Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:06:04 -0500 From: Dan Jacobs Subject: WebTech Tues 11/27 7pm Waltham - Jeff Miller, IBM Hi everybody, The WebTech Group will be meeting on the *fourth* Tuesday this month, on November 27th, in order to bring you the presentation from Jeff Miller that was postponed last September. I hope this date will be better for everyone, since it's after Thanksgiving, and Jeff will be on this side of the Atlantic! The meeting will be held at 7pm on Tuesday November 27 at the IBM SPC in Waltham. Jeff will be speaking on the recently announced product WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and on the new open-source initiative called Eclipse. This is sure to be a fun and informative talk. We may even have some preview give-aways from IBM, so don't miss it! Details and directions, as always, are available at the group website at http://www.acm.org/chapters/webtech. We also have some great JavaOne conference session give-aways CDs from the Java Learning Center Program at Sun Microsystems. More details on that below. I hope to see you there! -- Dan Jacobs, Chairman -------------------------------------- Abstract: WebSphere Studio Application Developer is the newly announced development tool from IBM. It is a Java-based replacement for the existing WebSphere Studio and VisualAge for Java products, and takes development power and ease of use to new heights. It's built on an open source framework called Eclipse, and is easily extended for new technologies with the addition of plugins. If you use VisualAge for Java and find some of its capabilities valuable, don't worry about switching. WSAD does it all and more. In this session we'll introduce WSAD, and look at its many features and all the different types of components you can develop with it. We'll talk about some of the vendors that have built plugins for it. We'll cover the various Perspectives and Views of the product and look at some of the wizards that help with the grunt work. Then we'll play around with it, perhaps developing a JavaBean or EJB, wrappering it as a Web service, and testing it all with the built-in WebSphere Test Environment. Should be fun. Bio: Jeff Miller is an e-business Architect for IBM Developer Relations Technical Consulting. He has 20 years of software development experience as a developer and architect. Jeff has worked for MultiMate, Ashton-Tate, and Lotus, among others, and was a founding partner and VP of International Development at Software By Design, a software consulting company. His current focus at IBM is Web application architecture, design, development, and particularly security. He is working with several Strategic Alliance partners and many customers, consulting, mentoring, and teaching. Jeff is an IBM certified e-business Solution Designer and Solution Technologist, and is IBM certified in WebSphere Application Server Advanced Edition. He received his Masters degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. -------------------------------------- The Java[sm] Learning Center program delivers the JavaOne[sm] conference sessions in a multimedia tool that offers an audio and visual format with transcription, all simultaneously. With more than 300 classes offered on Java[tm] technology taught by industry experts, the Java Learning Center program delivers a valuable resource to the developer community. More than 70 of the classes have had the audio portion of the classes translated into Japanese, Chinese-Mandarin, and Spanish. You can see more at http://java.sun.com/learning.