XML end-to-end architectures are a natural follow-on to SOA: XML for the user interface, XML for data interchange, and XML for storage. Universal Services are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, that expose stored XML as Web service operations. "These services enable setting up database Web service operations quickly, for example for prototyping," notes Susan Malaika, Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's Information Management Group, who will be speaking on November 20 at SYS-CON's DataServices World 2008 West, being held in conjunction with the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo in San Jose, California.

"The services then allow users to query and modify XML data stored in the XML column through REST or SOAP, which can serve as a basis for further development of various applications, such as forms or SOA applications," Malaika adds.

In her session at DataServices World, she will describe how you can get started with configuring, testing, and modifying the Universal Services to build complete XML end-to-end applications - and how the services play their part in agile application development.

"Demonstrations and use cases, in the context of pureXML, will used throughout the presentation," Malaika adds.

DataServices World, being held November 20 in San Jose, California, at the 14th International SOA World Conference & Expo, has a lineup of speakers headlined by Dr Mike Carey (pictured), one of the 50 Most Influential Computer Scientists in the world. The lineup also includes experts from Adobe, Yahoo!, IBM, Oracle, m2mi, and DataDirect Technologies.

"DataServices World is about the confluence of databases, data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise computing and Internet computing," says Ken North, DataServicesWorld 2008 West Conference Chair.

Carey, who leads the lineup, is Bren Professor of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine and the 2005 recipient of the ACM IGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award - the computing equivalent of an Academy Award!

Carey, a National Academy of Engineering member, is acknowledged as one of the 50 most influential computer scientists in the world by a UCLA-maintained Web site that tracks research citations. He is best known for his work on advanced database systems and database system performance.

His most influential academic projects have been the EXODUS and SHORE database systems, which continue to influence designers and researchers in the field. In industry, he contributed to IBM’s DB2 Universal Database system and played a leadership role for BEA Systems’ data integration and management solutions. These systems are widely used in the banking, insurance and healthcare industries, and they also have many government applications.

Speaking of the much-acclaimed DataServices World event, which kicked off in March of this year in New York City, Ken North said of Data Services as a technology approach: "Its focus is architectures and technologies for accessing data from heterogenous data sources and providing that data to consumers such as components, services and applications."

North continued:

"Many organizations have a variety of persistent data stores, including SQL databases, geo-coded data files, spreadsheets, content management systems and XML. Services, applications, and mashups can consume and integrate data from disparate data sources. In an n-tier enterprise architecture and a service-oriented architecture, the logic for providing data from databases and other data sources resides in data access layers and data services layer."

Sessions at DataServices World 2008 West at SOA World 2008 West, the one-day event being held November 20 in The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA , include

Ken North - DataServices World Chair, KNComputing, LLC DataServices World Introductory Remarks	Susan Malaika - Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Universal Services for SOA, WOA, Cloud and XML Data
Parand Darugar - Director of Software Architecture, Yahoo! Data Processing in the Cloud	Peter Coffee - Director of Platform Research, SalesForce.com Workshop: Data Quality, Data Access and Data Services
Jeff Vroom - Principal Scientist, Adobe LiveCycle Data Services: Declarative Data Management	Rob Steward - VP of Research and Development, DataDirect Technologies Frontiers in Data Access: The Coming Wave in Data Services
Dr Michael Carey - Professor, University of California at Irvine Services Modeling: Data Modeling in the SOA Age	Geoff Brown - Founder & CEO, m2mi Corporation Modeling & Machine Intelligence

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