Java meetup : SOA, ESB, and Mule March 9, 2009

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Using Mule to integrate Disparate IT in the Enterprise and Cloud

More and more companies are investing in SOA/ESB and integration projects. Now IT is being asked leverage virtualization and cloud computing as well to reduce costs while still providing guarantees that performance SLAs will be met. Since companies rarely throw away existing systems, most Java developers need to understand how to build applications around existing or legacy systems in a service-oriented way while also pulling in new cloud services and providing reliability, availability, and scalability.

Even though SOA and ESB terms have been around for some years now, there is still much confusion about what they really mean and how they apply to the problems we are trying to solve today. This session attempts to provide some clarity - through demonstration.

This session will be a practical guide for building an ESB architecture connecting in-house and hosted applications using Mule. Since there are plenty of moving parts, this will only be a minimal introduction to the ESB concept and Mule itself.

Rather than focusing on particular features of one specific project, this session offer attendees a holistic view of implementing an ESB solution using both Mule and other open source products, and will clarify how to approach the design of an ESB solution with some simple rules applicable to most SOA projects.

In this session you will learn:

* What you should consider when integrating cloud and in-house applications
* How to use Mule and other technologies when attempting to build and ESB solution for their organization;
* Simple rules for designing and implementing services;
* How to use your existing Java development skills to build, or integrate with, an SOA/ESB.

The venue and the drinks for this event will be provided by Marakana, where as the food will be sponsored by TEKsystems.

We'll also be giving away books and other interesting goodies from Sun and O'Reilly, as well as a copy of IntelliJ IDEA from JetBrains.

Official Website: http://www.meetup.com/sfjava/calendar/9235286/