Versioning your SOA

Learn how to manage service oriented architecture applications over time. This talk will focus on how to deploy a SOA application and version components individually. It discusses the finer points of upgrades and how to architect your system so that each deployment doesn't mean stopping and starting "the whole world" and how to attempt to achieve the "four nines" (99.99%) uptime ideal.

Attendees should walk away with a complete vocabulary for how to discuss versioning of applications, numerous architectures and designs that can assist in versioning, and well balanced, unbiased overview of four different types of SOA (WebServices, Tuple Spaces/JavaSpaces, Jini and ESB).

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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