Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:59:50 -0500 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech - JMS - Tues Nov 21, 7pm - IBM Waltham Hi everybody. I'd like to invite you all to this month's WebTech meeting, which will take place next Tuesday, November 21, 7pm at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Details and directions, as always, are available at the group website at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech. This month's meeting will feature a presentation by Dave Chappell from Progress Software on the Java Message Service and the role of JMS in eBusiness messaging. Dave is the coauthor of a book on JMS that will be coming out soon from O'Reilly, and this promises to be a highly informative presentation. Don't miss it! -- Dan Jacobs, Chairman Greater Boston ACM WebTech Group Abstract: The Java Message Service - eBusiness Messaging in Today's Commerce Marketplace This session will cover the Java Message Service (JMS) and how eBusiness Messaging is revolutionizing today's electronic marketplace. The presentation will illustrate how JMS is being used to exchange critical XML business documents in a secure, reliable, guaranteed fashion over the Internet. The session will provide an overview of the problems that are being resolved by the implementation of eBusiness Messaging solutions. The presentation will provide a brief overview of JMS, its capabilities, and the specific requirements beyond JMS of delivering a massively scalable, secure, reliable infrastructure for large volume data interchange across businesses. A real world example will describe how these issues are being dealt with in a trading partner portal scenario. Speaker Bio: Dave Chappell is vice president and SonicMQ chief technology evangelist at Progress Software Corp. Dave has over 18 years of industry experience building software tools and infrastructure for application developers, spanning all aspects of R&D, sales, marketing, and support services. Dave has also been published in Network World magazine and is currently writing a series of contributed articles for the Java Developers Journal. Dave has presented technical topics at numerous speaking engagements including JavaOne and XMLOne.