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SUNDAY, 25 APRIL

PRECONFERENCE TUTORIALS - VIEW DETAILS

MONDAY, 26 APRIL

7:30 AM
WELCOME COFFEE

8:30 AM
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION - VIEW SLIDES
Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS

8:45 AM
KEYNOTE: THE EFFECT OF STANDARDS ON THE ENTERPRISE - VIEW SLIDES
William Stangel, Senior VP and Enterprise Architect, Fidelity Investments Systems Company
Standards affect the way enterprise conducts business. As more standards are developed and others evolve, the industry finds itself able to move faster than ever before. Vendors and users are now doing more and both groups must play an active role in the development of these standards. This keynote session will discuss the importance of standards, building relationships between enterprise and standard organizations, and what elements seem to be missing from today's standards.

9:15 AM
TECHNICAL OVERVIEW & MODEL - VIEW SLIDES
James Bryce Clark, Manager for Technical Standards Development, OASIS
A brief report on OASIS attempts to track, map and diagram our technical projects, and how they relate to the four Symposium session topics.

9:40 AM
COFFEE BREAK

10:00 AM (until 12:15 PM)
SESSION - TRANSACTIONS

The first half of this morning session is dedicated to current status and technical insight into the three primary technical efforts in distributed transactions-WS-CAF and BTP (both from OASIS Technical Committees) and WS-Coordination/WS-Transaction, a public specification planned for submission to a standards organization. Authors of each specification are presenting and participating in the morning panel.

The second half of the morning considers the relationships between reliable infrastructure components and protocols, and the relationship to implementation of business processes. The talks address support of ebXML business processes with reliable messaging capabilities and contrasts between business transactions and business processes.

Presenters include:

INTRODUCTION BY MODERATOR
Chris Ferris, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Corporation

WEB SERVICES COMPOSITE APPLICATION FRAMEWORK - VIEW SLIDES
Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer, IONA Technologies
The Web Services Composite Application Framework is a collection of three specifications -- Web Service Context (WS-CTX), Web Service Coordination Framework (WS-CF), and Web Service Transaction Management (WS-TXM) - designed to solve problems that arise when multiple Web services are used in combination ("composite applications") to support information sharing and transaction processing. As co-author of the specification, Eric will discuss how WS-CAF addresses the underlying issues of Web service context propagation and transaction management to expand the scope, usability, and reliability of Web services for business process automation.

OASIS BTP - SCOPE, STATUS AND DIRECTIONS - VIEW SLIDES
Peter Furniss, Chief Scientist, Choreology
OASIS BTP, an OASIS Committee Draft, was designed to support "appropriate" transactionality for loosely-coupled systems, including but not confined to Web services. The specification is undergoing minor revisions and corrections based on implementation experience. This talk will describe BTP 1.0, and summarize its assumptions and capabilities and briefly present the modifications currently being worked on by the OASIS Business Transaction Technical Committee. Current implementations of BTP will be described.

ADVANCES IN WS-TRANSACTION AND WS-COORDINATION - VIEW SLIDES
William Cox, Individual Member
The public specifications Web Services Transactions and Coordination/Context Management first proposed in August 2002 have undergone significant evolution. As interoperability testing is being planned, we will talk about the changes in WS-Coordination, WS-Atomic Transaction, and WS-Business Activity since initial publication. We will make some comparisons with earlier (BTP) and later specifications (WS-CAF) that address similar requirements.

MANAGING BUSINESS PROCESSES OVER A RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE - VIEW SLIDES
Monica Martin, XML Web Services Standards Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This talk will describe how reliable infrastructures support business collaboration. In today's distributed environment, business process automation based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is imperative. Shared business collaboration is supported by secure reliable infrastructures. Quality-of-service aspects are defined in the business process, and are inherent in the business semantics for collaboration.

TRANSACTIONS != BUSINESS PROCESSES - VIEW SLIDES
William Cox, Individual Member
When explaining the role of long-running transactions, one frequently hears business process management or choreography technology (e.g. BPEL) eliminates the need for transactions. This session will present both a formal and an informal argument that business process management technologies, while they are Turing complete, have many disadvantages in accomplishing coordination termination and recovery conditions for business transactions. We make the case that one can view transaction protocols as powerful ways to notate stylized interactions which could be expressed in a BPM environment, but are better used as a reliable infrastructure to support business processes.

QUESTION & ANSWER PANEL

12:15 PM
LUNCHEON

1:15 PM (until 3:15 PM)
SESSION - SECURITY

Security services, such as confidentiality, integrity and availability are essential to the reliability of any information infrastructure. They also have the potential to interfere with the correct operation of other reliability mechanisms. Careful consideration must be given to these interactions. Speakers in this session will explore these interactions and propose solutions, based on authentication, XML transformation and signed receipts.

Presenters include:

INTRODUCTION BY MODERATOR
Tim Moses, Senior Director of the Advanced Security Technology Group, Entrust Inc.

RELIABILITY & SECURITY - VIEW SLIDES
Hal Lockhart, Principal Engineering Technologist, BEA Systems, Inc.
(presentation was moved to Tuesday)
In a distributed environment, Reliability and Security are usually considered to be distinct services. Usually they are designed independently, by different people and draw on distinct technologies for their implementation. Yet frequently the requirements for each appear to overlap. Service availability,preventing message duplication, insuring delivery and making sure data is correct, all may be considered objectives of both security and reliability. This presentation will take a close look at Reliability and Security, including how they differ, what you can expect from each, where their use is complementary, what are the proper roles of each and how they can sensibly be combined.

THE KEY WEB SERVICE SECURITY ISSUES NECESSARY FOR ANY WEB SERVICE OR XML-BASED ARCHITECTURE
(presentation canceled)
Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect, DataPower Technology, Inc.
This session will dive into the key Web service security issues necessary for any Web service or XML-based architecture, including applying XML encryption and digital signatures, XML Schema validation, using XSLT and XPath for XML filtering for fine grained access control, and stopping XML denial of service attacks (XDoS). It offers advice on today's varying Web services security specifications, profiles and standards, on what can be implemented safely today, what requires more work and what can be ignored…for now. Finally, the session will highlight field-tested best practices for integrating Web service security with your existing network security infrastructure.

THE GAP BETWEEN RELIABILITY AND SECURITY - VIEW SLIDES
Eric Gravengaard, Product Manager, Reactivity, Inc.
The Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security specification [WSS] defines the usage of XML Digital Signatures within a SOAP header element to prove the integrity of a SOAP message. In one-way communication this provides cryptographic evidence to the receiver that the message was not tampered with during transmission. However, it does nothing to guarantee to the sender that the message was delivered properly and without modification. Similarly in typical request-response message exchange patterns, when the SOAP requestor receives the SOAP response message there is no way of proving that the SOAP response was generated after receiving and processing ("in response to") the SOAP request. This problem represents a hole in the blanket of specifications that are being created to address both reliable messaging and message security. Reactivity has proposed a SOAP Message Security: Receipt Token Profile to address this issue and has presented it to the OASIS WSS TC as well as discussing it with other TC's on their mailing lists. This talk will present this problem as well as our proposed solution.

3:15 PM
COFFEE BREAK

3:30 PM (until 5:00 PM) - VIEW SLIDES
SPECIAL PANEL - IMPLEMENTING STANDARDS TO ACHIEVE RELIABLE TRANSACTING
The key link between the development of foundational standards and their widespread adoption is implementation by the industry groups that represent major user communities. In this first-day closing panel and reception, RosettaNet, CIDX and AIAG - three of the most advanced and prolific industry vertical organizations - will join OASIS to discuss the importance of open standards to their constituency and how they are implementing standard-oriented architectures into their own work.

INTRODUCTION BY MODERATOR
Michael Bechauf, Vice President of NetWeaver Standards, SAP

Organization Overviews from Panelists

Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS
Kenneth R. Hutcheson, Director, Chem eStandards Initiative, CIDX
Paul Tearnen, Vice President, Standards Management, RosettaNet
Fred Falten, Director Application Architecture Integration, General Motors, representing AIAG

5:00 PM
"TASTE OF NEW ORLEANS" RECEPTION
Sponsored by SAP

6:30 PM - VIEW DETAILS
OASIS SYMPOSIUM BoF: ADVANCING A SERVICE-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE BASED ON EBXML AND WEB SERVICES
Leader: Duane Nickull of Adobe Systems, convener and proposed chair of the OASIS ebSOA Technical Committee

TUESDAY, 27 APRIL

7:30 AM
WELCOME COFFEE

8:30 AM - VIEW SLIDES
INTRODUCTION IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY KEYNOTE: STANDARDS AND THE BUSINESS OF UNCERTAINTY
Thomas M. Koulopoulos, President and Founder of Delphi Group
It's instinctive - Any certainty is better than uncertainty. But what if uncertainty is here to stay? What if the economic and geopolitical arrhythmias that we have experienced lately are symptomatic of a much deeper, underlying condition that will not go away as the economy rebounds or the war on terrorism is won? Dealing with uncertainty may drive us mad, but deal with it we must if we and our business are to thrive and endure. How will standards play into this new world order? Do they stifle or propel change? The answers may surprise you. Join Tom for a tour through this new uncharted landscape as he lays out the tenets of technological and practical survival in the new world of uncertainty and how standards will provide the foundation for agility and change.

9:00 AM (until 12:15 PM)
SESSION - MESSAGING
The Messaging session will delve into the various approaches that have been adopted to enable reliable message exchange over unreliable transport protocols.

INTRODUCTION BY MODERATOR
William Cox, Individual Member

Presenters include:

DEVELOPING HIGH AVAILABILITY FEATURES TO ADDRESS FAILURE RECOVERY OF THE RNIF - VIEW SLIDES
Suresh Damodaran, Chief Technologist, RosettaNet/Sterling Commerce and Kazuto Kimura, Program Manager, RosettaNet Business Competency Center at Intel GAR eBusiness Group
This presentation will describe the various ways in which failure can occur while communicating using the RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) with trading partners, including recommendations and procedures to effectively mitigate (recover from and prevent) such failures. These incidents are typically the result of:
1.) Transfer Protocol failure (e.g., HTTP);
2.) RNIF message failure (e.g., absence of an expected Receipt Acknowledgement); or
3.) RNIF implementation failure (e.g., a server hosting the RNIF implementation fails), which may be temporary or permanent.

EBXML MESSAGING - THE FUTURE - VIEW SLIDES
Ian Jones, E-Commerce Engineer, BT Group plc.
The presentation will cover the history of ebXML Messaging Service versions 1 and 2. It will detail the changes and features of the new version (2.1) which is an incremental release of version 2 with several changes due to interoperability issues and user-informed improvements. The main section of this presentation will be a description of those features and changes that are planned for Version 3, which will have a significant impact on the development community and will require significant changes to ebXML messaging implementation.

JXTA TECHNOLOGY FOR XML MESSAGING - VIEW SLIDES
Richard Manning, Senior Software Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
This talk will provide an overview of JXTA technology and its applicability to end-to-end reliable XML-based messaging. Key topics will include security, JXTA messaging, multi-hop routing, network transports and interoperability, integration and support for other standards. Usage scenarios that demonstrate the use of JXTA for reliable and secure/reliable communications will also be presented.

10:20 AM
COFFEE BREAK

WEB SERVICES RELIABILITY SPECIFICATION (WS-RELIABILITY) - VIEW SLIDES
Sunil Kunisetty, Technical Lead and Lead Developer, Oracle Corporation
Web services are moving beyond the "try and play" phase and into the enterprise. To use Web services to build real world applications, we need to be able to have reliable message delivery, secure message exchange and transactions. These Quality of Services (QoS) guarantees are essential for successful adoption and deployment of Web services. WS-Reliability is a SOAP-based protocol for exchanging SOAP messages with guaranteed delivery, no duplicates, and guaranteed message ordering. WS-Reliability is defined as SOAP header extensions and is transport protocol agnostic. Besides explaining the protocol in detail, the presentation session will also outline the different reply patterns, persistence and messaging models.

RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURES FOR XML CRITICAL COMPARISON OF WS-RM AND WS-R - VIEW SLIDES
Chris Ferris, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Corporation
The purpose of this presentation, and its accompanying white paper, is to compare and contrast the OASIS specification WS-Reliability and the non-OASIS specification WS-Reliable Messaging, highlight any similarities and/or key differences and discuss the technical merits and/or disadvantages of each.
The OASIS WSRM TC has provided additional information on the WS-Reliability specification [VIEW NOTES]

RELIABLE MESSAGING PANEL - VIEW SLIDES
Jacques Durand, Fujitsu Ltd.; Suresh Damodaran, Chief Technologist, RosettaNet/Sterling Commerce; Chris Ferris, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Corporation; Sunil Kunisetty, Technical Lead and Lead Developer, Oracle Corporation; Richard Manning, Senior Software Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Our panel brings together the speakers for this Messaging Session and Jacques Durand, an author of the contributed specification that started the work of the OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging Technical Committee of which he is a member.

There have been many approaches to reliable communications, from transport protocol to the application level. Our panelists will field questions on which features are best supported at which level, and the benefits to users and vendors. In addition to questions about their presentations, panelists will respond to questions such as:

What are the deployment constraints on reliable messaging?
Are there interactions with other protocols at the same and other levels?
How can one automatically configure a communication if there are many protocols and many options?
What reliability characteristics are best handled at the application or the end use?
What features should be supported by the network or the transport layers?
What synergies (or anti-synergies) should be expected between reliable messaging components, security, and transactions?

12:15 PM
LUNCHEON

1:15 PM (until 4:00 PM)
SESSION - METADATA & USE CASES

The Metadata & Use Cases session will examine the role of metadata in reliable XML infrastructures. Descriptive data attached to XML structures can simplify information architectures. Presenters will discuss how and will look at two examples: Dublin Core and PRISM.

Presenters include:

INTRODUCTION BY MODERATOR
Chet Ensign, Senior Director, Architecture & Development Services, LexisNexis - VIEW SLIDES

SERVICE ORIENTED B2B ARCHITECTURE FOR THE IRISH WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKET - VIEW SLIDES
(presentation moved to Monday)
Tony Fleming, ESB National Grid
The Republic of Ireland is progressing toward a totally liberalized, or deregulated, electricity market that will enable full wholesale and retail competition. The change from a regulated electric market into a liberalized market is having a dramatic effect on the state owned electric utility company, the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) and on all Market Participants. Many of the central market roles and responsibilities will remain within ESB. A cohesive Business-to-Business framework has been proposed, based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to meet the requirements of the Irish Wholesale Electricity Market and the process used to reach market-wide consensus for the approach. This session will explore how a seven layer architectural framework defines the specific functionality required to meet or exceed the requirements identified by Market Participants and ensure that all business-to-business interactions are conducted appropriately with proper controls and audit trails.

ROLE OF METADATA IN RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURES
While most efforts to establish reliable XML infrastructures focus on developing schema-based transaction protocols, another key component of infrastructures is gaining the attention of developers. Metadata, the descriptive information that's attached to a digital asset, is growing in importance as a cornerstone ofreliable and efficient XML infrastructures. This panel will examine the role of metadata in infrastructures. Two key metadata specifications, Dublin Core and PRISM (Publisher Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) and their role in real-life XML-based business solutions will be highlighted along with a discussion about new mainstream tools that bring metadata to the desktop

INTRODUCTION BY MODERATOR
Dianne Kennedy, Vice President of Publishing Technologies & Membership, IDEAlliance

Presentations by Panelists:

THE DUBLIN CORE METADATA INITIATIVE: CROSS-DOMAIN RESOURCE DESCRIPTION AND RESOURCE DISCOVERY - VIEW SLIDES
Bill Moen, Associate Professor, University of North Texas
THE IMPORTANCE OF METADATA - VIEW SLIDES
Carl Mattocks, CEO, CHECKMi

2:40 PM (until 3:10 PM)
COFFEE BREAK

ROLE OF REGISTRY: RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE - VIEW SLIDES
JP Morgenthal, Chief Architect, Software AG
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES USING XMP - VIEW SLIDES
Gunar Penikis, Product Manager Creative Professional Products, Adobe Systems, Inc.

4:00 PM
WHAT'S NEXT: OPPORTUNITIES & PROSPECTS FOR RELIABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Q&A Forum and Wrap-up

Presenters Include:

Colin Evans, OASIS Board Chair
Pete Wenzel, OASIS TAB Co-Chair
And Other Members of the TAB

5:00 PM
OASIS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) VIEW SLIDES

Presenters included:

Patrick Gannon, President & CEO, OASIS
Colin Evans, Chair OASIS Board of Directors
Jeff Mischkinsky, Member OASIS Board IPR Subcommittee

6:00 PM
OASIS RECEPTION FOLLOWING AGM

WEDNESDAY, 28 APRIL

E-HEALTH WORKSHOP - VIEW DETAILS
Sponsored by OASIS and CommerceNet

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