Do Cloud and Mobile Signal the Death of Middleware?

Find out from Dr. Mark Little who leads JBoss technical direction, research and development. Prior to this he was SOA technical development manager, and director of standards. He was chief architect and co-founder at Arjuna Technologies, and Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard when Arjuna was spun off. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80s. His PhD was on fault-tolerant distributed systems, replication and transactions. He is currently also a professor at Newcastle University.

Mark will explore how enterprise Java (particularly Java EE) has a critical role to play in Java-based PaaS and mobile solutions. Also how it can be used as a platform for other languages such as Ruby that are finding growing adoption in both of these areas. The requirements for real world Cloud or Mobile applications include reliability, security, fault tolerance and much more: things that your typical enterprise middleware developer has taken for granted for four decades. In this session Mark will discuss the needs for enterprise Java in both cloud and mobile and will also suggest how Java, the JVM and associated standards and communities need to evolve in order to better serve these two growing and important aspects of computing.