New England Database Society Friday, March 24, 2006 sponsored by Sun Microsystems
NEDS

Data Delivery in a Service-Oriented World:
The BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform

Michael J. Carey
BEA

Friday, March 24, 2006, 4:00 PM
Volen 101, Brandeis University

(preceded by a wine and cheese reception at 3:00 pm)

Abstract:

"Wow.  I fell asleep listening to SOA music, and when I woke up, I couldn't remember where I'd put my data.  Now what?"  Has this happened to you?  With the new push towards service-oriented architectures and process orientation, data seems to have been lost in the shuffle.  At the end of the day, however, applications are still about data, and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications are no different.  In this talk, we will present BEA's approach to serving up data to SOA applications.  BEA recently introduced a new middleware product called the AquaLogic Data Services Platform (ALDSP).  The purpose of ALDSP is to make it easy to design, develop, deploy, and maintain a data services layer in the world of SOA.  ALDSP provides a new, declarative foundation for building SOA applications and services that need to access and compose information from a range of enterprise data sources.

The talk will attempt to cover both the foundation and the key features of ALDSP, including its underlying technologies, its overall system architecture, and its interesting capabilities.  Time permitting, a brief demo may be included.

Speaker Bio:

Michael Carey received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1983. From 1983-1995 he was on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he conducted research on a variety of database system architecture and performance issues. In 1995, Mike moved to IBM Research, where he worked on data integration, DB2 UDB, and XML query technologies. In 2001-2002, he led an e-commerce infrastructure team at Propel, a small internet startup. Mike joined BEA Systems in late 2001, and since then he has worked on the XML data handling and XQuery related aspects of BEA's WebLogic Integration 8.1 and Liquid Data for WebLogic products. He is a Fellow of the ACM and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

 

Maintained by Dina Goldin dqg AT cse.uconn.edu