As CTO for SOA and Business Integration, Ross Altman focuses on the direction, development and communication of Sun's business integration technology vision and strategy.

Mr. Altman has expertise in the development of strategic approaches to transforming dozens of legacy and packaged applications into a coherent network of interactive systems. He also has published research regarding the ROI that can be realized from a commitment to a systematic application integration architecture, the adoption of a mature, repeatable development methodology and the use of best of breed development tools and networks.

Mr. Altman came to Sun through Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, the application integration and SOA development tools vendor. Prior to joining SeeBeyond, Mr. Altman was director of integrated technologies at EDS in Plano, Texas, where he developed programs in application integration architecture, methodology and governance.

Prior to EDS, Mr. Altman was a vice president and research director with Gartner, where his research focused on the use of integration middleware to support composite applications, straight-through processing and business process management.

Mr. Altman has authored more than 150 articles on application development and integration and has delivered more than 100 presentations on these subjects at industry conferences and seminars.

Presentation
A Future-Proof Architecture for Composite Application Development on an SOA
A major enterprise will almost never be able to implement a complete SOA architecture based on a single product.  To the contrary, most enterprises will end up with a challenging mixture of SOA middleware and development tools that, at best, almost work together.

The only way to avoid the major drawbacks to this scenario is to focus on the most relevant standards.  For example, the Java Business Integration (JBI) standard (also known by its technical name, JSR 208) allows an organization to build it's own, "custom" Enterprise Service Bus by mixing and matching SOA and composite application runtime tools from various vendors.  Similarly, Project Tango-based Web services allow service providers and service clients built by different groups to communicate with true plug-and- play interoperability.  Finally, a well-architected Service Runtime Management Framework can allow multiple clients from multiple organizations to connect to the same Web service -- and each of those clients can be supported with different implementations of such Qualities of Service as logging, billing, throttling, metering, routing, encryption, versioning and translation.

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