SOA Topologies

This talk will cover many of the different types of SOA topologies from EJBs and WebServices all the way to message queues and tuple spaces. SOA has many different meanings but it never dictates a single implementation and this talk covers many of the most common implementations of a service oriented architecture.

During the course of this talk we'll cover EJBs, JMS and general message queues, Jini, JavaSpaces, WebServices and ESBs. We'll discuss the pros and cons of each topology and what makes each a better or worse solution for various problems. We'll also cover the fundamentals of network computing and why it is important to understand that SOA is distributed and the impact distribution has on the selection and implementation of the topology of an application.

Attendees should walk away with a more broad understanding of SOA and the numerous ways of implementing this architecture. They should also understand how to go about selecting the correct topology or mix of topologies to meet the needs of their applications.

About Brian Pontarelli

Brian Pontarelli is the founder and president of Inversoft, a Colorado based software company. In addition to Inversoft, Brian works on many open source projects including Struts, Savant and Java.net commons. In the past, he was the president of the Chicago Java User Group and an enterprise architect for Orbitz.

Brian has been programming for many years and works primarily with Java and Ruby. He has published various articles in both print and online magazines about Java, J2EE security, Java Server Faces and NIO.

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