Java Platform Track

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.
1112 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 3:15pm - 4:30pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3

1130  CASE STUDY: Using Borland Enterprise Studio in a Multi-project Environment
Mark English — LogSec Corporation

Type: Case Study. Level: All.
This case study presents a real-world view of the US Army Environmental Center's rollout of the Borland Enterprise Studio tools across multiple projects and teams.
Prerequisites: Some practical knowledge of the Borland Enterprise Studio (JBuilder, CaliberRM, Starteam, Test Director) and the integration of the products in a working envirornment. Knowlegde of ALM concepts and software development lifecycles and project management also useful.
1130 canceled 

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.
2008 Sunday, November 6, 2005 — 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

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.
2010 Monday, November 7, 2005 — 9:00am - 1:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3

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.
2014 Monday, November 7, 2005 — 2:00pm - 6:00pm
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.
2104 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

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.
2108 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

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.
2122 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 9:30am - 10:45am
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2132  Struts Shale... I Mean Struts
Ken Sipe — Code Mentor, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session looks at the evolution of struts into its new project, named Shale. The session jump starts attendees with the details of Shale and how it works with JSF.
Prerequisites: Some experience with Java and JSP.
2132 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 4:45pm - 6:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2136  Developing Web GUI Using JSF
Vishy Kasar — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Web GUIs have traditionally been poor second cousins of Desktop GUIs. Web GUIs have had to contend with simple forms and controls, while the desktop GUI enjoyed the whole gammit of components. Well, not any more! With JSF, you can bring the power of component architecture to the Web world. This session outlines the peculiarities of Web GUIs and compares them with desktop GUIs. We introduce JSF and discuss how JSF brings power to the Web GUI. JSF is compared to swing-based GUIs as well as struts, the other good Web application framework. We also cover the JSF landscape from the development tools perspective and from the component perspective. In demonstration, we build a simple JSF-based application using Eclipse, deploy it to Tomcat, and test drive that application.
Prerequisites: Some experience with Java and Web user interfaces.
2136 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 8:00am - 9:15am
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2142  Introduction to JMS  
Eric Whipple

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
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.
2142 canceled 

2144  Web Application Security Vulnerabilities
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session highlights common mistakes made by Web programmers stating the problems and avoidance techniques. The material in this session is derived from the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and other sources.
Prerequisites: None.
2144 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 11:00am - 12:15pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2164  J2EE Development Using Eclipse and WTP  
Ravi Kumar and Helen Bershadskaya — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
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.
2164 canceled 

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.
3004 Monday, November 7, 2005 — 9:00am - 1:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

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.
3102 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

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.
3110 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 4:45pm - 6:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3

3120  Java Persistance Frameworks  
Patrick McMichael — Pillar Technology Group, LLC

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Are you a J2EE developer looking for alternatives to JDBC or CMP Entity Beans for handling your data interactions? Are you a Hibernate user wondering about the impact EJB 3.0 may have on your application architecture? This session provides an overview of and comparison between the Hibernate and EJB 3.0 solutions to POJO persistence. Pros and cons for each are examined, as are options for migration.
Prerequisites: A working knowledge of Java and relational database concepts helpful. Any background with object-relational mapping concepts is also beneficial.
3120 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 9:30am - 10:45am
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

3124  J2EE Performance Tuning How-to  
Michael Rozlog — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
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.
3124 canceled 

3154  JMX Management Solutions  
Ken Sipe — Code Mentor, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
This session describes management of Java resources using the Java Management Extensions JMX API. JMX provides a unified framework to instrument Java systems with monitoring and management capabilities. JMX is a required element of the J2EE 1.4 specification -- it is part of the JDK1.5 distribution. Those who don't know and understand it will be left behind. This session covers JMX 1.2 specification, system monitoring, management needs, and the creation of agents which dynamically manage resources based on monitoring. We cover many of the new features of the recently finalized JSR-160 on Remote JMX access. Productivity details are also discussed using MX4J and commons modeler.
Prerequisites: Some Java experience.
3154 canceled 

3164  Securing Web Services: Protecting Your Enterprise
Dana Kaufman — Forum Systems, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session explores various methods of securing Web Services to help attendees navigate the confusing path of Web Service standards. Concepts such as WS-Security 2004, SAML, and WS-I Basic Security Profile are examined.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Web Services and Web Services/XML concepts such as WSDL, SOAP, Schema, etc.
3164 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 8:00am - 9:15am
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2 

4100  Building Domain Languages Atop Java  
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
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.
4100 canceled 

4108  Advanced Enterprise Debugging Techniques
Neal Ford — ThoughtWorks

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
This session discusses techniques and tools for debugging enterprise applications.
Prerequisites: Experience with J2EE applications.
4108 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

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.
9102 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 12:30pm - 1:15pm
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.
9104 Tuesday, November 8, 2005 — 12:30pm - 1:15pm
Room: Continental Parlor 7 

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.
9200 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 12:30pm - 1:15pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

9202  JMX Management Solutions  
Ken Sipe — Code Mentor, Inc.

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Intermediate.
This session describes management of Java resources using the Java Management Extensions JMX API. JMX provides a unified framework to instrument Java systems with monitoring and management capabilities. JMX is a required element of the J2EE 1.4 specification -- it is part of the JDK1.5 distribution. Those who don't know and understand it will be left behind. This session covers JMX 1.2 specification, system monitoring, management needs, and the creation of agents which dynamically manage resources based on monitoring. We cover many of the new features of the recently finalized JSR-160 on Remote JMX access. Productivity details are also discussed using MX4J and commons modeler.
Prerequisites: Some Java experience.
9202 Thursday, November 10, 2005 — 7:00am - 7:45am
Room: Continental Parlor 3 

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.
9300 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 7:00am - 7:45am
Room: Continental Parlor 3