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We are pleased to confirm that the next meeting of the WebSphere User Group (uk) will take place on 3rd March 2009 at IBM Bedfont Lakes. There will be no charge for this meeting and we have an excellent agenda lined up.
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 Portfolio
Session 1
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KEYNOTE: WebSphere Directions
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Rob High (IBM US)
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Session 2
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The POWER 3: JRules (ILOG), Business Event Process
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STOP - YOUR business needs you !!! Process improvement on its own is not enough. Visibility, Insight Control and efficiency are where business leaders need to take their business model innovation ideas too. Aided by specialists Jason Brown from ILOG and Richard Brown from IBM, in this session we will talk about IBM's recent acquisitions in ILOG- J Rules, Aptsoft - WebSphere Business Event processing and the WebSphere Dynamic Processes Edition. Individually, the attributes of these solutions provide business value and powerful business solutions but when combined provide the Power 3 for promise of business agility.
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Andrew Howarth (IBM)
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Session 3
Title:
Enabling EA and BPM Collaboration
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With more focus being placed on enabling enterprise architects in setting corporate standards for architectural building blocks, and with a corresponding growth in model-driven business process solution development, it is clear that we need to enable these groups to collaborate on common goals. This is includes, leveraging pre-defined architecture building blocks and enterprise standards in solution development, as well as harvesting solution components as assets within the enterprise portfolio. This focus is driving a number of changes in the Telelogic System Architect and WebSphere Business Modeler tools designed specifically to facility this exchange of architecture information. This session will describe the premise for this exchange, and the road map for enabling more efficient collaboration between EA and BPM.
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Session 4
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WSRR/ALE and Service Governance
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This session will outline the scenarios for governing services and assets within the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and Rational Asset Manager. This will emphasize the strong cohesion that IBM has engineered into these products to ensure good support for service management and governance for services that are developed as assets, and deployed in the operational environment. We have based that work on a set of scenarios that we believe represent an ideal situation for enterprises that build and deploy services in a Services-Oriented Architecture. This will be a good opportunity for you to assess IBM's assumptions, and provide feedback on the applicability of those assumptions to your situation.
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Innovation & Trends
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Session 2
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Project Blue Spruce: The Web Browser - Future ...
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Project Blue Spruce: The Web Browser - Future Platform For Cooperative Web Applications\\n\\nSituational Applications provide rich information and data visualization aids for decision-oriented meetings. The Cooperative Web extends these applications with mediated collaboration as well as real-time streaming high-definition video. IBM's Project Blue Spruce is a web browser based application built on Ajax, HTML 5.0, and other open standards - that replicates the power of face-to-face communications by injecting the full range of sight, sound and touch into live web meetings. Attendees can augment their meetings with shared manipulation of situational applications. Colleagues and friends can now work together using the web without sacrificing the human sensory experience of face-to-face communications.
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David Boloker
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Session 3
Title:
Faster Stronger Harder with Low Latency Messaging
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A look behind the fastest systems in the world. Its a fast paced look at technologies like LLM, Infiniband, System S, Hardware and Software. \\nHow are the fastest systems in the world powered, low latency messaging, Infiniband networks, caching and stacks of hardware. Learn what it takes to go fast and what you can take away to do the same.
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Ben Newton
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Session 4
Title:
Building a secure forms solution with DataPower
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Building a secure electronic forms solution with DataPower in a week\\n\\nDataPower XI50 has a broad set of features. By using them innovative ways, Smart421 built an electronic form submission solution for a national revenue collection service which consisted of only one component: the XI50. \\n \\nUtilizing existing features of MS Excel, backing spreadsheets with XML schemas, and then using DataPower to service and accept submissions of the document, a ‘one box solution' was created for the client allowing extremely quick development and delivery of a live solution (less than 1 week). \\n \\nThis presentation will talk through the design of the solution, concentrating on separation of concerns, reusability and maintainability. A design pattern around 2 step validation (schema XSD level, and business level) will also be discussed.
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Stu Smith
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New Technology in WAS7
Session 1
Title:
SAME AS WEBSPHERE APPLICATION SERVER PLATFORM
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Session 2
Title:
RADv7.5 Update (including new SCA tools)
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Rational Application Developer (RAD) is the premiere development environment for applications targeting the WebSphere Application Server. The session will describe new features in RAD 7.5+ that will help your team to accelerate your Java/JEE, Portal, Web 2.0 and SOA application development. Highlights of the presentation will also include the new Service Component Architecture (SCA) tools.
Speakers:
Anita Rass Wan
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Session 3
Title:
Java EE Support in WAS7: JSR 311 JAX-RS and JPA
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Session 4
Title:
Technical Overview of WAS7 Web Services
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Technical Overview of WebSphere Application Server v7 Web Services\\n\\nWeb Services is used by many customers as part of their on and off ramps for SOA-based infrastructure. This session will present the fundamentals of the web services capabilities delivered within version 7.0. Come to this session to understand the technologies that were shipped support web services in v7.0 - the specification levels and capabilities supported within WebSphere. This session will cover use cases and scenarios for using various features within Web Services such as support for WS-Policy, JAX-WS, JSR 109, JAXB, WS-Security, SOAP/JMS,and others.\\nIt will also explain an overview of some of the new capabilities that are now available to developers and administrators in creating new applications and managing their system.
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Sara Mitchell
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SOA & ESB SIG
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Session 2
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Mediation Policy & Service Gateway in WESB 6.2
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Using Mediation Policy and Service Gateway support in WESB 6.2\\n\\nBoth Mediation Policy and Service Gateway support are powerful new tools in WESB 6.2 and for that reason they deserve to be looked at in a little more detail. In Mediation Policies we will examine the process of preparing a flow for control via Mediation Policies, looking at both the flow development aspects and preparing documents in WSRR to activate policy control. In the Service Gateway part of the talk we will look at the different types of gateway pattern supported and look at how to construct them using the new primitives supplied to enable these gateway patterns.
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Brian Hulse
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Session 3
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Session 4
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WAS Platform
Session 1
Title:
OSGi in WebSphere v7.0
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Speakers:
Matt Perrins, Martin Gale
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Session 2
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Managing an Enterprise WebSphere Environment
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Speakers:
Richard Bettison, David Sayers
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Session 3
Title:
WebSphere Security Overview
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Speakers:
Simon Kapadia
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Session 4
Title:
WAS Migration/Interoperability 7.0
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This presentation is intended to educate and assist in performing WebSphere Application Server Migrations. It gives an overview of the migration process and tooling, and describes some example roadmaps for migration scenarios.
Speakers:
Andrew Leonard
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WebSphere Integration
Session 1
Title:
Use Cases for DataPower ESB, B2B and LLM Appliance
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This session will cover technical overview of the DataPower appliance family - XM70, XB60 and XM70. Topics will include appliance functionality overview, use cases, typical deployment scenarios and potential pit falls.
Speakers:
Bharat Bhushan
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Session 2
Title:
WebSphere MQ v7 'what's new'
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Describes, at a high level, the new features and facilities in WebSphere MQ V7
Speakers:
Pete Siddall
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Session 3
Title:
WebSphere MQ v7 - Pub/Sub
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WebSphere MQ V7 extends the MQ API (Application Programming Interface) to allow application programmers to use the publish/subscribe application model with ease. New verbs and changes to existing verbs are introduced in this presentation. We will also cover the administrative changes introduced for Publish/Subscribe, including Topic tree administration control, Clustered topics, No code change Publish/Subscribe and Application Monitoring.
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Session 4
Title:
WebSphere ESB and Process Server v6.2
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This session will provide a technical overview of the significant new and updated features in WebSphere ESB and Process Server v6.2 along with the associated tooling. The presentation will assume that the audience has a good understanding of existing features in earlier versions of these products.
Speakers:
David Currie
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Web2.0 SIG
Session 1
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Session 2
Title:
Web 2.0 for Business and IT
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Web 2.0 for Business and IT: New Media and Web Oriented Architectures\\n\\nIn 2008 Web 2.0 finally moved beyond the world of start-ups and teenagers as Enterprrise organisations started to explore the possibilities it provided to them in two complimentary areas: the use of "New Media" as a communication platform and the use of Web-Oriented Architectures as a faster and more flexible platform for applications. In this session we will explore both areas with examples of the technologies and projects involved. From a business perspective, we see how new media such as gadgets and social applications can be used to reach customers and employees and create new interactions. From a technical perspective, we will show how products and technologies such as AJAX, OSGI, Mashups, REST services, WebSphere and CICS deliver such applications and integrate them with Enterprise applications and data. Finally, we will suggest some concrete first steps that can be taken to explore the different aspects of Web 2.0 - and reasons for choosing which steps to take first.
Speakers:
Rick Robinson
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Session 3
Title:
Developing Web 2.0 UI with iWidgets and Dojo
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Developing Web 2.0 user interfaces with iWidgets and the Dojo Toolkit\\n\\nThis session is an introduction to the architecture and development of Web 2.0 applications using IBM's recommended technologies for rich internet applications and enterprise mashups. The session will introduce the fundamental Web 2.0 architectural concepts and walk through the process of developing bespoke user interface components using the iWidget component model and the Dojo Toolkit.
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Session 4
Title:
Building Situational Apps with WebSphere sMash
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Looking for an easy way to build an Ajax Web app that meets an immediate business need? Want to quickly manipulate and expose enterprise content so it can blossom in a Web 2.0 environment? Find out how WebSphere sMash focuses on speed, simplicity and agility to solve these problems and more, making it an ideal platform for developing and running situational applications and services. In this technical session, Robin will demonstrate new features in sMash 1.1, such as visual tooling enhancements and improvements to the PHP/Java bridge. Robin will also show "what's cooking" in Sebring (the experimental branch available on projectzero.org) such as the PHP/Groovy bridge. Finally, the talk will touch upon why technology from WebSphere sMash is being embedded into other IBM products.
Speakers:
Robin Fernandes
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Portal SIG
Session 1
Title:
Building an authoring experience for Portal
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Building a world class authoring experience for Portal\\n\\nThe presentation will focus in on combining IBM WebSphere Portal Server and Web Content Management to provide:\\n\\n<li>Marketing driven multiple home page layouts </li>\\n<li>Alternative content presentations for different user communities and/or devices. Managed by business people </li>\\n<li>World class "ease of use" total site management including "business user" dynamic presentation templates </li>\\n<li>Automated meta-data generation for business reporting (support for automatic Dublin Core Metadata) </li>\\n<li>Support for multiple concurrent content management systems (coexistence and migration) </li>\\n<li>Real-time page feedback statistics aggregated across clusters (e.g. number of other people viewing the page, how people got to this page, where other people went from this page, number of page views)</li>\\n\\nThomas will reference real-life scenarios based on his extensive experience of how to deliver these solutions and will illustrate these with demonstrations and in-depth technical discussions.
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Thomas Nilsson
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Session 2
Title:
Good practice in planning your Portal project
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Examining your organization's readiness for a Portal project using CMMI and recommended project methods for delivery.
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Richard Shooter
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Session 3
Title:
Real-World Experiences Using Portal Capabilities
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Real-World Experiences Using New Portal Capabilities to Enhance Application Development\\n\\nWebSphere Portal 6.1 adds a host of new capabilities to the application developer's toolkit, such as support for JSR 286 portlets, static pages and the inclusion of the Dojo JavaScript framework. Come along to this session to hear the details about some of these capabilities and how they have already been applied to add value to real projects.
Speakers:
Graham Harper
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Session 4
Title:
Portal the face of SOA at London & European
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Complete Conveyancing from London & European represents an evolution in the mortgage completion process. Find out how London & European took advantage of IBM's WebSphere Portal to deliver the only web-based conveyancing and panel management solution that takes total control of the transaction for remortgages, sales and purchases. The solution brings borrowers, brokers, lenders and conveyancer together and provides connectivity to each members core business systems through loose coupling. The session will explore how to provide market changing solutions, enable rapid take-on of partners; irrespective of their knowledge and investment in technology, remove cost whilst accelerating the time to complete business processes.
Speakers:
Chris Booker
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WebSphere Messaging
Session 1
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Session 2
Title:
SIB, WMQ and SCA directions for WebSphere products
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WAS Messaging directions : SIBus, WMQ and SCA\\n\\nI plan to provide a high level introduction to JMS and deciding which JMS Provider to use, with pointers to the pros and cons of each approach. I will also briefly cover SCA's use of asynchronous messaging and provide some best practices guidance for scaling a WPS/WESB topology.
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Graham Wallis
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Session 3
Title:
Enterprise Messaging with SIB, MQ, DataPower & MQ
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Nigel Roper
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Session 4
Title:
Complex SIBus Topologies and WAS V7 Improvements
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This session will explain some of the subtler aspects of SIBus topologies to ensure a correctly functioning, manageable and scalable system. This presentation will examine a number of SIBus topologies and work through the pros and cons of each, enabling you to know how to get the best out of them. The majority of this presentation is applicable to all versions of WAS since V6, but the presentation will cover a number of improvements to the messaging support in WAS v7.
Speakers:
David Ware
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BPM SIG
Session 1
Title:
Get your BPM Target State Faster: Roadmaps & Reuse
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BPM is a team sport which involves a broad stake holder community - business people, IT people and suppliers across different domains. The whole team needs to understand the end objective and be supportive about reusing and extending existing capabilities. This session examines how IBM's cross brand technical community have approached BPM Enterprise Architecture and looks at two customer engagements. What should we do next? What do you want to see being done?
Speakers:
Anton Heseltine
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Session 2
Title:
Interactive Process Design: Business Modeler
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With the IBM BPM 6.2 release a new feature called Interactive Process Design was added to the WebSphere Business Modeler Advanced Edition. This allows the building of fully deployable applications so that they may be tested on a WebSphere Process Server instance without the need to export the modelled process to WebSphere Integration Developer. This has a number of possible use cases and we will be discussing these as well as showing a demo of the capability where we will build, deploy and test a short process made up of service invocations, human tasks and business rules.
Speakers:
Paul Smith
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Session 3
Title:
AS FOR WEBSPHERE PORTFOLIO UPDATE
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Session 4
Title:
AS FOR WEBSPHERE INTEGRATION USER GROUP
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BAM In Focus
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Session 3
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BAM of events originating from non-IBM sources
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Business Activity Monitoring of Events Originating from Non-IBM Sources\\n\\nThe advent of BPM has brought with it advanced monitoring capabilites to give the business user real-time insight into their processes, through a simple web interface.\\n\\nHowever, why limit this real-time insight to just processes?\\n\\nThe latest release of WebSphere Message Broker Toolkit incorporates simple functionality such that any node of a flow can emit events to be consumed in the same way.\\n\\nIn this presentation, we demonstrate how to monitor events in an existing WebSphere Message Broker flow, such that they can be displayed by WebSphere Business Monitor.
Speakers:
Matt Turnbull
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Session 4
Title:
Integration hub is valuable: how do we prove it?
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We know our integration hub is valuable... so how do we prove it to the business?\\n\\nThe problem with integration hubs is that the business only notices them when they goes wrong. If payments stop moving, if claims aren't processed or if trades get stuck, somebody soon notices. Those messages flowing over the bus contain business data: counterparties.... products.... prices.... So surely we can aspire to be more than an irritation when things go wrong! In this presentation, we introduce examples from insurance, retail banking and investment banking that show how these messages can be captured, aggregated and presented on meaningful dashboards to line-of-business users. In this presentation we explain how the bus can escape from the technical ghetto and become the enabler of real-time business insight.
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Richard Brown
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Java SIG
Session 1
Title:
Reading the runes for Java runtimes
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IBM's continued investment in our world-class Java implementation, includes important and valuable enhancements to the core runtime technology. The latest release, IBM Java SDK version 6, is faster in start-up and industry benchmarks, more capable in code sharing and servicability and scalable across very large data heaps. This talk will touch on the highlights of IBM's current runtime technology, then look to the future of Java runtimes at IBM. What are the challenges IBM see in the coming year? What is happening in the standards space around Java technology? How can the runtime be used enhance your application's capabilities and offer new business opportunities?
Speakers:
Tim Ellison
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Session 2
Title:
WebSphere Real Time: Deterministic Java
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This talk introduces the hard and soft real time capabilities of WebSphere RealTime. It describes how the technology solves the problems of unpredictable delays, which have traditionally blocked the adoption of Java on systems with low or bounded latency requirements in industry sectors such as defence, telecommunications and finance.\\n\\nThe topics will include -\\n\\n<li>Soft and hard realtime capabilities</li>\\n<li>The Real Time Specification for Java</li>\\n<li>Real Time Linux</li>\\n<li>The Metronome incremental garbage collector</li>\\n<li>Ahead of time compilation and shared classes cache</li>\\n<li>Version 2 enhancements</li>\\n<li>Real time tooling</li>\\n<li>Customer examples</li>
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Alan Stevens
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Session 3
Title:
IBM Monitoring/Diag Tools for Java: Health Center
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IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java: Health Center \\n\\nDesigned to attach to a running Java process to explore what it is doing, how it is behaving, and what you could do to make it happier. Classes, environment, garbage collecting, locking and profiling are currently areas of JVM activity which can be viewed and receive recommendations on, from the tool. This is part of the supported set of tools from the IBM Java team; other tools will be briefly mentioned as will the method by which you can obtain these tools along with how all the tools in this space fit together.
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Brian Peacock
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Session 4
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SAME AS WEB 2.0 SIG
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