JavaOne 2008 struggles to retain its importance. Read my full report at:

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49332

-Frank

I'll be giving a keynote talk on SOA Development In The Real World at TIBCO's user conference next week. This will be based on the work PushToTest did to surface the developer productivity and performance differences between TIBCO, BEA, Oracle, and IBM platforms for SOA development. All of the research is available under a free open-source license at http://soakit.pushtotest.com.

If you are attending TUCON then please let me know and I will be glad to meet with you personally.

-Frank

Here are the details:

BPEL Basics for Java Developers Webinar

WHEN: Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 2pm EDT, 11am PDT, 18:00 GMT

WHERE: Online web meeting. Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/316860522

WHO: Ron Romano, Principal Consulting Architect, Active Endpoints, Inc.

WHAT: Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Basics for Java Developers. This free, educational webinar is being presented as a service to the Java development community and will introduce developers to the concepts and techniques they need to understand in order to effectively create a new generation of applications based on web services. BPEL for Java Developers maps common Java techniques to their equivalent concepts in BPEL, enabling developers to transition to orchestrating web-services quickly and easily.

WHY: Java is an imperfect development language for creating SOA-based applications. BPEL has been developed as an open standard to address the need for a robust environment to create services-based applications. This webinar introduces Java developers to SOA-based service orchestrations developers by discussing BPEL in terms that Java developers already understand.