CSS 2004 (Tuesday)

Mapping Java Objects to XML and Relational Databases: Donald Smith

Good presentator and great coverage of material. The mapping of OR and OX is very similar, and he included good examples of each. Some coverage of JAXP and JAXB.

Web Services... Where Do You Start - SOAP, WSDL and UDDI: Denise Hatzidakis

Good coverage of material, as usual Denise was extremely well informed and completely covered the material, but was fast. The slides were packed, which is good for reading afterwards. I had a hard time keeping up as the material went by so fast.

Links:

• Apache AXIS
• Apache SOAP V2.2
  
• SOAP Developerworks articles by Graham Glass
  

Grid Computing, SOA, and Autonomic Computing: Paul Giangarra

Good presentation of the "Big Picture" of getting large scale grids and SOA working.

Links:

• IBM Grid Web Site
• Globus

Docs:

• IBM Redbook: Grid Enabling Applications
• IBM Redbook: Fundamentals of Grid Computing
• IBM Redbook: Introduction to Grid Computing

Summary: Pretty good day. The mapping objects guy really set the pace and made the day go pretty good. The rest of the afternoon and evening were spent at a "Nuggets" BOF in Denver.

CSS 2004 (Monday)

An Introduction to .NET for the J2EE Programmer: Joroen Frijters

Just an overall api introduction.

Introduction to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA): Hari Rajogopal

Intro to SOA with a case study.

Links:

• http://www.serviceoriented.org
• http://www.ibm.com/devleoperworks
• http://builder.com.com/5100-6386-5064520.html
• http://www-136.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices

Standards-Based Persistence through Web Services: Michael Keith

JDO, EJB, JDBC persistence. Good presenter, good overview of JDO and JDBC. Didn't have time to review much EJB. Went to speakers session on EJB 3.0 for more information. Standards based persistence doesn't seem to be the place currently, most people seem to be using somethign such as Hibernate, Spring, etc. for persistence.


Model Driven Architecture (MDA) - A New Paradigm in Software Development: Hermon Opstvedt

Very good presentation. Technology is not yet there, but the tools are growing in functionality.

Tools:

• AndroMDA
  
• Jamda
  
• Eclipse GMT
  
• Compuware: OptimalJ (Netbeans Based)
• IBM: Rational XDE (Eclipse Based)
• innoQ: iQgen
• lo-Software: ArcStyler
• Poseidon for UML
  

Links: MDA

Summary: Good first day. MDA was the highlight of the day. Very cool when it grows up. I downloaded some of the tools and have started to play.