This session was delivered by Martin Wildberger, IBM VP and Director of the Toronto Software Lab. This session was attended by around 70 people, a pretty large turnout for one of these all-day events. Martin asked the crowd if they were from the line of business side or the IT side. I didn’t see a […]
ESB-CON VI: Lessons Learned on SOA Adoption
In the opening panel, the John Fitzgerald Director of Product Marketing from Software AG mentioned a client’s SOA Lessons Learned. The three points are: Strong Business Sponsorship Start Slow with a Low-Risk Project Integration Competency Center I agree with all three of these points and I’ll provide my thoughts below. Strong Business Sponsorship You aren’t […]
Tip: Agree To Concrete WSDL Definitions before Development Begins
If you are a provider or a consumer about to enter development on a web service, you should have an understanding with your counterpart of the WSDL that defines the service. It should be very well ‘baked’ and changes once development begins should be minimial. Major things like name spaces and object names should rarely […]
Impact 2008: Free Certification Testing
If you are attending Impact 2008, don’t forget that you are allowed to write three IBM certification tests for free this week! I’m a big fan of free, so I always max out my conference allotment. If you need some suggestions for tests, check out my previous entries about my impressions having written SOA Solution […]