SOA is mostly associated to technologies such as BPEL, SCA and Web Services. But does SOA really imply these technologies? In this session we will show how you can use the service oriented approach while staying inside the Java world. jBPM is a powerful lightweight framework that can be used to orchestrate services in the broadest sense. It is highly extendable, very versatile and can be easily embedded in client and/or server applications. Attendees will learn how jBPM can be used in a pure workflow scenario as well as in a situation involving automated business steps.

Speaker Bio: Koen Aers is a senior software developer at JBoss. He is currently driving the Eclipse support for the JBoss jBPM project. He has been part of the jBPM team since April 2004 and became a JBoss employee when the jBPM project joined JBoss. Koen graduated as a civil engineer from the Belgian Royal Military Academy and obtained a Master's degree in information technology at the Brussels Free University. Before joining JBoss, he worked respectively in the IT department of the Belgian Army and as a software consultant, first for Unisys and as an independent afterwards.

SOAWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East
June 23-24, 2008 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City
SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East brings together the best minds in the business for a two-day conference that offers comprehensive coverage of SOA and what it means to enterprise IT today.

Service-oriented architectures have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled Web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions.

Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) have evolved over the past few years out of the original vision of loosely coupled web services replacing constrained, stovepiped applications throughout enterprise IT. Every major enterprise technology vendor today has developed its own SOA strategy, supported by innumerable mid-size companies and start-ups offering specific SOA aspects or entire solutions. This explosive growth in SOA technology is in response to a global demand--IDC estimates that spending on SOA services alone will grow from $8.6 billion to more than $33 billion by 2010.

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Attend SOA World Conference & Expo 2008 East and learn from more than 100 speakers about how SOA is transforming business – and the way IT and business managers think about their businesses, processes, and technology. The topics will include:

• Enterprise Mash-Ups
• SOA and Web 2.0
• SOBAs
• Patterns and Anti-Patterns
• Governance Enforcement
• AJAX RIA and SOA
• Run-Time Governance
• Wikis and Lightweight Software
• Policy-Driven SOA
• Complex Event Processing
• Windows Interoperability
• EAI Without the Cost
• Mixed Portal Environments
• Reference Architecture

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In 2007, SOA World Conference & Expo was sponsored by the world’s leading SOA companies including Active Endpoints, BEA Systems, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, TIBCO Software, WSO2, IBM, Parasoft, webMethods, Sybase, B-hive, iTKO, Managed Methods, Mellanox Technologies, Nastel, NextAxiom, RingCube, Two Roads Professional Resources, Web Age Solutions, Solstice Software, Fiorano Software, iTKO, Layer 7 Technologies, PushToTest, Ruby on Gears, Farata Systems, Tenfold, Thinstall, Trivera Technologies, BZMedia, Extension Media, GoingToMeet, ITtoolbox, Methods & Tools, SDTimes, Software Test & Performance, TechTracker Media, ZapThink, OASIS, and SOA Consortium.

• SOA Management Fundamentals and Best Practices
• Facelift Your SOA with Rich Internet Applications
• Red Hat to Present at SOA World Conference & Expo in New York City
• A Little SOA Goes A Long Way
• Implementing a Highly Distributed, Real-time Data-critical SOA Application
• Avoiding a SOA Fiasco: An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
• New Perspectives on Governance, Management, and Industry Standards in the Service-Oriented Enterprise
• SOA and the Internet: An Architectural View
• Where Are We with SOA ...and Where Do We Need to Be?
• The End of Middleware As You Know It
• Complex Event Processing - The Secret Weapon for SOA Application Performance Management
• SOA + RUP = Service Oriented Unified Process
• Making Sense of the BPM & SOA Standards Alphabet Soup
• On the Wireless Fringes of SOA
• Digital Identity and Service-Oriented Architecture - Hope and Glory
• SOA and Virtualization: Friend or Foe?