Alessio Soldano - JBoss / Red Hat: bridging the gap between web services technologies and real world needs

Web Services technologies cover a broad set of functionalities. WS specifications and standards link each other in a pretty much complete yet complex network. The understanding of this is usually not a trivial task to developers and engineers having to find out proper solutions for their company's business needs. In such a scenario, JBoss / Red Hat plays an important role in both contributing to a meaningful evolution of specification and standards, and delivering software products that simplify user access to the technology they actually need. This presentation will highlight Red Hat / JBoss involvement in the Web Service area and some of the brought solutions.

Alessio Soldano was born in Varese, Italy in 1979 and graduated with a degree in Computer Science Engineering from 'Politecnico di Milano'. He's been working on distributed systems in the financial/credit field for some years starting from 2004. He later joined JBoss / Red Hat at the end of 2007 to work full time on the webservice project, currently serving as its lead. He also contributes to the JBoss AS and other JBoss projects. Starting from 2009, Alessio
represents Red Hat Middleware on JSR-224 'JavaTM API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0' expert group. Alessio is also part of and representing Red Hat at the W3C Web Services Resource Access Working Group. Finally, Alessio is also committer and PMC member of the Apache
CXF webservice project.