Agenda

Track: Core Platform Technologies
Covers the essential technologies underpinning your application infrastructure

Title: Introduction to JBoss Application Server 5.0

Presenter: Dimitris Andreadis

Company: JBoss

Abstract: After three years in R&D, JBoss Application Server 5.0 is ready for prime time. With completely re-architected components, v5.0 represents the most comprehensive redesign of JBoss Application Server to date. This session introduces attendees to a broad range of innovative features that will change the way you think about application servers. These new and updated features include Microcontainer blended with OSGi, the deployer architecture, the default messaging service, the default transaction monitor, the console, clustering, and the addition of JBoss Web.

Bio: Dimitris Andreadis currently leads the JBoss Application Server project. He has been a JBoss addict since v2.4, a contributor since v3.2, and he finally joined JBoss in 2004. His main interest is in the core application server platform and the management aspect of it. He has worked extensively with JMX and CORBA technologies and represents Red Hat on the Resource Consumption Management API Expert Group (JSR-284). Previously he spent seven years at Intracom and Motorola in the areas of NMS/OSS, designing reusable frameworks and distributed systems. Dimitris studied computer science at the Technological Educational Institute of Athens and received an M.Sc. by research from University College Dublin, Ireland.

Title: Motorola Case Study: Media-Enabling Mobile Social Networking Platform Using JBoss Application Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Presenter: Raj Chatterjee and Apsi Havewala

Company: Motorola

Abstract: Motorola Mobile Media Enabler (ME3) is a media-enabling social networking platform that allows users to stream media from their home PCs to mobile devices. In addition, ME3 creates a social networking experience around music, video, playlists, and pictures. It is built over JBoss Application Server on Red Hat Linux and solves remote connectivity technology challenges such as NAT, firewall, security, and denial of service in interesting new ways.

Bio: Raj Chatterjee: Chatterjee is a pre-sales solution architect at Motorola Inc. He has extensive experience in creating mobile technology solutions for network operators, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) and enterprises. His background stretches across several technology platforms, including Web 2.0, Telco 2.0, Service Delivery Platform, and the IP Multimedia Subsystem. Chatterjee has spoken at multiple workshops and conferences, including JBoss World, and he is the author of several patent disclosures. He has received M.S. degrees in computer science and mathematics. Aspi Havewala is a business development manager responsible for global services portfolio and strategy for Motorola. He has worked as an architect and manager on web, desktop, and embedded applications for a variety of markets. Havewala has co-authored a book on embedded development and has published articles in Dr. Dobbs Journal, Windows CE Tech Journal, and MSDN. He has a master's degree in computer science.

Title: JBoss Federated SSO Framework

Presenter: Sohil Shah

Company: JBoss

Abstract: Single Sign On (SSO) is a specialized form of user authentication that enables a user to be authenticated once and gain access to resources on multiple systems/web applications during that session. The JBoss Federated SSO Framework is a collection of components that software developers can easily integrate within their existing web applications to create a federation of trusted web sites. The framework has support for important SSO standards, such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). Shah will describe system components, including Central Authentication Server, Federation Server, Identity Management Framework, and JBoss Security Integration. He will also demonstrate the JBoss Federated SSO Framework in action against JBoss Seam/JBoss Portal.

Bio: Sohil currently works at JBoss, a division of Red Hat as a senior software engineer. He currently focuses his efforts on the following open source projects: JBoss Portal, and JBoss Federated SSO Framework.

Sohil has a Bachelors of Computer Science degree from Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, and has a passion for writing software for mobile devices in his spare time.

Title: JBoss Transactions

Presenter: Mark Little

Company: JBoss

Abstract: One of the key differences between JBoss Application Server 4.2 and previous releases is that Jboss Transaction Service is now the default transaction manager. That change brings enterprise-ready transaction processing technologies to all developers. In this session, Little will explain the differences between JBossTS and the previous transaction manager, with a special emphasis on transaction recovery.

Bio: Dr. Mark Little is technical development manager and director of standards for JBoss. Before joining JBoss, he was chief architect and director at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard specializing in reliable middleware. Prior to Arjuna, he was a distinguished engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the transactions team. Mark has published numerous books and articles and spoken at conferences and workshops for nearly 20 years.

Title: Hibernate Search

Presenter: Emmanuel Bernard

Company: JBoss

Abstract: How many times has a customer told you they want to search in their application “like Google“? How many times was the search engine in your application too slow? Hibernate Search brings full-text search capabilities to a persistent domain model, providing Google-like search capabilities while avoiding the traditional cost and difficulties to set up such solutions. In this session, you will learn what problems Hibernate Search can solve and how to add it to a Hibernate based application.

Bio: After graduating from Supelec (a French “Grande Ecole”), Emmanuel Bernard spent a few years in the retail industry, where he became involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team four years ago and is now a core developer at JBoss. He is the lead developer of Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager, two key projects on top of Hibernate Core implementing the Java Persistence specification, as well as Hibernate Search and Validator. Bernardis a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and JUGs, including JavaOne, JBoss World, and JAX.

Title: Hibernate Shards

Presenter: Max Ross

Company: Google

Track: Next Generation Web Applications
Learn about emerging technologies, frameworks, and designs enabling the Web as a computing platform

Title: Introduction to JBoss Portal

Presenter: Thomas Heute

Company: JBoss

Abstract: Integrating multiple web applications on a single view is a challenge that JBoss Portal is designed for. In this session, Heute will explain how JBoss Portal helps your applications live together transparently and how it can adapt to most environments (e.g., SSO, identity management, etc.). Bio: Thomas Heute has worked on various projects at Red Hat since joining in 2004. His first duty was to pursue his contributor's work within the JBoss Portal team. After a short time on the jBPM team, he worked on Seam for a full year and is now full-time on the JBoss Portal team again.

Bio: Thomas Heute has worked on various projects at Red Hat since joining in 2004. His first duty was to pursue his contributor's work within the JBoss Portal team. After a short time on the jBPM team, he worked on Seam for a full year and is now full-time on the JBoss Portal team again.

Title: Porting from Web 1.0 to RIA in the Enterprise

Presenter: James Ward

Company: Adobe

Abstract: With so much invested in their established web presences, enterprises may be reluctant to change the status quo. Nevertheless, to drive competitive differentiation in today’s crowded markets, there’s a growing need to build and maintain brand recognition and to strengthen customer loyalty and satisfaction. In this session, Ward will teach practical ways to port traditional web and desktop applications to the kinds of rich Internet applications that create engaging user experiences–-all with minimal disruption to your business. He will use code samples and extensive demonstrations to guide you through the porting process using the JBoss JMX Console as an example.

Bio: James Ward is a technical evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR-286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains, he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits, and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places, and likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java-based back ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Title: Rich Internet Applications Case Study: PSCU Financial Services

Presenter: Cameron Ingram and Shawn Hil

Company: PSCU Financial Services

Abstract: A rich Internet application (RIA) provides the most beneficial attribute of a desktop application--responsiveness--coupled with the best feature of a web application--the deployment model--making even the most hardcore desktop developer jealous. The true power of RIA is realized through the combination of Seam on the back end and Flex on the front end. Using Seam’s hotel booking example, Ingram and Hil will present an introduction integrating Flex and Seam. He will also show how the two can work together to deliver a scalable, high-performance, and attractive web application.

Bio: Cameron Ingram is a senior architect with PSCU Financial Services with over ten years of experience in software development, with a focus on web development and design. Shawn Hil is a UI architect with PSCU Financial Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree in digital art and technology. He designed many well-received user interfaces for CBS and healthcare companies before coming to PSCUFS.

Title: JBoss Developer Studio

Presenter: Max Rydahl Andersen

Company: JBoss

Abstract: JBoss Developer Studio is the new Eclipse-based IDE that Red Hat is offering under subscription. The IDE is in open source development under the JBoss Tools project. It has all the basic features of Eclipse WebTools along with support for many of the JBoss-related technologies, such as JBoss AS, Hibernate, Seam, JSF, JBPM, etc. In this session, Andersen will cover these features and present a live demonstration, which will cover Seam project creation, Visual JSF page editing, incremental deployment, and Hibernate query prototyping.

Bio: Rydahl Andersen has worked for JBoss since September 2004 as a developer and consultant. He is a long-time member of the Hibernate team, developing on the core and the toolset. Today he works on JBoss Tools and JBoss Developer Studio. Before joining JBoss, Max worked as a project lead and developer for a company working with large scale health care solutions.

Title: 10X business growth without scaling issues using JBoss on Azul Compute Appliances

Presenter: Ram Appalaraju, VP of Marketing, Product Technology

Company: Azul Systems

Abstract: Businesses in the insurance, investment and other information intensive industries with heavy online user servicing needs must scale application capacity 10X or greater to meet business growth objectives. Scaling the architecture to meet this challenge is often beset by limitations of JVM application size and the complexities associated with scale-out sprawl. In this session Ram Appalaraju, VP of Marketing, Product Technology, reviews case studies of customers that have laid the foundation for 10X or greater growth using a simple and effective combination of JBoss and Azul Compute Appliances, avoiding server sprawl and increasing application performance.

Bio: With more than 23 years of information technology related experience and a proven track record of delivering on company promises with customers, Ram has been named Vice President of Marketing and is responsible for leading worldwide-wide marketing strategy and execution of Azul Systems enterprise server solutions.

Ram’s areas of technical specialty include systems architectures, operating environments, middleware, and IT transformation services. He has offered extensive consultative guidance for Global 1000 customers on business and IT topics, and has also authored several technical articles relating to his areas of interest.

Prior to Azul, Ram was a Vice President at HP, responsible for leading a company-wide marketing strategy and execution of Adaptive Enterprise solutions for Enterprise customers. During his 11 year experience at HP, Ram held a number of senior marketing executive positions for servers and systems software including HP’s Unix system software.

Prior to that Ram held marketing management roles at Digital Equipment Corp. and General Electric.

He holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Madras India, an M.S.E.E. from Northeastern University, Boston Massachusetts, attended M.B.A. program at the University of Rhode Island and executive leadership program at Stanford University.

Title: Developing Rich Internet Applications with JBoss RichFaces

Presenter: Max Katz

Company: Exadel

Abstract: Web 2.0 and rich Internet applications have taken the web development world by storm. JavaServer Faces (JSF) is the standard technology for building enterprise web applications today, while Web 2.0 applications are quickly gaining popularity in the enterprise. Because JSF builds web applications out of reusable UI components, it’s easy to add AJAX functionality to them with JBoss RichFaces UI components. Katz will describe how rich JSF UI components constitute the most powerful components-based approach for developing modern web applications on the market today, allowing developers to efficiently create Rich Enterprise Internet applications.

Bio: Max Katz is a senior systems engineer at Exadel, responsible for technical support, training, and customer care for the Exadel product line. He also conducts online and onsite JavaServer Faces and AJAX trainings. With more than seven years of IT experience, he brings a wide array of skills and experiences from his technical and managerial positions. Katz holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of California, Davis.

Track: Services and Integration
Covers the technologies, standards, and best practices to guide your shift to a service-oriented architecture (SOA)

Title: Introduction into JBoss Drools and the Business Rules Management System (BRMS)

Presenter: Mark Proctor

Company: JBoss

Abstract: If you want to store information, you use a database. If you want to distribute information, you use a web server. If you want to capture business logic, you should be using a business rules engine. Mark Proctor is project lead of the most widely used open rules engine, JBoss Drools. He will start the session with an example-driven introduction to the basics of rules and how they work, leading into a demonstration of the BRMS. The BRMS demo will show how you can author, test, and deploy rules using a number of rule metaphors and how to deal with change requirements.

Bio: Mark Proctor received his bachelor's degree in engineering science and technology and his master's in business and information systems, both from Brunel University, West London. His master's thesis was in the field of genetic algorithms, which is where he first got his interest for anything AI related. Mark became involved in the Drools expert system project at an early stage and soon became its project lead. Mark then joined JBoss (later acquired by Red Hat) as an employee when the Drools project was federated into the JBoss JEMS stack. Having developed a powerful expert system, Mark is now turning his attention to other declarative paradigms in an effort to unify them to allow for richer domain modeling environments.

Title: Introduction to Web Services

Presenter: Thomas Diesler

Company: JBoss

Abstract: In this session, Diesler will explore the JBoss Web Services implementation of JAX-WS, show the new programming model, and highlight the benefits of the new specification. He will discuss implementing Web Services using JAX-WS and EJB3, including XML schema support based on JAXB, leveraging the JAX-WS client programming model, the document-centric message exchange, and one-way and asynchronous invocations.

Bio: Thomas Diesler is the Web Service project lead at JBoss and generally helps setting the technical direction at JBoss as a member of the Technical Board of Directors. JBossWS is a JavaEE5 compliant web service implementation now also offering a general framework for pluggable Web Service stacks into the JBoss Application Server. As a member of the JCP, he helped to define various Web Service specification (e.g JAX-WS).

Title: Advanced Enterprise Server Bus

Presenter: Kevin Conner

Company: JBoss

Abstract: This will be a dynamic session focused on demonstrating the customary capabilities associated with an Enterprise Service Bus for SOA-focused middleware. These capabilities include service hosting, message delivery, endpoint registry, protocol mediation, transformation, orchestration, BPM, declarative routing rules, BPEL, and rules services. Sutter and Conner will also discuss enterprise integration patterns, such as Filter, Content-Based Router, Splitter, Aggregator, Wire Tap, etc. In addition, they will demonstrate a technique that shows a practical application of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) that allows you to extend your existing web application silos to an ESB infrastructure.

Bio: Kevin Conner is the JBoss ESB project lead. He joined JBoss in December 2005 from Arjuna Technologies, where he was the senior engineer responsible for the transaction products. After graduating from Newcastle University, Kevin worked as a kernel programmer with Integrated Micro Products, developing fault tolerant network drivers. IMP was later acquired by Sun Microsystems, where he discovered his interest in Java. He has over twelve years experience with Java, predominately enterprise technologies, which he has used to develop software for technical, financial and local government clients. He is involved with OASIS and the OSGi Alliance, where he keeps track of specifications that impact the ESB project.

Title: Meeting the SOA Data Challenge: Connecting Data Sources to your Enterprise Service Bus

Presenter: Rob Cardwell

Company: Red Hat

Abstract: Many software integration projects today are implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for standards-based software interoperability and flexibility. Organizations have invested in service registries and service buses with the goal of providing governance and manageability for the many services that they plan to implement. However, most software developers continue to spend significant time trying to solve the problem of connecting existing data sources to the XML-based service interfaces that are required for loosely coupling applications and data. The resulting loss of developer productivity in creating data services contributes to the difficulty in cost-justifying initial SOA implementations.

In this session, Cardwell will discuss the data challenges in SOA development and the requirements for addressing those challenges. He will discuss the concept of data services, a primary building block of SOA where data is de-coupled and abstracted between data sources, the service consumer, and where data federation and data integration can take place and be managed appropriately.

Bio: Rob Cardwell, vice president of development at Red Hat, has over 20 years of software development and information management experience, primarily in the healthcare, financial services, and government sectors. He joined Red Hat through the May 2007 acquisition of MetaMatrix, where Rob was CTO from 2002-2007. Prior to MetaMatrix, he was pvice president of R&D for InnaPhase (now ThermoElectron), leading the software development organization and directing product strategy. He was also the CIO of HCIA (now a division of Thomson), which provided outsourced data warehousing and information services for the healthcare industry. Prior to HICA, he also held management and engineering positions for several consulting organizations, including Accenture and IBM. Cardwell graduated from Johns Hopkins University and currently resides in Baltimore, MD.

Title: The "Practical SOA" Approach

Presenter: Max Yankelevich

Company: Vivat

Abstract: In this presentation we will look at some examples of leveraging JBoss product suite in Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture implementations. We will examine real-life case studies to clearly understand the full lifecycle of an Enterprise SOA, as well as what it takes to have the “Practical SOA” approach.

Bio: Max Yankelevich is responsible for Strategic Technology Direction and Business Development at Vivat. Mr.Yankelevich is a seasoned Architect with over 15 years of hands-on experience in large scale, distributed applications, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Integration. Prior to joining Vivat, Mr. Yankelevich provided Architectural guidance to Fortune 500 companies, such as JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, AIG, Deutsche Bank, ADP and Amerada Hess. Mr. Yankelevich holds a BA in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Title: JBoss Migration Services (JBMS)

Presenter: Tray Scates

Company: Unisys

Abstract: If you are thinking about migrating from a legacy proprietary middleware solution to the Open Source based JBoss middleware, or implementing JBoss for a new project and wondering how you can reduce the risk in such a project, this is a must see session. The Presenter will give an overview of the Unisys JBoss Migration toolkit and methodologies, JBoss Migration Knowledgebase, best practices methodologies, and an overview of several recent case studies. We will begin by describing typical J2EE migration issues and a discussion of the value of a standardized JBoss migration methodology. We will describe the JBoss Migration Solution (JBMS) tools, methodologies, migration knowledgebase and best practices. We will review a sample scenario and tasks. Finally we will provide an overview of several case studies – a large state court system, a large health care provider; an internet/IT provider and a Hospitality/Marketing company.

Bio: Tray currently serves as a Senior Solutions Architect in the Open Source Practice of Unisys Corporation. He works with Redhat and other Unisys Partners to provide cost saving solutions to Unisys customers. He has worked for over 20 years with Unisys developing application in both the Financial and Public sectors. He holds a B.S. in Computer Information Science from the University of Florida.

Track: Optimize, Secure & Manage
Covers the technologies and solutions that extend the lifecycle of your applications

Title: Telco Case Study: Developing Interactive Voice Response (IVR) Applications on JBoss Enterprise Middleware

Presenter: Ravi Srinivasan and Hector Gonzalez

Company: Hewlett Packard

Abstract: One of Mexico's largest wireless providers has rolled out their Interactive Voice Response (IVR) services on the JBoss Enterprise Middleware platform. In this presentation, Srinivasan and Gonzalez will outline the design, implementation, and deployment of the system and the lessons learned during the exercise. They will discuss how horizontal scalability and redundancy were achieved with JBoss clustering and by performance tuning the JVM and OS for high throughput. They will also highlight the advantages of the JBoss microkernel approach in building customized software appliances that simplify management and monitoring of the system.

Bio: Ravishankar Srinivasan is a senior software engineer at Hewlett Packard Technology Services. He is a JBoss certified advanced professional who has seven years of experience developing distributed enterprise applications on the J2EE platform. Hector Gonzalez is a solution architect at Hewlett Packard Consulting and Integration in Mexico. He has experience designing, implementing, and tuning complete end-to-end solutions for several large telecommunication providers in Latin America.

Title: Performance Tuning JBoss Enterprise Application Platform on Linux

Presenter: Andy Miller

Company: JBoss

Abstract: In this presentation, Miller will discuss general tuning practices, specific Enterprise Application Platform configurations for all platforms, and a Linux-specific configuration that will yield improved performance for most applications. He will show some specific examples based on an EJB 3 application, illustrate the changes step-by-step, and display the results on performance.

Bio: Andy Miller is vice president of engineering for JBoss. Hemanages JBoss’ expanding number of open source projects, development talent, and enterprise platform products. He brings 22 years of experience and extensive, hands-on technical expertise working with open source and JBoss technologies. Previously, Andy was vice president of technical architecture at Corporate Express, where he led the company to move its information systems to open source, including the strategic decision to make JBoss the platform for mission critical corporate applications.

Title: Optimizing the Enterprise: Using JBoss, Red Hat and Virtualization Technologies Within a SOA.

Presenter: Isaac Christoffersen and Dan Santillo

Company: Booz Allen Hamilton

Abstract: The Booz Allen team has redesigned a federal government client’s document processing system using JBoss Enterprise Middleware, Red Hat Application Platform, and Oracle 10G RAC as the cornerstone technologies. In addition to greatly improving its ability to handle increasing volumes of data, the previous system footprint has been reduced from 55 servers to eight while seamlessly adding new capabilities and reclaiming underutilized processing capacity. In this session, learn how introducing virtualization into the enterprise infrastructure improves your SOA’s scalability and flexibility while also implementing high-availability, fault-tolerance, and load balancing strategies to significantly reduce risk and improve your SOA’s overall performance.

Bio: Isaac Christoffersen has over ten years of experience in system integration and software solutions development for commercial and government clients. Currently he is involved in the design, development, and implementation of mission-critical systems for the U.S. federal government using the latest SOA, JEE, and open source standards and technologies.

Dan Santillo is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience in software development, software and system testing, network and system administration, and system integration. He is currently supporting a federal government client in the design, development, and implementation of a grid-enabled services infrastructure.

Title: RHQ Project: An overview of Technology, Strategy, and Direction

Presenters: Paul Melmon and Greg Hinkle

Company: Hyperic, Red Hat

Abstract: RHQ is a new open source systems management project made public at JBossWorld that is being collaboratively developed by Red Hat and Hyperic. The new project will provide a common set of management services that will be incorporated into future editions of Red Hat products such as JBoss Operations Network and Red Hat Network, as well as Hyperic HQ. In this session, attendees will review the features under development, the product roadmap and the governance of this joint project and its incorporation into future products delivered from Red Hat and Hyperic.

Bio: Paul Melmon is senior vice president of engineering for Hyperic, and is a member of the Advisory Board responsible for the RHQ project. Melmon has more than 20 years of experience in strategic technical and business alignment, growing technology partnerships, product development, and developing mission critical operations for web based activities. Prior to joining Hyperic, Melmon was vice president of corporate and business development at Wily, a provider of application management solutions, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of all technology partnerships and M&A activity. Prior to Wily, Melmon was CIO at Pets.com, and was instrumental in defining and developing the company's technology and operations infrastructure. Melmon also worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures and has held engineering and management positions at Wallop Software, Scopus Technology, Sybase and Hewlett-Packard.

As the lead of the JBoss Operations Network, Greg Hinkle manages the design and development of systems management for Red Hat middleware products. He also leads the development of several open source projects in application monitoring and has been working on middleware systems management projects since 2000. He has a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Title: Continuous Performance Testing

Presenter: Steven Haines

Company: Quest Software

Abstract:A development method that plans for performance is needed to address the large percentage of enterprise applications that are still failing to meet performance expectations. Continuous Performance Testing extends the Extreme Programming methodologies of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration by integrating performance testing into automated Continuous Integration builds. This session will show how you can integrate performance unit tests, performance integration tests, and even performance load tests into your Continuous Integration environment so that they are performed automatically after every developer commit. You can start performance testing earlier, automate it, and resolve problems early when they are manageable.

Bio: Steven Haines is the Java EE domain expert/architect at Quest Software, defining the expert rules used to monitor the performance of Java EE applications and application servers. He is the author of three Java books: Pro Java EE 5 Performance Management and Optimization (Apress, 2006), Java 2 Primer Plus (SAMS, 2002) and Java 2 From Scratch (QUE, 1999) and is in the process of publishing a new e-book tentatively titled Agile Java Development With Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration. In addition to contributing chapters, coauthoring other books, and technical editing countless software publications, he is also the Java Host on InformIT.com, where he has contributed hundreds of articles in a weekly column. Haines is an accomplished educator, having taught all aspects of Java at Learning Tree University and at the University of California, Irvine, and he speaks regularly at industry events.

Title: Grid Computing with JBboss: GridGain Case Study

Presenter: Nikita Ivanov

Company: GridGain

Abstract: In this session, Ivanov will demonstrate how deep integration of the GridGain grid computing platform with JBoss Application Server provides seamless grid enabling to any application or system running on JBoss. The presentation will provide an overview of grid computing, including discussion of the roles of professional open source, Java, and AOP for grid computing adoption. Ivanov will also demonstrate writing a simple application and enabling it to run on a small JBoss grid. Bio: Ivanov has over 15 years of experience in software development and over seven years of experience developing grid computing and distributed middleware. In 1996 he was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server-side middleware development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European system integrators. Ivanov has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up companies and well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa, and BEA Systems. He is an active member of the Java middleware community and is a member of JSR-107: Java Caching API. He holds a master’s degree in electromechanics from Baltic State Technical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Bio: Ivanov has over 15 years of experience in software development and over seven years of experience developing grid computing and distributed middleware. In 1996 he was one of the pioneers in using Java technology for server-side middleware development while working at T-Systems GmbH, one of the largest European system integrators. Ivanov has held various positions architecting and leading software product development for start-up companies and well-established companies such as Adaptec, Visa, and BEA Systems. He is an active member of the Java middleware community and is a member of JSR-107: Java Caching API. He holds a master's degree in electromechanics from Baltic State Technical University in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Track: Executive Insights
Covers the business trends and industry developments that shape the way we think about IT and computing

Title: SOA Platform Introduction

Presenter: Pierre Fricke

Company: JBoss

Abstract: Open source software continues to advance in the enterprise, moving up the stack to solve higher value business problems. With the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, open source has advanced to solve value chain integration and business automation challenges, bringing even greater value to enterprises worldwide. In this session, Fricke will explore how enterprises are using open source to build SOA solutions. He will also take a look at the future of open source SOA and how things might evolve over the next few years.

Bio: As director of product line management for Red Hat’s JBoss SOA products, Pierre is responsible for driving the strategy and enterprise messaging for these Red Hat products. Starting with JBoss Portal and JBoss jBPM in 2005, Pierre led the product strategy and expansion into the integration and SOA markets with the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, which includes JBoss ESB, JBoss jBPM and JBoss Rules. Today these products are the unit volume market leaders or emerging strong challengers to long time incumbents. Pierre’s focus is to expand Red Hat’s market presence in these major middleware categories, bringing the value of open source and community innovation to customers in these markets.

Title: Assessing TCO for Java Middleware Stacks

Presenter: Michael Wenig

Company: Hewlett-Packard

Abstract: Hewlett–Packard has developed a methodology to assess the total cost of ownership (TCO) for open source middleware stacks. The TCO model applies specifically to open source Java stacks and has been used to enable business decision making when comparing open source against commercial alternatives. The model is application driven and considers both direct and indirect costs factors like hardware, software licensing, training, and support. In addition, the model assesses less visible transition costs, like the potential impact on corporate revenue and employee productivity. Wenig will present the methodology and discuss practical experiences from customer environments. The model has been implemented as a tool based on Alienean® technology. That tool includes a web-based user interface and extensive TCO and ROI reporting capabilities. In addition, meaningful defaults are provided to enable iterative analysis while researching customer-specific data. In the current version, the tool allows for TCO comparison among JBoss, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, and SUN ONE Java middleware stacks. Two use case scenarios are supported: new application development and application migration.

Bio: Michael Wenig is leading HP’s open source and Linux services program within HP Consulting. He has 25 years of IT experience, and his current focus is on managing open source within the enterprise. He holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and economics and a master's degree in applied mathematics.

Title: Real World SOA

Presenter: Chris Haddad

Company: Burton Group

Abstract: Services and integration business stakeholders and solution teams are focused at a tactical level, delivering applications that meet today’s business requirements. In contrast, service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiatives often promote long-term strategic gains. How are organizations aligning architecture and solutions teams to deliver practical and pragmatic SOA projects? In this session, Haddad will examine real-world, tactical SOA projects that have increased the organization’s SOA maturity by aligning SOA strategy, infrastructure, architecture, governance, process, and organization through discrete interlocking projects.

Bio: Chris Haddad is vice president and service director of Burton Group's Application Platform Strategies Service. He leads the research team that focuses on infrastructure technologies used to design, develop, and deploy applications and services. His coverage areas include service oriented architecture, model driven development, business process management, open source, and technology adoption strategies. Chris has established software development processes, product direction, and integration strategy for several successful software companies. He was granted committer status on the Apache Axis project in 2002 and served as an adviser on conference editorial boards and chair of special interest groups. He is an author, editor, and contributor on numerous articles, technical publications, presentations, and podcasts, as well as a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including Enterprise Architecture Summit, Networld+Interop, SOA Web Services Edge, IASA ITARC, and SDWest.

Title: JBoss and Accenture: France Tax Department Case Study

Presenter: Jean-Noël Olivier & Laurent Jaubert

Company: Accenture

Abstract: Since 2003, Accenture has been working with the French Tax Office on a new program to simplify and improve the relationship between the agency and the taxpayers. Along with the implementation of the personal tax account system and the TeleIR applications, the challenges were to build an online national database of 40 million taxpayers and to deliver secure access based around a PKI solution with digital signatures for electronic forms. Olivier will describe how the Accenture team ensured maximum performance through modularity and reliability of the JBoss Application Server, as well as operations performance with a JBoss implementation on more than 500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. They successfully turned it into a heterogeneous mission-critical environment, mixing professional open source and closed source software components. Technological risks and time-to-market were minimized through the use of JBoss community-driven professional frameworks, such as Hibernate. JBoss worked hand-in-hand with the Accenture architecture and development team to avoid pitfalls and anticipate any potential issues before going live, leading to the major success of the 2007 income tax return campaign.

Bio: Jean-Noël Olivier is a senior manager within the public service operating group of Accenture France. He specializes in the implementation of technical architectures and security problems and leads the infrastructure consulting group. He intervened on many large scale projects for the French administration. Within the framework of the modernization program and recasting of the tax authority's Information System (Copernic Program), he leads the implementation of the new secured online tax payment and consultation system.

Title: Don't Forget about the "People Costs"

Presenter: Francis Poutcha

Company: Adorsys

Abstract: Choice of Enterprise Middleware often focuses around criteria such as licensing costs, technical coverage of long lists of specified functionalities, and vendor viability. While these criteria may have been suitable in the past, the experience of many enterprise architects leading J2EE projects over the past few years suggest that they are not enough.

What’s missing? People costs. “People costs” include a wide range of factors that promote—or prevent—IT staff productivity : availability of information around the application server platform or development environment, simplicity of the middleware platform, accessibility to the software, and quality of technical support, among others. These factors should gain more weight in the strategic selection process because they impact total cost of ownership as much as, and in some cases more than, license and ongoing support costs.

Francis Pouatcha and his team led a five-year project to implement JBoss Enterprise Middleware into the main infrastructure of a leading German bank’s commercial credit service. This presentation examines in depth the associated costs of this project and how these costs should be considered in any similar project where manpower is involved during the technology’s conception, development, implementation, and ongoing use. “People costs” for BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and JBoss Enterprise Middleware are examined, as a result of the experience gained in a real-world customer environment.

Bio: Francis Pouatcha, technical lead at Adorsys, is a distinguished enterprise architect with nine years of experience developing and implementing mission-critical projects in global 500 enterprises. He recently led a team of Java consultants on a five-year project to deploy and maintain a comprehensive middleware solution in a leading German bank’s credit system.

Title: JBoss Innovation Award Winner Panel

Presenter: Speakers To Be Announced.

Company: Multiple Companies.

Abstract: Learn how companies are using JBoss technologies in innovative ways. This panel will be made up of the eight category winners of the 2008 JBoss Innovation Awards. Learn more about their innovative deployments before you vote for the overall Innovator of the Year. This panel will be moderated by Chris Haddad of Burton Group.

Bio: TBA