Modern application development featuring Web 2.0 for System z

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Explore the innovations provided by IBM® Rational® Enterprise Modernization software development tools, their broad range of functionality and their use throughout the entire software development process.

Audience

IT managers, practitioners

Objectives

• Understand the breadth and depth of Rational Enterprise Modernization software development tools, how well they're integrated, and how easy they are to use.
  
  
• Get an overview of Web 2.0 in terms of economic, community, and technology issues for your company.
  
  
• Participate in hands-on exercises to experience various development steps in the application lifecycle and to create and integrate Web 2.0 applications with Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).
  

Duration

Full day

Description

Today companies are facing demands for new products and services, including global support for out sourced operations, integration with business partner and customer applications. Competitive factors are often driving new requirements. Frequently an IT organization’s ability to rapidly respond to the business is severely limited by the architecture and years of evolution of existing systems.

To adopt an effective application modernization approach you must first overcome the following challenges in your IT organization:

• Build the IT delivery solutions needed to create and integrate existing applications with Web 2.0 interfaces
• Enable existing and new IT staff to leverage modern architectures and technologies
• Enhance team collaboration and productivity
• Free up maintenance budgets for new development

Modern software development tools can help you unlock your complex core applications and enable your development team to discover, identify, and categorize key assets and business logic functionality for reuse in creating new services and applications. As you examine these approaches, you should also consider the social and business impact of Web 2.0 and rich user interface implementations on your application development process.

Demos

See demos and participate in hands-on exercises using the following software tools:

• Rational Asset Manager
• Rational Asset Analyzer
• Rational Business Developer
• Rational Host Access Transformation Services
• Rational ClearCase for System z
• Rational ClearQuest for System z
• Rational Developer for System z for SOA construction with EGL
• Rational EGL rich UI technology preview
• IBM CICS including Web services and service flow modeler
• IBM Enterprise COBOL
• IBM problem determination tools

Not all products are demonstrated.

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Resources

• IBM provides WebSphere software on System z for enterprises who need superior quality of service, reliability, scalability, and flexibility in their SOA and non-SOA environments.
  
  
• Learn how Rational Business Developer helps build applications in EGL, IBM's newest business language.
  
  
• Find resources for Web 2.0, Ajax, wikis, PHP, mashups, and other Web projects on developerWorks.
  
  
• Find resources that are related to the Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) technology.
  
  
• Browse the technology bookstore for books on these and other technical topics.
  
  

• The SOA Sandbox is an excellent resource for education on SOA and real-world experience using IBM SOA software.
  
  
• Download IBM product evaluation versions and get your hands on application development tools and middleware products from DB2®, Lotus®, Rational®, Tivoli®, and WebSphere®.

• Check out developerWorks blogs and get involved in the developerWorks community.