BCS Object-Oriented Programming and Systems Specialist Group
6:30 pm Wednesday 6th September 2000
IBM Centre South Bank
76 Upper Ground, London SE1
(next to the National Theatre)
Admission Free - No pre-registration required
OOPS-144
Component Development for Enterprise Systems - Tricks and Pitfalls
David Farley, Keane UK Ltd eSolutions practice
A description of techniques for the development of component based
systems and architectures for enterprise scale systems from the
perspective of a pacticing technical architect.
Focusing on issues like...
o Why component development?
o How do I design on the enterprise scale?
o The vision thing - maintaining architecural focus!
o Where's the re-use?
and touching on...
o Choosing the right technologies - pros and cons of
CORBA, COM and EJB.
o Methodologies.
o Scalability.
o Stories from the trenches - anecdotes from real projects.
Dave Farley has more than 15 years experience in professional software
development. He is currently working for Keane UK Ltd eSolutions practice
(formerly Parallax Solutions Ltd) a leading supplier of enterprise
architecure consultancy and bespoke component development for the
finance, automotive and other industry sectors.
Dave is currently an Enterprise Technical Architect within Keane and is
responsible for the design and development of large component based
systems and is currently working on a strategic application for one of
the UK's leading insurance companies.
Prior to that Dave was one of the priciple developers of the Newi object
request broker, a fore-runner in the move to loosely coupled systems
built for re-use and flexibility using data with semantic content - Now
an industry wide move towards the use of XML particularly in the B2B
space.
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Brian Saxby, Kingston University [[log in to unmask]];
Hedley Apperly, Princeton Softech [[log in to unmask]]
Immo Huneke, Logica [[log in to unmask]]
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