Presentations

In this talk by Samisa Abeysinghe presented at the IndicThreads.com Conference On Java Technology held in Oct 2007 in Pune, India - he explores the architecture of Axis2.

In this presentation, recorded at QCon, London 2008, Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to make the business case for SOA. Her talk covers explaining SOA to non-technical business people, various approaches for selling SOA to management and gaining funding for SOA investments.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has taken modular programming principals into the distributed computing environment. But the functionality provided by such modules are much broader and, hence, can be considered as services. When applications are deployed in a distributed computing environment there is a need for a set of infrastructure services such a life-cycle management, service announcement, service discovery, security, integration, etc. Applications that provide these infrastructure services make up the SOA platform.

In this presentation, recorded at the recent Grails Exchange event in London (organized by Skills Matter), Paul Fremantle, co-founder of WS02, shows you how Groovy can be used inside a lightweight SOA framework - Apache Synapse - to make it easier and simpler to manage REST, SOAP and other network communications. He looks at how the combination of simple Groovy scripting inside a micro-broker like Synapse can be used to manage load-balancing, failover, versioning and other useful stuff.

Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder, Chairman & CEO of WSO2, the open source SOA company, takes apart the WS-* vs. REST debate and clearly separates the facts from the myths and the lies.

The Enterprise SOA'07 Conference presented "an overview and in depth technical talks on how to leverage the principals of Service-Oriented Architectures to reduce cost and risk, improve efficiency and agility and liberate your organization from the unpredictable change of technology". 

The videos of three talks at the Belgian Java User Group (BeJUG) Enterprise SOA'07 Conference have been published on parleys.com. The videos include two keynotes of Anne Thomas Manes, Research Director with Burton Group and Stefan Tilkov, CEO of innoQ and Lead Editor at InfoQ, and talk by Paul Fremantle, Co-Founder of WSO2 & co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee.

Speakers from WSO2 will bring to you talks on few interesting topics on Web Services & SOA such as Apache Axis2, Synapse and other WS-* projects, Web services Mashup technology, open source SOA pltforms etc.

Cal Henderson, best known for co-owning and developing the online creative community B3ta lists talks made or planning to make at various conferences on Web topics.