Paul Fremantle, VP of Technology, WSO2

As Co-founder and CTO of WSO2, Paul spearheads the company’s overall technical and product strategy. Paul is an experienced software and product development professional, having previously worked as the product lead and architect for the IBM Web Services Gateway. Paul also has significant experience in Open Source and Open Standards: he is VP of Apache Synapse and co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX Technical Committee. Paul provides strong technical vision at WSO2 but acknowledges with pride that he works closely with one of the best teams in the industry.

Paul has published many articles, both on the Web and in traditional forms, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences, including ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture, QCon and many others. He has published two books: Building Web Services in Java (2nd edition) and The XML Files.

Paul previously worked in IBM Global Services for 3 years, providing technical and business consultancy around the Internet and e-business. Before joining IBM, he was a consultant at ZS Associates, providing analytical sales forecasting consultancy to the pharmaceutical market.

Presentation: "Three SOA case studies - Understanding what to use - where"

Track: Real World SOA

Time: Wednesday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: St. James's Suite

Abstract: One of the problems with the overall SOA vision is that developers have been overwhelmed by the number of standards, the approaches and the technologies available. In this talk Paul Fremantle will talk through three case studies, showing how three organizations chose to use SOA technologies successfully to create value and solve real problems. In the talk, Paul will dive into the technology decisions they made and look at the resulting systems to analyse the benefits and potential disadvantages of those choices. The case studies include both small and large organizations, using SOA in quite different scenarios. One case study will examine the use of an Event based architecture to integrate large entrenched legacy systems, while another looks at a new organization using SOA and Mashups to provide management with timely information.