Fifth International Workshop on SOA and Web Services Best Practices

Still more room for additional participants!!

If you like to attend, send an e-mail to anders.aas.bjerkestrand[at]bekk.no

Invited talks:

• Ali Arsanjani, Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence, IBM Global Services
  
  
• Gregor Hohpe, author of the seminal book "Enterprise Integration Patterns", Google
  Design Patterns have enjoyed enormous popularity in the software community and have become somewhat of a fad. This can make it challenging to distinguish patterns that convey new knowledge from recipes or tutorials that have been cast into patterns form. This talk examines the role patterns play in the adoption of new technologies and architectural styles. In particular it describes why the shift to service-oriented architectures requires us to discover, document, and share new patterns.

More info, see: program

The W3C defines Web services as software systems designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interactions over a communications network. Many of today's Web services are basic APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services. However, Web services can also be used to implement an architecture adhering to the principles of Service-oriented architecture (SOA). In SOA, the basic unit of communication is the exchange of message documents, rather than the invocation of an operation in a remote object. SOA principles include modularity, layering, loose coupling, and service virtualization; important SOA patterns are Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), service composition (process choreography), and service registry.

SOA and Web services are supported by nearly all major software vendors and industry analysts. However, there are many challenges in the area of engineering SOA. In this 5th International Workshop on SOA and Web Services, we will explore best-practices in the adoption, design, implementation, management and monitoring of SOA- and Web services-related methods, tools and technologies. The workshop brings industry and academia together to publish a compendium of best practices.

The workshop is open to all researchers and industrial practitioners interested in SOA, Web services and related areas.

This workshop is a continuation of a highly successful series of workshops at OOPSLA 2006, OOPSLA 2005, OOPSLA 2004, and OOPSLA 2003, which each had over 30 participants.

In this 5th International Workshop on Service-oriented Architecture and Web Services, we will explore best-practices in the adoption, design, implementation, management and monitoring or SOA and Web services related methods, tools and technologies of this rapidly maturing discipline.

We will bring industry and academia together to publish a compendium of best-practices.