Are you an IBM WebSphere Application Server customer? Interested in using the Spring Framework? Then this session is for you. As many of you know, IBM & Interface21 have been working closely to deliver value to customers. This session will talk about what we have been doing, and look at examples of how to best utilize the Spring Framework in your WebSphere environment. You'll also learn how to take advantage of new technologies such as JAX-WS, and EJB3 in your SOA.
Sara Mitchell works for IBM at their Hursley Development Lab in the UK. She is a team lead for WebSphere Application Server WebServices development, leading the WS-Addressing deliveries over several years. More recently she has been looking at the Spring Framework and how WebSphere can be used to run Spring applications.
Spring 2.5 on the Way to 3.0— This talk discusses Spring as a modern Java 5 oriented application framework - covering the core component model, integration with common technologies such as JPA and JSF, as well as Spring's annotation-driven web MVC.
Seam in Action - Part 2— In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the many competing frameworks, what it was like getting started with Seam, what its learning curve is like, and what their practical experiences with Seam has been on two commercial projects during the last year.
Seam in Action - Part 1— In the first half of this session, Pete Muir will introduce Seam, its contextual programming model and its tight integration with other frameworks such as Hibernate, jBPM and RichFaces. In the second half of this session Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux explain why they chose Seam over the many competing frameworks, what it was like getting started with Seam, what its learning curve is like, and what their practical experiences with Seam has been on two commercial projects during the last year.
Where will tomorrow's enterprise innovation come from— In this keynote, Rod Johnson will consider where tomorrow's innovation will come from in enterprise Java. How will the role of the JCP change? Will other standards bodies play a role? Will end users be more empowered-and how can you help to shape the future? How will the continued rise of open source affect the platform-especially with Sun's recent embrace of open source, and the emergence of a significant and sustainable open source industry?
Large scale development of enterprise java solutions— You will get some insights into the development process at the NetWeaver Product Technology Unit and SAP applications build on top of the NetWeaver platform. We will share how we build large scale enterprise java solutions at SAP.
