Jim Webber, Author of "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide"

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.

p>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.

Training: "REST in Practice - A Tutorial on Web-based Distributed Systems"

Track: Tutorial

Time: Monday 09:00 - 16:00

Location: Abbey 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.