The Practical Guide project is developing an Open Group Guide which will explain how to use TOGAF for SOA. Discussion will focus on production of the Guide, and on input to the SOA Japan Working Group, which sees use of TOGAF for SOA as a key work item.

The Reference Architecture project is producing an Open Group Technical Standard SOA reference architecture. The basis of this architecture was agreed in the Chicago meeting in July 2008. Discussion in San Diego will focus on production of the delivered document, the relation of the Reference Architecture to SOA Governance, and preparation for the SOA Summit which will take place later in the conference.

The SOA Governance project has a well-developed draft. Its discussion will focus on resolving comments and issues on the draft, and in planning for publication.

• The emerging Open Group SOA Governance framework;
• Designing a Data Access Standard in SOA, WOA, and Cloud Computing Context; and
• SOA - Simple, Friendly and Direct.

• BPM Blended with SOA Approach; and
• SOA Status in Japan and Future Direction.

In this meeting, the material in the book will be presented for review and discussion by Working Group members.

This session will be a discussion of these and similar questions by Working Group members.

This stream will look at the main SOA reference models and architectures available to the enterprise IT architect. It will include presentations giving the perspectives of The Open Group, OASIS, and the OMG, followed by a panel discussion. (See the conference program.)

• Compare the standard SOA models and reference architecures being produced by the three bodies; and
• Consider how they can be harmonized for the benefit of the IT Architecture community.

This is a joint meeting of the SOA and Semantic Interoperability Working Groups.

The previous, highly-successful joint meeting in Glasgow on Information Architecture for SOA established the need to address information in the Business Architecture phase of TOGAF, and suggested how this should be done. This meeting will build on those conclusions to consider the impact on TOGAF's Information Systems Architectures and Technology Architecture phases. It will include discussion of:

• How the information component of the business architecture relates to the data architecture of the information systems;
• How semantic technology can support the development of the data architecture;
• How semantic technology can support the development of the applications architecture (which, in the context of SOA, is a services architecture), and the subsequent implementation of the applications and services;
• Potential reference models; and
• The impact on governance.