About the Symposium

Composability within SOA

Produced by OASIS and supported by analyst firm, IDC , and Open CSA, the OASIS Member Section that advances SCA and SDO

Join key decision makers and implementers of SOA solutions at Open Standards 2008. This exciting two-day event will explore the advantages of applying Service-Oriented Architecture techniques for assembling and tuning applications developed on different platforms and managed by different owners. You'll learn how others are addressing challenges, share your own viewpoints, compare notes, make connections, and explore why open standards are critical to success.

This year's event opens with keynote addresses from Peter Carbone, Vice President—Service Oriented Architecture at Nortel and Douglas Shoupp, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP; and will close with an interactive panel where industry vendors and practitioners come together to discuss SOA within vertical industries.

<Attend and Discover>


• New ways enterprise mashups and SOA can be brought together to address the enterprise composite application puzzle

• Real business scenarios of successfully deployed SOA applications that take advantage of Web service transactions

• Solutions using asynchronous services through the use of the Service Component Architecture (SCA), with Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), and Java components

• Real-world projects that address many of the critical issues faced when architecting service-oriented applications

• Flexible business processes built on SCA, Service Data Objects (SDO), and BPEL

• How using open standards makes it easier to create, maintain, and manage composite applications

• Enterprise and eGovernment case studies of rich composite applications created using Ajax technologies atop services in SOA implementations

• The use of mapping relations to enable the composition of Web services

• Lesson learned and limitations imposed by composing a set of existing Web services to provide a specific business function

• Architectural alternatives for composition of SOA systems and the implications for security identity management and trust brokering

• The business value driving SOA deployments, the standards that help build useful composite applications, and the future of SOA in building business value

• Best practices and regional usage standards for SOA technologies and related standards

And much more...


<Who Should Attend>

CIOs, system integrators, and senior IT decision-makers anxious to learn more about building composable Service-Oriented Business Applications using SCA, SDO, and related specifications like WS-BPEL, SOA-RM, WS-Transaction should plan to attend.

In addition to the Symposium program, attendees can chose from <Hands-On Tutorials> covering:


• Securing data across the enterprise using SOA

• Semantic business process management

• Effective standards work

• Proposed Standards for End-to-End Resource Planning

• Building composite applications with SCA, Apache Tuscany, and SDO

• Deploying composable solutions

• Composing meaningful documents

• Using web services standards and open source implementations to develop an eGovernment interoperability framework


<Sponsors & Exhibits>

OASIS is pleased to announce that SAP, a leading provider of business software, is the event's Premiere Sponsor. Primeton joins Software AG as Symposium Classic Sponsors. Other sponsors include BEA, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. A special section within the exhibit area is designated for supporters of SCA and SDO. The current exhibitor list includes all the above sponsors, as well as our newest addition, Rogue Wave.

<Early-Bird and Group Discounts Available> -- Register Today!


<A Special Thanks To The Symposium Program Committee>

The Program Committee comprises of OASIS Technical Advisory Board (TAB) members:

  • Abbie Barbir, Nortel
  • William Barnhill, Booz Allen Hamilton (Symposium Co-Chair)
  • Martin Chapman, Oracle
  • William Cox, Individual Member
  • Jacques Durand, Fujitsu (Symposium Co-Chair)
  • Andy Lee, Changfeng Open Standards Platform
    Software Alliance
  • Hal Lockhart, BEA Systems
  • Mary McRae, OASIS