ZapThink will support the Object Management Group(TM)'s first-ever Model Driven Architecture(R), Service Oriented Architecture and Web Services Workshop as an analyst sponsor. The event takes place in Orlando, Florida, March 21-24, 2005. The theme of the event is "Delivering the Integrated Enterprise - Practice, Not Promise." A preliminary agenda is posted at the link below.

The workshop will explore how Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, and MDA(R), enable architects and designers to visualize, build, and integrate a suite of applications that keep a business running. The four-day workshop will examine both the architectural and technical foundations of these IT enablers, showing how they combine synergistically to enable distributed computing on the scale required by today's Internet-connected enterprise.

Workshop tutorials will cover the basics of service-oriented architecture - WSDL, SOAP, UML(R) 2.0, the MDA, and enterprise architecture - setting the stage for presentations by leading modelers, architects, and tool builders on the state-of-the-art: recent developments in tools and techniques, and real-world implementations of MDA-based, service-oriented distributed applications.