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IBM Comes Visiting

TAR College played host to Worldwide Technical Evangelist for IBM’s ASEAN ISV & Developer Relations team Mr Brendon Jones on 31 October 2007. Mr Jones is an IBM Certified Solutions Developer with over a decade of consulting and team leadership experience, and he was on a campus visit to give insights on Service-oriented Architecture (SOA).

Seventy-five students and additional academic staff from the School of Arts and Science eagerly attended his talk to gain more knowledge on SOA, which is gaining ground as the industry standard methodology for the design, development, deployment and management of information systems.

Final year students in particular found Mr Jones’ talk very useful when he explained about the Universal Description Discovery Integration (UDDI) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) technologies in Web services standard as these students are learning about Web services architecture and implementing the Web services applications.They also received tips on where to find web-based training tool and free downloads of other learning resources such as tutorials to help them explore more on SOA applications.

Mr Brendon Jones from IBM making a point on the benefits of SOA.

"The SOA talk helps to create an awareness of the emerging industrial standard for IT practices,” said Mr Yong Chan Huang, Programme Supervisor for Diploma in Science (Computer Science & Management Mathematics), who is also the Assistant Advisor of the Computer Science Society. “We are pleased to note that IBM chose TAR College to be the first stop in Malaysia for such a talk."

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