Enterprise Computing has changed dramatically over the past ten years. Think back to 2000 when having a single-machine App Server was the latest thing. In this presentation Paul Fremantle will dust off his crystal ball and imagine the world 10 years hence. Apart from the fun and fantasy of thinking ten years ahead, there is a serious purpose to this futurology: Thinking 10 years ahead is important to set vision and direction. Think back ten years and imagine if you had envisioned the rise of the interactive web applications, the growth of SOA and REST and the huge scale of modern enterprise computing: now think how that would have affected your plans, strategy and development.

Over nearly the last 20 years, XML, Web Services and SOA have successfully redefined how we build scalable distributed systems in the enterprise. In this new world, XML is the universal data format, Web Services is the universal communication protocol and SOA is the accepted architecture for building scalable distributed systems. These technologies and standards have transformed a very closed, proprietary world to one where open standards and open source define and lead the way for large scale systems.

James Clark’s involvement with this story predates XML – he wrote the world’s only complete SGML parser (XML is a derivative of SGML) and contributed to defining DSSSL (which corresponds to XSLT in the XML world) and also wrote the major implementation of it. James then went onto co-author the XML specification, the XML Namespaces specification, and more. James was the primary brains behind XPath and XSLT, for which he wrote the specifications and did leading implementations of as well. Jonathan (then at Microsoft) lead the development of the XPath specification and XSLT as Microsoft’s representation on the XSLT working group. Jonathan went onto become a major contributor to XLink and XInclude and later to chair the W3C WS Description Working Group. Sanjiva’s participation in this started in 1998 with him joining the XSLT Working Group as IBM’s representative. Later he went onto authoring several Web services specifications include WSDL, WS-Addressing and BPEL4WS.

In this keynote, Rebecca Hurst of KineticPR will interview James Clark, Jonathan Marsh and Sanjiva Weerawarana on how they helped shape this revolution.

WSO2 Carbon is the middleware platform that revolutionized how middleware products are built. With WSO2 Stratos, this revelutionary middlewarer platform is made available on the cloud. WSO2 Stratos ia a middleware platform offered as a service (PaaS). Thanks to the cloud native features such as multi tenancy, billing and metering, self service, elasticity, dynamic wiring and incremental testing; the inherent features of WSO2 Carbon, WSO2 Stratos is the most comprehensive middleware platform available today. WSO2 stratos is set to re-define the way IT departments will be using the computing assets, and brings forth novel means to achive EAI.

As many businesses move ahead with SOA, security and identity management need to be made available as a service in the architecture in a consistent and reusable way across all applications. This session will focus on implementing key security standards and identity management for SOA with regards to two emerging user centric identities: OpenID & Information Cards and also XACML for fine-grained authorization. Further, this session explores topics related to managing identity in the cloud.

Business logic describes how a business functions and how it would react to the different conditions arise within the organizations and market. They are typically carefully developed and refined, and often holds the competitive advantage of an organizations. Ability to keep track and change the business logic in response to changing conditions is an invaluable assert to any agile organizations. In this talk, Srinath Perera presents Business Processes and Business Rules, which are two alternative approaches to represent and manage business logic instead of embedding them within programming logic and discuss when each of these three modes should be used within the enterprise.

Enterprise data is undoubtedly one of the most valuable assets an organization possess. These data is collected during numerous business transactions with customers/partners over a period of business and contain highly valuable, sensitive, & mission critical information. Being able to analyze, visualize, use & share these data with selected business partners/applications, in a controlled manner can bring in immense value to a business.

This session discusses common problems in accessing, sharing, presenting & governing enterprise data and how WSO2′s product stack can help in solving some of these problems. We will also take a look at few scenarios where real customers are using WSO2 products to unleash the power of their enterprise data.

Number of customers using WSO2 products as the middleware of their SOA. Customers of WSO2 are geographically located in different parts of the world and usage of WSO2 products vary from their business and technical requirements. Complete middleware platform, interoperability, agility, simplicity and the configuration driven model of WSO2 products has made the end users to use WSO2 platform as a solo or a duet to fill their enterprise middleware needs.

This session will describe above points by using selected customer use-cases. Each customer use-case will contain business use-case/requirements as well as the pain points that user had before implementing the WSO2 solution; then WSO2’s approach to customer’s problem; WSO2 solution, that includes the solutions architecture and deployment architecture; key benefits that end-users gained addition to a solution for their pain points will discuss in this session.

We will be looking into the details of setting up your private cloud infrastructure & then setting up WSO2 Platform as a Service on this infrastructure. From a cloud platform perspective, we will be looking at the challenges in setting up your private cloud & how WSO2 Cloud Platform addresses those challenges. We will be also looking at the challenges involving deploying a platform as a service, and look at how WSO2 Stratos addresses these challenges.

WSO2 is a product of the times. It sits squarely at the confluence of some of the dramatic forces shaping our world today. In this section we allow each speaker seven minutes to explore a single facet of how some of these forces are intersecting and creating opportunities for our customers and for WSO2.

- Paradigm Shifts as Opportunities: How to take advantage of the paradigm shifts happening right now: loose coupling, global scaling, open source, globalization, cloud computing. (Sanjiva Weerawarana)

- Weighing the Positives and Negatives: The benefits of cloud adoption and the dangers of new forms of lock-in, and how open source helps strike the right balance (Jonathan Marsh)

- Open Standards as Competition Enabler: How open standards have made it possible for any company anywhere to compete with global brands. (James Clark)

- Modern Open Source Business Models: How companies are successfully replacing license fees with other revenue sources – WSO2 model, dual-licensing, SaaS hosted option (Lavi de Silva)

- Collaborative Development: How open source development is revolutionizing the customer-vendor relationship (Samisa Abeysinghe)

- Venture Capital as Engine of Development: An overview of the essential role played by VC in fostering innovation, economic growth, and development. (Pradeep Tagare)

A panel discussion will follow the 7-minute updates, addressing questions from the audience.