ABOUT THE SPEAKER Toufic Boubez is a well-respected and renowned Web services visionary. Prior to cofounding Layer 7 Technologies, Toufic was the chief Web services architect for IBM’s Software Group and drove their early XML and Web services strategies. He is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences. He is an author of many publications and his most recent book is the top-selling Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL ,and UDDI. SESSION DESCRIPTION Too often today the preferences, terms, and conditions describing how a Web service behaves when discovered and invoked is programmed right into the business logic. Hard-coding this behavior logic however introduces cost, complexity, and rigidity into a Web services architecture. A better approach is to abstract a Web services usage 'policy' out of code where this metadata can be managed as need be. This session introduces the concept of Web Services Policy and describes how the construct can be used to implement a more customized and versatile Web service infrastructure.