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SOA Track @ QCon SF

Stefan Tilkov, Oct 17, 2007

I’m very much looking forward to the SOA track at QCon, the conferences organized by JAOO and InfoQ, which takes place in San Francisco in November. I am “hosting” the track, which essentially means that I picked the topic, invited the speakers, and will talk for 15 minutes in exchange for being able to have a lot of fun in San Francisco :-)

We have been able to get an exceptionally great list of speakers for the SOA track (the topic is “Connecting SOA and the Web: How much REST do we need?”):

Steve Vinoski, former CORBA Guru #1 at IONA, will introduce the REST concept for those familiar with SOA (“REST Eye for the SOA Guy”). See his blog entry
Sanjiva Weerawarana, CEO of WSO2, will explain what he considers the real truth behind the WS-* vs. REST discussion (“WS-* vs. REST: Mashing up the Truth from Facts, Myths and Lies”)
Burton Group analyst Pete Lacey will counter Sanjiva’s talk by showing how REST is suitable for big bad enterprise scenarios (“Code Talks: Demonstrating the ‘ilities’ of REST”)
XFire and CXF developer Dan Diephouse will explain how to use AtomPub to build services (“Building your next service with the Atom Publishing Protocol”)
Finally, Jim Webber will elaborate on his approach to Web services, which according to him is remarkably similar to REST done right (“A couple of ways to skin an Internet-scale cat”). I can also heartily recommend his Guerilla SOA talk — the version of it he gave at QCon London is among my all-time favorite presentations. Jim has got a blog entry about QCon, too.

As you will probably notice if you’re a regular visitor here, I’ve somehow managed to assemble my personal speaker “dream team” :-)

Check out the complete schedule — there are lots of other impressive tracks and speakers, too.

I hear that registration is still possible …