Dr. Scott Dietzen, chief technology officer, BEA Systems, will keynote at the ninth annual JavaOne Worldwide Developer Conference. During his keynote, Dietzen is scheduled to offer attendees demonstrations and tutorials on using innovative technologies including Project Beehive to create Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). In addition, BEA is slated to showcase the latest advancements in Java development at its booth (#633), and lead 23 technical sessions, speaking panels, and roundtables during the four-day event. BEA is a Platinum Co-Sponsor of this year's event, to be held in San Francisco from June 28-July 2, 2004, at the Moscone Convention Center.

At JavaOne, BEA is scheduled to demonstrate its long term commitment to SOAs and show how it is helping to redefine the economics and responsiveness of business computing. SOAs are a set of principles and practices that can help in sharing, reusing, and orchestrating business logic represented as services or components. After implementing SOAs, companies can experience greater re-use of IT assets, faster delivery of value to the business and greater adaptability to support ongoing change. While the concept of an SOA may have existed previously, adoption has been hindered in part by a lack of technologies and resources. The BEA solution is designed to help fill that void.

Attendees can also have the opportunity to talk to the team behind Project Beehive. The industry's first open source foundation for building SOA- and J2EE-based applications, Project Beehive is designed to offer broad access to ease-of-use innovations, and help address customer concerns about vendor lock-in. Based on the application framework of BEA WebLogic Workshop, Project Beehive is part of BEA's effort to help simplify Java development and broaden accessibility.

Dr. Diezen's keynote, "SOA to Enable the Service Driven Enterprise, BEA Liquid Computing," is scheduled for Wednesday, June 30 at 5:15 p.m. PDT. For more information regarding BEA's activities at JavaOne, please visit http://www.bea.com/framework.jsp?CNT=evt_javaone_04.htm&FP=/content/news_events/events .

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