SOA Forum Schweiz 2009

The SOA Forum 2009 will take place May 12-13 in Zurich Sihlcity's cinema mediaplex. The motto this year: "Beyond the hype and theoretical discussions. Use SOA right – succeed in practice”.

Be sure to mark the date in your calendars! We'll have some really interesting and controversial keynote speakers at the start this year - wrapped up with a panel discussion.

• Thomas Erl: "Next Generation SOA"
• Anne Thomas Manes (Burton): “What Becomes of SOA During Though Economic Times?”
• Michael von Uechtritz (Gartner): final keynote

I'll do a talk on mediation strategies in SOA and have a look at a SOA reference architecture.

SOA-ESB book page & interview

Thanks to Thomas Erl for just setting up this brand-new page on the upcoming ESB Architecture for SOA book. There is an associated audio podcast on InformIT where Joe McKendrick interviews Mark Little and myself about some of the ESB-related patterns that made it into the SOA design patterns book.