynote in this exclusive interview with SYS-CON.

Bill Coleman is founer and CEO of Cassatt Corp. Prior to that, he co-founded BEA Systems, and also served as Vice President of System Software at Sun Microsystems. He will be keynoting SYS-CON?s Web Services Edge Conference and Exhibition at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York in June. Bill was interviewed recently by SYS-CON West Coast Bureau Chief Roger Strukhoff.

David Richards, CEO of Centric CRM will also deliver one of the general sessions at the conference. Since 1989, David has worked with a combination of mature and growth companies. He began his career as President of AutoNet in 1989 and served in that capacity for two years; this early stage company established one of the earliest electronic marketplaces of used-vehicles in the United States.

Andy Astor is co-founder, president and CEO of EnterpriseDB. Prior to EDB, he was a vice president at webMethods, Inc., where he was responsible for technical marketing, corporate acquisition integration and standards leadership and evangelism. While at webMethods, he was elected twice to the Board of Directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), and he served as that organization's Marketing Chair. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Andy is also on the International Advisory Board for SOA Web Services Journal.

A long-serving editorial board member of SOA Web Services Journal, Dave also has extensive experience in distributed computing, including enterprise service buses, Message-Oriented Middleware, CORBA, COM, and Web application server infrastructure. Chappell will provide an insight on building and managing SOAs.

Kevin Hakman is Co-founder, TIBCO General Interface, TIBCO Software Prior to TIBCO General Interface, he was the co-founder of Versalent a leading provider of enterprise client technology. Prior to Versalent, he founded a series of successful emerging Internet technology and ecommerce ventures. He has also written for eBusiness Journal and HotWired.

Before launching CollabNet, Behlendorf was co-founder and CTO of Organic Online, a Web design and engineering consultancy located in San Francisco. During his five years at Organic, Behlendorf helped create Internet strategies for dozens of Fortune 500 companies. During that time, he co-founded and contributed heavily to the Apache Web Server Project, co-founded and supported the VRML effort, and assisted several IETF working groups, particularly the HTTP standardization effort.

Clint Oram will present a session on Secret Ingredients to Open Source Development at the Enterprise Open Source Conference and Expo June 5-6 in New York. Oram, who co-founded SugarCRM and is General Manager of Sugar Online, outlined his presentation in an exclusive SYS-CON interview.

Author, blogger, and podcaster David Linthicum will discuss how to incorporate Web 2.0 prinicples into enterprise IT development--regardless of the size of the enterprise--during his presentation at the SOA Web Services Edge Conference and Expo, to be held in New York June 5-6. Linthicum provides an overview of his upcoming presentation during this exclusive SYS-CON interview.

Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Comm unities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is interested in Blissymbolics, a graphical, symbolic language. He is developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

David S. Linthicum is the author of three books on application integration and SOA, a frequent speaker at industry conferences, and the host of the 'Service-Oriented Architecture Expert Podcast' (www.soaexpertpo dcast.com). You can reach David at linthicum@att.net.

David Boloker joined the June 5-6, 2006 'Real-World AJAX' Faculty in New York City. Boloker is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Technical Officer for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. Previously, he held the position of Chief Technical Officer for Java Technologies in Software Group. David is recognized in and outside IBM as a technical leader in the Internet software space guiding IBM's investments as well as internal product development in the Internet space David's responsibilities include building IBM's technical e-Business strategy, working with internal IBMers to develop the appropriate products for the Internet space, researching new areas in software design as well as guiding a group of researchers working in Software Group. David has been recognized by IBM with numerous Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards in the areas of Java, Secure Internet Gateways, Dynamic I/O Configuration and the Remote Distribution and Control of S/370, 4300, S/390 and AS/400 Architecture processors.

Luis Derechin is the CEO and Co-Founder of JackBe Corporation. He is the executive leader of JackBe for daily operations, partnership development, and long term strategy. As an entrepreneur at heart, Luis has a reputation of founding and guiding companies that become both leaders in their categories and recognized successes which sold for large profits. JackBe is Mr. Derechin's third start-up with the previous two having been D'Hogar, a retail company that earned the loyalty of more than 500,000 customers and AviMed, an online software provider.

Coach Wei, Chairman, Founder and CTO of Nexaweb and the creator of the first commercial AJAX applications, has joined the 'Real-World AJAX' conference faculty. Wei will deliver his AJAX session entitled 'A New Approach to AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML' during the June 5-6, 2006, New York City event.

Eric is responsible for directing and communicating IONA's technology roadmap, as well as its product strategy as it relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. He leads IONA's participation in all standardization activities, and has been involved in Web services standardization activities from the beginning.