I did mention that securing Sandy Carter and Dave Linthicum to headline our upcoming meeting in DC was the start of a great program, with more announcements to come. Didn't I? Today, I'm pleased to announce three new invited speakers, all well-recognizable in the SOA world.
On Wednesday afternoon, Cory Casanave and JP Morgenthal share their insights and expertise on two topics of interest to SOA practitioners, SOA modeling and the relationship between SOA & BPM.
Cory Casanave, CEO, Model Driven Solutions & ModelDriven.org, on Enterprise SOA with the new OMG SoaML UML profile
Cory will introduce the new SOAml specification in the context of practitioner usage, modeling in an Enterprise SOA environment. According to the specification (pdf):
"The SoaML (Service oriented architecture Modeling Language) specification describes a UML profile and metamodel for the design of services within a service-oriented architecture.
The goals of SoaML are to support the activities of service modeling and design and to fit into an overall model-driven development approach. Of course, there are many ways to approach the problems of service design. Should it be taken from the perspective of a service consumer who requests that a service be built? Should it be taken from the perspective of a service provider that advertises a service to those who are interested and qualified to use it? Or, should it be taken from the perspective of a system design that
describes how consumers and providers will interact to achieve overall objectives? Rather than presume any particular method, the profile and metamodel accommodate all of these different perspectives in a consistent and cohesive approach to describing consumers requirements, providers offerings and the interaction and agreements between them.The SoaML profile supports the range of modeling requirements for service-oriented architectures, including the specification of systems of services, the specification of individual service interfaces, and the specification of service implementations. This is done in such a way as to support the automatic generation of derived artifacts following an MDA based approach."
JP Morgenthal, Independent IT Architecture Consultant, on Disassembling the SOA & BPM Relationship:
SOA & BPM are strange bedfellows for sure. Each one, alone, struggles to be understood, yet the industry is fast to couple them. However, if we explore this coupling in more depth, there is little detail as to how these two entities relate on anything more than a pure technical implementation level. Is that the only relationship they share? Should these two entities have a deeper relationship? In this talk, JP Morgenthal will break down the underpinnings of SOA & BPM and illustrate the real story behind SOA & BPM.
On Thursday morning, Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink adds to the SOA practitioner knowledgebase with a talk SOA Futures: Growing your EA Skills and the Long Tail:
In this talk, ZapThink Managing Partner Ronald Schmelzer will discuss how to advance both the state of SOA adoption and your SOA careers by focusing on where the rubber meets the road: providing effective, efficient, and agile response to mission and business needs without introducing high costs, unpredictable infrastructure, or organizational chaos. Using material from ZapThink's latest Licensed ZapThink Architect (LZA) training boot camp, Ron will walk attendees through some of the latest best practices on SOA adoption and explain how you can further your business goals and career by doing SOA well.
As always, the meeting is open to the public. Join us if you can.
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