Presentation: "Guerrilla SOA"
Time: Thursday 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Metropolitan I
With the emergence of Web Services and the evolution of WS-* standards, the enterprise application integration vendors were quick to realise their traditional business model was under threat. On the back of their large installed bases, vendor products were offered to customers to help them deploy and manage their attempts to develop Service Oriented Architectures, with the implication that Web Services were of little use without additional middleware to deal with their alledged inherent complexity.
In this talk Jim will discuss how Web Services can constitute a robust integration fabric, providing the same benefits as proprietary middleware without vendor lock-in, and show how incremental, endpoint-centric integration is a viable strategy for enterprise service-oriented systems.