Paul Lipton

Web Services orchestration, management, and security are among the principal challenges facing implementers of Service Oriented Architectures. There is still much confusion in the IT community about the standards themselves, which are at various stages of maturity. Also, their relevance to enterprise IT and how they might someday be able to effectively work together is often unclear. This session first provides a useful overview of standards in these three critical areas of Web Services: orchestration/choreography management security and more importantly how each affects the other. You will gain practical knowledge and a deeper understanding of future trends and the need to address certain real-world issues in order to create a more cost-effective and agile IT infrastructure. Highly respected in the industry, Paul frequently shares his expertise with readers of Web... (more)

MS Gets It At Last!A Java architect plays with the Beta 2 of .NET...and is pleasantly surprised

My first thought, when I heard about .NET, was "Here we go again!" It sounded like yet another attempt on the part of Microsoft to revitalize what appeared to be a fading technology and vision. Increasingly, as a programmer and architect, I was getting the impression that the exciting stuff was happening in the Java universe. For example, there were innovative ideas coming out of the open source community, such as the Apache Struts and Cocoon projects. Also, many of the most interesting books and papers being written were using Java code to illustrate important concepts. All in a... (more)

Composition and Management of Web Services

Father James Keller, the founder of a religious order called The Christophers and a popular religious television and radio personality in his day, wrote an amusing story about Mozart. He said, "A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner; perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. 'But you were writing symphonies when you were my age' the student protested. 'Yes, but... (more)

Snow White's FIRST Web Services

One day, Snow White decided to deploy a Web service. Her IT dwarves immediately went to work and were pleasantly surprised to find how easy it was to create the Web service using modern development tools. To Snow White's development dwarves, it almost seemed like magic. Since Snow White's cottage was a Java shop, they deployed the Web service in their J2EE application server, but they could have just as easily used .NET and it would have seemed just as magical - maybe even more so, given the wealth and power of the Wizard of Seattle. Since Snow White had lived in a palace with a ... (more)

The Evolution of B2B in a Web Services World

Is a comprehensive, highly flexible service-oriented architecture in your future? Only if the assortment of mission-critical Web services you're deploying now is highly manageable. The use of Web services as a simple means of enabling two companies to do business together in an automated fashion is now common. Web services can provide a low-cost path to distributed application interoperability. Often, that's all that's required by IT organizations when short-term problems or opportunities arise. However, enterprises with more clearly articulated long-term goals are beginning to ... (more)