OASIS has announced a symposium on Composability within SOA to be held in 2008. As the call for participation states:
At the core of Service Oriented Architectures currently deployed in businesses and governments is the ability to compose or coordinate various pieces of applications - legacy and novel - that may be developed on different platforms and languages, provide different interfaces, and be managed by different owners. We use the term "composability" to denote this quality.The symposium is looking for papers on a range of topics, as is usually the case at these types of events, including:
- Orchestration and choreography of services: making composite applications work
- Use Cases, lessons learned and best practices for a successful SOA deployment of composability technologies
- Use of semantic technologies to enhance SOA composability
- The standards for SOA relating to composability: how do various standards support composability, how do they compose with each other
- Composition of service components using Service Component Architecture (SCA)
- The dynamic aspect of composite applications: change management, discovery, upgrades, migrations and transitions
- Coordination and mediation enablers: Enterprise Service Bus, rule-based engines, service directories, etc.
- Testing of composite applications, including the challenges of testing across business boundaries