June 30 - June OJUG Meeting - The vision of a Services Oriented Architecture- A 5.5 MB zip presentation is available. Key points to be discussed: The vision of a Services Oriented Architecture- What is it, how does it provide business value, how has the concept evolved, and where is the technology going. Embracing the diversity of a heterogeneous environment for success. How does SOA compare to middleware and why middleware has not delivered on its promises. The different approaches of evolving from a middleware-centric architecture to an SOA. Building an SOA that embraces diversity including case studies of the value generated. Creating an extensible architecture in your environment. Alan Brown is an Enterprise Solutions Architect for IONA Technologies. He joined IONA in 2001 to help further IONA's mainframe integration technologies. Before joining IONA, Alan worked for Software AG, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, Accenture, the USAir Force, state and local governments, and maintained his own consulting practice for 10 years. He has over twenty years of experience in the IT industry. Much of his career has focused on integrating large complex systems with new technologies. Alan has extensive integration experience in the insurance, government, Telco, and financial verticals and a technical background in ERP, mainframe, database, EAI, and distributed architectures and middleware. His first integration project involved using batch files to integrate a Honeywell 6080 system with an IBM 360 system for the US Air Force. His work on integrating IMS databases and applications with distributed claims processing systems has been adopted as a standard method of integration and is used today by many insurance applications. Alan holds bachelor degrees from the University of West Florida and Georgia Southern University as well as a Master's degree from Southern Christian University. He is a member of AITP, OMG, and SHARE and has appeared on several conferences. Agenda: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:30pm - 7:00pm: Networking 7:00pm - 8:00pm: Presentation, Questions/Discussion 8:00pm - ?: Networking Host: DeVry University - Orlando campus Room: TBA 4000 Millenia Boulevard Orlando, FL 32839 Map 407 355 3131 RSVP: Please respond to rsvp@orlandojug.org so that we can estimate the number of people attending the meeting. Please tell your co-workers and fellow Java enthusiasts. As always I hope to see you there.