Php xml tutorial

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* Cabana Night Developer Exchange

* Application Server Shootout facilitated by Burton Group

* Hands On VS and .NET Labs

* Software Giveaway

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February 15-17, 2005

John B. Hynes Convention Center

Boston, MA

The Largest i-Technology Event of the Year!

Who Should Attend

* Software Developers

* Software Engineers

* Application Developers

* Development Managers

* Technical Directors

* Analysts/Programmers

* IT Managers

* CEOs

* CTOs

* CIOs

* Technical Architects

* Team Leaders

* Software Consultants

* IT Directors

* Project Managers

Features & Attractions

* 3 Days Packed with Education and Training

* Keynotes & Panel Discussions from Industry Leaders

* 50+ Hard-hitting and Informative Seminars

* FREE Web Services Tutorial Presented by Novell

* FREE .NET Tutorial Presented by Microsoft

* FREE Web Services Security Tutorial Presented by Critical Sites

* Cabana Night Developer Exchange Presented by INETA

* Panel Discussions Presented by JCP

* Opening Night Welcome Reception

* Compelling Case Studies & Best Practices

* Hands-On Labs Featuring .NET and Visual Studio Presented by Microsoft Partners

* Featured Product Demonstrations

* Exhibit Floor featuring hundreds of products

* Real-time SYS-CON Radio Interviews

Keynote Speakers

Tuesday, February 15, 11 a.m.

Matt Ackley

SENIOR DIRECTOR, EBAY DEVELOPERS PROGRAM

Web Services for eCommerce

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications. Four years ago, eBay began allowing third parties to build applications that tap into eBay, and today eBay hosts one of the leading Web services platforms. Through its developer program, eBay enables third parties to create cutting-edge Web services applications that benefit the buyers and sellers on eBay. At present, 40% of eBay's listings come through its API, which handles more than a billion Web services calls a month. Ackley will discuss the rewards and challenges of building and maintaining one of the world's leading Web services platforms, and share insights and practical guidelines for others.

Matt Ackley is senior director of the eBay Developers Program. He supports eBay's vision to be the leading platform for global online commerce, and is chartered with creating a thriving ecosystem between eBay, its community of users, and third-party developers and solution providers. Ackley joined eBay in 2003 as part of eBay's acquisition of FairMarket, which provided technology solutions and services to online marketplaces.

Wednesday, February 16, 11 a.m.

Ari Bixhorn

DIRECTOR, WEB SERVICES STRATEGIES, MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Introducing Indigo: The Unified Programming Model for Building Service-Oriented Applications

Indigo is Microsoft's unified programming model for building service-oriented applications on the Windows platform. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. Indigo combines and extends the capabilities of existing distributed application technologies, including .NET Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, Remoting, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience spanning distance, topologies, hosting models, protocols, and security models. This keynote will provide an inside look at Indigo and show you how Indigo will radically simplify the development of distributed, service-oriented applications.

Ari Bixhorn is the director of Web Services Strategy in the Developer and Platform Division at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for product planning and technical evangelism for Microsoft's Web services offerings, including "Indigo," the code name for a component of the next version of the Windows operating system, code-named Windows "Longhorn." Bixhorn has spent the past five years at Microsoft, driving product management efforts for the Visual Basic and Visual Studio development systems.

Thursday, February 17, 11 a.m.

Mike Milinkovich

ECLIPSE.ORG

An Open Development Platform for Web Services

Open source technology runs the Internet. Linux, Apache, PHP and Eclipse are highly successful open source communities that provide the backbone for today's Web applications. All indications point to a continued value proposition for organizations for leveraging open source when developing and deploying SOA-based applications. This keynote will examine the benefits of using open source technologies, the decision-making process used when adopting these solutions and the potential for contributing back to the open source community.

Mike Milinkovich has held key management positions at Oracle, WebGain, The Object People, and Object Technology International Inc. (which subsequently became a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM), assuming responsibility for development, product management, marketing, strategic planning, finance, and business development. Mike earned his MS degree in information and systems sciences and a bachelor of commerce degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

JAVA TRACK

J-1 What's New In JDO 2.0

PATRICK LINSKEY, SOLARMETRIC

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 9:00 A.M.-9:50 A.M.

In this presentation, SolarMetric's CTO Patrick Linskey introduces JDO, the standards-based object persistence specification, and the new changes introduced with the release of JDO 2. Developers using JDO are seeing increased application portability, reduced development cycle time, improved code quality, higher performance, and more manageable scalability. The session will highlight the problems of persisting data to a database and the basics of JDO. Patrick will focus on what's new with JDO 2, including the improvements and alternatives to the JDO Query Language, detached database operations, and the new metadata for object / relational mapping.

BIO: Patrick Linskey has been working with Java Data Objects for over 3 years and has been involved in object/relational mapping for 5+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drives the technical direction of the company. Patrick is a luminary on JDOcentral, a consortium committed to marketing the JDO standard. He has been one of the leaders on the JDO specification team, currently helping to drive the JDO 2.0 specification.

J-2 Using Java Messaging in Real-Time Trading Systems

YAKOV FAIN, SMART DATA PROCESSING, INC.

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:00 A.M.-10:50 A.M.

Any modern financial trading system is a complex distributed application that runs on multiple platforms and consists of components and services that have to communicate with each other. This presentation is about using JMS and Message-Oriented Middleware as a backbone that provides a fast and reliable delivery mechanism between various components and tiers of such systems. This presentation is based on my real-world experience in design, development, and production support of an application that had to wire together midrange computers with J2EE and LDAP servers, non-Java stock exchange software, and mainframe legacy reporting systems.

BIO: Yakov Fain works as a Java architect for a major bank in New York City. He is a member of the editorial board of JDJ. Yakov has 23 years of experience working in software development.

J-3 The ROI of a Java-Rich Client

COACH WEI, NEXAWEB TECHNOLOGIES

Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:00 P.M.-4:50 P.M.

Rich client, thick client, thin client--what are they? What are the benefits of rich client, in particular Java Rich Client? This session presents an overview of the various client technologies, in particular various Java-based rich-client solutions, including Swing/AWT, SWT, and XML. Further, it analyzes the tradeoff between these different Java-rich client technologies, and presents real-world case studies to justify the ROI of Java-Rich Client solutions.

BIO: Coach Wei is founder and CTO of Nexaweb Technologies (www.nexaweb.com), which develops the leading software platform for building and deploying Enterprise Internet Applications. Coach has his master's degree from MIT, holds several patents, is the author of many technology publications, and is an industry advocate for the proliferation of open standards.

J-4 Web Services End-to-End Security on J2EE: Gaps and Proposed Solutions

SUDHIR BHOJWANI, SUSHIL SHUKLA, & SUDHRITY MONDAL, BEA

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:00 A.M.-9:50 A.M.