Most of the attention around SOA has focused on its application to the very largest enterprises. This focus is understandable - these mega corps are the ones that have the most to gain or lose from a new architecture (and also the biggest consulting budgets) - but it has meant that the issues and requirements of smaller enterprises have often been overlooked in SOA discussions. This is especially true in areas such as governance, where the requirements of the largest enterprises are very different from those of their smaller kindred. Applying SOA guidelines based on requirements that aren't appropriate for your business leads to governance bloat and bureaucracy.
In this talk you'll see how to apply SOA in a more agile fashion to allow small and mid-sized enterprises to gain the benefits of flexible service components without the governance overhead often associated with SOA.
Dennis Sosnoski is an internationally recognized expert on SOA and Web services in Java. He's been helping organizations worldwide with their XML and Web services projects for the last 8 years, with a particular focus on solving performance issues. XML and Web services are at the core of most views of SOA, and for the last two years Dennis has been advising companies on how to best align their development efforts with the SOA approach. He's also active in the Java community, as a frequent speaker at conferences world-wide, a writer for IBM developer Works Java and SOA/Web services zones, a member of the expert groups that guided the development of the JAXB 2.0 and JAX-WS 2.0 Java standards, and an open source developer on both Apache Web services and independent projects (including his JiBX XML data binding framework for Java).
JSR 311 - JAX-RS The Java API for RESTful Web Services— This API will enable developers to rapidly build Web applications in Java that are characteristic of the best designed parts of the Web. This JSR will develop an API for providing REST(Representational State Transfer) support in the Java Platform. Lightweight, RESTful approaches are emerging as a popular alternative to SOAP-based technologies for deployment of services on the internet.
The State of REST vs. SOA— The debate about REST (REpresentational State Transfer) as an alternative to SOAP has been going on for several years now - with more and more respect for the REST point of view in the recent past. While many will agree that a RESTful approach is a better match for Web 2.0-style, public-facing Internet services, it's still often questioned how REST could be applied to 'Enterprise' scenarios. This talk will briefly summarize the REST principles behind the Web's architecture, and then show how an enterprise scenario can benefit from the properties that have made the Web a success.
A little REST and Relaxation— As one of the first modern Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) architects, co-author of internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI), as well as the founder of various Open Source software projects,amongst others, the Apache HTTP server project, his name is intrinsically tied to the development of the World Wide Web infrastructure. In his keynote address, Roy T. Fielding will pursue the question of how individual Java applets can be replaced by friendlier Web application delivery interfaces.
REST - The Better Web Services Model— The presentation will introduce the principles of REST (REpresentational State Transfer), the Web's architecture, and address how to map advanced enterprise scenarios to an architecture that uses HTTP and the Web instead of abusing it.
