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Our chapter meets in Wellington at 12:00pm (for a 12:10pm start) on the last Monday of every second month from January to November.
Venue
The venue for these meetings (view map) is:
Equinox Room
Level 5
Equinox House
111 The Terrace (or 222 Lambton Quay through Amazon)
Wellington
Contact
The local chapter contact is:
Paul Ramsay
Senior Consultant
Equinox Limited
Email: paul.ramsay@equinox.co.nz
Direct: (04) 494 3716
Topics
Scheduled meeting topics include:
- Wednesday 17 October 2007 (12:00pm for 12:10pm to 1:00pm)
The speaker will be Vish Viswanathan, Managing Partner of CC and C Solutions and Regional Partner for The Open Group
Vish has over 25 years experience in the information technology industry, and has worked with a variety corporate and government organisations implementing Enterprise Architecture (EA).
A TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) certified professional, Vish is also a contributor to the ongoing development of TOGAF.
Vish will be looking at exploring "How to Win Friends for EA and Influence Project Managers".
- Monday 3 September 2007 (12:00pm for 12:10pm to 1:00pm)
The speaker will be Dennis Sosnoski a consultant and training facilitator specialising in Java-based SOA and web services. His professional software development experience spans over 30 years, with the last nine years focused on server-side XML and Java technologies. Dennis is the lead developer of the open source JiBX XML data binding framework and the associated Jibx2Wsdl tool, as well as a committer on the Apache Axis2 web services framework. He was also one of the expert group members for the JAX-WS 2.0 and JAXB 2.0 specifications.
Dennis will be exploring "Web Service Interoperability".
The current generation of web services frameworks provide much better interoperability than older frameworks, especially since the move away from rpc/encoded web services and to doc/literal has eliminated a lot of the prior issues around data representation. But getting past that first layer of interoperability issues has just led us to another layer. Doc/literal web services require comprehensive schema descriptions, and XML schema is a complex specification that is still subject to clarification seven years after the initial publication. Frameworks used for web services support don't provide comprehensive support for schema (even if they say they do), and trying to comprehend the different schema features supported by different frameworks leads to a whole new level of interoperability concerns.
Beyond the schema issues, there is also the constantly changing froth of WS-* extensions to SOAP. The basic enterprise extensions - WS-Addressing, WS-Security, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy - are finally starting to settle down, and over the next year we should see these all becoming part of the standard toolkit we can depend on for web services. But there are still many older versions of frameworks in use, and these older frameworks implement a mishmash of incompatible older versions of these extensions. For anyone using web services in an enterprise environment this versioning issue presents some real dilemmas.
In this presentation, Dennis will cover the current state of both schema and WS-* extension compatibility for web services.
- Wednesday 30 May 2007 (12:00pm for 12:10pm to 1:00pm)
The speaker will be Vish Viswanathan, Managing Partner of CC and C Solutions and Regional Partner for The Open Group.
Vish has over 25 years experience in the information technology industry, and has worked with a variety corporate and government organisations implementing Enterprise Architecture (EA).
A TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) certified professional, Vish is also a contributor to the ongoing development of TOGAF.
Vish will be exploring "EA Express for Quick Wins".
The Enterprise Architect is often put in an unenviable position of being the "meat in the sandwich" between management that needs immediate results from EA and implementation project managers that need convincing of EA's benefits to project outcomes.
Often, the initial budgets allocated to EA do not reflect the significance or the strategic necessity for EA, and executive patience is generally very thin. Since EA is not an exact science but more of an "art-cum-science", it is difficult to plan and predict long-range results in a world where the future of business is unpredictable and technology is changing fast.
Ensuring short-term "quick wins" using TOGAF ADM's incremental approach of continuous improvement is the key to sustainable EA success.
- Monday 30 April 2007 (12:00pm for 12:10pm to 1:00pm)
The speaker will be Brian Lyall, Information Architect, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise where he is currently working on the NZTE biz Portal project.
Brian has moved from being a Software Engineer to private and Government roles encompassing Intranet development and management, test management and technical analysis.
He is also a Certified Internet Web Associate and Design Professional.
Brian will be exploring "Information Architecture Fundamentals".
Information Architecture is a field and approach to designing clear, understandable communications by focusing on the structure, context, and presentation of data and information.
The goal is to enable users to find the information they are seeking in a clear and easy manner.
As well as discussing what Information Architecture is, Brian will also be outlining how it can add value to your website, application interface or tool.
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