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j1-2k8-mtW05: Best practices and examples in writing integration logic with OpenESB
SOA is about decoupling application that need to be integrated through the use of services. To achieve a good degree of decoupling two main ingredients are needed: a good middleware and a well written integration logic. This session will show examples and best practices on writing integration logic inside a JBI ESB. Some topics that the session will touch are: -- synchronous vs asynchronous integration -- stateless vs stateful integration For each pattern the session will show a way to implement it using a JBI ESB, discussing advantages and common pitfalls Jul. 11, 2008

j1-2k8-mtT01: Enabling Semantic Web Technologies with JBI
Semantic web is a way to represent and manipulate informations that allows very high flexibility on the way the information are aggregated, accessed and presented. To leverage existing information base we need ways to get these information and translate them into a semantic form. There many standard ontologies broadly accepted like FOAF (for representing person data and person relationships), DOAP (for representing project data), Dublin Core (for representing document data) etc.... The act of transforming information from a proprietary format to a semantic representation is called rdf-alization. An ESB JBI can be the right integration middleware to perform this task because it can easily collect data in proprietary format from different sources and, by redefining rdf-alizers as JBI component, can feed semantic web enabled application.  May. 13, 2008