I've been invited to give the following talk at BEA Participate:
Why is a Service-Oriented Architecture important to an IT infrastructure and what are the elements and products needed to build out an SOA? These questions answered, plus a discussion on how portals are the practical starting point to leveraging SOA.
Quite honestly, the title and abstract make it sound like an invitation to engage in a lively game of buzzword bingo, but I assure you this talk will be light on the trite -- you won't hear me use the acronym SOA more than once or twice -- and heavy on the real deal, rubber-meets-the-road stuff about how mere mortals/human beings are actually accomplishing the sort of things that SOA evangelists are preaching these days.
So, here's what you can expect: I'll talk a bit about some of the challenges of building integrated user experiences in today's enormously complex and heterogeneous IT environment and show how a software developer -- without superpowers -- can piece together an integrated true-to-the-principals-of-SOA application using ALUI, ALDSP (Data Services Platform) and ALESB (Enterprise Service Bus). This will culminate in an actual, real-life demo.
I will of course make sure to sacrifice a chicken to the Almighty Goddess of Demos or do whatever else I have to do to make sure my demo doesn't crash. Scratch that, I'll just run it on Linux and everything will be fine.
So, all joking aside, if you have any ideas for items you'd like me to include in (or exclude from) my talk, please post your comments here. I'll be sure to give anyone who makes a good suggestion a "shout out" during my presentation. They're actually giving me a whole hour this time, so they'll be room for plenty of tomfoolery, geekspeak, silly anecdotes and still time to answer your insightful questions at the end. As one of my good friends and business partners said following my talk at last year's BEA World,
you never know what to expect during one of [Chris Bucchere's] talks.
I'm not sure exactly what he meant, but of course I took it as a compliment.
In closing, while we're on the subject of BEA Participate, I just wanted to say thanks to Christine "Obi" Wan for giving me the opportunity to present and, more importantly, for putting together such a great-looking agenda, which you can review if you like, because now it's posted on the BEA Participate site.
In the meantime, do your best to convince the powers that be at your company/organization that they will finally discover the secret to "leveraging SOA" if they send you to this conference. Also, please don't mention that every past Odyssey has had several open bars.
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Posted by: Bryazgin on April 13, 2007 at 7:03 AM
Posted by: Bryazgin on April 13, 2007 at 7:25 AM
To illustrate how not being "seamless" is actually a good thing, I've designed a demo system that involves bits of LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP), bits of Java, bits of .NET and bits of Adobe Flash all held together with seams built with ALDSP, ALESB and ALUI. I'm still working on the technical side of things, but the use case is simple: a sales rep wants to quote his customer. Behind the scenes, his company is running a LAMP CRM server, a Flash/SQLServer product database, a .NET portal, and a Java-based Collaboration Server. Using a hybrid of ALDSP, ALESB and Java and .NET web services, the user experience is easy and seamless, but behind the scenes, it's the powerful seams supported by ALDSP and ALESB that make this not only possible, but fairly straightforward.
If you're interested in hearing more, register for BEA Participate and [shameless plug]come to my talk[/shameless plug]! By the way, I'm co-presenting with Joseph Stanko, the BEA Engineering Manager responsible for the development of Ensemble (formerly known as Project Runner) -- he will run several slides to help you understand the theory behind SOA and I will show the reality of how the AquaLogic stack truly enables SOA in the enterprise.
Posted by: bucchere on April 14, 2007 at 6:07 AM
If you're "participating" it would great to see you at our talk or at the bdg booth. This year we have a cool -- yet practical -- giveway that will definitely brighten your day. Looking forward to the conference!
Posted by: bucchere on April 22, 2007 at 7:52 PM