(Doors open at 5:30 for registration, meeting starts at 6:00PM)
Best Practices for Software Development Asset Reuse
Brent CarlsonLogicLibrary
Preview his Presentation Slides (Adobe Acrobat)
Web services are gaining a foothold in enterprise development, and it's increasingly
important to realize that a company's business needs must be the main driver of new technology adoption.
Simply applying new web services technology without architectural organizing principles will ultimately
result in poorly conceived software. To take advantage of the promise of web services, companies must
be able to view their existing software development assets (SDAs) within the context of the enterprise's
strategic business processes. Knowing what assets exists and where they are located is only part of
the equations. Understanding how each asset fits into the corporate business landscape is the key
to efficient development. A model-based approach to web services development gives enterprises a
way to enable existing
SDAs as web services, within a business context.
This presentation outlines a four-step methodology for getting web services off the ground,
including: - assess what you have and create a roadmap for migrating to web services. -
build a catalog of essential software development assets (SDAs) mapped to your architectures
and models. - locate the most appropriate software assets with the catalog you have built.
- employ these assets in your tools of choice to develop web services, and feed the resulting
web services back into your catalog for future use. Brent Carlson is vice president of technology and co-founder of LogicLibrary, and is a 17-year veteran of IBM, where he held numerous leadership roles on the "IBM SanFrancisco Project"--a consortium of more than 100 companies united by the mission of providing a framework for Java-based application business components. Carlson is the co-author of two books: SanFrancisco Design Patterns: Blueprints for Business Software (with James Carey and Tim Graser) and Framework Process Patterns: Lessons Learned Developing Application Frameworks (with James Carey). He also holds 16 software patents, with eight more currently under evaluation.
This session is intended for architects, designers, systems managers, and other professionals interested in the effective use of Service Oriented Architectures and Web Technology. It is appropriate to systems based on J2EE or .NET frameworks, and it will refer to two case studies and the lessons learned. See our Past Meetings for previous sessions on Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures.
Bring your Business Card. We will give away four copies of Mr. Carlson's book "Framework Process Patterns", above, plus the following three books courtesy Addison Wesley:
Plus the following book courtesy Prentice-Hall/PTR:
