Applied XML Developers Conference 2003 West
applied topics for xml & web
service zealots
July 10-11, 2003, Greater Portland, Oregon
Spirit of the Developer's Conference
The goal of the Applied XML Developer's Conference is to cut away all the unessential
conference baggage and concentrate on why we're spending time at a conference
in the first place -- the talks by industry experts and experienced
practitioners. By doing so, we can keep the price, and your wasted time, to a
minimum. In fact, if you don't go away with your head hurting from all the new
ideas you've heard, we've haven't done our job!
BTW, just because I'm a Microsoft employee now, doesn't mean that I
plan on taking away what's great about the Developer's Conference, including
cross-industry and cross-platform coverage. The only thing that's
different it's that I've found a sponsor willing to pick up of the
cost (like my pay for the rest of the year : ). What that means is
that I hope to keep costs at or below their traditional Developer's
Conference
levels while adding some things we've never had before, like
wireless access during the sessions to drive your blogging readers
mad w/ envy.
Summary
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What
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2 days of practical, applied XML sessions from industry experts and
practitioners |
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When
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July 10-11, 2003, 9am-6pm, registration starts at 8am on
Thursday |
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Where
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Greenwood Inn, 10700 SW Allen Boulevard, Beaverton, OR
97005, (503) 643-7444. Make sure to mention the conference
for the discount rate of $69.95. Alternate hotels in the area:
- Pepper Tree Motel, next door to the Greenwood Inn,
(503) 641-7477
- Residence Inn, (503) 645-1581
- Courtyard, (503) 690-1800
- Phoenix Inn, (503) 614-8100.
If you're flying, you want to target the Portland Int'l
Airport (PDX). |
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Cost
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$295 for 2 days of sessions, the proceedings, a t-shirt, two days of lunch and
snacks, wireless internet access and a Thursday evening
reception. |
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Session Abstracts
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Explore the technical implementation and social ramifications of
some of the currently popular techniques used to promote
collaboration and group forming via weblogs.
Messaging -- SOAP doesn't discriminate, but developers do. SOAP
promised to bridge the religious gap between tradional RPC style
coding and document oriented messaging. With WSE v2, the Microsoft
platform now supports both styles of SOAP messaging, rpc
request/response and sync/async messaging. This talks will outline
many different types of potential SOAP messaging and will provide
and overview of the new messaging infrastructure in WSE v2. This
provides developers with the necessary APIs to make design decisions
about how the SOAP messages are processed on the send and receive
sides.
Day Two Keynote: Why and How Amazon.com is Using Web Services to
Provide Easy Access to the Amazon.com Platform
Jeff Barr, Amazon.com
Jeff will discuss how Amazon.com enabled a way for developers,
merchants, and partners to provide customers with information
retrieved from their databases in real-time using XML over HTTP and
SOAP. He will discuss the development of the AWS platform and the
next-generation features available via this platform. Find out how
Web Services can meet with a customer base that is ready to explode
into usage. Discover how to partner with parallel industries to
cooperatively develop breakthrough technology at the pace that the
market demands. Understand how the actualization of a progressive
platform can spur systems innovation outside and within the company
and be utilized in unexpected ways.
A handful of principles and patterns can place creativity mostly in
our end-users' hands. XML and related protocols are the foundation,
but knowledge about this foundation is not assumed about end-users.
Prototype applications have been written in Python, but the ideas
apply broadly and the components of a complete system could
originate from many languages and tools. This presentation will
consist of an explanation of the principles and patterns, and
demonstrations of application construction and finished
applications.
Some XML applications don't require validation to function properly
but others absolutely require it in one form or another to avoid
disasters, whether it's through schema definitions or custom code.
First we'll discuss when validation is a MUST, then we'll present
different implementation techniques for tackling the problem. While
doing so, we'll discuss the shortcomings of XSD especially when it
comes to describing typical business rules that contain
co-occurrence constraints. Then we'll present a declarative model
for describing such rules through simple XPath assertions, which can
be embedded in schema or WSDL definitions (a la Schematron).
Throughout the session we'll walk you through a complete .NET sample
that leverages the WebMethod framework to build a complete
validation-oriented system.
The latest EJB specification contains bindings to allow EJB Beans to
be accessed and invoked via W3C/WS-I standard web service bindings.
In this talk, we'll examine whether this is a natural evolution of
EJB, a last-gasp effort by Sun to remain relevant, or a
revolutionary shift in the Java middleware platform.
Writing a business critical enterprise product from scratch using
new programming languages, run-time and a new team just wasn't hard
enough - so we added SOAP web services to the mix. This talk
describes the XML adventures of the last two years using web
services to bring a new product to market. Some of the real-world
experiences discussed will contradict the current thinking of the
use of WSDL, ASP.NET and XML Schema, so please be prepared for some
awkward silences. It describes the design patterns that emerged from
a service-orientated architecture and what lessons are still being
learnt at every daily build. If you're contemplating starting your
shiny new web services based product soon, then use this talk to
save yourself some time, money and heartache. Warning: This talk
contains explicit references to OO heresy - flaming torch /
pitchfork not supplied.
Many phones that don't support rich client applications nonetheless
support scaled down web browsing capabilities with a built-in WAP
browser. Lack of rich client support doesn't mean that users of such
phones can't participate in the Web Services Revolution, since XML
can be easily turned into WML, the markup language used in WAP
browsers. In this session, I'll show examples of repurposing content
from RSS feeds and the Amazon web service; these techniques can be
adapted for other XML sources to keep information in the palm of
your users' hands.
This presentation looks at a embedded web service I worked on, part
of a prototype for a CAD-related hardware product. After
demonstrating the system and client applications, I'll talk about
various design issues, discussing what worked and showing where Web
Services, Axis, and my own code/design could be better. Alongside
local use of an embedded SOAP service, comes long-haul usage: I'll
cover the tricks and techniques that proved useful here, in the
protocol, the implementation and the testing. To go embedded, we
need discovery; I'll introduce the multicast XML based discovery
protocol "WS-Discovery" I added to Axis and discuss the problems
encountered, especially those with mobile users. We also need
streamable SOAP messages with embedded attachments, and
events/callbacks. I'll look at the issues and options here, but have
no silver bullets. Although there are many compelling reasons to
apply the Web Service architecture to embedded products, there are
still valid arguments that the World Is Not Ready Yet, though there
are special cases where it is viable. Yet it is the broad
application of the concept that will lead to the greatest
opportunities.
MSDN is in the process of rebuilding it's core infrastructure,
starting with a publishing plumbing built using XML. This talk takes
a tour through our new XML pipeline, examining how we use schemas
(it's not about types), XPath (what would we do without you), and
XSLT (hello SQL statements) to implement logic declaratively. The
talk concludes with a look at our next steps, including making our
plumbing more generic and exposing XML content to users through RSS
and Web services.
If you throw enough specs together, XML gives us all the tools we
need to view, edit, and code against a Web Service description.
Using common household ingredients (XML, XSLT, SVG, WSDL), we can
build graphical design tools to help developers work with Web
Services. After that, we will pull these tools into the Visual
Studio .NET environment to make Web Services development in .NET
even easier.
This is a detailed look at using XSLT, XPath, XPointer and emerging
XML security standards to transform, parse and secure XML/SOAP for
encryption, digital signatures and access control. Attendees learn
the fundamental similarities and differences between XSLT, XPath and
XPointer. Attendees come away with practical examples of
implementing XML encryption and XML Digital Signatures for XML Web
Service application development and deployment. Attendees also learn
a basic understanding of XML encryption technology, digital
signatures and XML security standards including 3DES, AES, SAML,
XACL, XKMS and WS-Security.
Have you ever wanted to create your own UI widgets, but didn't know
the low level APIs for your platform's graphics engine? Or, what if
you wanted to create your widget but needed to be cross platform, or
even rendered in a browser. Well Scalable Vector Graphics can be
your salvation. This session will show you how to create your own
graphic mark up languages, and render them as SVG, thus eliminating
the need to learn the low level graphics APIs. The examples will
include interactive bar graphs, gauges, and a label generating web
service that uses the SharpVectorGraphics SVG to GDI+ rendering
engine.
Since SOAP is inherently cross-platform in nature, it’s a perfect
choice for communicating between disparate systems. However, if one
of those systems happens to be running on a real-time operating
system inside a dedicated hardware device, that poses some
significant constraints on how SOAP can be used. Limited tools for
dealing with SOAP, limited available memory, and a highly
constrained programming model are all aspects of embedded systems
that can influence how you structure the SOAP API for communicating
with a hardware device. Furthermore, if the hardware device is to be
deployed behind a corporate firewall without direct access to the
internet, that also has to be taken into account when designing the
API. Learn how a real company is solving exactly these issues in
developing a distributed application for real-time monitoring of
assets in the utility industry using SOAP-based XML Web Services.
Much of the content that is available from Microsoft.com is served
up by MSCOM Platform Web services including Downloads metadata and
urls, Catalog information, Multimedia, newsgroup postings via the
Communities API, etc. Up to this point in time, this XML content has
been available only internally.
The MSCOM Platform Team has created a project to provide access to
XML content managed by various internal-use-only Platform Web
services by means of a single Web service exposed to the Internet.
The first release, which is a beta "Hello World" version, exposes
Top 'n' Download information. In addition, working with several
groups across Microsoft.com and with the participation of interested
groups across Microsoft, we've designed and built a reusable
infrastructure for authenticating SOAP calls, throttling access to
the service and gathering metrics around use of the service. This
infrastructure will be used by all Internet-facing Web services from
Microsoft.com.
Tarlochan Cheema will provide a brief description of the
architecture and technology used, and will provide demos of the
service itself and some sample applications built to consume the
service.
This application provides users the ability to organize and assign
various types of meta-data with photos. Such data includes a
description of the photo, which people are in a photo, Tablet PC
ink, and copyright text. All of this is provided to end users via an
XML Web Service that dynamically renders and rescales the photo to
the user’s specified size. Photo album maintainers are given a
Windows Forms based application to administer their albums, whereas
visitors are given access to viewing and commenting on photos via a
Web Application.
Speakers
Dave Winer, Harvard Law School
Dave's CV
Don Box, Microsoft
Don Box is an architect at Microsoft working on next generation web
service protocols and plumbing. His interests include type systems for
XML and web services, metadata and discovery, and CLR-based software
integration. Don's work with web services began in 1998 as one of the
original authors of the SOAP specification. Don's latest book, Essential
.NET is due out this year from Addison-Wesley.
Sam Ruby, IBM
Sam is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies
group at IBM and is involved in a host of open source initiatives. He is
a Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation and a developer on
the Apache Soap project. He is also the chairman of the Jakarta project,
who's mission is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on
the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion. He is a
member of the XML PMC, an officer of ECMA and convener of the TC39 group
standardizing the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) for the .NET
Framework. He is a member of the PHP group, a select group of developers
who contribute to core PHP. He is also on the ActiveState Technical
Advisory board. Sam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Math from
Christopher Newport College.
Keith Ballinger, Microsoft
Keith Ballinger is Program Manager for Xml Web Services in
Microsoft's .NET Framework group. He's a key contributor to several
features in the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET. In addition, he's
co-authored the Web Services Inspection Language and contributed to
other various Web service specifications. He speaks at a variety of
conferences, including Tech Ed and the PDC. He's the co-author of
"Special Edition: Using Active Server Pages", and the technical editor
of "Using Netscape IFC" and "Special Edition: Using Visual Studio". He
also wrote the forward to the recent "Introducing Microsoft .NET". He is
currently writing a book on Web services architecture and implementation
for Addison-Wesley.
Jeff Barr handles web services evangelism and developer
relationships for Amazon.com. Jeff was formerly a member of the
Visual Studio development team at Microsoft, and has also served as
VP of Engineering or CTO for several startups and once ran his own
technology consulting business. In his spare time, Jeff collects and
organizes RSS feeds at
www.syndic8.com
Patrick Logan, Star Decisions
Patrick Logan has been developing software professionally for over
twenty years. His products ranged from electronics design tools to
computer conferencing and distributed object-oriented databases. He
is an enterprise architect with Intel Corporation's own information
systems.
Aaron Skonnard, DevelopMentor
Aaron Skonnard is an instructor and course author at
DevelopMentor,
where he focuses on the
XML and Web
services curriculum. Aaron coauthored
Essential XML Quick Reference and
Essential XML (both
Addison Wesley)
and currently writes
The XML
Files for
MSDN
Magazine as a Contributing Editor.
Aaron also speaks at various XML
conferences throughout the year. Get in touch with Aaron at
http://www.skonnard.com.
Ted Neward, DevelopMentor
Ted is an independent consultant, author, DevelopMentor instructor
and mentor living in the Northern California area. He specializes in
Java and .NET, particularly in integration (via in-process and Web
Service tools), back-end enterprise systems and virtual
machine/execution engine plumbing. He has written a number of books,
including “C# In a Nutshell”, “Server-based Java Programming”,
“SSCLI Essentials” and the forthcoming “Effective Enterprise Java”.
Other white papers can be found on
www.javageeks.com
(Java) and www.clrgeeks.com
(.NET), a weblog at
http://www.neward.net/ted/weblog, and can be reached at either
tneward@javageeks.com or
tneward@clrgeeks.com.
David Ing, Meridian Project Systems
David Ing is Chief Software Architect at
Meridian Project
Systems, based in Vancouver, BC. David has been using other
people’s money to develop enterprise-level products for over 15
years - and he's finished almost 3 and a half of them so far. Time
served at IBM UK, Yokogawa, Japan and the US DoD have so far led to
the conclusion that Vancouver BC, Canada is the best place to spend
time playing with the toys.
Brian Jepson, O'Reilly & Associates
Brian Jepson is an editor with O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. He is
co-author of Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition and
Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Brian speaks on topics such as Web
Services, .NET, Mac OS X, and mobile computing--sometimes in front
of an audience.
Steve Loughran, Hewlett-Packard
Steve Loughran
is the co-author of Java Development with Ant. He works for
Hewlett-Packard in Corvallis, Oregon, working on future products.
This is a sabbatical from being a research scientist in HP
Laboratories in Bristol, England, doing things that humanity is not
ready for yet. In his free time he is a a committer on the Apache
Ant and Apache Axis projects, when not engaging in moderate risk act
ivies such as Alpine-style mountaineering or mountain biking in the
poison oak rich parts of the Oregon countryside.
Tim Ewald, Microsoft
Tim Ewald is a Program Manager at Microsoft, where he is using XML
and Web services to build a new foundation for MSDN. He spends his
time thinking, coding, writing and speaking about these topics. Tim
is fascinated by The XML Way.
Christopher Dix
Chris Dix is an author and software developer specializing in XML and
Web Services, and he is the creator of the Kafka XSLT SOAP Toolkit. He
has co-authored Professional XML Web Services (Wrox), Beginning XML 2nd
Edition (Wrox), and The XML Schema Complete Reference (Addison-Wesley).
Chris has spoken at a number of conferences, including VSLive!, the
O'Reilly ETC, and last year's DevCon East. He can be reached at
chris@thoughtpost.com.
Rich Salz, DataPower
Rich has been active in the Internet, distributed systems, and
security sphere for over a decade. He has extensive experience with open
source, including INN the world's most popular Usenet implementation and
a leading SOAP implementation for Python, and even more experience with
open standards organizations, including OSF, IETF, W3C, and OASIS. He
has contributed to several specifications, including HTTP, NTTP, IETF
PKIX (especially OCSP), ebXML, SOAP, XKMS, and SAML. He tries to use the
latter to help make the former more fun and useful.
Don "XML" Demcsak
Don
Demcsak (aka DonXML) is an independent consultant who specializes in
architecting and programming multi-tier applications using
Microsoft’s .NET framework. He is an evangelist that is known for
preaching the benefits of XML, SVG, and the .NET framework on
various discussion groups across the web and on his
blog.
He also enjoys the intellectual comradery of working with people
from around the world. Don is one of the founders of the
SharpVectorGraphics (aka SVG#) open source project, which is
bringing SVG to the .NET framework. When not working, Don can
usually do found playing with some new beta software, listening to
some music (metal is his favorite), or just hanging out and enjoying
life, with his family in northwest New Jersey. You can contact Don
at don@donxml.com.
Patrick Cauldwell, Serveron Corporation
After completing a Bachelor's degree in the unlikely field of East
Asian Studies, Patrick Cauldwell fell into the software industry.
Since then he has written tools that helped Intel localize software
into 17 languages, architected large E-Commerce web sites like
800.com and gear.com while at STEP Technology, and spoken
nation-wide about how to build large scalable applications. Patrick
is currently Software Architect at Serveron Corp., which makes
monitoring devices and software for the utility industry.
Tarlochan Cheema is a Development Manager with Microsoft.Com, one of
the largest and busiest site in world, currently he is developing
WebServices Infrastructure for exposing Microsoft.Com Content like
Downloads, Product Catalog, Communities and Products Content on
Internet through Microsoft.Com Content WebServices. He is also key
member is Architecting Microsoft.Com Distributed Platform
Architecture and XML Content Management Solutions. He have also
contributed in architecting and developing various Microsoft.Com
Platform Services/System like Communities, Authorization Services,
Personalized Newsletter System, Publishing Solutions among others.
In his free time he loves to teach XML, .Net and Web Services
Technologies.
Robert A. Wlodarczyk, a Microsoft
Imagine Cup Winner
Robert is currently a graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer
Science at
Stony Brook University. He has worked as the Student Consultant
representing Microsoft at the university until May 2003. During the
summer of 2002 he spent interning within the Windows team at
Microsoft. Recently he has place first in the US Microsoft Imagine
Cup Finals, moving onto the International Microsoft Imagine Cup
Competition in Barcelona, Spain. He is also the founder of InnoThinx
– a company based on developing applications for the convergence of
computer and entertainment systems using various Microsoft
technologies. In his spare time Robert enjoys playing squash,
swimming, traveling, photography, and a wide variety of music. His
blog is available at
http://dotnetweblogs.com/rwlodarc.
Chris Sells, Microsoft
Chris Sells is a content strategist for MSDN concentrating on
Longhorn. In the past, he's been an independent consultant, an instructor for DevelopMentor,
an author of several Windows-related development books and a conference
speaker. In his free time, Chris hosts DevCons, directs the Genghis
shared source project and, in general, makes a pest of himself in the
spoutesphere.
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