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Apple has opened registration for WWDC 2003 with new content focusing on the QuickTime and Enterprise market. Register today and get the early bird discount at http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ WWDC 2003 Join developers from around the world to explore first-hand the next generation of technology innovations from Apple at Worldwide Developers Conference 2003, May 19-23 in San Jose, California. Whether you're a longtime Mac programmer or recent platform Switcher, an IT manager or commercial developer, content creator, Open Source coder, web manager, systems administrator or in-house developer, WWDC 2003 offers an expanded agenda that will help you make the most out of Apple's innovative technologies and the robust and flexible Mac OS X platform. WWDC is your unique opportunity to meet fellow developers and benefit from the rapidly-growing Mac OS X community, to network and learn the things you can only learn talking face-to-face with your peers and Apple's technical architects and engineers. Draft Track Descriptions Enterprise IT With more than 5 million active Mac OS X users, Apple has become the leading provider of UNIX-based systems in the world. With extensive support for industry standards like Java 2, Apache, LDAPv3, PHP, MySQL, and WebDAV, and support for multiple networking and security standards like IPv6, IPSec, SSL and SSH2, Mac OS X has captured the attention of IT organizations wanting to develop and deploy open source and standards-based solutions in heterogeneous environments. Apple's server and storage products have extended Apple's tradition of delivering cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions from the desktop to the datacenter in enterprises, school systems, and small businesses. Sessions in this track will help IT managers leverage Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server technologies to deploy and manage Apple servers and desktops in an existing infrastructure. Administrators will learn to serve and manage high-traffic websites using the standards-based web services technologies built into Mac OS X Server and included with Xserve, Apple's 1U rack-mount server. In-house developers will learn about popular database development tools for building applications that leverage leading database technologies, including Oracle and Sybase, and discover how to exploit Cocoa and AppleScript to quickly build interfaces or develop automated workflow tools for in-house applications. This track will also include an extensive array of sessions on Java and WebObjects. Apple Developer Tools Whether you develop using Carbon, Cocoa, Java, WebObjects, or one of the BSD kernel-level toolkits, Apple's Mac OS X Developer Tools help you create applications that take advantage of Mac OS X's latest features. The Mac OS X Developer Tools suite includes the Project Builder IDE, Interface Builder for designing Aqua graphical interfaces, innovative AppleScript Studio, and a robust set of performance analysis and optimization tools, all combined with a foundation set of industry-standard gcc compilers, gdb debugger, source code editors, scripting and shell tools. Sessions in this track will introduce the newest features of the Apple tools and teach developers how to exploit this rich toolset to create compelling Mac OS X products. Mac OS X Developer Tools are distributed with every copy of Mac OS X and available as a free download from the Apple Developer Connection website. QuickTime - Develop, Produce, Deliver Over 250 million users can't be wrong. Come find out how you can leverage the power of QuickTime and MPEG-4 for your rich media needs. For the application developer, QuickTime offers the most robust media architecture on both Mac OS X and Windows. You provide the inspiration, and QuickTime becomes the engine for all your application's media needs. NEW this year, the QuickTime track now features sessions specifically tailored to the content producer. Learn how to leverage the quality, scalability and interoperability of QuickTime to create and deliver compelling media experiences. Topics include encoding best practices, the benefits of MPEG-4 and standards, how to stream content in real time, professional content creation, and much more. Application Frameworks Mac OS X provides two powerful application frameworks for development, allowing developers to make the most of the platform's capabilities. Cocoa, Apple's object-oriented framework for creating full-featured Mac OS X applications, provides powerful objects and functions that support rapid development and high developer productivity. The Carbon framework provides an extremely rich set of procedural APIs, giving developers maximum flexibility and access to the built-in functionality of Mac OS X. Session content for this track covers Carbon and Cocoa in depth, as well as Music and Audio; Internet aervices, like WebKit and Sherlock Channels; and User Experience related topics such as how to design for Aqua, leveraging the Address Book Framework, using Apple Help, providing Accessibility, incorporating AppleScript, and more. Core OS At the heart of Mac OS X lies a strong and secure, yet flexible, foundation with features like preemptive multitasking, protected memory and real-time support. The stability and proud UNIX heritage of Mac OS X is reflected here in the core, providing developers who need to access the low-level services of Mac OS X - to write kernel extensions, manage security functions, or work with BSD commands - the power to create truly great applications. Sessions in this track cover Darwin, the open-source foundation of Mac OS X, as well as security and networking technologies like Rendezvous, which enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks. Hardware Apple continues to lead the industry in hardware design innovation, integration, and ease of use. Mac OS X has integrated support for technologies including AirPort, Bluetooth, FireWire, USB, and Ethernet, as well as Velocity Engine, multiprocessing, Quartz Extreme, Rendezvous, and IPv6. Sessions in this track cover the latest in Apple hardware technology and Mac OS X hardware support, including I/O Kit, the device driver subsystem of Mac OS X. Developers will learn how to get the most out of Apple hardware, optimizing for performance and maximizing integration. Graphics and Imaging The powerful graphics technologies in Mac OS X play a critical role in the success of all applications on the platform - empowering developers to deliver 2D and 3D graphics seamlessly composited with anti-aliasing and transparency. Sessions in this track will help you tap the power and capabilities of the Mac OS X graphics technology stack in your applications. The track covers the latest updates to Apple's graphics and imaging technologies, including Quartz Extreme, Mac OS X's compositing windowing system; Quartz 2D, Mac OS X's PDF-based imaging model; OpenGL; ColorSync; Image Capture, a framework for handling scanners and digital cameras; and printing. 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