Declarative Data Services: This Is Your Data on SOA Dr. Michael Carey - BEA Systems, Inc.

AbstractWith the current push towards service-oriented architectures (SOA) and process orientation, data seems to be getting lost in the SOA shuffle. At the end of the day, however, most real applications are still about data, and service-oriented applications are no different in this regard. In this talk, we will argue that data services are a critical piece of the SOA application puzzle. The talk will present an approach to SOA data modeling that involves defining a network of related data services. It will also make the case for taking a declarative approach to defining such services, an approach inspired by the success of declarative query languages in the database world. The talk will demonstrate how the proposed approach enables a level of highly performant service composition (and reuse) that is simply
not attainable through other, more traditional approaches. Along the way, the talk will identify industry standards from W3C and other consortia that can be combined to provide a standards-based foundation for data services. It will end with a brief discussion of open problems that contain opportunities for academic research contributions.Biography
Michael J. Carey is a Senior Engineering Director on the AquaLogic side of BEA Sytems, Inc. Dr. Carey is currently the chief architect for BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform product. Prior to joining BEA in 2001, Dr. Carey spent a dozen years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison computer science faculty, five years as an IBM Almaden database researcher and research manager, and a year and a half working under various inflated titles at an e-commerce software startup, Propel Software. Dr. Carey is an ACM Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a past recipient of the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award. He has co-authored over one hundred conference and journal articles on topics related to database management systems and
middleware.

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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