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The last meeting of the WebSphere User Group (uk) took place on 18th March 2010 at IBM Bedfont Lakes. Follow the link for more details about the sessions, or the Downloads link to get the available presentations.
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.
WAS Platform
Session 1
Title:
Should I use 32/64bit deployments
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Chris Bailey, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Keep your WAS administrator happy
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Sarah Eggleston, IBM
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Session 3
Title:
Using OSGi to create enterprise apps in WAS
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Alasdair Nottingham, IBM
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Session 4
Title:
Extend the Rational Automation Framework for WAS
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Speakers:
Leigh Williamson, IBM DE, David Strachan, OpenLogic
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WAS on z SIG
Session 1
Title:
WebSphere Application Server for z/OS: Update
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WebSphere Application Server for z/OS: Update nnWebSphere Application Server is a premiere Java EE application server that runs across seven different operating systems. IBM has invested in enabling application portability across these operating system and also in differentiating WAS to take advantage of the z/OS qualities of service. nThis session introduces new capability exclusive to WebSphere Application Server for z/OS V7.0, which ensures WAS z/OS will continue to deliver the highest levels of availability, scalability and security for mission-critical applications. Among the topics covered will be: new and updated adapters for access to local data and services; new options for recovering from hung threads; improved caching options; and improved performance.
Speakers:
Steve Foley, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Batch Modernisation with WebSphere Compute Grid
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Batch Modernisation with WebSphere Compute GridnnThe use of Java as the new language for business applications naturally leads to the need to execute that business logic in batch mode. Yet new types of workloads introduce new issues into any enterprise, no matter how much benefit they offer, and this is also true with integrating the new Java Batch workloads. This session will identify the key challenges this emerging workload poses to IT environments and how IBM WebSphere Compute Grid provides the tooling and capabilities needed to smoothly integrate Java Batch into enterprise batch solutions. nThe session will also consider platform choice, highlight how WebSphere Compute Grid exploits the unique qualities of service of z/OS, making System z the natural platform for hosting both traditional and modern batch workloads.
Speakers:
Steve Foley, IBM
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Session 3
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Session 4
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Portal SIG
Session 1
Title:
Creating Exceptional Experiences for WAS + Portal
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The next release of WebSphere Portal's development tools includes a new set of automation components for building compelling and engaging user interfaces. Come to this demonstration session to see how easily and quickly visually appealing user interfaces can be built to extend your services using the Dojo Toolkit. The session will include a discussion of a case study in which this technology was used.
Speakers:
Philip de Ridder, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Secure Portal - Integrating with Single SignOn
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Secure Portal - Integrating WebSphere Portal with external Single Sign-On solutions\\nDave Hay, Portal Architect, IBM Software Services\\n\\nDave will describe, using two specific examples, how a customer requirement for Single Sign-On can be met using WebSphere Portal, in conjunction with external SSO solutions, one from IBM Tivoli and one from the open-source community.
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Dave Hay, IBM
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Session 3
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Session 4
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Integration SIG
Session 1
Title:
BPM: Collaborate, Iterate, Refine, Validate
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Business Process Management:- Collaborate, Iterate, Refine, Validate \\n\\nBusiness Process Management helps optimise business performance by discovering, documenting, automating, and continuously improving business processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs. \\n\\n1. Discover the actual business intent. \\nBusiness leaders and analysts discover and then map intent to business capabilities and processes. Options are identified and prioritised. \\n\\n2. Storyboard the user interaction. \\nProcess owners and business analysts capture and define both the current and future states of processes. \\n\\n3. Experience and visualise the solution. \\nProcess owners, business users and analysts can “see†the optimised process. \\n\\n4. Manage real-time performance. \\nBusiness users can customise their experience by managing KPIs and alerts, based on changing business conditions. \\n\\nPresenter:- \\nWaveney Croson is a Certified IT Specialist in the IBM Software Group for WebSphere in the UK. She has more than 10 years of experience in the business process management field and has been with independent software vendors for 20 years, of which the last 9 years have been with IBM. Her areas of expertise include business process modelling and process improvement.
Speakers:
Waveney Croson, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Using WebSphere Application Server and MQ together
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Using WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ together nnThis session covers interoperability between IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM WebSphere MQ. The session covers the ways in which IBM WebSphere MQ resources can be accessed by Java Enterprise Edition applications running in an IBM WebSphere Application Server and explains when to use IBM WebSphere MQ as the Java Message Service messaging provider. This session also illustrates when to access IBM WebSphere MQ indirectly, via WebSphere Application Server's service integration bus. nnPresenter:- nMatthew Leming joined IBM in 2002. He has worked on various areas of WebSphere Application Server beginning with Version 5, including the transactions component and the default messaging provider. More recently he has been heavily involved with all areas of WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ interoperability, in particular he was responsible for delivering the updated WebSphere MQ messaging provider in WebSphere Application Server version 7.
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Matthew Leming, IBM
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Session 3
Title:
Building a New Insurance Solution with BPM/BAM/BEP
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Building a New Insurance Channel Solution using WebSphere BPM, BAM and BEP \\n\\nThis session will discuss and demonstrate a solution built for a large US insurer where the insurer is developing a new capability to provide life insurance policies online. The insurer have an existing WebSphere Message Broker integration backbone to mediate between the new channel and their existing systems. In addition to leveraging the existing ESB technology the customer's line-of-business users require the capability to monitor the performance of the business or the ability to detect and respond to unpredictable business situations as they arise. This is a key requirement as they roll out this new channel. \\n\\nThe solution shows the new process running on WebSphere Process Server using WebSphere Message Broker as the ESB to mediate to existing systems and adding the capability to analyse, sense and respond to business events using Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Business Event Processing (BEP). \\n\\nPresenters:- \\nLee Gavin \\nLee is a BPM specialist working for the WebSphere BPM Black Belt team with a primary focus on building Business Activity Monitoring solutions for customers especially where a broad portfolio of technologies are involved including the WebSphere BPM and Connectivity stacks as well as non IBM technologies. \\n\\nPaul Smith \\nPaul is a BPM specialist working in the WebSphere Tiger Team focussing on BPM solutions for IBM customers ranging across the portfolio from Business Strategy and Modelling to Process Automation and Business Activity Monitoring.
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Lee Gavin, IBM, Paul Smith, IBM
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Session 4
Title:
The value of IBM WebSphere ILOG BRMS
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Understanding the value of IBM WebSphere ILOG Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS) n nBRMS can be used to implement and manage change in a safe and predictable way using Transparent Decision Services. nnIT & Business benefit from access to the appropriate tools for each discipline ensuring consistency in the management and deployment of business logic, providing business users with the control they require and relieving pressures on IT departments. See how BRMS can increase levels of automated decisioning and how it addresses many problems that are faced – across many verticals. nnPresenter:- nAndrew Macdonald is a Technical Professional in the IBM Software Group specialising in the ILOG product range. He has 18 years of ILOG experience and works primarily in pre-sales on Business Rules and Optimisation projects. Before ILOG Andrew developed a Rule Engine product for a small software house.
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Andrew Macdonald, IBM
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New Trends & Products
Session 1
Title:
WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance Update/Demo
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Speakers:
Tim Vanderham, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
What's New in WESB V7.0?
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This is a general summary of the new functionality in 7.0 including overviews of service gateway extensions, mediation policy extensions, increased functionality in existing mediation primitives such as Endpoint Look-up, along with a description of all new mediation primitives shipped in this release.
Speakers:
Andrew Borley
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Session 3
Title:
WebServices for Communications-Enabled FEP
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Leveraging The Web Services Interface Of The Communications Enabled Applications Feature Pack - Katherine Sanders, IBM Hursley Lab
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Katherine Sanders, IBM
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Session 4
Title:
WebSphere Message Broker V7 Intro/Features
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WebSphere Message Broker V7 Introduction and New Features - Dave Page, IBM Consulting IT Specialist
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Dave Page, IBM
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WSRR SIG
Session 1
Title:
Mastering SOA with WSRR
Abstract:
Mastering SOA with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository - David Buchanan, IBM Consulting IT Specialist
Speakers:
David Buchanan, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
SOA Governance and WSRR Enablement Profile
Abstract:
SOA Governance and the WSRR Governance Enablement Profile - James Magowan, WSRR Development, IBM Hursley
Speakers:
James Magowan, IBM
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Session 3
Title:
Service Federation Manager interactions
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Service Federation Management seeks to simplify the process of the sharing services from one domain (be it a business unit, geography or something else) to another, in order to facilitate an enterprise wide SOA. This presentation describes the concepts behind Service Federation Management and the implementation in the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, WebSphere ESB and WebSphere Message Broker Version 7 products.
Speakers:
Jonathan Roberts
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Session 4
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(no session)
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WebSphere ESB SIG
Session 1
Title:
Mediation Policy Extensions in WESB V7.0
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WESB 6.2 introduced the concept of controlling the configuration of a mediation flow using mediation policies stored in WSRR. The "scope" of these policies was tied to the SCA Module containing the mediation flow, this has now been extended to allow for configuration that is dependent upon what target service is selected. This allows for configuration based on operation, endpoint or service; a very powerful tool if combined with the service gateway pattern. Additionally, WESB 7.0 introduced widgets into Business Space to aid with the creation and administration of mediation policies. All of these topics will be explored in this talk.
Speakers:
Brian Hulse
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Session 2
Title:
WebSphere ESB/Process Server Best Practices
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WebSphere ESB/Process Server Best Practices - Andrew Ferrier, IBM Hursley Lab
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Andrew Ferrier, IBM
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Session 3
Title:
(no session - Merged with WSRR Stream)
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Session 4
Title:
Service Gateway Extensions in WESB V7.0
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This talk will discuss the concept of a Service Gateway and look at the different patterns available within WebSphere ESB 7.0. It will discuss common scenarios and suggested implementation options using the new Pattern Explorer within WebSphere Integration Developer. The talk will focus on the new capabilities added within WebSphere ESB 7.0 but also provide a brief introduction to the capabilities provided in WebSphere ESB V6.2.
Speakers:
Callum Jackson, IBM
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Java SIG
Session 1
Title:
Troubleshooting Java native memory problems
Abstract:
Best practices for troubleshooting Java native memory problems - Andrew Hall, IBM Java Technology Center, Hursley Lab
Speakers:
Andrew Hall, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Java 6 unleashed: Tuning the IBM JVM
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Java 6 unleashed: Tuning the IBM JVM - Chris Bailey, IBM Java Technology Center, Hursley Lab
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Session 3
Title:
IBM Monitoring & Diagnostic Tools for Java
Abstract:
Maximizing the benefit of using IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java - Toby Corbin, IBM Java Technology Center, Hursley Lab
Speakers:
Toby Corbin, IBM
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Session 4
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(no session)
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SOA SIG
Session 1
Title:
(No Session - Merged with Web Services SIG)
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Session 2
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(No Session - Merged with Web Services SIG)
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Session 3
Title:
Learning from Other People's SOA Experiences
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Learning from Other People's SOA Experiences - John Moe, Head of Integration Services, Tori Global
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John Moe, Tori Global
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Session 4
Title:
The PEPPOL Project
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The PEPPOL Project - Mike Edwards, IBM Hursley Lab
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Mike Edwards, IBM
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SCA SIG
Session 1
Title:
Service Component Architecture Feature Pack
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Getting Started with the Service Component Architecture (SCA) Feature Pack - Sara Mitchell, IBM Hursley Lab
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Sara Mitchell, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Service Component Architecture
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Service Component Architecture - Mike Edwards, IBM Hursley Lab
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Mike Edwards, IBM
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Session 3
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Session 4
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WebServices SIG
Session 1
Title:
Highly Available, Reliable Web Services using WAS7
Abstract:
Highly Available, Reliable Web Services using WebSphere Application Server Version 7 - Dave Parsons, IBM Hursley Lab
Speakers:
Dave Parsons, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
JAX-WS Support For WS-Addressing In WAS7
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JAX-WS Support For WS-Addressing In WebSphere Application Server Version 7 - Sara Mitchell, IBM Hursley Lab
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Sara Mitchell, IBM
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Session 3
Title:
(No Session - Merged with SOA SIG)
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Session 4
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WebSphere DataPower SIG
Session 1
Title:
Integrating WSRR and Datapower
Abstract:
Integrating WSRR and Datapower - Andrew White, WSRR Development, IBM Hursley
Speakers:
Andrew White, IBM
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Session 2
Title:
Introduction to DataPower
Abstract:
Introduction to DataPower - Bharat Bhushan, IBM Consulting IT Specialist
Speakers:
Bharat Bhushan, IBM
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Session 3
Title:
DataPower Experiences In-depth
Abstract:
DataPower Experiences In-depth - Bharat Bhushan, IBM Consulting IT Specialist
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Bharat Bhushan, IBM
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Session 4
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(no session)
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