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Interop event in the Bay Area

This event aimed primarily at architects and CIOs is something that I have been helping pull together. It is scheduled for Tues., Jan 31st at the Network Meeting Center in Santa Clara, CA.

http://www.sdforum.org/interop06

The event has a nominal fee and although you should not expect to see code and API level details, it should be an interesting forum to hear from the vendors and more importantly from the users when the rubber meets the road.

The main challenges of enterprise integration such as management and identity is expected to be covered in greater length.

You should also expect to get a sneak peek for more interoperabilty support in Glassfish at this event. Some of the support, such as early bits for ws-addressing is available today.

More Interoperability with .NET

In my very first customer engagement with a financial services company in Boston, I was told unequivocally that they needed to see much better interoperability between the platforms they had of which Java was predominant.

Developers have been rigging up their own solutions to make their systems interoperate until web services ushered in a promise of unprecendented interoperability. While adoption has been somewhat slow for a variety of reasons, some recent strides have been made in the support for some of the web services standards that are fairly mature. Check out

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051104/sff032.html?.v=22

Also, check out Eduardo's blog.

In addition to the community efforts that Java is undertaking with Project Glassfish and Mustang, it's nice to see the community participation in the robust and sustained growth of Java to keep the language and platform competitive.

Also, checkout the recent JavaOne 2005 conference .PDF archives at

http://www.sun.com/products/interoperability/javaone.html

or the multimedia of the sessions at

http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/

Rags

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