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Audience	Overview	Outline	Speaker Biography

New Technology for Software Development, Internet and Databases

1 Day Seminar

Speaker:

Rick van der Lans

The seminar is designed for IT-managers, technology planners, architects, consultants, system analysts and designers, database designers and database administrators.

These are busy times for the average IT person. The speed with which new technologies, new products, new languages, new protocols, and new standards are being introduced has never been so high. Almost everyday there something new is introduced. Therefore, many managers and consultants find it difficult to keep up with this torrent of technologies. This one-day session is designed to bring software specialists up to speed.

To bring some structure to this seminar it is divided in five topics:

An overview is given of the battle between Java and .Net. How do the two platforms compare? Are they currently suitable for building large scale systems?

Many companies have initiated projects wherein applications are to be integrated. Web services are the new way of integration. All the relevant standards are discussed and the status of the tools is presented.

Due to the current economic situation companies are looking for tools to increase the productivity of developers. Tools that can generate code might be an alternative. A comparison of generators is presented.

The biggest challenge in the database server market is how to implement XML. In this part the results of a study into this area are presented. In addition the market of Enterprise Information Integration is discussed.

Classic methodologies have been used widely for software development. But new methodologies and approaches have been introduced. How good are they? Are they usable in large scale IT projects?

Answers are given to questions such as:

What are the important trends?
How are they related?
What do all those new terms mean?
Who are the dominant players in the market?

To show the attendees in a coherent way how many different new technologies fit together.
To make them more aware of the latest trends.
To make it possible for them to understand better what the vendors talk about.
To make them aware of the strong and weak points of certain products and vendors.

1. Introduction

Predicting trends in the IT industry
Lessons learned from the past

2. Two new platforms: J2EE and .NET

The building blocks of .NET: CLR (Common Language Runtime), C#, ASP.NET and ADO.NET
Overview of the J2EE API’s
The market of Java application servers
Comparing with benchmark results
Support by ERP vendors

3. Web services and application integration

SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and WSDL form the basis of web services
Discovering web services with UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) and WSIL (Web Services Inspection Language)
Web services and transactions: BTP (Business Transaction Protocol) versus WS-Transaction
Integrating systems with an orchestration language: BPEL4WS (Oasis), WSFL (IBM), or XLang (Microsoft)
Overview of EAI tools including: IBM WebSphere, Iona B2B Integrator, Microsoft BizTalk, Novell exteNd, SeeBeyond e*Gate
Integrator, Sybase Integration Orchestration, Tibco ActiveEnterprise, Vitria BusinessWare, WebMethods B2B

4. Development tools

Should we program by hand or use generators for Java- or C#-code?
Developing using OMG’s MDA (Model Driven Architecture)
Overview of generators, including CA's Advantage Gen, Compuware's OptimalJ, IBM/Rational's RationalXDE,
IO's ArcStyler, Oracle's jDeveloper, Borland/TogetherSoft's TogetherCC and Sygel's WMEE
What is the quality of generated code?
Developing with open source tools
What is the importance of Eclipse and VisualStudio.NET?

5. Database servers

XQuery, the new XML-based query language
How well do the database servers support XML?
Overview of Enterprise Information Integration tools, including Enosys
Server, IBM Information Integrator, Ipedo XML Information Hub and MetaMatrix
Server
How mature are in-memory database servers?

6. New development methodologies

Evolution of methodologies
How important are agile modelling and XP (eXtreme Programming)?
Can we learn something from open source development?
Refactoring of systems
Increase productivity using patterns and frameworks
Guidelines for developing adaptive systems

7. Summary and more new technologies

The commercial value of grid computing
Web services and portals?

Graham Rhind

Rick F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer specialising in Internet, XML, data warehousing, and application integration. He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide on defining their Internet, client/server, and data warehouse architectures.

Rick van der Lans is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last twelve years, he has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented many keynote speeches at international events.

He is chairman of the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since 1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called Computable and DataNews. Additionally, he is advisor for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database Magazine.

His popular books, including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle', have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies. Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.