Managing Change in Web Services
Abstract:
As web services begin to "cross the chasm" and become a mainstream
technology used by organizations across the board, managing and
communicating changes to web services will be essential to ensuring that
these applications are not only effective and up-to-date, but also
practical. The foundation for this is configuration management. But web
services' distributed nature and use of third party services provide
unique configuration management challenges for organizations, such as
changes in security, interface, or implementation of 3rd party services.
This presentation will discuss how traditional approaches to configuration
management can be extended to address the issues involved in managing web
services and how the management of those web services can benefit
organizations implementing the technology.
Learning Objectives:
1. The challenges of implementing and maintaining these services
2. The role of configuration management in web services
3. How traditional techniques can help address the problems
4. Development that will address the issues in coordinating changes
Brian Carroll
Senior Director of Architecture
Merant
As Senior Director of Architecture at Merant, Brian Carroll oversees the
company's technology directions and product architecture. In almost 20
years with Merant, Brian has designed and implemented the application
generation and modeling tools as well as tools to expose mainframe
applications to the web. His current responsibilities include overseeing
the development of APIs for integrating with test and other development
tools. Prior to joining Merant he held a variety of software development
and management positions in scientific, government, military and
commercial areas of data processing. As a faculty member at the Johns
Hopkins, Brian has taught graduate courses in web development and XML
technology and applications. He holds a MS in Applied Mathematics from
Georgetown and a B. A. in Mathematics from the University of Virginia.
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