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.