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September Event
Join us at the next meeting of the AITP Long Island Chapter
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the IT and Business Manager
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Event Details:
Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - Milleridge Cottage, Jericho, NY.
Directions: http://www.milleridge.com/maps.cfm
11 AM to Noon — Pre-meeting workshop
12 noon to 2 PM – Luncheon and presentations
Fee includes lunch
$25/members $35/non-members
At the door $35/members $45/non-members
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Join us at this AITP meeting to hear from experts in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
“An introduction to SOA – what it is, and how you can benefit from it”
Our distinguished panel of speakers will discuss the technical and business issues surrounding SOA, including overall enterprise transformation, as well as the detailed technical benefits such as improved operations and lower operational and maintenance costs.
- Chris Dressler, Cablevision Systems, VP Technology Architect
- Claus Torp Jensen, IBM - Senior Architect - SOA Foundation Team
- David Koehler, Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) – Director, Systems Development
- Bill Mann, CA - SVP, Business Unit Strategy
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER – Gary Huth – Economist for the Nassau County Dept. of Labor giving us an “Update on the Technology “
11 AM Pre-meeting Workshop & Cocktail Hour Topic: Introduction to SOA
- Tami Cannizzaro, IBM - Director of the SOA Marketing Organization and Industry Solutions – come and learn about SOA and network with your colleagues in the industry!
This month’s workshop and wine and hors d’oeuvres hour is sponsored by mindSHIFT Technologies! www.mindshift.com.
Program Co-chairs – Bob Barone, Assistant Dean, St John’s University & Nick Mattera, Divisional Vice President, mindSHIFT.
Here are some useful SOA links:
Definition of SOA from the W3C Working Group:
http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/#service_oriented_architecture
A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a form of distributed systems architecture that is typically characterized by the following properties:
Logical view: The service is an abstracted, logical view of actual programs, databases, business processes, etc., defined in terms of what it does, typically carrying out a business-level operation.
Message orientation: The service is formally defined in terms of the messages exchanged between provider agents and requester agents, and not the properties of the agents themselves. The internal structure of an agent, including features such as its implementation language, process structure and even database structure, are deliberately abstracted away in the SOA: using the SOA discipline one does not and should not need to know how an agent implementing a service is constructed. A key benefit of this concerns so-called legacy systems. By avoiding any knowledge of the internal structure of an agent, one can incorporate any software component or application that can be "wrapped" in message handling code that allows it to adhere to the formal service definition.
Description orientation: A service is described by machine-processable meta data. The description supports the public nature of the SOA: only those details that are exposed to the public and important for the use of the service should be included in the description. The semantics of a service should be documented, either directly or indirectly, by its description.
Granularity: Services tend to use a small number of operations with relatively large and complex messages.
Network orientation: Services tend to be oriented toward use over a network, though this is not an absolute requirement.
Platform neutral: Messages are sent in a platform-neutral, standardized format delivered through the interfaces. XML is the most obvious format that meets this constraint.
SOA definition from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture
“Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software architecture where functionality is grouped around business processes and packaged as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participate in business processes. The aim is a loose coupling of services with operating systems, programming languages and other technologies which underlie applications.[1] SOA separates functions into distinct units, or services[2], which are made accessible over a network in order that they can be combined and reused in the production of business applications.[3] These services communicate with each other by passing data from one service to another, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services. SOA concepts are often seen as built upon, and evolving from older concepts of distributed computing[3][2] and modular programming.”
Google searches:
SOA
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SOA
What is SOA?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=What+is+SOA%3F&btnG=Search
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