From: JB Subject: May 12 NESOFTDEV Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 21:14:19 -0400 Straight no mixing of the words talk about multiple vendors in order to make an informed decision on the next generation of application architectures - only at NESOFTDEV. Hope you can make it. Start thinking about June too; we will have lots of fun. NOTICE: May 12 NESOFTDEV Monthly Meeting TIME: 7:00 -8:30 P.M. NEW time just for this meeting PLACE: Cafeteria at Prospect Place **** 1st Floor **** LOCATION: 9 Hillside Ave., Waltham exit 27a RT 128 NEWS: *********************************************************************** We will have a different type of meeting on June10. Hey, it is our last of the season meeting and you just can't code all the time. So what do you do to have fun, relax or relieve the stress. Send me email and I will put a list together. And, wouldn't you know, here is your chance to participate. How about showing us what it is or how you do it. I'm serious! So you do a mean Hula-Hoop, or make the best cookies, or have just polished-up a magic trick, or appear at the Comedy Workshop, or sing like a Mockingbird, or play an instrument, or teach fish to jump for cheese or just have the most intriguing story to let loose. Whatever, let's see it. Let's do it. And, if you want we can even award prizes. Just one rule besides the obvious: you have got to wear a distinctly different hat or you will be the odd one out. The Most Distinctive will of course win the grand prize possibly the Microsoft Visual Studio 97 Enterprise Edition. Now, if we have to and someone makes us, we can also have a group discussion of personal things we need to attend to. No, not an I confess session just stuff that happens to us and what should we do type of things. Like what do you do when two weeks into the contract the client says they only brought you on to have someone to blame! Or, I would like to start my own company, but I do not know how! Or, how do I keep up with all the changes taking place! 20 We will have a meeting on just these things in the Fall. But, start it off by letting me know what topics you would like covered. Ok, you asked for it. The May discussion on Middleware, COM, and Java in the Enterprise is best in class. You simply can't get this level of integration and understanding anywhere else. And, if you want to know what we need to know in the future, just come to NESOFTDEV now. ************************************************************************* ***** MEETING: 7:00-8:30 P.M. Now That My Application Is Split Into Components, what do I do with it? The one hour talk will cover "application level" concepts usable by the typical Visual Basic, Java, or C++ programmer. Included will be: * Application evolution from 1-tier to 2-tier to N-tier and under what circumstances you would want each level of separation. * Scalability - does it affect me? * Transactions - do I care? * What are middleware application and transaction servers * DCOM and CORBA - advantage and disadvantage of each * Why UNIX machines and mainframes are not dead, in fact they're making more sales than ever * Comparison of the two easily available middleware packages, Microsoft's Transaction Server (MTS) and Sybase's Jaguar Component Transaction Server (Jaguar CTS) * Time permitting, we will run through adding and using a Visual Basic component in Microsoft's Transaction Server You will leave this evening discussion with the knowledge of WHEN, WHY, and HOW to use middleware with your applications. Biography: You may remember Reed Shilts from various Boston Computer Society groups. He is always on the bleeding edge of technology. Five years ago Reed was excited about OCX's and component technology being more important than C++. Ten years ago he was pushing C++ being the replacement for regular C. Of course, he also once advocated OS/2 replacing Windows/16.... Reed is still in love with components, both COM and Java Beans, but now running across a network of middleware application servers. Reed is currently working in the PowerBuilder internals group at Powersoft/Sybase and worked on the integration of PowerBuilder with both Sybase Jaguar CTS and Microsoft Transaction Server. Particulars: 2nd Tuesday of each month, September-June, 9 Hillside Ave, Waltham, MA, Exit 27a, Route 128 (95), Third Ave, left after the Westin Hotel, then go right, right, right to 1st Floor Cafeteria, 5:30 p.m. Sponsors: www.stingray.com, www.oi.com, www.aw.com, , www.ora.com, www.symantec.com, www.tvobjects.com, www.bosoft.com, www.englishwizard.com, www.powersoft.com, www.numega.com, www.visualcomp.com, www.glbs.com, www.humanfactors.com, www.delorme.com, www.ifmaboston.org/sodexho, www.csti.com, www.blue-sky.com, www.vigortech.com, www.SoftPro.com, www.ntxtras.com, www.vbxtras.com, www.microsoft.com More: John Barrie (508) 829 2181, johnbarrie@compuserve.com, www.btdnet.com/NESOFTDEV ************************************************************************* ******************************