Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Developers’ Day@ Nanyang Polytechnic

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Developers’ Day at Nanyang Polytechnic

By Chai Pei Shan

On 5 September 2007, SiTF-SOA Chapter organized a SOA Developers’ Day with a day long seminar comprising of talks and hands-on workshop at Nanyang Polytechnic, Theatre for the Arts. Organised for developers, architects and IT professionals to gain knowledge and experience as they face the challenge of building an SOA framework, this seminar has since attracted individuals, IT professionals and companies who are interested to make full use of technology, for their business, personal or industry development.

After a warm opening address by Chairman of SOA Chapter, Mr Foo Jong Tong (General Manager, Asia Pacific, ILOG (S) Pte Ltd), the SOA Developers’ Day was kicked off with 6 exciting and lively presentations from our sponsors - BEA Systems Singapore Pte Ltd, IBM Singapore Pte Ltd, ILOG (S) Pte Ltd, Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd, Oracle Corporation Singapore Pte Ltd and SUN Microsystems Pte Ltd. Topics include Web 2.0, SOA, BPM - with a myriad showcase of the latest products, solutions by the various web services vendors and insights into Web 2.0 and SOA developments.

reception at Theatre for the Arts, NYP

Booths were set up by the sponsors (outside the Theatre for the Arts) for guests and participants to find out more about the SOA trends and industry news. During break time, smiles were aplenty as everyone networked around for good food, chat about new ideas, where new collaborations are abound. Evidently from the crowd, most have benefited from the numerous opportunities that this seminar cum networking session has created for ideas generation and knowledge sharing.

First of the speakers was Mr Stanley Tan from Microsoft.

The Next Generation Web

Synopsis
There is great interest in Web 2.0, blogs, wiki’s and social software in the consumer space but what are the implications of the Web 2.0 phenomena in the enterprise? Is Web 2.0 another internet bubble and so can be safely ignored or is there some substance to the hype? In this session, you will be wowed by the exciting demonstrations and showcases of the latest Microsoft’s Web 2.0 offerings like Silverlight, Popfly, and more.

Links
Virtual Earth >> http://local.live.com

Windows Live Developer Center >>http://dev.live.com

Photosynth >>http://labs.live.com/photosynth/

Tafiti Search>>http://www.tafiti.com/

More clicks at Stanley’s blog>> http://blogs.msdn.com/Stanley

read full report here>>

SPEAKERS from the morning session at the auditorium

Chin Hong Hua (Senior Solution Manager, Sales Consultanting)
Oracle

Gary Wong, (Chief Architect)
ILOG

Tony Nudd (Principle Solutions Architect, South Asia)
BEA

Chua Lye Heng (Senior Consultant)
Sun Microsystems

Ajay Kushwaha, (SOA Architect, SOA Innovation Centre)
IBM Singapore

The breakout of the morning session talks was followed by 2 intensive hands-on session workshops catered especially for participants to experience the latest SOA tools available, and to assist them in jumpstarting their SOA initiatives. From the enthusiastic response from the audience, and with the immense support from NYP and the SOA community and industry, this event will no doubt spark off more meaningful and interesting programmes in the pipeline for SiTF-SOA Chapter. Participants gave positive responses and had expressed interests in topics, such as web services, ERP development workshop, system with SOA, integration of legacy, areas of healthcare and eGov, and would like to keep updated with news technologies and SOA trends.

All in all, the event was an astounding success and has attracted more than 150 attendees.

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