WUG 2/28 : Eclipse RCP and Web Tools

Hi,

  Once again this is more of a Java meeting than anything else, so we look 
forward to seeing many JUG members Tuesday evening..

  The Eclipse Foundation is in town Tuesday with their Eclipse in Motion 
national tour during the day.

  In the evening, the WUG will host Eclipse Foundation Evangelist Wayne 
Beaton for what will surely be a very powerful presentation and a great 
mini-course in web application development using Eclipse.   I cannot see 
there being much doubt about the value you will get from hearing this very 
prominent speaker for free.  You would pay (just a little actually) in the 
afternoon to hear him too if you want, but his evening talk will be free 
and self-contained.   We hope that others among the afternoon participants 
join us too.

  Please come on out and be part of it.

  Don

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Building Enterprise-scale Applications with Rich Front Ends Using Eclipse 
RCP and Web Tools

Wayne Beaton, Evangelist, Eclipse Foundation
Tues. Feb. 28, 2006
IBM Building 500 Cafeteria
Research Triangle Park, NC

Schedule

6:00 p.m. Gather, Networking, Pizza and Drinks
6:15 p.m. Announcements, Group Business
6:30 p.m. Main Presentation
8:15 p.m. Questions / Discussion
8:30 p.m. (approx.) Adjournment

Admission is free of charge.  Pre-registration is helpful but not mandatory 
(see below).

Pizza and drinks will be sponsored by Themis Training, offering Eclipse 
training in Raleigh March 6-8, 
http://www.themistraining.com/locations/index.asp?regionid=71 or jwynton at 
themisinc.com.


Main Talk

The combination of Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and Web Tools forms a 
potent arsenal for building Enterprise applications with rich front ends 
and powerful back ends. In this session, we will discuss, through a 
combination of lectures and demonstrations, how you can leverage Web Tools 
and RCP to build your WebSphere applications. Topics include configuring 
Web Tools for unit testing with WebSphere Application Server 6.0; building 
and deploying enterprise beans, servlets, JSPs, and web services; and 
constructing RCP applications that communicate with the application server.

Earlier on Feb. 28, the Eclipse Foundation and several leading open source 
technology companies are hosting a seminar (morning for executives, 
afternoon for developers) to help attendees better understand open source 
and eclipse-related technology - 
http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=87981

Wayne Beaton, Eclipse Foundation Evangelist, has kindly agreed to give this 
talk to our meeting in the evening.   Everyone is welcome to attend either 
or both events.  Theirs, during the day, has a nominal charge ($50).  Ours, 
in the evening, is free of charge.

Wayne is employed by The Eclipse Foundation, where he works as an 
evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse 
technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software 
development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and 
agile development methodologies.

At IBM, Wayne Beaton was a Senior Software Consultant with IBM Software 
Services for WebSphere (ISSW), part of the IBM® Software Group. He was the 
ISSW technical leader for migration and his main focus is helping customers 
to migrate from previous versions and competitive products (including 
Visual Basic) to WebSphere® Application Server. Wayne co-authored three IBM 
Redbooks, contributed to several other books, and has authored numerous 
articles and papers. Wayne started his career at The Object People Inc., a 
well-respected training and consulting company and IBM business partner 
that specialized in object-oriented programming, Smalltalk, and later 
Java™. Wayne started as a consultant working on large scale projects for 
numerous clients in banking, insurance, military, and government. He 
quickly rose through the ranks to assume technical leadership positions on 
development projects and was one of the two original architects of TopLink 
for Smalltalk. As his role at The Object People evolved, Wayne had the 
opportunity to author or oversee the authorship of entire education 
curriculums on Smalltalk, Java, VisualAge, J2EE, WebSphere Application 
Server, and competitive products. Wayne joined IBM in 2000 as a software 
consultant.

  Wayne likes to spend his free time convincing people that Extreme 
Programming, refactoring, and unit testing actually work. He also maintains 
blogs at http://www.planeteclipse.org/planet/ , 
http://wbeaton.blogspot.com/  and WebSphere Migrations: Practice and 
Experience.  Incidentally, some of his blogs mentions this meeting.


Directions to the Meeting

Distance from Raleigh (17 miles) / Durham (8 miles) / Chapel Hill (12 miles)

 From I-40, take Exit 280 - Davis Drive. At the end of the exit ramp, take 
a right (North) onto Davis Drive. Continue straight on Davis Drive for 
about 0.5 miles. Take a right on Cornwallis road. Go about 1/2 mile, you 
will cross over railroad tracks. At the IBM gate keep to the right.

If the rightmost gate is down,  press on the intercom button and tell the 
remote guard that you are attending the WebSphere User Group meeting, and 
give him your name. He will open the gate for you.

Our IBM host is Greg Ackerman - they may ask for his name.

Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, 
looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." It should be 
the third road on the left.

It can be a little tricky, so please allow some extra time the first time.

You will see a visitors' parking lot. Turn in and park, and walk to the 
Building 500 lobby.   If that parking lot is not accessible, you would need 
to continue on and park behind the building.

See http://www.rtpwug.org/sitemap.pdf  for a map.

Pre-Registration

We have implemented a pre-registration system for meetings. While not 
mandatory for attendance, this will allow us to provide pre-printed 
attendance badges at the door that will get you into the meeting more quickly.

If you would like to pre-register,  please send email to 
[email protected]  with your
name
organization (e.g. company or school or self)
citizenship
date of birth (needed only if citizenship is other than U.S.)
email address

Please note that:
If you are a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and not an IBMer) 
pre-registration is mandatory, since your visit must be pre-approved. 
Please contact [email protected] for details.
If you are NOT a citizen of Hong Kong, Macao, or the PRC (and, again, not 
an IBMer) pre-registration is NOT mandatory, but it is quicker: we will 
need to log the information above at the door, which might take a few minutes.
IBM staff with active badges can enter the building in the usual manner, 
without pre-approval or pre-registration.

  If it's getting late, that's no problem at all.  Just show up and we will 
make out a badge at the door.

Other Notes:

(1) We will have a decent supply of free sample copies of  The Sphere at 
the meeting - this is a very impressive serious new journal
(2) Frank Parker is looking for customer/user participants for focus groups 
- honorariums of $100 to $400 may be paid - email [email protected]
(3) The Java User Group meeting 1/20 on Applied AOP also looks interesting: 
http://www.trijug.org/