Go Graphical With Your Applications

Thursday 20th June 2002
Village Hotel and Leisure Club, Old Vicarage Lane, South Marston, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN3 4SH
AGENDA

09:30  Registration & Coffee

09:55  Welcome and COMMON-UK  News
Stephen Way,Johnson Matthey (Precious Metals) Plc
Director of
Common UK

10:00  iSeries V5R2 update
Nigel Adams, IBM UK
This session will cover the recent V5R2 announcements

10:35 LivDesigning interactive web applications
Nick Hampson, looksoftware.com
Many iSeries developers leap into web development using green-screens and intuition as a guide. However, there is much more to successful Web application design than  just gut feel. Nick Hampson will cover how to approach the design process, and what to avoid, on the route to designing a successful web-based application.

11:20 Coffee

11:35 A guide to webserving on the iSeries
Bruce Wassell (IBM UK)
In this session, Bruce will cover the various HTTP servers and Applicatiuons Servers available on the iSeries - Classic, Apache, TomCat and WebSphere – which to select, how they fit together, when to use them, and basic set up procedures for each

12:15 Using WebFacing
Libby Coleman (IBM UK)
In V5R1, IBM announced WebFacing – a tool that will take existing DDS and produce Java servlets to create interactive Web Applications. In this presentation, Libby Coleman will cover the feature in detail, and describe how it works, and how to get started.

13:00 Lunch

13:45 Using net.data
Martin Holmes  (Morpheus)
In addition to discussing Net.Data fundamentals, Martin will also cover simple servlets and JSP's., to help understand how these technologies fit together. This presentation will show how Net.Data is great for starting out, particularly on lower end machines or a limited budget., and will then go on to show how to scale from there.

14:30 Visual RPG tools (Freestyle-400)
Richard Harrison (E-400)
There are a number of RPG type tools and add-ons in the market to enable the simple writing of HTML enabled RPG. In this session, Richard Harrison will cover how to develop Web based applications using Freestyle-400, and discuss this method of application development

15:15 Software Development Tools
Patrick Cluyts (LANSA Ltd)
LANSA, the leading software application development environment, has had the capability to develop web-enabled applications built into it. Patrick Cluyts, LANSA Ltd, Director of Business Development, EMEA, will look at how this approach can be used for simple and rapid deployment of web-based applications

16:00 Close & tea