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We are pleased to confirm that the next meeting of the WebSphere User Group (uk) will take place on 11th September 2007 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. There will be no charge for this meeting and we have an excellent agenda lined up.\n\nNote: there will be a social gathering of the night before which will be an excellent opportunity for extended networking. London to Edinburgh return flights are approx £50 with easyJet.
Provisional Agenda
Registration and Coffee begins from 8:30am, with the Chairman's Intro at 9:00am. The first session begins at 9:30am.
A buffet Lunch is served at 12:30pm, with coffee breaks included in the morning and afternoon.
WebSphere Product Update & Directions
Session 1
Title:
Project Zero - Zero complexity, Zero overhead.
Abstract:
This talk will provide a detailed view into a new platform IBM is building that is optimized for time and simplicity. This new platform allows you to build modern web applications easily and quickly with an event-driven, scripting centric programming model and an optimized runtime. This talk will provide an overview of the project and a detailed look at the programming model, including samples and demos. We will also discuss a new form of commerical software development being used with this project. To read up before the talk, check out www.projectzero.org.
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Jason R McGee
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Session 2
Title:
WebSphere Consumability: Feature Pack Overview
Abstract:
This session will focus on recent consumability improvements within the WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere XD product deliverables. The session will highlight and provide an overview of the recently announced WebSphere Application Server Feature Packs and how they can be used to leverage new capabilities on top of the WAS v6.1 product. The session will also discuss the recent XD release and the consumability/ease of use improvements made within that product line as well. The session will be focused on providing information that is relevant to your current and immediately future plans with WAS and WXD, come hear more about our drive to make things easier and provide additional feedback.
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Tim Vanderham
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WEB 2.0 and Internet Channel Innovation
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Session 3
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The next generation Internet: a CTO perspective
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The next generation of the Internet will uncover as many revolutionary business opportunities as the first. Within five years Web 2.0 will generate a new age of collective intelligence and extreme insight, in which companies can correlate the massive amounts of information on the Internet with that of their own enterprises, including text, audio, video and dynamic “gadgets,†to create real-time business scenarios and timelines never before possible. \\n<br><br>\\nThis session will give folks a glimpse into the vast possibilities of Web 2.0 technologies, with an eye fixed on real demonstrations and the businesses behind them.\\n<br><br>\\nThis session was initially advertised as a Mashup & QEDWiki session, and will indeed include these topic areas, but will now paint a much wider picture than originally planned for the benefit of the WUG UK audience.
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David Boloker
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Session 4
Title:
Digital Communities in Web 2.0
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Social and technological changes have created the phenomena we try to summarize and name in the term Web 2.0. The most significant technical advances have been driven by the desire to post personal information in various forms like photos, diaries and podcasts about all sorts of non-business related topics.\\n<br><br>\\nThis sharing of information and opinion has led to the obvious fact of grouping: we prefer to exchange with people who understand and appreciate a specific topic of interest and this has spurned a lot of informal or managed communities on the Internet\\n<br><br>\\nThe influence and power of such communities has not gone undetected by marketing organizations and businesses, who are now trying to understand this phenomenon and even take advantage of it. Turning customers into digital communities is however not a straightforward task. While this requires enablement and support by IT, much of the understanding of customer needs and behavior is actually captured by the marketing departments.\\n<br><br>\\nThis talk will discuss aspects of successful digital communities, the key success factors for creating such a community and what it actually means to run a community, be it for a business or just a football fan club.
Speakers:
Anton Fricko
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WebSphere Portfolio Update
Session 1
Title:
Connecting Enterprise Apps to ESB & Process Server
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In this session we shall look beyond SOAP and see how WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Process Server can be used to connect to legacy applications using the WebSphere Adapters and the WebSphere MQ native and JMS bindings. The difference between transport, method and data bindings will be covered and a detailed explanation given of how function selectors and custom data bindings can be used to map from arbitrary formats to the world of Service Data Objects, with particular reference to MQ messages.
Speakers:
David Currie
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Session 2
Title:
WebSphere Registry & Repository (WSRR)
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<i>Abstract to follow, but is expected to cover key feedback & learning from early adopter experiences; summarise product development plans & timescales; and talk about supported integration options & considerations.</i>
Speakers:
John McLean
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Session 3
Title:
IBM Datapower: Product Intro & Customer Use Cases
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Abstract to be provided, but is likely to provide a brief introduction to the Product and then talk through the customer use cases for the device to date, namely:-<br>\\n\\tXML acceleration<br>\\n\\tWS/XML Protection<br>\\n\\tWS Security<br>\\n\\tService Level Management<br>\\n\\tLegacy integration<br>
Speakers:
Aran White
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Session 4
Title:
WAS XD v6.1 - Whats New and Noteworthy
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This talk will provide an overview of the latest release of WebSphere Extended Deployment (XD), Version 6.1. v6.1 was released in May of this year. This talk will focus on the new interesting features of 6.1, including support for non-WebSphere middleware environments, new packaging, and greatly enhanced ObjectGrid support. This talk will also provide some insight on current customer deployments of XD and what features are in production use today.
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New Technologies and Skills
Session 1
Title:
Eclipse BIRT: Open Source Reporting for Your Apps
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One of the major challenges in developing an application is providing users with the reports that they demand in a timely and cost effective manner. Eclipse BIRT, the open source reporting project, addresses this challenge by providing developers with a powerful, visual report design tool and engine based on Eclipse. This session introduces BIRT and looks at how developers can quickly design reports based on data and metadata from IBM tools and database and incorporate those reports into their Java applications without the need for time-consuming custom code. Time allowing, this session will cover This session will cover: BIRT Overview and Architecture; Content Development and Distribution Model; Getting Productive with BIRT - Key Capabilities for Report Development; BIRT Integration and Customization; Extension Point Overview; Integration APIs; Example BIRT Deployment Models; BIRT In Action; Case Studies of BIRT applications.
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Speaker tbc
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Session 2
Title:
Ajax and Web 2.0 in WebSphere
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An overview of Ajax and Web2.0 technology, including a brief discussion of key security issues that Ajax applications need to address, and how IBM's Ajax for WebSphere Platform Early Program can be used today to enable Ajax application development for WebSphere Application Server platforms.
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Chris Mitchell
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Session 3
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WebSphere Test - Strategy and Best Practices
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While products and applications continue to change, the principles of a good test strategy and best practices remain fairly constant. This session will focus on test principles, strategies, and best practices to follow through the process of updating and/or rolling out infrastructure and application changes. Stability in a production environment is directly related to successful test execution and a deep understanding of the environment's behavior. This session will talk about the keys to ensuring successful tests and what critical data points are required. This session will also talk about how the WebSphere System Test team is evolving our test methodologies and strategies to better align with our clients implementation and patterns.
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Session 4
Title:
Monty Jython`s Scripting Circus – Intro to Jytho
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The WAS 6.1 Application Server Toolkit (AST) provides excellent aids to help create and debug Jython-based administration scripts, but assumes you already have some knowledge of Jython. In a mixture of slides and demonstrations this talk first outlines the AST Jython tooling and then takes an in-depth look at the features of the Jython language itself, ending with some ideas on how to write re-usable production-quality Jython administration scripts.
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Andrew Simms
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Java SIG
Session 1
Title:
Java 5 Reliability, Availability & Serviceability
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The diagnosis of problems is still largely performed by humans, and the level of skill and expertise required to diagnose a solution-level problem is much higher than that of a single product. Diagnosing and correcting solution-level problems in production environments requires a collection of minimally invasive reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features and tools to be an integral part of the Java platform. This session aims to review the current RAS technology in IBM's JDK and discusses a new breed of Java platform-based tools and frameworks.
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Trent Gray-Donald
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Session 2
Title:
DTFJ: New breed of tools for Problem Determination
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DTFJ (Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java) is a new technology and an emerging standard, initially developed for IBM JDKs, to examine the internal contents of a JVM. The Java Technology Center, WebSphere Serviceability Team and several other teams, are collaborating to construct a family of problem determination tools based on DTFJ technology. These tools form the base of an extensible infrastructure to help diagnose problems that occur in various products built on top of a JVM, such as WebSphere Application Server. Additionally, these tools can be used as first level diagnostics tools specific to the JVMs themselves. This presentation will provide an update on the latest set of tools that are now available in this space, and discuss specific examples of their use for WebSphere and JVM problem determination.
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Session 3
Title:
What`s Hot in IBM`s Virtual Machine
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IBM has provided a Virtual Machine for the Java platform (JVM) for multiple platforms since the very early days of Java technology. The offering has matured significantly over the years, and this session aims to update the audience on the 2006 - 2007 progress IBM has made, notably with Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) 6. The presentation is technical in nature, discussing some of our key new technologies and some of the changes in our development methodology as we embrace new versions of the Java programming language.
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Andrew Low
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Session 4
Title:
IBM Java 5 Garbage Collection
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Garbage collection (GC) is central to the Java language, and a critical component of high-performance Java applications. This session will describe the IBM JDK 5.0 GC algorithms, how they adapt to changing workloads, and provide guidance interpreting and visualizing GC data. Come to this session to learn how to improve overall application behavior, including performance, be it throughput or \\nresponsiveness, and footprint, as well as how to analyze performance characteristics and respond to performance data. We also introduce the Extensible Verbose ToolKit (EVTK) to facilitate visualizing and analyzing relevant GC data. Finally, we discuss future directions that the GC will explore, including real time and soft real-time applications.
Speakers:
Ryan Sciampacone
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Portal SIG
Session 1
Title:
Project Zero - Zero complexity, Zero overhead.
Abstract:
This talk will provide a detailed view into a new platform IBM is building that is optimized for time and simplicity. This new platform allows you to build modern web applications easily and quickly with an event-driven, scripting centric programming model and an optimized runtime. This talk will provide an overview of the project and a detailed look at the programming model, including samples and demos. We will also discuss a new form of commerical software development being used with this project. To read up before the talk, check out www.projectzero.org.
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Session 2
Title:
WAS Portal integration using Iterative Methods
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This presentation will share experiences of some of the common challenges faced by Portal integration and development projects and how the approach and method has changed to mitigate these risks. The approach presented is a general iterative approach which addresses technical novelty, external dependencies and change or development of requirements. The session is suitable for program and project managers and senior technical resources (responsible for project or stream level deliverables), no specific methodology background is assumed.
Speakers:
Richard Shooter
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Session 3
Title:
Social Networking Using Lotus & WebSphere
Abstract:
Lotus Connections was launched earlier this year at the Lotusphere 2007 conference amid great fanfare and excitement, as “social software for businessâ€ÂÂ, and the buzz continues around Web 2.0, Social Networking and their combined impact on the way we work. The Special Interest Group (SIG) for Lotus Connections will present about these areas and delve behind the scenes of the technology to discover just how much is based on existing WebSphere and Tivoli platforms. You will learn about the context for the product, the product Architecture and key deployment decisions that enable you to maximize your existing investment in WebSphere technologies. You will also hear how best to implement the product within your organizations and hear how Social Networking is being used to spread the word.
Speakers:
Neil Burston
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Session 4
Title:
Zero Bandwidth Portal – Lotus Expeditor
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IBM Lotus Expeditor provides a set of tools which can be used to convert existing Portal applications Client Services Applications capable of running locally on a client. This presentation will describe a real life customer scenario, that is currently in pilot, which has targeted a mobile work force and equipped them with mobile devices. (Notebooks and Tablets). Employees are able to use the corporate business portal from their mobile devices whether they are connected or disconnected. This presentation will demonstrate the many considerations that have had to be taken into account when designing distributed Portal applications.
Speakers:
Soheel Chughtai
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