The mission of the SOA and eBusiness Solutions Project is to tackle real-world issues surrounding the development and deployment of intra and inter-business services-oriented applications. IBM/s top engineers explain the SOA architecture in detail and relate "best practices" for SOA implementation garnered from some of the world's largest corporations. Besides the "do's and dont's" of SOA, we help you transition from familiar CICS and client-server coding styles to the new world of rapid services creation and deployment. These are "hands on" sessions with coding examples using the latest and greatest tools. Industry experts like Wayne Duquaine of Grandview Systems and several IBM Distinguished Engineers are associated with the SOA project, including those driving the standards for security and interoperability with other major players like Microsoft, BEA, Oracle, etc. We continue to explore the evolution of portals, the emergence of the Enterprise Service Bus, and the intersection of SOA with evolving technologies like Grid Computing and WEB 2.0. We will provide the experts - you provide the questions.