On Day Two, JackBe CEO Luis Derechin will open the proceedings with his aptly named session "AJAX and SOA: The Perfect Match."

The enterprise uptake of SOA architectures can achieve great efficiencies and enhances to back-end processes, Derechin will argue, but SOA architectures often ignore a critical consideration - the end user! AJAX, he will say, fills this gap perfectly. Using AJAX, enterprises get what they have long been searching for: a browser-based platform for interactive GUIs that can sit directly on top of web services. He will show how AJAX completes the SOA technology puzzle and brings the benefits of SOA to those who matter most - the end users.

Charles Fiesel is next up, renowned for having spent the past decade helping companies understand how cutting edge technologies can be utilized to improve interactive experiences. His session title says it all "Making Web 2.0 Happen."

Fiesel will share his vision of a world of rich interfaces delivering enterprise content, with composite applications empowering dynamic portals and SOA development. Since his company, Roundarch, is the winner of the MIT/Accenture Digital Government Award for its work designing and building the US Air Force Portal, this vision is already a reality. As leader of the RIA practice at Roundarch, Charles will speak to the whole issue of fusing user-centric experience design with technology to deliver large-scale web initiatives, just as he has already done for some of the largest public and private organizations in the world.

Following Fiesel is the Founder and CTO of Laszlo Systems, David Temkin, whose session on "OpenLaszlo & SOA" is certain to be one of the best attended of the day, since the "Real-World AJAX" Two-Day Seminar in New York June 5-6, at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan, is co-located with SOA Web Services Edge Conference & Expo 2006 . 

JackBe CTO John Crupi will give a session on Focusing on the "A"(rchitecture) in AJAX, after which TIBCO General Interface Co-Founder Kevin Hakman will speak about what he calls the four quantum states of AJAX in his session  "From Enriched HTML to Client/SOA."

In the spectrum of architectural approaches to AJAX solutions available today, Hakman will show, there is a simple end at which HTML pages are becoming enriched with simple AJAX behaviors exemplified by the likes of Yahoo! Maps, Google Suggest and a myriad of AJAX libraries and widgets that have been published. However for more robust RIAs approaching the look, feel and behavior of desktop applications, a "Client/SOA" architectural approach offers many distinct advantages, he will argue.

Hakman, a leading expert on AJAX technologies in the enterprise, will expound on his belief that AJAX solutions today exist in four quantum states. He will outline each of these four states and reveal how developers can make sure their approach to AJAX is aligned with their strategy and skill sets while sharing real-world case studies of enterprise AJAX implementations in context of SOA infrastructure that are sure to blow away perceptions of what anyone attending the "Real-World AJAX" Two-Day Seminar may have thought were the limits of AJAX.

Rounding off the general sessions in this Two-Day event, Nexaweb Founder and Chairman Coach Wei will take us into one of the possible futures of AJAX in his characteristically mould-breaking session,  "A New Approach to AJAX: Asynchronous Java + XML. "

The AJAX model dominates headlines, Wei will note, but developing with JavaScript requires considerable developer skills, especially when migrating existing client/server applications to the Web. A new wave of software infrastructure providers is leveraging Java expertise to create enterprise-caliber Rich Internet Applications. Wei's session will discuss building and deploying AJAX applications using the Java server platform as a JavaScript alternative.