I have a bunch of upcoming winter INETA dates:

• 12/05/06  San Diego .NET Developer's Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF
• 12/11/06  Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to Windows Workflow (WF) NEW Talk!!
• 12/12/06  Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF
• 12/18/06  Lehigh Valley .NET - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF NEW!

SOA Talk Abstract: The term SOA has become ubiquitous in our industry. Unfortunately that has lead to massive hype that makes it difficult to understand and distinguish the real value of adapting SOA principles. In my judgment, the definition suffers from technology centric views that are based on the technology environment currently in use. 

I will concentrate on the Design Patterns that distinguish Service Orientatation and how to apply them to your designs. Upon these principles, I will look at their real-world implementation in WCF ("Indigo") and then dive deeply into WCF, including a series of demos.

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