Keywords: e-Business, Service-oriented Architecture, Web Services, XML
Biography
Duane Nickull is the Senior Standards Strategist for Adobe Systems. He works and lives in Vancouver, BC.
Duane has participated in several key Service Oriented Architecture efforts in the last decade including writing major portions of the ebXML Technical Architecture, participating in the W3C Web Services Architecture Group, Chairing the United Nation's CEFACT eBusiness Architecture Working Group and now chairing the OASIS eBusiness SOA Technical Committee
The OASIS eBusiness SOA is highly relevant to both eGovernment and eBusiness users. It accounts for web services standards like WSDL, SOAP, WS-I, ebXML and UDDI as part of a process centric, event driven architecture.
This presentation should be of interest to any who follow ebXML or Web Service standards as it is a focal point for binding the technologies together.
Service Oriented Architecture or SOA is an architectural paradigm. SOA itself is not new however a flurry of standards activity surrounding SOA makes it difficult to define exactly what SOA is and isn't. The OASIS eBusiness SOA TC was formed to define and develop a service oriented architecture to meet the requirements for electronic business on a global scale.
The TC started in April 2004 and has already begun producing a normative eBusiness SOA specification. The specification will be presented in three parts - a base specification, a catalog of normative SOA patterns and the patterns themselves. The patterns are conformant to the TC's patterns metamodel
The TC's work is not dependent on specific standards however, it does account for work done in several standards bodies including WS-I, W3C, UN/CEFACT and OASIS amongst others.
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