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State of the Art by Amber Ankerholz Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World Previewing what’s to come Amber is Conference Manager for Dr. Dobb’s Events. She can be reached at aankerholz@think-services.com. Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World (www.drdobbsarchworld.com) returns to the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, kicking off on July 21 with four days of real-world training for software architects, developers, and modeling/design professionals. New to this year’s program are tracks focusing on: • • • • • • Service-Oriented Architecture/Web Services. Solutions/Technical Architectures. Roll-Up-Your-Sleeves. Agile Development and Methods. Traditional Development and Methods. Modeling and Design. ware architect” job title, there can be confusion about what an architect does; so in this session, Rosen moves beyond the hype, describing what architects actually do and examining the skills required for success. Rosen, who is CTO at Wilton Consulting Group and author of Designing E-business Systems and Architectures, is also teaching “Enterprise Architecture by Example” at Architecture & Design World. According to Rosen, “There’s been a tremendous growth in architecture in the past few years. Architecture & Design World brings together some of the leading practitioners to share their knowledge, experience, and insight.” He went on to explain that the field of enterprise architecture is growing rapidly, so there are lots of missteps to watch out for. “Too many EA programs aren’t meeting expectations. Sometimes, we forget that creating architecture itself provides no value. The value comes when we apply architecture to projects. A&D can help people avoid the common mistakes.” You can find additional practical advice in the Solutions/Technical Architectures track, which includes courses such as: • Rosen’s “EA by Example.” • Ian Sutton’s course on large codebase architecture. • “Building Scalable, Distributed Enterprise .NET Solutions with nServiceBus,” by Udi Dahan. “Watching changes in the software landscape led us to update and add to our conference tracks,” said Conference Director Tamara Carter. “For instance, while SOA/Web Services technology has been consistently covered at Architecture & Design World, SOA’s growing importance warrants its own track. SOA is no longer a pipe—it’s changing the way software and software systems are designed and built. Because most companies are faced with pursuing a serviceoriented architecture with the added complexity of integrating legacy systems, we’ve focused our courses on practical, real-world topics.” Specifically, the new SOA track offers: • “SOA in Practice,” a two-part tutorial by Nicolai Jossutis. • “Designing Service-Oriented Applications,” by Mike Rosen. Rosen will also kick-off the event with his keynote “Learning the Secret Handshake: 10 Things an Architect Does.” Despite the popularity of the “soft48 Dr. Dobb’s Journal l www.ddj.com l July 2008 http://www.drdobbsarchworld.com http://www.ddj.com

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Dr. Dobb's Journal - July 2008 Contents Friday Night Fish Fry Alia Vox Developer Diaries Developer’s Notebook Engineers Without Borders Conversations Patricia Tries Event-Based Architectures Graphs Versus Objects Lock-Free Queues Dr. Dobb’s Architecture & Design World Java and the Nokia N10 Internet Tablet Effective Concurrency The Agile Edge Swaine’s Flames

Dr. Dobb's Journal - July 2008

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