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Workshop: "GET Connected: A Tutorial on Web-based Integration"
Time:
Monday 09:00 - 12:00
Location:
Henry Moore Room
Abstract:
The Web is fast becoming a serious competitor to traditional enterprise architecture approaches. This tutorial will provide an introduction to RESTful Web Service techniques, both from a theoretical and practical perspectives. The tutorial is broken down as follows:
- Introduction and Motivation
- The Web Architecture
- Simple Web Integration including POX and URI tunnelling
- CRUD Services using URI templates and HTTP
- Semantics using Microformats and RDF
- Hypermedia and the REST architectural style
- Scalability and how a text-based client-server polling protocol outperforms everything else!
- ATOM and ATOMPub for event-driven and pub/sub applications Security
- Conclusions and further thoughts
Participants should be comfortable with distributed computing concepts, but won't need any particular integration or middleware experience.
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Jim Webber, Global Head of Architecture, ThoughtWorks
Dr. Jim Webber is the Global Head of Architecture for ThoughtWorks where he
works with clients on delivering dependable service-oriented systems. Jim
was formerly a senior researcher with the UK E-Science programme where he
developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices
and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an
architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with
Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution.
Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the
book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide" in addition
to being a contributing author to other books and articles.
Jim holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and Ph.D. in Parallel Computing both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name.
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