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Jim Webber, SOA Practice Lead, ThoughtWorks

Jim Webber, SOA Practice Lead, ThoughtWorks

Dr. Jim Webber is the Global Head of Architecture for ThoughtWorks where he works with clients on delivering dependable service-oriented systems. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution.

Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide" in addition to being a contributing author to other books and articles.

Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name.

Presentation: "Guerrilla SOA"

Time: Thursday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: Metropolitan I

Abstract:

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.

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Presentation: "A couple of ways to skin an Internet-scale cat"

Time: Thursday 17:15 - 18:15

Location: City

Abstract:

The Web is alive with furious debate on the future of integration. With the former new kid on the block - Web Services - being forced to contend with the jihadist fury of the upstart REST-based approach.

This talk will explore the fundamental REST concepts and show how they can be used to created robust integration solutions - with all those -ilities that we love, but without all the complex middleware.

We'll explore how RESTful solutions can be applied to enterprise domains used by real developers writing with those "boring" statically typed languages, rather than just the Ruby fanboys (though fanboys will also be well catered for). In a shocking conclusion we'll also see that REST done right and SOA done well are actually rather similar beasts...

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