Web services are ideal for integrating third-party services into your applications. However, SOAP-based Web services are based on the request-response model like most Web sites. To provide finely grained functionalities, the RPC API is often very verbose and requires multiple network round-trips to perform a simple task. That has posed a performance problem and a reliability problem for rich client applications, especially mobile clients that consume those Web services. In this talk, I will discuss how middleware solutions, such as Eclipse RCP and OSGi mobile, can help make Web services more efficient via intelligent client-side proxies. The new generation of lightweight aspect-oriented middleware, such as the JBoss microcontainer, makes it very easy to provision and utilize services in rich clients.

Who says VB.NET programmers can't develop object-oriented applications? This session will show you how you can amaze your friends and co-workers with these techniques. We will start with the basics of OO and move into the more advanced techniques of inheritance, polymorphism, and encapsulation. Then we will explore how you can use these advanced techniques to create asynchronous Web service calls and provide better application performance.

Rich client, thick client, thin client - what are they? What are the benefits of rich client, in particular Java Rich Client? This session presents an overview of the various client technologies, in particular various Java-based rich-client solutions, including Swing/AWT, SWT, and XML. Further, it analyzes the trade-off between these different Java-rich client technologies, and presents real-world case studies to justify the ROI of Java-Rich Client solutions.

A broad range of new security threats is facing enterprises implementing XML Web services, leaving the enterprises open to financial risks, loss of property, and tarnished reputations. The basic rules of security - authentication, authorization, and auditing - no longer provide adequate security in the new world of straight-through processing paths into mission-critical systems. What's worse, WSDL documents provide a guide book to security exposure. Most attacks on traditional Web-based applications exploit weaknesses in HTML-enabled custom, or packaged, applications. However, hackers and other malicious users are quickly uncovering new techniques at the SOAP/XML data level that bypass HTML and target weaknesses in Web services programming, technology, and architecture. This session will outline the innovative techniques that hackers use to map out the vulnerabilities of an organization's network, and how Web server security must now complement Web services security in order to provide an adequate defense.

Implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) for Fortune 50 corporations takes more than a hit-or-miss approach. This presentation will provide attendees with insights into a practical, lessons-learned approach to the implementation of an SOA architecture through a short examination of some composite applications and a panel discussion. The opening of the presentation will use demonstrations to present an overview of the business problems and architectural goals of one key client's march to SOA. The following panel discussion addresses SOA concerns by allowing audience members to interact with a panel of experts on User Interface Design, Business Analysis, and Technical Architecture on best practices and lessons learned. Come to this session armed with your business problems and key questions to help all of us better understand the SOA world.

Web services hold great promise for exposing functionality to the outside world. They allow organizations to quickly connect disparate systems in a platform-neutral manner. The real challenge occurs when Web services need to address the underlying complexity and inflexibility of the systems they connect together. While Web services provide an interface to connect systems ? there remains the increasing complexity of the applications you have built, and are currently building, which sits behind those interfaces.1060 NetKernel applies the underlying architectural principles of the Web and Web services together with Unix-like scheduling and pipelines to provide radical flexibility and improved simplicity by providing a platform to apply service-oriented architecture throughout your application environment. Developed through the exploration of some of the most complex Internet commerce systems, 1060 NetKernel will allow you to apply service oriented abstraction to any application, component, or service.

Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOAs) are emerging as an integral part of the enterprise IT strategy. According to a recent IDC study, Web services-related revenue is expected to triple from $1.1 billion worldwide in 2003, to $3.4 billion in 2004, and $16.6 billion by 2008. As SOAs proliferate and the number of Web services added to them increases, standards will play an increasingly significant role. This session will look at the state of key Web services standards such as WS-Choreography, WS-Reliability and WS-ReliableMessaging, SOAP/MTOM/XOP, WSDL, XPath, XQuery, and WS-Notification as well as related Java standards and open source efforts. It will also look at the organizational impact of standards adoption in the industry.

Any modern financial trading system is a complex distributed application that runs on multiple platforms and consists of components and services that have to communicate with each other. This presentation is about using JMS and message-oriented middleware as a backbone that provides a fast and reliable delivery mechanism between various components and tiers of such systems. This presentation is based on my real-world experience in design, development, and production support of an application that had to wire together midrange computers with J2EE and LDAP servers, non-Java stock exchange software, and mainframe legacy reporting systems.

Salesforce.com's sforce Web services API features one of the most innovative and widely used enterprise class Web services. In designing this Web service, the developers had to navigate several challenging issues in how best to create an effective Web service that did not sacrifice capability or simplicity. Learn about the design patterns and techniques developed for this service, and how they might be useful in the development of your widely deployed and sophisticated Web services.

An up-to-date, comprehensive, and practical discussion of Web services security, and the first to cover the final release of new standards SAML 1.1 and WS-Security. Comprehensive coverage and practical examples of the industry standards XML Signature and XML Encryption will be presented.

SPOT is a new Microsoft technology intended to dramatically increase the usefulness of everyday objects by bringing them firmly into the era of high technology. As just one example, MSN Direct is a new service that can wirelessly deliver up-to-the-minute news, weather, and other essential information to Smart Watches. This session will take you on a brief but informative tour of SPOT and what it will do for you and your business.

Despite the open industry standards that underlie Web services, interoperability has been a key challenge for vendors and customers implementing Web services. One reason for this is that the relevant industry standards often permit multiple acceptable implementation alternatives. This presentation will discuss in detail the challenge of Web services interoperability and the role played by the premier industry organization formed to address it, the Web Services Interoperability Organization. In particular, the presentation will cover the critical importance of WS-I profiles to an organization's Web services initiatives, including the manner in which companies can put WS-I profiles immediately to work.

The mainstreaming of SOAs requires a more general approach to the notion of identities - beyond simply central management of people identities and into the realm of managing applications, devices, and other identities that represent entities that are first-class participants in this application network while also providing this as a pluggable service into the larger enterprise SOA. Enterprises should view identity as a service that is ubiquitously available and is a shared infrastructure service necessary for application networking, rather than as being managed by a server, such as an Authentication or Access server. While it makes architectural sense to consider an Identity service, there are business and related drivers that may force the need to deploy such an architecture.

This session teaches developers how to get up and running in the field of Web services. The talk begins with an overview of Web services, highlighting their purpose and benefits. Along the way, developers will learn the strengths and weaknesses of SOAP, XML-RPC, and REST, the three major Web services protocols. After laying a theoretical foundation, the talk continues on to design considerations in real-life Web services. Using the eBay API as a case study, you'll see the factors a company needs to consider when deploying a Web service interface and how that influences their offerings. Finally, developers will learn how to implement Web services clients using PHP to access the eBay platform.

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has quickly taken center stage as the primary development style of the next decade and beyond. Businesses of all types are preparing for the SOA revolution that promises consistency of process, reduction in duplicate work, ease of maintenance, service reusability, and broad interoperability. The Web Services Framework (WSF) is the foundation that can deliver on the promise of SOA. Come learn about the components of an SOA including the core WSF standards. Attend this free Novell tutorial and learn about the future of SOA-style development, including legacy system enablement, platform interoperability, open source in SOA, and building composite applications that leverage SOA services using Novell exteNd. In this session we will create SOA application logic that orchestrates legacy services, JBoss4 Web services and MS.Net Web services. We will create Web services in Novell exteNd, Eclipse, and Visual Studio respectively. We will then orchestrate these Web services and expose a single course, process-level interface to public Web service consumers. Finally, we will create multiple service consumers in Novell exteNd and Macromedia Flash.

Why do developers favor Java technology for developing Web services? Java technology is the most ready platform for Web services and service-oriented architectures, complete with interoperability, platform independence, and security built-in. This tutorial will review several Java technologies for Web services standards that have been developed or are currently being updated through the Java Community Process sm (JCP sm) program as JSRs - Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC), Java API for XML Binding (JAXB), Java API for XML Processing (JAXP), Java API for XML Registries (JAXR), JSR 109, Implementing Java Web Services, JSR 172, J2ME Web Services and JSR 173, The Streaming API for XML (StAX). Also to be highlighted: JSR 244, Java 2 Platform, Enterprise, Edition 5.0 Specification, JSR 181,Web Services Metadata for the Java Plaform, JSR 208, and Java Business Integration.