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Dear SIS Students,
SIS and IBM are proud to present a talk cum demonstration on Web services this coming 8 October. This talk is especially relevant for Year 2 students taking the course on Enterprise Integration next semester. Web services are touted to be the "super glue" which facilitate different systems or services to integrate in a heterogeneous environment. Details of the talks are as follow:
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Speed-start Web services
Date: 8 October 2004, Friday
Time: 2.00pm - 5.00pm
Venue: SMU Auditorium |
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About the Session:
Service Oriented Architecture: The Future of IT |
An urgent problem faces IT shops today. They have software written for a variety of platforms that cannot interoperate, yet they need to accomplish efficient integration of these systems, both internally and among business partners. They need to be able to use their legacy software along with the latest technologies for new development. It needs to work between software from different vendors and on a variety of platforms. Accomplishing integration is not enough by itself: systems need to be integrated in a way that is flexible and can be revised easily to deal with new competitive threats, emerging market opportunities, and customer demand.
You may not know it now, but SOA and Web services are probably the most important technologies you will need to know when you graduate, whether you aspire to programming or business analysis. SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) is based on reusable application components (or services) that can be used to build new applications, or to build new services out of other services, in a building-block fashion. Web service is a set of platform-neutral and vendor-neutral standards, all based on XML to achieve interoperability, that define the way we use services while hiding the underlying technologies. And instead of making the problem worse by using traditional coding to accomplish integration, we are now able to drive the use of the application components through business process modeling.
This talk will introduce the problems that IT faced, the concepts of SOA and Web services, and provide demonstrations of products available today that speed the creating and use of Services. You will see how services can be created from legacy code as well as being used as a natural extension of modern programming languages like Java. To help you learn more about SOA and Web services after this talk, we will provide extensive resources to help you learn on your own.
About the Speaker:
Jeff Miller is an e-business architect and member of the e-business architect team. He has over 22 years of software development experience as an electrical engineer, software developer and architect. Jeff has worked for MultiMate, Ashton-Tate, and Lotus (among others) and was a founding partner and vice president of international development at Software By Design, a software consulting company. His current focus at IBM is on architecture, design, development, and, in particular, security for Web and enterprise applications. He works with Business Partners and customers; he consults, mentors, codes, and teaches. Jeff is an IBM Certified for e-business - Solution Designer and Solution Technologist, and is IBM-certified on WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Studio Application Developer. He received his master's degree in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Mark Colan is Evangelist of SOA and Web Services Technology for IBM Corporation. He gives technical, keynote, and customer presentations on SOA and Web Services technologies and strategy, and has spoken at most XML and Web Services conferences in 2000 through 2004, as well as Java One '98 and '99. With over 20 years experience in designing and implementing commercial software products and technologies, Mark is well versed in component software strategies, operating systems, and software tools.
Seats are limited and will be available on a first come first serve basis. |
