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We are delighted to announce the next meeting of the WebSphere User Group, which will take place on 25th September 2012 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. \r\nAs usual there will be no charge for this meeting and we are putting together what looks like being another very strong agenda. As well as the main meeting on the 25th, there will be an social gathering the night before which will provide an excellent opportunity for more networking.\r\n\r\nIf you're located in the south, don't be put off by the cost of travelling to Edinburgh - return flights to Edinburgh from London are usually under £60 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 Application Server 1
Session 1
Title:
WebSphere Foundation Update and Technical Direction
Abstract:
This session will cover new and improved features in WebSphere Application Server V8.5, with a particular focus on broad programming model support, a fast, flexible and simplified application foundation, extensive deployment environments, including virtualization and clouds, and integrated tooling.It will also look further ahead to where the WebSphere foundation is heading over the next few years.
Speakers:
Ian Robinson
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Session 2
Title:
How Lightweight is the Liberty Profile?
Abstract:
WebSphere Application Server V8.5 introduces the new Liberty Profile. A new dynamic server profile designed from the ground up to provide a simple, fast, dynamic lightweight server runtime. It provides a radically different development and production experience. This session will give an overview of the liberty profile with a focus on demoing it on an apple mac, Raspberry Pi (a new credit card sized micro computer which costs $35) and mobile phone!. This session is mostly demo (gremlin) based, so come to watch the Liberty Profile and Raspberry Pi and interact with WebSphere running on a mobile phone!
Speakers:
Simon Maple
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Session 3
Title:
OSGi Best Practices - live coding session
Abstract:
Since the first release of the OSGi Enterprise specification in March 2010 the use of OSGi in the enterprise has increased dramatically. WebSphere Application Server v8.5 supports OSGi applications. In order to utilise OSGi technologies, you need to covert traditional JEE applications to OSGi applications. Moving traditional Java EE applications to an OSGi stack is intentionally as easy as possible, however there are a number of common mistakes that can make it feel very hard. This session will describe some best practices for developing Enterprise OSGi applications and OSGi bundles, allowing developers to utilise the power of OSGi in a painless way. This is a live coding session to demonstrate how to use OSGi best practices to make your application modular.Whilst this session is primarily aimed at enterprise developers new to OSGi, much of the content is equally applicable to OSGi development in general, and is definitely recommended to anyone looking to brush up on their OSGi principles!
Speakers:
Emily Jiang
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[not available]
Session 4
Title:
WebSphere eXtreme Scale with WAS: Implementing Popular Use Cases
Abstract:
IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides a flexible framework for implementing a range of in-memory datagrid and distributed caching solutions but from customer experience there have emerged several use-cases that deliver high value for relatively little cost. These include HTTP Session persistence and Dynacache caching. This session will include a brief introduction to WXS and its integration with WebSphere Application Server, followed by a look at these use-cases. For each of these, we will go through the steps required to implement or enable it with WAS and review the benefits.
Speakers:
Alan Chambers
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WebSphere Application Server 2
Session 1
Title:
WebSphere Application Server - Migration to v8/v8.5
Abstract:
If it works – don't fix it !!! Why migrate a working application from one version of WAS to another for seemingly no business benefit.In this session we'll look at some of the reasons that drive customers to invest valuable time and effort into migration. We'll examine some of the choices, the different strategies and tooling that can help in this process.
Speakers:
Paul Thompson
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Session 2
Title:
Rapid cross-platform mobile app development with IBM Worklight
Abstract:
IBM Worklight is a recent acquisition added into the WebSphere brand. It enables the creation of rich, cross-platform apps without the use of code translation, and proprietary interpreters. It's focus is to encourage innovation on the mobile platform, enabling a better user experience across a variety of mobile devices.This session will give an overview of the technology and the key use cases where it is proving beneficial. This will be followed by a demonstration of creating a mobile app from nothing
Speakers:
Jonathan Marshall
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Session 3
Title:
IBM PureApplication System – when the rubber hits the road (or
Abstract:
This session will focus on the value that WebSphere clients can gain from implementing a PureApplication System solution - from faster time to deploy WebSphere applications, to reduced maintenance to reduced administration to easy on-premise cloud deployments. In addition, the session will provide experiences from initial PureApplication System deployments
Speakers:
Stuart Foster
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Session 4
Title:
DevOps in the enterprise
Abstract:
The adoption of Agile and Cloud platforms is forcing many organisations to re-think how they provision environments and deploy applications. Many organisations are looking to implement a Platform as a Service (Paas) and DevOps strategies as a mechanism to deliver change faster, more efficiently and at a higher quality. Key to this is a very high level of deployment automation. Come to this session to hear how some of the world's largest companies are addressing this. Some of the concepts we will cover in this session: ·Brief history of DevOps: Where it came from and what does it mean?·Culture·DevOps strategies and architecture·Tooling·Benefits An example and demonstration of managing WebSphere middleware environments using key Rational DevOps tools including (using RTC, RAM, RSA and RAF) will be provided.
Speakers:
David Sayers
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Business Process Management
Session 1
Title:
Effectively Manage and scale IBM BPM Infrastructure to support 30,000+ Users
Abstract:
The speed at which process applications can be developed using IBM BPM getsbusiness excited. The number one blocker to getting that new processapplication deployed is poor infrastructure. What's the point of developinga new process application in 6 weeks if it takes 3 months to deploy intoproduction. This session covers the BPM infrastructure automation bestpractices needed to scale IBM BPM 7.5.1 in order to support 30K users.
Speakers:
Pundarik Ranchhod
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Session 2
Title:
Enhanced Customer Service with Mobile and Real-time Decisions
Abstract:
Mobile opens up new ways for us to engage with our customers, but our ability to take advantage of these technologies can be limited by our internal systems. The ability of enterprise systems to detect, decide and act in realtime can ultimately limit the services we can offer to our customers.This session will show how decision management, combining event detection and business rules can provide enhanced customer service and increased business agility. We will discuss the capabilities needed to make our systems context aware and demonstrate an example mobile service that makes use of this awareness to improve customer experience.
Speakers:
Gerry Baird
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Social and Portal SIG
Session 1
Title:
Using the Visual Configuration Explorer Tool to support/tune your WebSphere Portal environment.
Abstract:
This session provides an overview and demo of the Visual Configuration Explorer(VCE) Tool.VCE enables you to visualize, explore, and analyze WebSphere configuration information. You can use VCE to:- Compare WebSphere Application Server/Portal Server/Web Content Management (WCM) configurations. This facilitates finding out configuration differences - between Development, Test, UAT and Production Server environments- for a particular server over time \t- Define configuration rules to validate configurations. Use existing rule sets to validate- WCM Access Control Performance Troubleshooting- WCM DRS Performance Troubleshooting- WebSphere Portal 6.1 Performance Tuning Guide- Search for specific configuration properties
Speakers:
John Farrugia
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Session 2
Title:
Upgrading to Portal v8, and What's new in Portal governance.
Abstract:
In this session, users will learn the basics behind upgrading to WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager version 8.0. We will cover the overall architecture, planning, and best practices when planning for this activity. We will also discuss the differences between migrating from a 6.1 environment vs. a 7.0 environment, as well as some techniques to consider if you're still on older versions than that. Additionally, we'll look at how v8 is likely to affect your governance processes, as you become able to delegate more control to non-technical users.
Speakers:
David Strachan
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Session 3
Title:
The WebSphere Portal v8 experience.
Abstract:
The session will be focused on discussing and demonstrating how to your organisation can deliver an exceptional web experience with IBM WebSphere Portal v8.We will start by covering the new capabilities recently introduced into v8, and how infusing v8 with Social, Mobile and Form based solutions we give your organisation a roadmap to delivering a cohesive experience using leading web technologies.
Speakers:
Rob Enright, Stuart Crump
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Session 4
Title:
Mobile with WebSphere Portal and Worklight
Abstract:
This session will discuss the challenges of mobilising your Portal solution; starting by covering IBM's enterprise mobile strategy then introducing IBM Worklight as a means to create applications to deliver your Portal to a mobile audience. A demonstration will follow to talk through creating a hybrid mobile solution for delivering Portal content to a device.
Speakers:
Daniel Kilpatrick
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Connectivity
Session 1
Title:
Managing WebSphere appliances with WebSphere Appliance Management Center
Abstract:
Whether you have one, few, tens or hundreds of DataPower appliances in your local data centre or spread globally, you can use this new (and free) tool to manage your WebSphere appliances centrally. In this session, the speaker will discuss how to get started with the tool, show off tool's capabilities and best practices.
Speakers:
Bharat Bhushan
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Session 2
Title:
Enabling Enterprise Data Access on Mobile Devices with IBM Worklight
Abstract:
This session introduces the IBM Mobile Foundation focussing on IBM Worklight for mobile application development. Cast Iron for application integration will then be covered briefly following by a practical demonstration of Worklight showing how you can easily develop mobile applications that access enterprise data behind the firewall.
Speakers:
Simon Dickerson
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Session 3
Title:
Dynamic Service-level management with DataPower v5
Abstract:
In this session the speaker will provide a snapshot of what's new the latest DataPower firmware v5 and then focus on the enhanced service level management peering and dynamic update function. This new function allows multiple devices to communicate with each other using high-performance network protocols and enforce service level management across a group of devices.
Speakers:
Bharat Bhushan
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Java
Session 1
Title:
Practical performance: understand the performance of your application
Abstract:
This session will case study the best practice approach to optimizing the performance of a WebSphere Application Server deployment using Rational Performance Tester along with IBM Monitoring and Diagnostics Tools for Java - Health Center to identify Operating System, Java Runtime, and Java Application code level improvements.
Speakers:
Neil Masson
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Session 2
Title:
Inside IBM Java 7
Abstract:
Java 7 is delivering significant new features in function, performance and usability. Highlights include a new framework for scalable I/O, language syntax improvements, and powerful new concurrency constructs. As with each release, we will also show the IBM-specific JVM enhancements we've been working on. Come to the session and see new Java features in action, complete with time-saving examples and patterns to apply.
Speakers:
Neil Masson
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Session 3
Title:
Java Garbage Collection: Best Practices for tuning GC
Abstract:
Not all workloads are created equal. Different applications use memory in different ways and thus can benefit from different garbage collection strategies. The IBM® Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM) has always supported several different GC policies to support various types of applications. At the same time, hardware is evolving and software must adapt to make better use of it. In IBM WebSphere® Application Server V8 the default garbage collection policy uses both generational and concurrent collection strategies. This sessions provides an overview of the best practices for tuning garbage collection, including the new default policy.
Speakers:
Neil Masson
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