All Sessions by Time

This is a listing of all conference tutorials and sessions by time. You can use this report to see the complete list of choices you have for each time slot. Remember, for tutorial sessions, a separate registration is required. See the registration form for details.

2000  Developing Win32 Database Applications with Delphi
Cary Jensen — Jensen Data Systems, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial provides a fast-paced overview of Win32 database development in Delphi. It begins with an introduction to the Delphi data access mechanisms, including the advantages and limitations of each. Other topics include how and when to use data modules, the role of data-aware controls, as well as how and why to decouple your user interface from data access components. This foundation tutorial is intended for both the novice and experienced developer alike.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with database development and Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

2002  Getting Started with StarTeam Enterprise Advantage
Steve Reynolds — Elite Associates

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage provides the core of the Borland Application Lifecycle Management products by allowing you to create a fully customized development process. This session provides an in-depth introduction to the many features of StarTeam Enterprise Advantage including form customization using JBuilder, workflow definition, automatic notification and configuration of StarTeam Enterprise Advantage Web Edition. This session also covers the various points of integration between StarTeam and CaliberRM, JBuilder, and other Borland ALM products.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

3000  Delphi Component Development for .NET
Ray Konopka — Raize Software

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Delphi supports three extensible component models: VCL, VCL.NET, and .NET FCL. This tutorial focuses on the .NET FCL and VCL.NET models since they are both based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. A detailed comparison of the two models is facilitated by investigating the implementation details of several component building techniques presented in both models. Specific topics covered include: architecture, visualization, events, mouse and keyboard interactions, component references, data binding, and collections. In addition, a discussion on deployment issues and design-time capabilities related to both models is included.
Prerequisites: Experience creating custom VCL controls helpful.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3014  Test-driven Development with Delphi
Charlie Calvert — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to make testing an integral part of developing your applications. This session covers unit testing, testing frameworks, mock objects, and other testing techniques. The focus is on learning how to create applications that are easy to test and how to write tests that are easy to maintain. Coverage includes hard to test areas such as databases and graphical user interfaces. Unit tests encourage developers to create easily reusable objects and also promotes proper object-oriented techniques.
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Delphi syntax and the fundamentals of programming on the Microsoft .NET Framework platform.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

2004  Core SDP Soup to Nuts
Ian Buchanan — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial helps participants understand the composition and usage model for tools in Borland Core SDP Suites for analysts, architects, developers, and testers. Participants learn how the roles can be mapped to different software development methodologies and how the toolset can be customized to fit different software development methodologies. This tutorial is appropriate for people who are interested in or will start using the Core SDP products.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Java application lifecycle.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2006  Web Application Development with IntraWeb
Jason Southwell — Arcana Technologies

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This session is an introduction to the development of Web applications with IntraWeb. It begins with a brief overview of Web applications in general and available frameworks, such as ASP.NET. In addition, IntraWeb is compared and shown in-depth with several examples. After the very first "Hello World" example, the session management of IW is explained and questions such as "When does a session terminate and how do we handle that?" are answered. Data-bound Web applications are covered as well as special topics such as threading, SSL, compression, JavaScript, and more.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

2008  Web Application Development using Struts, Shale, and JSF
Ken Sipe — Code Mentor, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
Haven't had time to jump into struts? Wondering what all the fuss is about? Just getting starting with J2EE Web development and want to look at industry best practices? Wanting to improve your Web development practice? This tutorial session provides the details necessary to leave the conference ready to program a struts application using industry best practices. The session starts with a broad walk-through of struts and how to leverage JBuilderX to create a struts application followed by a walk-through of all the struts HTML form tags and how to use them. We go into details on using the Tiles framework within struts. The tutorial includes an introduction to JSF with a look at the future of Struts called Shale.
Prerequisites: Some experience with Java and Web development.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

2016  Delphi Overview  
Anders Ohlsson — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial provides a complete overview of Delphi. Developing and debugging, new language features, new IDE features, WinForms, VCL for .NET, the new database connectivity options, ASP.NET, Web Services, and MDA/modeling with ECO are all covered.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Delphi and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

2020  Introduction to ECO  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) brings the power and productivity of model-driven development to the Delphi and C# languages. This tutorial equips you to start exploiting this technology in your applications and covers: the class designer; object constraint language; derived attributes and derived relationships; association classes; persistence; ECO services; UI support, including data binding and the ECO Extender components; and more.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of object-oriented concepts, as well as Delphi or C# skills. No knowledge of Bold, ECO, or MDA required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3002  Tips and Tricks for Using StarTeam More Effectively
Scott Green — Quest Software, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This session includes a review of little known, but powerful features of StarTeam. Advanced discussion of view behaviors and the business cases for them precede an interactive demonstration of techniques and tools used by advanced users, and a question and answer session on advanced usage of StarTeam.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of concepts and usage of StarTeam.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

1000  ASP.NET Fundamentals
Lino Tadros — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: All.
This tutorial covers user controls, caching, state management, session management, database access, ViewState management, templates, Web Service integration, security, performance, optimization, and just plain having fun with ASP.NET.
Prerequisites: Any Web technology background is recommended. Some Microsoft .NET Framework knowledge helpful.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

2010  Understanding Service-oriented Architectures
Eric Whipple

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial focuses on the fundamentals of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). What considerations should developers be focusing on? What pros and cons are involved? How should architectures be partitioned? These and more issues are covered in detail during this tutorial.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2012  Use Case Modeling
Ian Buchanan — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial starts with the basics of Use Case analysis and demonstrates text and visual techniques to help elicit rich and thorough requirements, as well as providing a starting point for application architecture. Through a series of exercises, the tutorial gives participants a chance to think through the techniques and understand how Borland tools can help. This tutorial is appropriate for anyone involved in requirements elicitation and the begining of application design.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

2018  Application Lifecycle Management for Delphi  
John Kaster — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
A complete overview of the Application Lifecycle process and integration of StarTeam, CaliberRM, and Together in the Delphi IDE.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3004  Achieving J2EE Agility with Spring
Patrick McMichael — Pillar Technology Group, LLC

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This tutorial, geared towards the J2EE developer, provides attendees with advice on how to put the Spring framework to practical and strategic use in the enterprise. While much of the popular buzz around Spring focuses on using it as an alternative to EJB containers, this presentation highlights some practical ways in which Spring really complements traditional J2EE activities. In fact, Spring's lightweight approach has blazed the trail for much of where EJB 3.0 is heading. Learn how to leverage the Spring meta-framework in the J2EE space to architect solutions which exhibit extremely loose coupling and an incredible degree of flexibility. Emphasis is also placed on Spring’s contributions to agile/XP practices such as test-driven development.
Prerequisites: Solid understanding of Java and object-oriented fundamentals. Familiarity with J2EE is also beneficial.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

3006  Agile and Extreme Programming: A Pragmatic Approach
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This session covers agile and XP development from architecture through design and to code. It covers all aspects of XP and shows how to apply it to all types of projects.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

3008  Developing Database Applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework
Cary Jensen — Jensen Data Systems, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Get a head start on developing database applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework in this fast-paced introduction to ADO.NET. This tutorial describes and demonstrates the roles of the most common classes in ADO.NET. Topics include connecting to databases, executing queries, working with result sets, navigating data, creating calculated fields and aggregates, persisting datasets, using views, and synchronizing visual controls. Special attention is paid to best practices in .NET database development. Examples in both Delphi and C# are shown.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with database development issues.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

2014  Java Persistence Frameworks  
Ken Sipe — Code Mentor, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial provides more time then a standard session to detail three major persistence frameworks. We'll spend an hour with each of the frameworks: hibernate, JDO, and EJB 3. The coverage of each framework should be sufficient to leave the tutorial capable of developing with that framework. Details covered in each section are: domain model mapping; search queries; transaction management; Xdoclet; and, testing. The remaining time focuses on comparisons and best practices with real-world examples.
Prerequisites: Some Java experience.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

3010  ASP.NET Components and Controls in Delphi
Nick Hodges — Lemanix Corporation

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
One of the greatest strengths of ASP.NET is the capability to create powerful components for use in your Web sites. Delphi developers have long known of the power and convenience of using components in their Windows applications. Now with ASP.NET, you can bring those component-building skills to the world of Web application development. The Framework Class Library (FCL) provides a feature-rich framework for developing custom components that will do almost anything that the limits of HTML and JavaScript will allow you to do. Web developers no longer have to envy Windows developers for having a powerful and rich set of controls to build professional looking applications. This tutorial covers the life-cycle of a server control; simple Web control development; WebControl vs. Control; persistenting values and control state; custom rendering; custom styles; managing post-back in your controls; using client-side scripting; composite controls; using complex properties in server controls; databound controls; and, templated controls. In addition, new issues for control development in ASP.NET 2.0 are covered.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of the ASP.NET architecture.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3012  Maximizing Developer Productivity with JBuilder and StarTeam
Steve Reynolds — Elite Associates

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Combining JBuilder and StarTeam Enterprise Advantage gives your team the ability to implement and deploy an integrated development process making it easy to get the right information at the right time, reducing confusion and improving productivity. This presentation covers some of the advanced techniques that you can use to customize the change request, task and requirement forms and apply workflows to each of these categories of development process information. In addition to a review of the basic workflow and form customization features, several advanced techniques are discussed and demonstrated using JBuilder including the development of custom tools StarTeam. These techniques include layout techniques, inter-field dependencies, and automatic promotion of changes based on the user-defined workflow. Real-world examples of these techniques used in large development organizations are presented.
Prerequisites: Some JBuilder experience.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

3016  Reading Tea Leaves: The Fine Art of Debugging  
Danny Thorpe — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
You can do a lot with today's advanced debugging tools, but there are still times when the program ends up so far off the map that its beyond the help of any mechanical tool. To figure out when, where, and why the program went astray, sometimes you just have to roll up your sleeves and break out the CPU view and assume the mind meld position. Learn to think like the processor, navigate high level data structures in raw hex dumps, recognize encrypted blonds and brunettes at a glance, and manipulate the time streams with your bare hands.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Delphi and basic debugging techniques.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3018  Applying ECO to ASP.NET  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) offers developers an incredible boost in productivity while also enabling them to maintain a well structured architecture. However, many demos only cover the basics of using this technology. This session delves into leveraging ECO with ASP.NET and attempts to go beyond the basics. Based on an ECO/ASP.NET application that has been in production for more than 6 months, we cover such topics as ASP.NET state management and ECO, databinding, authentication, performance issues, ECOSpace pooling, background threads, and more.
Prerequisites: Basic ECO experience and basic understanding of Web development, ASP.NET in particular, required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

4000  Domain Model-driven Development using Together  
Daniel Vacanti

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Advanced.
This tutorial introduces the developer to the concepts of color modeling using archetypes and the Domain Neutral Component using Together. The tutorial provides hands-on examples of the ideas presented by David Anderson at the 2004 Borland Conference. In this one session, the developer will be on his way to building better domain models faster.
Prerequisites: Some knowledge of UML and Java is helpful, but not necessary.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

1100  PANEL: Borland Database Open Forum  
Joe Overton — Borland

Type: Panel Discussion. Level: All.
Open discussion around what's on the drawing board for the future with customer feedback and candid communication between R&D and our customers.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

1102  What's New in Delphi  
Allen Bauer — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session covers most of the new features in the Delphi IDE such as VCL Designer Guidelines, Live Templates, Block Completion, HTML Tag Editor enhancements, Delphi Win32 language enhancements, VCL enahancements, and many others.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

1104  What's New in JBuilder  
Ken Chan and Charles Overbeck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session highlights changes made in the latest version of JBuilder and features from recent releases that you may have missed.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

1106  What's New in Together 2006  
Tom Gullion — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session highlights the new innovations in Together 2006, a single toolset for multi-purpose design needs. See how analysts, architects, and developers can stay in sync with a common, visual understanding of requirements, architectures, and designs. Learn about new support for UML 2.0, Business Process Modeling, Model-driven Architecture (MDA) approach via support of the query/view/transformation (QVT) specification, Model and Code Quality Assurance, Eclipse Framework support, how to aid data modeling design through physical and logical data models, and the definition and design of requirements through UML use-case analysis.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

2100  CaliberRM and CMMI Requirements Management
Jerry Odenwelder — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session introduces attendees to the CMMI Requirements Management process area using CaliberRM to achieve the goals and practices required for success. We also address the Requirements Development process areas and discuss how using CaliberRM for management benefits the development area as well.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2154  The Eclipse Rich Client Platform  
Richard Gronback — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
The Eclipse platform has gained tremendous popularity not only for tooling, but for general desktop application development. This presentation focuses on the features of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform as the basis from which to create extensible, high-quality applications in Java. We introduce the OSGi runtime, packaging, and core Eclipse components most commonly used in RCP-based applications.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

9000  AJAX in Delphi  
Marco Cantu — Wintech Italia Srl

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
Asynchronous JavaScript XML is a Web technology that has become very popular because of Google (gmail, maps). Writing AJAX applications in Delphi is easier than you might believe.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

9002  C++Builder and DCOM Support Group  
Stephan Mahaux — Compass Municipal Services, Inc.

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
DCOM is not setup in C++Builder the same way as in Delphi. In addition, the documentation and resources available specifically to C++Builer users are very thin in this area. So, wouldn't it be great if we could create a knowledgeable and dynamic support group?
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

9014  CodeRush: Existing and Recovering Users  
Brad White — Automated Systems, Inc.

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
What are the options and where do we go from here? What are the chance of the VS interface API being implemented in BDS so CodeRush can be ported?
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

9100  Integrating Help with Borland Products  
Stuart Norton and Nils Tikkanen — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Beginning.
This session presents information on how to integrate your help with Borland products for Delphi, C++, C#, and Java development. This is important for vendors of plug-in tools and code libraries who want to enable their customers to access the documentation for those libraries as they would access any other help in the IDE. Also presented are techniques for using the XMLDoc tool for generating API documentation from code comments, using both developer comments and independent, writer-developed documentation files, and a discussion of how to customize the XMLDoc tool for other output formats and stylistic conventions. See demonstrations of how to use the XMLDoc tool and HelpInsight tool in conjunction to create pop-up help.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

9102  Introduction to JMS  
Eric Whipple

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Beginning.
This session introduces attendees to message-oriented middleware specifically using the Java Messaging Service. Topics include the role of messaging, implementation of the JMS specification, and best practices including integration methodologies.
Prerequisites: Some experience with Java.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

9104  J2EE Development Using Eclipse and WTP  
Ravi Kumar and Helen Bershadskaya — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Beginning.
This session describes how to build and run basic J2EE and Web Services applications using Eclipse and WTP. We discuss the WTP project structure, server configuration, creation of modules, build system, etc. In the process, we cover application development using Servlet/JSP, EJB and Web Services using wizards, views and annotations. Along the way, we point out the differences and similarities of working with J2EE applications in JBuilder and Eclipse/WTP. We also provide a status and roadmap of WTP.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of J2EE applications.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

1108  What's New in C++Builder  
Troy Kitch and David Intersimone — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session explores some of the features that differentiate DeXter from Borland C++Builder version 6. In particular, we cover new IDE features, including the new build configuration manager and programmer productivity features. If time permits, a discussion of possible future directions and/or philosophies for C++ within the Borland C++Builder product line is also planned.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

1110  What's New in StarTeam  
John Sileski — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
Come hear about the most recent product changes and find out what has been going on in StarTeam Development. See review slides that cover the details and take a tour of the latest updates in the StarTeam product family.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

2106  ASP.NET Web Development with Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework
Bob Swart — Bob Swart Training & Consultancy

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
In this session, we cover ASP.NET Web development with Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework showing how to design ASP.NET Web Forms, session and state management, authorization and authentication (login), and deployment.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

2108  Overview of Core SDP for Java  
Michael Rozlog — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Learn how to use all of the Borland suite of Java tools to help streamline development. Understand how to use the Optimizeit suite to resolve pesky errors. Learn how to use Together Audits and Metrics to reduce complexity and help to establish good testing processes. See both Request Analyzer and ServerTrace used to increase the performance of J2EE applications.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

3102  Clean Up Your Code: 10 Java Coding Tricks, Techniques, and Philosophies
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session delivers ten techniques for improving your code, whether you are freshly graduated or a grizzled veteran. It is derived from many sources, including other languages, techniques, and idioms we have developed teaching developers.
Prerequisites: Frustration with hard to read code.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

3104  What's New in the Delphi Compiler
Danny Thorpe — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
The Delphi compiler guys have been busy beavers since the release of Delphi 2005 last year. Come get a brain dump of what's new and improved in the Delphi Win32 and Delphi for the Microsoft .NET Framework compilers, including new optimizations and language features for Win32 and support for .NET Compact Frameworks in .NET.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3194  Embedded User Authentication in InterBase  
Charlie Caro — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session describes the user definition language (UDL) that underlies InterBase embedded user authentication (EUA) introduced in IB7.5. The architecture is designed to be backward compatible with the existing server authentication technique, allowing two-way switching between those alternatives. If time permits, an audience discussion on possible EUA extensions that would improve utility of the feature is also planned.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with database authentication mechanisms.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

1112  Test-driven Development with Together and JUnit
Don Kranz — PROCESS-exchange, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
UML Sequence Diagrams can be used in Together (Architect, Developer) to describe test scenarios. JUnit test classes and methods can be automatically generated by Together. We demonstrate some useful patterns for accelerating the test development process.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Together, UML, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

1114  Tool Uptake: Strategies for Critical Mass
Wayne Miller — ExxonMobil

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session discusses strategies to align the tools you buy with your company's people and environment. It covers the speaker's experiences with deploying Borland CaliberRM and Together in a large company.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 8

1116  What's New in CaliberRM
Catherine Connor — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session presents the changes made in CaliberRM since the last Borland Conference covering releases v2005, v2005 SP1, v2005 SP2, and v2005 Release 2.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

2112  Getting Started with StarTeam Enterprise Advantage
Steve Reynolds — Elite Associates

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage provides the core of the Borland Application Lifecycle Management products by allowing you to create a fully customized development process. This session provides an in-depth introduction to the many features of StarTeam Enterprise Advantage including form customization using JBuilder, workflow definition, automatic notification and configuration of StarTeam Enterprise Advantage Web Edition. This session also covers the various points of integration between StarTeam and CaliberRM, JBuilder, and other Borland ALM products.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

2116  Getting Started with dbExpress
Martin Rudy — R & R Consulting

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
One of the many data connectivity options for the Borland RAD products is dbExpress.This set of drivers and components provide connectivity to databases for the Windows, Microsoft .NET Framework, and Linux platforms. This presentation provides an introduction to using the dbExpress technology and some tricks and techniques to make your database development easier. We also cover features beyond basic data retrieval and updating.
Prerequisites: Basic database development with Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

2168  Model-driven Development with UML  
Karl Frank — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
If you skipped UML (Unified Modeling Language) v. 1, that's OK. With this session, you can begin with an introduction to UML 2, no assumptions made about prior knowledge of earlier versions of UML. This session provides an overview survey of UML 2, followed by special focus with examples and exercises, using UML 2 Class Diagrams and UML 2 Activity Diagrams.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

3180  What's New in ECO III  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
ECO III, to be released in DeXter, introduces many new features to dramatically improve developer productivity. This session covers the new features, such as State Machines, the ECO Action Language, multiple persistence mappers, as well as the many smaller but much requested tweaks that have found their way into this release. We also cover some dramatic changes to how we deliver ECO to you. A must see session for anyone using, looking at using, or wishing they could use ECO.
Prerequisites: Basic ECO experience.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

1138  Introducing the New Windows Presentation Foundation: "Avalon"  
Rob Relyea — Microsoft

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
Windows Presentation Foundation ("Avalon") is the new presentation technology for Windows that provides a unified way to interact with the user interface, documents, and media technologies used in your application. Build better software for your users -- see http://robrelyea.com/events/BorlandDevCon2005/ for evolving details.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

2160  Using Together in Delphi  
John Kaster — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Attend this session on Together in Delphi and find out how audits, metrics, and Together live source can increase your productivity and help you improve your Delphi code.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the Delphi language.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3100  Developing TCP/IP-based Server Applications using Indy Components
Christian Wilkerson — iBASEt

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
The Indy components that ship with Delphi cover just about every networking protocol. This presentation is on development using Indy Server components. It includes fibers, threads, HTTP, and even custom servers.
Prerequisites: Good working knowledge of Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3106  ASP.NET Web Forms and Databases
Bob Swart — Bob Swart Training & Consultancy

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
In this session, we cover ASP.NET Web Forms and multi-tier databases.
Prerequisites: ASP.NET Web development experience.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3108  Introduction to OCL in Together Products
Dan Massey — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session provides an introduction to basic OCL notation and concepts and their application in the Together family of products. In addition to fundamental OCL, this session demonstrates OCL in the context of model refinement, MDA (using Query, View, Transform), audits, and metrics.
Prerequisites: Some experience with UML.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

3110  JBoss Fundamentals with JBuilder
Ken Sipe — Code Mentor, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
JBoss has a sizable hold of the J2EE market. If not for production, it is often used in development for increased productivity. This session assumes you understand J2EE, diving right into JBoss configurations and best practices. Using a full J2EE Web application as an example, we look at how to leverage JBoss using JBuilder. The session focuses less on slides and more on showing productivity techniques.
Prerequisites: Some Java experience.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

3112  StarTeam SDK New Features
Randy Guck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
The StarTeam SDK allows you to write custom applications in Java, the Microsoft .NET Framework, and COM languages. With the StarTeam 2005 R2 release, new SDK features have been added that make it easier to write event-based applications, store credentials for auto-logon applications, leverage the StarTeamMPX Cache Agent, and more. In this session, learn about these new StarTeam SDK features and see coding samples on how to use them.
Prerequisites: Basic StarTeam and programming knowledge.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

9004  OR Mapping with InstantObjects  
Marco Cantu — Wintech Italia Srl

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
InstantObjects is an open source and actively developed Object Relational Mapping framework for Delphi. Come and learn about it, see how to get involved, and check out what's cooking in the lab.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

9106  An Introduction to the Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework  
Richard Gronback — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Beginning.
The Eclipse Graphical Modeling Framework (GMF) project provides a generative bridge between the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) and Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) projects. Using GMF, one is able to design a set of diagram elements that relate to a domain model and generate a diagramming surface capable of visually working with that model. This presentation explores the GMF project and illustrate its effectiveness in rapidly providing a visual aspect to nearly any domain.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of modeling, Eclipse, and the UML helpful.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

9300  Building Domain Languages Atop Java  
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Advanced.
This session shows how to use Java as the building block for domain-specific languages. It shows you how to create your own customized language for solving specific problems.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

1128  CASE STUDY: Build Management and App Lifecycle Development Best Practices
Michael O'Rourke — BuildForge

Type: Case Study. Level: All.
Discover how Fidelity Information Services integrated their application lifecycle and delivered higher quality software while utilizing existing disparate toolsets including StarTeam.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

1136  C++ TR1 Library Overview  
Pete Becker — Dinkumware, Ltd.

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
The C++ Standards Committee has recently finished work on its Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions (TR1). The report describes library facilities in seven areas: utilities, function objects, type traits, numerics, containers, regular expressions, and compatibility with C99. This session presents an overview of the TR1 library, covering the contents of the library, the problems it is intended to solve, how it relates to the current Standard C++ Library, and how you can get a copy for yourself.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

2118  ASP.NET Components and Controls in Delphi: The Basics
Nick Hodges — Lemanix Corporation

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session covers the basics of building custom server controls for ASP.NET. It covers base classes, extending existing classes, persisting a control's values, a control's lifecycle, how controls render their HTML, using client-side Javascript, and how they determine their block type.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of ASP.NET and Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

2120  Overview of the Eclipse Community, Platform, and Framework  
David Hauck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session covers the nature of Eclipse as a platform for tools development and includes discussion of how the Eclipse community is organized and how it makes decisions to help attendees understand what they can expect. Discussion of major Eclipse components also helps attendees understand what they can leverage in their own development efforts. The presentation leverages the Borland experience in developing the platform and explains why Borland has made such a major commitment to Eclipse.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2166  ECO: Basic Concepts  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) bring the power and productivity of model-driven development to the Delphi and C# languages. This session provides an overview of the technologies ECO provides, giving you enough background so that you can explore this exciting technology further, either at other sessions in the conference or afterward.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of object-oriented concepts, as well as Delphi or C# skills. No knowledge of Bold, ECO, or MDA required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3114  Effective Delphi for .NET and C# Unit Testing with NUnit
Charlie Calvert — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to create applications that are easy to test and how to write tests that are easy to maintain. Unit testing is a fascinating technology that is designed to encourage developers to create easily reusable objects that promote the proper object-oriented techniques.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft .NET Framework development in Delphi or C#.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3116  Requirements-driven Development and FDD with Delphi and CaliberRM  
Daniel Polistchuck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session covers the basic concepts of requirements management and feature-driven development using Delphi and its CaliberRM integration.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Delphi programming, requirements management, and CaliberRM is desireable, but not essential.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

3172  CASE STUDY: Complete and Integrated Application Lifecycle Management
Murat Guvenc — Borland

Type: Case Study. Level: Intermediate.
This session shares the outcome of a case study undertaken through a pilot project to optimize an organization's existing software delivery mechanism by implementing a highly integrated application lifecycle management process to address several critical business issues, such as inaccurate estimation, rework, poor visibility and also to meet future regulatory challenges such as Sarbanes-Oxley and Canadian enhanced governance Bill 198.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 8

1140  Windows Vista Overview  
Ernie Booth — Microsoft

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
During this session we introduce Windows Vista and begin to dive into what's new for developers and how developers can create applications today that will Light Up on Windows Vista. The session covers features including: search organize and visualize, LUA/UPA security, common file dialogs, known folders, manageability, event/instrumentation, XPS, open packaging, networking, and more. We also discuss Windows Vista Citizenship and what calls to action developers can expect from Microsoft.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 8

2122  Build Your Own Eclipse Plug-ins Effectively
Vishy Kasar — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session teaches how to build your own plug-in using step-by-step instruction and demonstration. No prior knowledge of Eclipse is assumed. If you have been developing in Java and wondering about what these Eclipse plug-ins are all about, this is the session for you.
Prerequisites: Experience with Java and some Eclipse background.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2124  Configuring InterBase for Maximum Performance  
Bill Todd — The Database Group, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session focuses on configuring InterBase for maximum performance with particular emphasis on new features including group commit, database flush, database linger, the 131,000 page maximum cache size, the 32k maximum page size, and the directives in the ibconfig file that affect performance.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

3118  Developing Custom .NET Components
Ray Konopka — Raize Software

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session focuses on extending the Microsoft .NET Framework component hierarchy by creating custom .NET components. In addition to describing the steps involved in creating a new .NET component, this session focuses on several key aspects of the .NET component architecture including the .NET Component Model, the new graphics subsystem (GDI+), user controls and custom controls, and supporting events through delegates.
Prerequisites: Experience creating VCL components helpful, but not necessary.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3122  Multi-platform Web Services with Delphi
Bob Swart — Bob Swart Training & Consultancy

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
In this session, we see multi-platform Web Services with Delphi 2005, using the Borland Win32 SOAP Framework and ASP.NET Web Services.
Prerequisites: Some SOAP and/or XML knowledge.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3178  C++ TR1 Function Objects: Horses or Camels  
Pete Becker — Dinkumware, Ltd.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
The C++ Standards Committee has recently finished work on its Technical Report on C++ Library Extensions (TR1). Part of the report describes four new templates that can be used to create function objects. These templates rely much more on template meta-programming than the templates in the current Standard C++ Library. This session looks at the programming problems that the new templates solve, how their approach differs from that taken in the Standard C++ Library, and at the glue code needed to make the new templates work with the old ones.
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with the design of the Standard Library's function objects helpful.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

3184  MDA and QVT  
Tom Gullion — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
In this session, we dive deep into one of the fundamental pieces of model-driven architecture: Query / View / Transformation or QVT. This technology, based on the specification being defined within the OMG, provides the model-to-model transformation capabilities that will be central to any MDA project. Together Architect 2006 provides a complete development environment for this new paradigm in software development.
Prerequisites: Knowlege of UML 2.0 required. OCL 2.0 understanding helpful.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

4104  WinForm User Interface and the Delphi ECO Framework
Fredrik Haglund — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
An in-depth description of how data binding with all different ECO handles works, and ECO Extender components and how to extend them yourself. Learn how to replace the default auto forms with your own. An example of how to write a custom tree-view control that uses data binding is presented.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of the Delphi Enterprise Core Object (ECO) Framework.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

9006  Developing VCL Components with OpenWire  
Boian Mitov — Mitov Software

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
OpenWire is a free open source library for writing advanced VCL components, capable of exchanging data and events without the need of additional code. The components written with OpenWire allow creation of complex software without writing any code. The technology allows the components to establish data and event connections trough special properties called pins. By visually establishing the connections the developer effectively does the programming. This session covers the design of OpenWire, writing basic and advanced OpenWire components, and demonstrates real components written with the technology.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

9008  StarTeam Birds-of-a-Feather  
John Sileski — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
The topic is StarTeam, but the agenda is open. Come to discuss common issues, ideas, and solutions with other attendees and StarTeam product staff.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

9010  Agile Methods with Borland  
Matt Gelbwaks — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
An opportunity to discuss experiences and expectations for those currently doing (or interested in doing) agile development using Borland tools. The session is moderated by Borland Chief Agilist, Matt Gelbwaks.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

9012  IntraWeb Q&A  
Jason Southwell — Arcana Technologies

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: All.
Meet up with other IntraWeb users to get your questions answered. Ask to see any feature explained with code. It's a great follow-up to the Preconference Tutorial, but open to all.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 8

9200  J2EE Performance Tuning How-to  
Michael Rozlog — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to find and fix errors and decrease the total time to problem resolution using the industry standard ServerTrace. Understand how to configure and use ServerTrace to find pesky errors that are usually blammed on poor performance or bad coding.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2104  Understanding Service-oriented Architectures
Eric Whipple

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session focuses on the fundamentals of service-oriented architectures (SOAs). What considerations should developers be focusing on? What pros and cons are involved? How should architectures be partitioned? These are some of the issues covered in this session.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2110  VCL for .NET  
Marco Cantu — Wintech Italia Srl

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
An overview of the classic Delphi VCL component library in the Microsoft .NET Framework world including coverage of what's new in VCL.NET, porting your code, and figuring out how relevant the VCL will be in the future. The primary focus is on the visual library, more than its database or Internet support portions, with examples ranging from the use of the classic Windows common controls to the use of third party components.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Delphi.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

2128  Writing StarTeam Utilities with Delphi and the StarTeam SDK
Jon Robertson — jmrSoftware

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
One of the greatest strengths of StarTeam is the ability to extend functionality through the StarTeam SDK. Learn how to write utilities that provide custom functionality for your team.
Prerequisites: Experience with Delphi, COM Automation, and StarTeam.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

3126  MSF for Agile Software Development
Granville Miller

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based agile software development process. This is the first agile software development process with built-in support for risk and qualities of service such as security and performance. Additionally, MSF breaks new ground by bringing in new techniques for building better software such as the use of personas and applied unit testing. In this session, we provide an introduction to these new techniques.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of agile software development and some Microsfot .NET Framework development is helpful.
Room: Continental Parlor 8

3128  Securing ASP.NET Web Applications
Lino Tadros — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session presents countermeasures to defend against threats. Topics include input validation; best practices when working with Microsoft SQL Server, including the use of parameterized commands, stored procedures, accounts with limited privileges, Microsoft Windows; authentication versus SQL Server logins, and secure storage of connection strings; HTML-encoding of user input; vulnerabilities specific to ASP.NET forms authentication and forms authentication cookies; use of encrypted view state rather than hidden fields to maintain state between requests; storage of password hashes rather than passwords for added security; and more.
Prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and ASP.NET knowledge preferred.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3130  To VCL or Not to VCL? Pathways for C++ Developers
Keith Chuvala — United Space Alliance

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Borland C++Builder developers love the VCL -- well, most of the time. When does it makes sense to minimize or avoid the VCL? Can components and libraries created with C++Builder be truly portable? We tackle these and related questions in this session.
Prerequisites: C++Builder experience and familiarity with the VCL.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

3190  Producing Effective Use Cases with CaliberRM  
Matt Klassen — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Use Cases have become an industry standard method to specify the functional requirements for software systems. That being said, many organizations are not getting the value they could from the Use Case models they are producing. Only 20-30% of the value of Use Cases is realized with the visual model. That means 70-80% of a Use Case model is the textual specification that needs to be specified, validated, and managed through the lifecycle. CaliberRM is an enterprise class requirements management tool that can help your organization get the most out of Use Cases.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of use cases.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

4106  Developing Custom .NET Component Designers
Ray Konopka — Raize Software

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
This session focuses on how to enhance the design-time interface of a Microsoft .NET Framework component through custom designers. Specifically, learn the details of creating custom Type Converters, UI Type Editors, and Component Designers. In addition, this session highlights some of the new designer functionality coming in the next version of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Prerequisites: Experience creating .NET components.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

1134  How to Make your Java Projects Coexist in JBuilder and Eclipse  
Charles Overbeck and Helen Bershadskaya — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session discusses how to set up your Java projects so that you can use both the JBuilder and Eclipse IDEs to work on the projects.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2114  Migrating Database Applications to use Borland Data Providers  
Martin Rudy — R & R Consulting

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session provides a comparison of the basic features database developers are familiar with in data connectivity options prior to Delphi 8 and shows a migration path to database applications using BDP. The intent is to show BDE (Paradox only), dbGo, dbExpress, and IBX users how to perform the same actions with BDP. A matrix mapping like components, methods, and properties between data connection options is presented.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Delphi and database development.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

2162  Get a Leg Up with the BOOST C++ Library  
Chris Uzdavinis

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Boost is a portable, peer-reviewed, and freely available collection of C++ libraries. This session covers a wide selection of what Boost has to offer, with an emphasis on breadth rather than depth.
Prerequisites: Basic C++ knowledge.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

3132  Delphi Productivity Features for ASP.NET Developers
Jim Tierney — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Overview of Delphi productivity features that apply to ASP.NET developers. Topics include refactoring, deployment, markup validation, code templates, modeling, and add-ins.
Prerequisites: Exposure to developing ASP.NET applications with Delphi is required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3134  Introduction to .NET FCL
Lino Tadros — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session provides an introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework FCL (Framework Class Library). After an overview of the major namespaces that comprise the FCL, the remainder of the session focuses on concrete examples that utilitize FCL classes. Examples provided include exceptions, debugging, string manipulation, file I/O, collections, graphics, etc.
Prerequisites: VCL and OOP knoweldge preferred.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3136  Refactoring and Synchronization with the StarTeam Plug-in for Eclipse
James Wogulis — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session explains how to use the StarTeam plugin for Eclipse in order to support synchronizing local file system changes with the StarTeam repository. The plugin is especially helpful when large amounts of code refactoring have been performed where files are moved, renamed, created, and deleted both locally and remotely.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with StarTeam or other SCM tools, as well as experience using the Eclipse IDE.
Room: Continental Parlor 9

3192  Developing for SQL Server 2005  
Euan Garden — Microsoft

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session demonstrates some of the myriad of new developer-orientated features in SQL Server 2005 using examples (and very few slides) in T-SQL, C#, and Delphi for .NET.
Prerequisites: Understanding of RDBMS and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

4110  Designing Software Systems Through Modeling
Granville Miller