Presentation: "REST Eye for the SOA Guy"

Time: Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: City

Abstract:

The "REST vs. SOA" debate started in earnest shortly after SOAP was unveiled seven or eight years ago, and it hasn't stopped since. In many cases, the debate is carried out by individuals without much detailed knowledge of the side they're arguing against.

In this talk, Steve will try to explain the fundamentals of REST from the perspective of a long-time developer of service-oriented systems. He'll cover the fundamental architectural constraints of the REST style, and compare and contrast them to the SOA style.

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Steve Vinoski, Verivue

Steve Vinoski

Steve Vinoski is a member of technical staff at Verivue, a startup in Westford, MA, USA. He was previously chief architect and Fellow at IONA Technologies for a decade, and prior to that held various software and hardware engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard, Apollo Computer, and Texas Instruments.

Over the past 15 years, Steve has authored or co-authored approximately 70 highly-regarded publications on distributed computing and enterprise integration for magazines such as IEEE Internet Computing, C/C++ Users Journal, and C++ Report, and co-authored the book "Advanced CORBA Programming with C++" with Michi Henning, published in 1999.

Since early 2002 he has written a regular column entitled "Toward Integration" for IEEE Internet Computing, and serves as a member of its editorial board. Steve first wrote about REST in his July/August 2002 "Toward Integration" column, and his January/February 2007 column, entitled "REST Eye for the SOA Guy," serves as the inspiration for his QCon talk. Steve is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.