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I’ll be giving a ThoughtWorks Quarterly Technology Briefing in London and Manchester in a few weeks time, titled Business Architecture Foundations of IT.

I used to introduce this topic with a quote from Beckett’s Unnameable - “You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on” - which nicely sums up the situation I see many organisations facing today: burdened with a legacy systems estate, unable to stop the world, sorely in need of a change in strategy to face the future.

Based on case study material from the last few years, talk suggests some future proofing strategies that can arise out of an assessment of today’s business operations.

Event Details

• Manchester 16th February, Radisson Hotel, Free Trade Hall, Peter Street, M1 6pm-9pm Register here
• London 19th February, Liverpool Street, EC2 8am-10.30am Register here

Paper Submission: February 8, 2010

Call for Papers

The First International Workshop on RESTful Design (WS-REST 2010) aims to provide a forum for discussion and dissemination of research on the emerging resource-oriented style of Web service design.

Background

Over the past few years, several discussions between advocates of the two major architectural styles for designing and implementing Web services (the RPC/ESB-oriented approach and the resource-oriented approach) have been mainly held outside of the research and academic community, within dedicated mailing lists, forums and practitioner communities. The RESTful approach to Web services has also received a significant amount of attention from industry as indicated by the numerous technical books being published on the topic.

This first edition of WS-REST, co-located with the WWW2010 conference, aims at providing an academic forum for discussing current emerging research topics centered around the application of REST, as well as advanced application scenarios for building large scale distributed systems.

In addition to presentations on novel applications of RESTful Web services technologies, the workshop program will also include discussions on the limits of the applicability of the REST architectural style, as well as recent advances in research that aim at tackling new problems that may require to extend the basic REST architectural style. The organizers are seeking novel and original, high quality paper submissions on research contributions focusing on the following topics:

• Applications of the REST architectural style to novel domains
• Design Patterns and Anti-Patterns for RESTful services
• RESTful service composition
• Inverted REST (REST for push events)
• Integration of Pub/Sub with REST
• Performance and QoS Evaluations of RESTful services
• REST compliant transaction models
• Mashups
• Frameworks and toolkits for RESTful service implementations
• Frameworks and toolkits for RESTful service consumption
• Modeling RESTful services
• Resource Design and Granularity
• Evolution of RESTful services
• Versioning and Extension of REST APIs
• HTTP extensions and replacements
• REST compliant protocols beyond HTTP
• Multi-Protocol REST (REST architectures across protocols)

All workshop papers are peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published as part of the ACM Digital Library. Two kinds of contributions are sought: short position papers (not to exceed 4 pages in ACM style format) describing particular challenges or experiences relevant to the scope of the workshop, and full research papers (not to exceed 8 pages in the ACM style format) describing novel solutions to relevant problems. Technology demonstrations are particularly welcome, and we encourage authors to focus on “lessons learned” rather than describing an implementation.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. Submit at the WS-REST 2010 EasyChair installation.

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: February 8, 2010, 23.59 Hawaii time
• Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2010
• Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: March 14, 2010
• WS-REST 2010 Workshop: April 26, 2010

Program Committee Chairs

• Cesare Pautasso, Faculty of Informatics, USI Lugano, Switzerland
• Erik Wilde, School of Information, UC Berkeley, USA
• Alexandros Marinos, Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK

Program Committee

• Rosa Alarcon, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
• Subbu Allamaraju, Yahoo Inc., USA
• Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems, USA
• Bill Burke, Red Hat, USA
• Benjamin Carlyle, Australia
• Stuart Charlton, Elastra, USA
• Joe Gregorio, Google, USA
• Michael Hausenblas, DERI, Ireland
• Rohit Khare, 4K Associates, USA
• Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Mark Nottingham, Yahoo Inc., Australia
• Aristotle Pagaltzis, Germany
• Ian Robinson, Thoughtworks, USA
• Richard Taylor, UC Irvine, USA
• Stefan Tilkov, innoQ, Germany
• Steve Vinoski, Verivue, USA
• Jim Webber, Thoughtworks, USA
• Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Zurich Research Lab, Switzerland

Contact

• WS-REST Web site: http://ws-rest.org/
• WS-REST Email: chairs@ws-rest.org

The slides from the day-long tutorial, REST in Practice, that Jim Webber and I gave at QCon San Francisco can be found here.

Also as part of QCon, I gave a talk, Beginning an SOA Initiative, the slides of which can be downloaded here.

Jim and I will be giving the REST tutorial at QCon London next year. We’re already planning plenty of changes so as to make it a little more hands-on and practical.

The slides from yesterday’s talk are here. Thank you to everyone who attended - there were some great questions both during and after.

I’ll be at the wonderful JAOO in Aarhus throughout most of next week (Monday, September 5th to Thursday, September 8th). On Tuesday I’m giving a talk, Hydras and Hypermedia, that reveals what your enterprise apps get up to when they cut loose at the weekends; if you’re curious, come along and meet Wired ERP and the DeeEmEs. The presentation is really my ticket to seeing talks from all the great speakers on Stefan Tilkov’s Is REST turning SOA’s promise into reality? track: Rachel Reinitz, Subbu Allamaraju, Mike Amundsen, Anne Thomas-Manes, and Stefan.

At other times in the week you’ll find me hanging around the ThoughtWorks booth, where besides an informal chat, you can schedule a 30-minute one-on-one meeting with one of the many ThoughtWorks consultants attending the conference.

Photo taken from ElDave’s Flickr stream under the Creative Commons licence