Speaker:    Anant Kadiyala, BEA Systems, Inc.
Topic:        Get SOA Right the First Time! – From Pilot to Production.
The Discussion will include; Understanding SOA, Implementing SOA, 
Case Studies:  Wells Fargo Bank – Wholesale Internet Solution

Presented by David Foderick
Web Parts have proved to be very popular and valuable for building modular web applications. Now you can use a similar concept in your .NET 2.0 Windows Forms applications using a new application block from Microsoft know as the Composite UI Application Block.

Microsoft Composite UI Application Block http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/cab.asp

Behind the Scenes of the Enterprise Development Reference Architecture (EDRA) by Jonathan Wanagel from Microsoft patterns & practices
presentation slide deck from Dec 15, 2004  
Jonathan Wanagel from Microsoft patterns & practices.

This presentation discusses what happens "behind the scenes" in the creation of EDRA.  It will discuss the architectural challenges in building enterprise business applications that were identified, and what were the best practices discovered in solving those challenges using the MS platform.  Those challenges cover a cross section of architectural issues such as security, performance, and architectural governance.  Lastly will be discussed is how the collection of those best practices were aggregated into a reusable application architecture framework.

Scott Kerfoot
Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
ScottKer@Microsoft.Com

In this session, we’ll talk about Services, Service Orientation, Service Oriented Architecture and the decisions organizations are making to get from Services Enablement to a Service Oriented Architecture.  We’ll also talk about some of the key benefits organizations are realizing from SOA as well as some of the pitfalls from not planning in advance for the operations of large numbers of services.