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.

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 develo...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 w...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 fun...

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...

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!

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.

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.

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 alig...

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.

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-r...

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.

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 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 se...

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.

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...

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 busines...

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

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 ab...

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 inte...

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

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 pr...

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, i...

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 s...

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 re...

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 ...

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 deploy...

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 ...

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 brea...

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.

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 environmen...

CIOs are seeking to reduce the risk associated with investing in mission-critical enterprise applications and gain control over how vendor offerings are evaluated and selected. IT investments are no longer allowed to fail and must work correctly the first time.