Everyone in the JUG is invited to attend the WUG meeting this coming Tuesday, free of charge, no RSVP needed. The speaker is a top IBM technical lead working on IBM's development of the most strategic new areas - autonomic technologies, grids, and web services - so I think there are plenty of reasons to think this will likely be one of the best technical talks you will find.
Hope to see you there.
Regards,
Don
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RTP WUG July 29 - Emerging Technologies Toolkit: Autonomic Technologies, Grids, and Web Services
Tues, July 29, 2003
IBM Building #500 Cafeteria Research Triangle Park, NC
600 - 630 Gathering and Informal networking 630 - 830 Main Presentation
There will be light food and drinks at 6:00, sponsored by Candle Corporation.
Speaker
Doug Davis, IBM
IBM's Emerging Technologies Toolkit provides an environment in which to run emerging technology examples that showcase recently announced specifications and prototypes from IBM's emerging technology development and research teams. In addition, it provides introductory material to help developers easily get started with development of autonomic technologies, Web services, and grids. The ETTK evolved from the package known as the Web Services Toolkit (WSTK).
You can access it online at http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ettk
Our speaker, Doug Davis, is Technical Lead of the Emerging Technologies Toolkit at IBM.
His talk will concentrate on the newer elements of the Toolkit. He can also discuss other elements as time permits.
Doug is one of only 16 active committers to the Apache AXIS Web Services project (see http://ws.apache.org/axis/who.html )
He has been one of IBM's representatives in the W3C XML Protocol working group. Previous projects include WebSphere's Machine Translation project, TeamConnection, and IBM's FORTRAN 90 compiler. Doug has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Davis and a Master's degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University.
The following two papers by Doug provide one of the best introductions you will find to Axis (which is the Web Services implementation of the Apache project, used also by IBM).
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-devettk/
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-devettk2.html
He is also a contributing author of the book "Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672321815/coloradosoftwa0f/002-9589159-4570468
See the directions below and map at http://www.rtpwug.org/download/RTPsitemap.pdf
The meeting is FREE to all - no RSVP is needed.
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. Go through gate, follow the road around past the first Tivoli Building, looking for signs leading to Building 500 or "Software Group." Our IBM host, if he asks, is Greg Ackerman.
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.
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.
Be careful not to go too far (the second Tivoli building is too far) or you will find yourself on a one-way exit ramp and have to drive back around.
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