"SOA as an Architectural Pattern: Best Practices in Software Architecture"

Speaker: Grady Booch (IBM)

Day 1: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

Every software-intensive system has an architecture, although most are accidental, not intentional. While the code is the truth, it is not the whole truth, and considerable information about a system's architecture thus lives in cross-cutting concerns and in tribal memory.

Most well-structured software-intensive systems are full of patterns - and SOA is for the most part, just a particular architectural pattern. In this presentation, we'll examine the nature of architecture and architectural patterns (and SOA as a pattern in particular) along with some best practices that serve to develop, deploy, and evolve software-intensive systems of quality.

This closing keynote on the first conference day will be delivered remotely via second life, live from San Francisco.

"Applying Service Virtualization to Eliminate SOA Constraints Across Distributed Teams"

Speaker: Nada da Veiga (iTKO)

Day 1: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

Modern application environments are increasingly moving away from traditional waterfall development and testing plans, to more agile iterations among smaller, federated delivery teams. In order to achieve the responsiveness, reuse and budgetary goals expected of today's approaches such as SOA and Cloud-based application delivery models, there is a growing need to overcome system dependencies for vastly improved collaboration. Testing and development teams are constrained by dependency on critical services, systems and data that are either unavailable, or too costly to replicate and provision for use within the software lifecycle.

By using the practice of Service Virtualization (SV), development and testing teams can quickly capture and emulate software behavior -- and create an independent and isolated environment that provides the functional, data or performance characteristics needed for continuous validation. Find out how teams are employing SV for modeling and configuring target environments that are available throughout the lifecycle, while decreasing their dependencies on access to sensitive systems and incomplete services, while avoiding time-consuming data management efforts. When teams are decoupled from constraints in the lifecycle, they can work in parallel, ensuring on-time delivery of critical mission thread functionality, with higher quality levels.

"Business Semantics-Driven Integration of Service-Oriented Applications"

Speaker: Felix Van de Maele (Collibra)

Day 1: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

Business semantics define the contextual meaning of key business assets for your organization in terms of business facts and rules. The derived business semantics do not only provide a shared glossary to augment human understanding, but can also be used to automate meaningful semantic data integration in a Service-oriented Architecture.

We will present the case of a European Telecom provider that adopted semantic technology to facilitate data integration for a large SOA project. Consolidating different business units was the main driver to implement one enterprise service bus to span all pre-existing integration infrastructure. As a best-practice, an enterprise information model was developed in-house to drive the integration. Governing that information model on a business level and leveraging that information model as a canonical model were the two drivers to adopt semantic technology.

Using the case, we will show you:

•	How the adoption of OMG's SBVR (Semantics for Business Vocabularies and business Rules) allows you to involve all stakeholders in defining business vocabularies, driven by communities of interest, using an open standard.
•	How these business vocabularies, facts, and rules can be used to de-couple the technical syntax of canonical models from the semantics of key business concepts on a business level.
•	How the OMG's SBVR standard is aligned with Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL.
•	How, through semantic and context-aware mappings, data transformation services and data validation services can be automatically generated and deployed on an Enterprise Service Bus to drive data integration from shared business definitions.
•	How you can decouple data integration from semantic modeling to achieve a flexible and agile process, while still achieving closed-loop governance and transparency between all stakeholders, business or IT.

"Data Virtualization and Information Sharing in the Federal Environment"

Speaker: David Besemer (Composite Software)

Day 1: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

Information sharing and data access is becoming increasingly in demand where large numbers of information consumers require a range of analysis and reporting tools to access and analyze large amounts of diverse data, from disparate sources or multiple geographical locations in a simpler, faster, and more consistent manner.

Data Virtualization is critical in the Federal Government where business change necessitates rapid IT response in large organizations where data volumes and complexity are high, and in resource-constrained enterprises where total cost of ownership (TCO) is a key consideration.

Along with data virtualization middleware, enterprise data sharing leverages SOA principles including abstraction, decoupling, reuse, and more, while also supporting a range of internal and industry data standards.

At this presentation, we will discuss:

•	How data virtualization and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enabling technologies help solve data and information sharing challenges in the Federal Government.
•	The current trends in data virtualization and the methodology and best practices for successfully deploying these technologies.
•	Why data virtualization has become an accepted and recommended part of an enterprise data integration strategy.
•	Based on the experience of many organizations, the five data virtualization patterns that have emerged.
•	The Data Virtualization use cases within the Federal Government

"Enabling SOA through Semantic Web technologies"

Speaker: Ralph Hodgson (TopQuadrant)

Day 1: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

The big promise of Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) is to improve agility of IT support of business functions. But can SOA be effective or even work without data flowing seamlessly between services? It is our belief that a key obstacle to delivering on the SOA promise is that it needs to work in the environment where data is provided by many different systems not designed with the data sharing or re-use in mind.

Solving the data issue by reconciling it between applications and services using proprietary hard-coded one-of mappings has been known to increase complexity and rigidity of the overall system. Can Semantic Web standards help to ensure that SOA promise becomes reality? If so, how? Flexibility of the RDF data model and rich modeling formalisms of OWL make it possible to have a standards-based approach to capturing, aligning and resolving semantics of different data sources.

We will describe several ways in which SOA and Semantic Web technologies can come together. A key focus of this talk are approaches to applying Semantic Web standards to create flexible and reusable data services inside the Service-oriented Architecture. We will also address the role of common vocabularies and ontologies in enabling interoperable exchanges of information between government parties. Examples and case studies will be drawn from our work with NASA, FAA and the Netherland's Ministry of Justice.

"Service-Oriented Roadmapping and Transformation - A Practitioner's Perspective"

Speakers: Tony Shan (Keane)

Day 1: SOA Case Studies

This talk presents a methodical approach of Service-Oriented Roadmapping and Transformation (SORT), illustrated by a case study of large-scale portfolio optimization and cloudification in a Fortune 20 financial institution. Aware of the inefficiency of application-based and technology-centric efforts in other approaches, we formulated a systematic architecture rationalization method consisting of two primary components: Process Framework and Model Framework.

The Process Framework prescribes a sequence of stages in portfolio assessment, analysis, design, and planning - Diagnose, Evolve, Map, and Operationalize (DEMO), along with objectives, inputs, activities, outputs, roles, and measures in individual steps. In the Model Framework, we extended the architecture models defined in TOGAF to cover the entire architecture spectrum - business architecture, process architecture, application architecture, information architecture, and technology architecture, supplemented by the process-system alignment, which facilitates the detection of horizontal repetition and vertical redundancy.

The combination of these two frameworks enables accelerated architecture evaluation and migration planning in a model-driven manner. We further mapped the solution architecture to a simplified 3-layer stack, to justify the implementation options via BPM, SOA, and Cloud, resulting in an actionable multi-generation plan for both short- and long-term needs. The example case demonstrates the practical use of this comprehensive method in a real-world scenario, and part of the deliverables serve as working examples for reference. Various artifacts developed in this routine such as templates and questionnaires can be directly leveraged in client engagements and internal optimization initiatives. Best practices and antipatterns are also examined in depth to in the context.

"An SOA Case Study from the Trenches: The Joint Architecture Federation Environment (JAFE)"

Speaker: Howard Cohen (Booz Allen Hamilton) and John Nallon (Enterprise Strategies)

Day 1: SOA Case Studies

US Joint Forces Command J89 Joint Architecture and Capability Engineering Division supports architecture development and analysis, capability assessments, joint mission requirements analysis from the tactical to the strategic level for capabilities development, and Command and Control (C2)capability portfolio management (CPM). J89 utilizes a tool suite called Joint Command and Control (JC2) Architectures and Capability Assessment Enterprise (JACAE) which utilizes Siemens Government Services (SGS) Teamcenter Systems Engineering (TcSE) as its primary Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) technical solution for capability mapping and architecture development. While JACAE is a dynamic tool set, accessibility for development and extensibility of the rich information in JACAE is limited due to security constraints, network accessibility, processing throughput, limited storage, and dynamic tasking of team members to meet shifting priorities. J89 needed to develop a technical solution to connect disparate team members who reside on diverse commercial, academic, and DoD networks to the TcSE environment, so they could leverage JACAE information. Using the web appliance concept, J89 developed several virtual images for team distribution. Additionally, J89 used open source solutions to create a collection of lightweight, deployable applications for testing and integration. This mix of virtual and portable technologies allowed J89 to create reusable and consistent development systems in a constrained resource environment.

The deployment of the reusable and consistent systems has allowed USJFCOM to build, deploy, maintain and manage multiple iterations of the J89 project for varying purposes. The result is an innovative solution set, comprised of multiple tools, collaborating with various teams across the DoD to support the JACAE concept, which includes the promulgation of a joint lexicon through a capability mapping baseline.

This approach brings system integrators, business analysts, developers, joint warfighting operators, and leadership together in support of business and technological concepts. Additionally, J89 is augmenting its innovative virtualization methodologies through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environment development and implementation to make information in JACAE's TcSE environment visible and accessible, without being bound to the complexity of the tool suite. A production effort is underway to federate DoD Architecture Framework (DODAF) Metadata Model (DM2)-compliant Joint Mission Thread architecture data across domains to create, update and use data from multiple sources in order to compose and present federated architecture views for operational joint mission sets.

The Joint Architecture Integration Working Group (JAIWG), chaired by the J89, stood up a working group for USJFCOM, US Army, US Marine Corp, and US Navy (SADIE) environments with assistance by Johns Hopkins University and SGS, to create use cases for data federation of the joint warfighting architecture community. J89 is also deploying the capability to make architecture data developed by COTS toolsets available to external users, via their API's, and employing SOA principles.

"Implementing SOA at Multiple Government Sites: Best Practices & Lessons Learned"

Speaker: Dov Levy (Dovel Technologies)

Day 1: SOA Case Studies

For the past few years, we hear many experts say that SOA can be a "game changer" for the US Government. Despite this we don't see much evidence of wide spread adoption - how come? How can we move from inaction to action? What are some of the lessons learned?

There are many factors, among them:

•	One of the key components of SOA is the architecture, however, many organizations' infrastructures lack a clearly documented architecture
•	Another important aspect is the fact that, if a solution is to be implemented using services which are shared by multiple organizations, Program Management (PM) may feel that they can't control the various services with respect to quality, schedules, changes, budget. They may elect to duplicate the functionalities in that specific silo to ensure that the totality of the solution can be controlled and delivered as planned
•	Another area of concern is security; if a solution needs to make use of multiple services, how can the security be guaranteed? How can PM feel comfortable that security is addressed?
•	A final cause for concern to PM is the service level; since PM is responsible for delivery of a solution to end-users with specific up-time requirement reliance on multiple services with "unknown" up-time can be a bit scary.

So, with multiple areas of concerns, what is the benefit of re-using existing services? This session will explore the answers, including the important of the "time-to market" factor as well as the lower cost of implementation and the improved quality because the services are used multiple times and therefore are continuously improved.

"SOA Methodology and the DoD"

Speaker: Christal Lambert (BTA)

Day 1: Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Design & SOA Design Patterns

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"Modern SOA Methodologies"

Speaker: Paul Buhler (Modus21)

Day 1: Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Design & SOA Design Patterns

Modern SOA Methodologies require that creational approaches to software development make way for compositional approaches. Although seemingly obvious, organizational cultures whose IT departments continue to embrace traditional systems thinking will falter. The shift to distributed systems assumptions can be fostered through an understanding of Denning's great principles of computing: computation, coordination, communication, recollection and automation. These principles facilitate acceptance of architectural models that include infrastructure for process execution, message mediation and services; each fundamental to the greater concept of Service-Oriented Computing. Ultimately, the commoditization of infrastructure via future wide-spread adoption of cloud computing will create turbulence in the marketplace; the organizations that survive will view their IT assets as the foundation upon which their business executes.

"New SOA Standards and Collaboration: Delivering Mission Focused Capabilities Faster"

Speaker: Linus Chow (Oracle)

Day 1: Service Modeling, Service-Oriented Design & SOA Design Patterns

SOA implementations have struggled with the great IT vs Mission divide and the immaturity of Agile development technologies and methodologies. The evolution of Service-Oriented Design methodologies and aligned technology standards are now able to break down the barriers between the mission and implementation stakeholders. Using new mission focused standards like Business Process Modeling Notation 2.0 (BPMN 2.0) and Service Component Architecture (SCA) now allow real-time collaboration between mission subject matter experts and the implementation team. This powers a more collaborative development lifecycle and agile Enterprise Architecture providing faster deployment of mission capabilities, lower risks, better re-usability, and better IT-Mission alignment.

This enables SOA to support DoD's changing Mission: Think Big (Enterprise Impact), Start Small (Mission Focused), Move Fast (Adaptable).

"Market Research into SOA State of the Art: DoD Business Operations Design Patterns"

Speaker: Aaron Drew (BTA)

Day 2: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

Based on a multi-year commitment, this briefing will discuss the crafting of DoD Business Operations architectural design patterns related to the "AS-IS" and "TO-BE" implementation of strategic level concepts such as Enterprise Information Warehouse (EIW), Business Intelligence (BI), Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Data Integration (DI).

"SOA with REST"

Speaker: Cesare Pautasso (University of Lugano)

Day 2: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

Recent technology trends in Web Services (WS) indicate that a solution eliminating the perceived complexity of the WS-* standard technology stack may be in sight: advocates of REpresentational State Transfer (REST) have come to believe that their ideas explaining why the World Wide Web works are just as applicable to solve enterprise application integration problems. In this talk we take a close look at the potential for convergence of service orientation and the REST architectural style. We highlight the benefits in terms of simplicity, loose coupling, and performance of a RESTful approach to SOA and discuss the most important SOA design patterns that become available once REST is introduced.

"Preparing for Semantic Technology in SOA"

Speaker: Paul Keller (ATL, DoD)

Day 2: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

Semantic Technologies offer a number of benefits to enable effective Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). This talk will discuss some of the considerations and effort that are needed to implement Semantic Technology –based architectures, along with some examples of how it is put to use in a SOA accounting for both present and future needs. The discussion is based on the experiences of implementing an Enterprise Architecture with a diverse stakeholder base and the ability to evolve in order to support NASA’s Constellation Program for several decades.

"Supporting acquisition oversight, accountability, and decision making throughout DoD "

Speaker: Mark Krzysko (ATL, DoD)

Day 2: Service-Oriented Architecture & Solutions

The OSD, AT&L Acquisition Visibility (AV) project leverages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and associated common patterns to provide timely access to accurate, authoritative, and reliable information supporting acquisition oversight, accountability, and decision making throughout the Department for effective and efficient delivery of war-fighter capabilities. The discussion will be centered around the planning and coordination efforts that lead to the creation of the AV SOA’s 7 external facing web services. These services expose Major Defense Acquisition Program related data.

"Business Intelligence: DoD Business Operations Enterprise Business Intelligence Strategy"

Speaker: Jonathan Underly (BTA) and Eric Riutort (BTA),

Day 2: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

The presentation will discuss the strategy which will highlight how the DCMO is executing its business intelligence strategy and describe the environment linkages to concurrent BI efforts for the Strategic Management Plan (SMP), human resources & performance measures.

"Data Analytics in the Cloud"

Speaker: Tom Plunkett

Day 2: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

A new generation of data analytics tools will be needed to handle petabytes of cloud data. This presentation proposes a set of basic analytical tools for cloud scale data that can be composed into workflows or used independently. This solution builds upon Free Open Source Software (FOSS) projects for cloud computing and data analytics, with Apache Hadoop at its core. Hadoop is built on the MapReduce algorithm invented by Google for large-scale, reliable, inexpensive analytics. This cloud data analytics solution leverages Apache Hadoop, Business Intelligence, Data Mashups, and SOA. This solution enables analytic tools to keep up with a changing environment and further tap into the full capabilities of a cloud computing architecture.

"Bursting into Cloud with SOA: How to Migrate and Integrate SOA with Cloud Computing"

Speaker: Eric Marks (Composite Software)

Day 2: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

Cloud Computing has jumped to the technology forefront in the last 18 months based on its compelling value proposition. With the buzz surrounding this emerging technology, the following questions are top of mind for CIOs, CTO’s and IT executives:

This presentation will answer these questions and more based on experiences from the DoD, Intel Community and Commercial sector, based on a Cloud Computing Reference Model (CC-RM) developed in the book “Executive’s Guide to Cloud Computing,” by Eric Marks and Bob Lozano.

From this session, attendees will better understand what Cloud computing is, and how it may address a broad range of business, mission and technology requirements beyond infrastructure optimization.

"On, Off, or In Between: The Role of On Premises, Off Premises and Private Clouds in an SOA Infrastructure"

Speaker: Dustin Sell

Day 2: Semantic Services, Data Management & Analytics

There are many components to a Service Oriented infrastructure. There's often a user-interface, database, messaging, security, development and management “layer” in an SOA based solution. More and more, these “layers” are being offered as services hosted in the cloud. When it comes to incorporating a cloud based service into your architecture, there are many options and things to consider. Should this new cloud based service be hosted on premises or can it be hosted in a vendor’s data center, and what's this thing called a “private cloud”? What are the differences of each? What are the security and manageability implications of each type of offering?

In this session, we’ll discuss the differences between various cloud offerings in the industry and take a look at different approaches to offering cloud based services.

"SOA Governance at the DoD: Towards a Common Vocabulary"

Speaker: Kimberly Pisall (BTA)

Day 2: Governance & Security

The DoD Business Mission Area Common Vocabulary will improve decision making and foster interoperability for business operations. The cornerstone of the governance for this common vocabulary is the Business Enterprise Common Core Metadata (BECCM) Community of Interest (COI) established by the Deputy Chief Management Officer. This session will describe what drives the BECCM COI and how does it support the principles and processes that will ultimately result in a service-enabled Business Operating Environment.

"Using Collaborative Development to Enable SOA"

Speaker: David Mihelcic (DISA)

Day 2: Governance & Security

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has fielded and is evolving an innovative collaborative software development capability known as Forge.mil. Forge supports accelerated and improved software development in a collaborative environment. Forge promises to be the foundation of future SOA development in the Department of Defense

"Succeeding with SOA"

Speaker: Doug Tolbert (CSC)

Day 2: Governance & Security

Software vendors and system integrators will tell you that SOA is great, and this is most certainly true. But, if SOA is so great, why is it so hard to successfully deploy SOA implementations? For example, despite DoD's clear net-centric strategy goal, there are only a handful of active SOA implementations in military environments today. With more and more acquisitions requiring SOA interfaces, understanding the factors that make for successful SOA deployments will help you increase the probability that your IT systems will evolve smoothly into a net-centric world. In this presentation, we will concentrate on recognizing the characteristics of application systems that make them good, or poor, candidates for SOA deployments.

Going forward, SOA standardization efforts will be key to achieving effective, enterprise-wide SOA infrastructures in complex, distributed information systems. Effective standardization promotes cross-vendor interchange and enables automated discovery of SOA-based services. In recent years, CSC's Federal Consulting Practice (FCP) has been focusing much of its industry efforts on standards involving SOA, event -driven architectures, clouds, and automated agent technologies. Recently, a new SOA standard, lead by CSC technologists, was approved by the Object Management Group (OMG) and is targeted to be employed within an FCP project in the next few months. Continuing event, cloud, and agent standardization efforts at OMG lead by CSC —along with a SOA Reference Architecture from OASIS—are expected to be completed in the next couple of years and will be pivotal components of future adaptive SOA-enabled information systems.

"Supertankers, Microchips, Missiles, and the Da Vinci Code: Lessons Learned Delivering 'Your' Services to 'Those' Users through Mashups"

Speaker: John Crupi (JackBe Corporation)

Day 2: SOA Case Studies

An SOA that does not support business needs and is not easily accessible by business users is like a highway without any on-ramps. Luckily, enterprise mashups can help deliver the results of your SOA effort into the hands of users. In short, Enterprise mashups can "put a face on SOA". But there can be pitfalls and roadblocks unless implemented correctly.

'Lessons Learned Delivering Your Services to Users' will focus on the practical information an SOA practitioner needs to know to make mashups the face of their SOA. Topics include:

•	The Basics: Sure, you know SOA but do you know how do Mashups work in the context of the enterprise? Do you know the 3 basic steps to creating a mashup, the common uses, the lifecycle of a mashup, and the most likely user personas? What goes into them (besides SOA services, of course), what can they do, and where do the results go?
•	The Synergy: How do Mashups and SOAs compare, contrast and, most importantly, complement each other? Does one need to come before the other? When is an SOA without a mashup appropriate? And when is a mashup implementation acceptable without an SOA?
•	The Safety Issues: You want your users to make mashups in a safe and secure way in the context of your SOA. Are you prepared to address the nasty details that can make this safe, like integration with authentication and authorization systems, using service registries/repositories, credential propagation, and cross-domain issues?
•	The Best Practices: What are the dos and don'ts when connecting mashups and SOA, both from the perspective of the mashup architect and the SOA architect? Can your SOA support the common interaction patterns between mashups and SOA like right-sizing, round-trip, virtualization and inside-out combinations?
•	The Successes: Who's done this successfully? (Think 'Supertankers, Microchips, Missiles, and the Da Vinci Code'!) And what obstacles did they overcome? What kind of ROI did they achieve?

"Implementing Tangible Governance: A Case Study in Applying Semantics to Enterprise Service Registration Processes"

Speaker: Joseph Pantella (FGM)

Day 2: SOA Case Studies

The governance surrounding the realization of a Service Oriented Architecture cannot be ignored if it is to be successful. Even when it is well considered at the architectural level of SOA projects, all too often something critical breaks down between the architectural concepts and the concrete implementation. In this presentation, Mr. Pantella discusses some of the governance challenges that have been encountered and achieved in accomplishing the seemingly straightforward task of standing up a service discovery capability for the DoD. Drawing on his experience with DISA’s NCES Program, Mr. Pantella will share some of the lessons learned along the road to standing up this foundational SOA capability for an enterprise of enterprises, such as the DoD. He will describe the existing architecture including overviews of each of the core components of the NCES Metadata Environment, which serves as the basis for the Service Discovery capability. He will illustrate the interplay between the capabilities that provide the robust feature set for NCES Service Discovery. He will also discuss the business drivers behind the much heralded Net-Centric Publisher, which simplifies an ostensibly complex governance model into a few easy steps. After discussing these core capabilities, Mr. Pantella will provide a case study overview of community-defined semantic concepts that are currently being applied to the service registration process. He will discuss why this is necessary, why service registration would be sub-standard without the semantic capabilities present in the underlying Metadata Environment, and some of the challenges that still lie ahead.

"Message-based SOA: A Real-Life Case Study from the US Coast Guard"

Speaker: Steve Munson (U.S. Coast Guard) and Jeff Davis (Fiorano)

Day 2: SOA Case Studies

The Coast Guard has growing list of successful early SOA implementations. They include the Long Range Identification & Tracking (LRIT) system for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and Nationwide Automated Identification System (NAIS) initiatives, as well as an Authoritative Parts Service to aid in local unit inventory assessment and valuation. Central to the success of these initiatives is a loosely-coupled, asynchronous message-based architecture that is highly scalable yet flexible enough to accommodate some of the low-latency connectivity challenges posed by a fleet in the field. We will address the following:

•	What is message-driven SOA?
•	Keys to a successful implementation methodology.
•	Understanding the role of governance and security.
•	RESTful vs. SOAP-based web services, and the respective roles of each.

The presentation will share insights into some of the specific challenges that had to be addressed in the implementations, such as: aggregating data from multiple sources; context-sensitive message routing; supporting multiple transports/protocols; and Certification and Accreditation challenges in an SOA. We will also touch briefly on the process used for vendor selection and the lessons-learned from that exercise.