SOA is apparently still alive

For those who say that SOA is dead, the second edition International SOA Symposium sounds like a resurrection!

This 2nd International SOA Symposium - Rotterdam, will be hold in October 22-23, 2009

In the other side, for the French SOA community the demonstration that SOA is alive will be made by the “SOA Forum :

http://www.itnewsinfo.com/invitation/SOA2009/index.html Mardi 6 October 2009 Paris

For 2nd International SOA Symposium, the topics are very varied: the traditional topics of SOA (Gouvernance, ESB, REST / SOAP, BAM...) and nails, SaaS and PaaS (Google Apps, Azure, ..):

• Defining Next Generation SO
• The Reincarnation of SOA
• SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture
• New Directions in Building Architectures in Support of Business Operations
• Next Generation Service-Orientation: The Grid, The Cloud, and The Bus
• Moving from Classic SOA to Next Generation SOA: A Study of Modern Architecture Refactoring
• Exorcising the Evil SOA: A Necessary Step Towards Next Generation SOA
• Next Generation SOA Practices and Patterns
• The Next Generation of Business-Driven SOA: The Convergence of Performance-Driven Business and Service-Orientation
• Next Generation SOA Security & Governance: New Threats, New Risks, New Opportunities
• The Critical Role of Architects in an Enterprise SOA
• The Convergence and Unification of SOA, EDA & BPM: Benefits and Challenges
• SOA Maturity Models
• Hacking Services
• Event-Driven SOA
• An In-Depth Look at Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture (SOMA)
• Service Modeling: Making Sure Your Services Deliver Value
• Modeling REST Service Capabilities
• Business Processes and Service Specifications
• Achieving Process Excellence: Closing the Gap Between Process Analysis, Modelling and Process Orchestration
• Service-Oriented Business Architecture and Business Model Innovation
• Results-driven Approach to SOA Adoption: A Roadmap for IT Managers
• Proving the Business Value of SOA Investments
• Why Business People & Software Architects / Engineers Don't Understand Each Other and How Enterprise Architects Can Bridge the Gap
• Value Creation Through Service-Orientation
• SOA Rollout Strategies
• The Service-Oriented Architecture Rationalization Framework
• Mission impossible? Applying Agile to the World of SOA and ERP
• The Future's In Scope, But Where Do We Start?
• SOA & Agile Development: A Use Case
• The Federal Service Bus: A Case Study About Governance
• A Case Study: Combining Services, Events and Rules
• The 2nd SOA Project at the Dutch Energy Sector: A Case Study About Learning from the Past
• The Real Business Case of SOA
• SOA Meets the Cloud
• SOA and the Private Enterprise Cloud, a Match Made in Heaven?
• Enabling Hybrid Enterprise Cloud SOA
• BI, BPM, and BRM Guide SOA Through The Cloud
• Securing Cloud-Based Services
• Integration with the Cloud: Securely Integrating Enterprise Systems with Google Apps
• Platform as a Service: Application Platform Metamorphosis
• Calculating ROI for Cloud Computing Projects
• Journey to the Center of the Cloud: Patterns for Claims-based Identity and Access
• SOA Governance Touch Points
• Understanding SOA Governance
• The Most Important Mistakes You Can Make With SOA Governance
• SOA Governance and Management Practices
• Governing REST-Style SOA
• Understanding SOA Security Patterns
• How Smart Use Cases Drive Service-Oriented Projects
• Real-Life Use Cases of SOA Design Patterns at the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration
• Service-Oriented Solution Evaluation Criteria
• REST-Inspired SOA Design Patterns (and Anti-Patterns)
• To ESB or Not to ESB: That is the Question
• SOA by Mainframe
• Navigating the Bermuda Triangle
• Embedded SOA
• Building the Modern ESB with the Microsoft ESB Toolkit: An Architectural Overview With a Focus on Dynamic Messaging
• User Interfaces and SOA
• Jumpstarting SOA Adoption Using Portals: The Vision-In Approach
• An Insider's Look at BizTalk Server 2009: Integration Server, SOA Foundation, Gateway to Azure
• The Service Repository, Modern Toy or Critical Governance Tool?
• Building .NET Services for Collaboration and Composition
• This is Not a REST Talk
• Techniques for Composing REST Services
• Hydras and Hypermedia
• Introducing Transactions to REST
• Hypermedia: The Confusing Bit from REST
• Lessons Learned in the Real World: Priming Services into Production
• Citizen-Centric Government: A Happy Marriage Between SOA and Semantics
• U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense: An SOA Case Study
• SOA at the U.S. Joint Forces Command
• Event-Driven SOA in a Dredging Environment
• SOA Design Patterns in the Cloud
• Next Generation Services: The Implications of Software + Services (aka The End of One-Size-Fits-All IT)
• SOA, Software + Services & Cloud Computing
• Latency Threatens the SOA Cloud
• Stratus, Cumulus or Nimbus: What Type of Cloud are You Building?
• Building a Brokerage Marketplace to Sell services in the Cloud
• Amazon Web Services: Cloud Computing for the Enterprise
• Cloud Application Architecture: Rebuilding applications for the cloud
• Data Analytics in the Cloud

in reference à : 2nd International SOA Symposium - Rotterdam, October 22-23, 2009 (made with the Google Sidewiki)