Tuesday August 14, 5:30 PM
The Hartford Insurance Company
Anne Thomas Manes
Director of Market Innovation
Sun Microsystems
Building Web Services with Java and XML

Web Services is the next step in the evolution of distributed object technology. Web services uses the same familiar services architecture that's used in RPC, CORBA, DCOM, RMI, and MOM -- but there's one small, but very significant difference -- Web services transports messages using pervasive Web protocols. This tiny evolutionary step has huge business implications. In this presentation, she:

• explored the new web services infrastructure technologies: SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, and ebXML
• examined the new Java APIs that provide support for web services: the JAX APIs
• explained how to build web services, or to evolve existing applications, using Java and XML.

Interested in Java/XML vs .NET?  Anne discussed this as well, and answered many questions.  She's was well prepared, read on...

Earlier this year in Washington DC, representatives of three major operating systems mixed it up in a panel discussion on computing platforms. Moderated by Government Computer News Editorial Director Thomas R. Temin, this provocative and informative panel includes Jon "Maddog" Hall, executive director of Linux International; Anne Thomas Manes, director of market innovation for Sun Microsystems and Douglas Miller, group manager of Microsoft's Windows .Net strategy. The panelists discussed topics including reliability, open source, clustering, marketing strategies, and interoperability. 

See http://206.144.247.71/news/1_1/keynotes/16492-1.html for a video.

See Main/Newsletters/JAN98NL.HTM for a writeup of her last COOUG talk.

See Roger Sessions Object Watch for her response to his COM+ opinions.

Anne Thomas Manes is the Director of Market Innovation in the Software Strategic Marketing Group at Sun Microsystems. The Strategic Marketing Group's role is to define, articulate, and disseminate Sun's software vision. Before joining Sun, Anne was a senior analyst with the Patricia Seybold Group, specializing in the technologies that make e-business work, and she was editor-in-chief of "Distributed Computing Monitor," a monthly technical newsletter. Anne also penned a quarterly column on component technology in "Distributed Computing", an independent technical magazine. Prior to this, Anne worked as an evangelist for Open Environment Corporation, preaching the merits of three-tier client/server computing. Anne acquired much of her knowledge and experience in distributed computing working as a product manager in the Distributed Computing Group at Digital Equipment Corporation. Anne also gained valuable technical insight into the inner workings of transaction processing systems, databases, and operating systems working for Cullinet Software and IBM Corporation. Anne earned a bachelors degree in Economics at Wellesley College