[lug] PDS Announcement: 11/4/00 Enterprise Apps & Middleware

[Michael Deck]

The Boulder Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is 
proud to announce the next in its long series of Professional Development
Seminars. 

  A Practical Look at Enterprise Applications and Middleware
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  November 4, 2000 (Saturday) 
  8:30am - 4:30pm 
  Raintree Plaza Conference Center, Longmont
  Ron Schweikert, BEA Systems

  Cost: $95/person with substantial discounts for registration before 10/20
        includes lunch 

  Complete brochure and on-line registration instructions at 

     http://www.acm-boulder.org/acm_pds.html

OVERVIEW

An Enterprise Application is one that involves substantial data and 
transactions across a broad base of hardware platforms and services. 
These applications are often large, distributed, and usually depend 
upon discrete data, processing and presentation facilities. 

Portability, scalability, extensibility and interoperability are 
fundamental to the long-term success of any application. No single 
vendor can provide "best of breed" implementations for the broad range 
of development and deployment needs of most businesses, so many 
applications employ hardware and software packages from multiple vendors.
Middleware denotes the enabling technologies used for integrating 
heterogeneous programming languages, platforms and applications.

This seminar will provide you with an understanding of some of the 
middleware technologies that are available for enterprise applications. 
Key competing technologies will be compared and we will see how 
technology choices affect system development. 

We will give an example of using the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) 
environment, allowing seminar participants to take away practical 
knowledge of this leading technology. 

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This course is intended for analysts (business analysts, requirements 
analysts, systems analysts), systems engineers, software developers, 
marketing personnel, requirements writers, and project managers. 
Knowledge of Java is not essential.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS NOTICE TO YOUR COLLEAGUES. 


Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.