Almaden Institute

Web Services Abstract: Many view Web Services as the next step in the evolution of distributed computing and integration. They represent a convergence of multiple technology streams: the World Wide Web, traditional middleware, and electronic data interchange, all coming together over an XML base, and they promise to provide a foundation for the evolution of the Web from a human-to-application browser-oriented system to an application-to-application (A2A) integration system. In this talk, Steve discusses some of the issues that need to be addressed to realize a true world-wide A2A system, including ontologies and the Semantic Web, and then looks ahead to guess at what a self-organizing Web Services system might look like.  Steve Vinoski - Bio Steve Vinoski: IONA Technologies, Vice President Platform Technologies, Chief Architect, ASP Technical Director, and IONA Fellow vinoski@iona.com Web Sites: http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/ Steve Vinoski is Chief Architect, Vice President Platform Technologies, and Application Server Platform Technical Director for IONA Technologies in Waltham, MA. Steve is also an IONA Fellow. Steve joined IONA in 1996 to start IONA’s US-based Engineering organization and to lead the development of IONA’s next-generation Adaptive Runtime Technology (ART), a highly flexible and fast distributed computing engine that underlies IONA’s products. As of the start of 2002, he has authored or co-authored approximately 40 highly-regarded publications about distributed computing. He and Michi Henning are the co-authors of “Advanced CORBA Programming with C++,” published in January 1999 by Addison Wesley Longman and widely acknowledged as the “CORBA Bible,” and he has written the popular “Object Interconnections” column on distributed object computing for the C/C++ Users Journal (and formerly for SIGS C++ Report) since 1995 with Dr. Douglas C. Schmidt. He also writes the “Toward Integration” column for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Internet Computing magazine. A frequent speaker, Steve has traveled to many parts of the world giving tutorials and keynote speeches about topics such as CORBA, ART, and Web Services. One of Steve’s favorite current technical interests is making Web Services a useful reality, and he is IONA’s primary representative to the W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group.