With the insurgence of rich clients in enterprise communications, technology leaders are faced with a wide array of solutions for creating productivity enhancing web clients. In this session, Jim will explore business cases and technology options for employing Flash based applications where AJAX capabilities don’t exist. The primary focus will be in corporate communications, web collaboration, content management, and presence management. Jim will discuss the role of Flex, Flex Enterprise Services, and Flash Media Server in creating stateful, rich media enabled applications for the web.

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This session will give an overview of management tools and patterns for very large (distributed) Enterprise projects including Business Process design UML (Use Cases) and tools such as Eclipse or Maven (1&2).

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The emerging Web 2.0 movement is emphasizing the same things as SOA -- which is rapidly emerging as the best practice for building services, reusing IT assets, and providing open access to data and functionality. Web 2.0 and SOA are in fact beginning to converge. Web 2.0 describes the Internet as a "Global SOA" while at the same time laying out practices for building lighter weight SOAs based on REST and RSS. Furthermore, Web 2.0 and online services are expected to become the dominant application model with behemoths like Microsoft and Google fighting for dominance. More interestingly, this phenomenon is actually happening now and helping businesses deliver more value to their customers every day. This fact-filled session will discuss the latest trends citing industry sources, case studies, and other well-known examples.

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When re-thinking the manufacturing process of enterprise software, most companies nowadays determine to leverage open source to boost popularity and attention onto their product lines. But converting projects into products is not easy, and some secret ingredients that aren't covered in the code sharing are vital for generating future success. These key ingredients are how the project is built, the architecture of the enterprise software to be modular & open, a clear vision and definition of what the project and product will deliver, a clear separation between the open source aspects and the commercial aspects, and most importantly trust from the community that the project at every stage in life is extremely beneficial to their daily needs and will continue to be so with the future direction.

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Much of enterprise software is of woeful quality, many new projects often take a waterfall approach, and teams attempting to deliver enterprise apps often do so inconsistently. Come listen to one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto paint a picture of 3 ways to look at software development to achieve success. See how easy it is to build flexible and repeatable architectural approaches to technologies such as Web Services, Hibernate, EJBs, etc. Do you have effective ways to deliver your architectural designs to each member of the development team? If the technical architecture needs to change, how easy can it be accomplished? If the business needs change, how quickly can you get a new version out the door? Come hear about a non-silver bullet, pragmatic approach, and bring your skepticism and questions – Jon’s sessions are always lively and interactive!

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This session, aimed at enterprise developers, will discuss how best to enrich your users' experience by the use of AJAX. Rob Gonda will provide a lot of best-practices, such as .provide the user with immediate feedback., .design for errors. and keep state on the server. He will explain that this last point is one of the most important points for enterprise Ajax applications, because it reduces security risks: he will then cover business logic.

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A Globally Recognized Pioneer of Rich Internet Applications David Temkin is CTO & Founder of Laszlo Systems. In this role, he has positioned the company to become the next technology standard for rich Internet applications. Under his direction, Laszlo developed its patent-pending open-source product suite and extended operations to both coasts of the United States. Before founding Laszlo, Temkin was senior director of Engineering at Excite@Home where he led a team of 55 engineers, designers and technical writers responsible for developing the company's consumer software. Prior to Excite@Home, he was an engineering manager in the Newton division at Apple Computer and developed enterprise software at EDS. He graduated from Brown University with a double major in Computer Science and History, and is named on four software patents.

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The ability to establish identities across domains to partners and customers is driving Web services security-related issues and standards, such as SAML and WS-Security. In this session we will discuss how federated identity is being used in Web services and will outline the security-related issues, the standards and specifications involved, and the importance in the growth of Web services. Finally, attendees will learn how SAML and WS-Security are being used for federated authentication and authorization, as well as how standards-based policy enforcement points help facilitate centralized control of incoming SAML-based Web service requests.

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This presentation is a real-world case study. It provides insights and the business rationale that was used by a major travel industry service provider to embark on a complete transformation of their legacy IT systems to SOA. The company was planning to grow through targeted acquisitions and developing new distribution channels (i.e. B2B channels). However, such growth was clearly inhibited by limitations of their existing home-grown systems, which included a portfolio of hard-to-maintain, hard-to-change core applications, augmented with packaged applications.

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DHTML was created to enable form validation, not full-fledged GUIs; nonetheless AJAX/DHTML will be one of the primary application development model going forward, at least for the forseeable future. Using the "design patterns" metaphor of Scott Isaacs - i.e., "common, recurring problems" - Hinchcliffe will briefly examine at least 66 of them, including Display Manipulation; Web Remoting; Dynamic Behaviour; Web Services, and Performance Optimization (for example, the Fat Client pattern).

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