Location: Architecture trackTime: 2007-11-13 15.20Level: Intermediate
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Dr. Jim Webber, ThoughtWorks ,UKDr. Jim Webber is the Service-Oriented Architecture Practice Lead for ThoughtWorks where he works with clients on delivering dependable service-oriented systems. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide" in addition to being a contributing author to other books and articles. Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the UniversityofNewcastle upon Tyne. His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name .
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Guerrilla SOAWith the emergence of Web Services and the evolution of WS-* standards, the enterprise software vendor community was quick to realize their traditional business model was under threat. On the back of their large installed bases, vendor products were offered to customers to help them deploy and manage their attempts to develop Service Oriented Architectures, with the implication that Web Services were of little use without proprietary middleware to deal with their inherent complexity. In this talk, ThoughtWorks SOA Practice Lead Dr Jim Webber will discuss how Web Services can constitute a robust integration fabric, providing the same benefits as proprietary middleware without vendor lock-in.
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