ETTK (Emerging Technologies ToolKit) Community

The Emerging Technologies Toolkit (ETTK) is a collection of technologies from IBM's software development and research labs relevant to IBM's emerging software strategy. An "ETTK package" showcases emerging technology areas with potential to create innovative business solutions for our industry. These packages provide tools, example code, documentation and executable demos so technologists can learn about and contribute to these technologies. This ETTK Community shares information and experiences using these ETTK technologies.

*Join the community* and help evolve the most promising emerging software technology. Contribute ideas, experiences and offer help to fellow developers and IBM researchers.

Want to have easy access to all the ETTK has to offer? Then consider downloading the Emerging Technologies Explorerto give your Eclipse-based IDE everything it needs to explore ETTK-related documentation, on-line and locally-installed demos, tools, and community resources like wikis and blogs. The Explorer will also help install integrated ETTK Eclipse-based technologies.

ETTK Technology Community Areas

The following topic areas are currently part of the ETTK. Click on the technology title for its wiki page. To download a technology, click on "aW site" to go to that technology's alphaWorks page. For a complete list of technologies that are part of the ETTK, please visit our IBM alphaWorks ETTK Portal.

Eclipse
Emerging Technologies Explorer (aW site)
Security Workbench Development Environment for Java (aW site)
Visual XForms Designer (aW site)

Graphical User Interfaces
Rule-based Accessibility Validation Environment (aW site)
Reflexive User Interface Builder (aW site)
Visual XForms Designer (aW site)

Network Interaction
BeepLite Networking Layer (aW site, Links & Reviews)
Fluid Sync (aW site)
Reliable Asynchronous Message Profile (RAMP) Toolkit (aW site)

RFID (RFID Links & Reviews)
Application Level Events (ALE) Preview for RFID (aW site)

Web services
Ad Hoc Development and Integration (aW site, Card Repository )
ETTK for Web Services (aW site)
Reliable Asynchronous Message Profile (RAMP) Toolkit (aW site)
Semantic Tools for Web Services (aW site, Links & Reviews, FAQ, Samples )
WSDM Browser for CIM and OSGi (aW site)

XML Technologies
Compound XML Document Editor (aW site, Links & Reviews)
Virtual XML Garden (aW site)
XML Enhancements for Java (aW site, Links & Reviews, FAQ)
XML Forms Generator (aW site)

Got an idea for a new technology or an enhancement to an existing technology that you'd like to see? Please enter it on our Proposals page. Have a creative solution or new way of using an ETTK technology? Please consider contributing to our FAQ section.

IBM alphaWorks ETTK Portal

ETTK Blog

ETTK Technology Forums

Here are the latest entries on the ETTK Blog.

Emerging Technologies You Need to Know (rss_2.0) (Emerging Technologies You Need to Know)
Inside jStart: Turning Ideas into Products Our IBM jStart Emerging team celebrates it's 15th anniversary this year.  Our team has worked on a variety of technologies though the years.   We first started working on Java in the late 90's and then progressed to XML to (SOAP) Web Services to Web 2.0/Mashups to Big Data/Unstructured text analytics.   One common theme to our team's work is provide solutions to our customers to address "real world" business problems.    I like to call our team's work "applied innovation".   Our team's mission is to take technologies and apply them in a unique way to address customer needs.  Here's an article that describes our team's mission and how we execute on that mission     John Feller  Manager, IBM jStart Emerging Technologies
May 9, 2012 10:13 AM Here's a video of Rod Smith, VP IBM Emerging Technologies, discussing Social Data analytics.   He describes the difference between Discovery and Predictive analytics.   In the future, we'll see more big data analytics applications being developed that are tailored to "Line of Business users" rather than the back-office IT departments.   The Line of Business users don't want to know about the underlying data structures.  They just want a way to access the big data sets which can provide valuable information about his or her business.    John Feller Manager, IBM jStart Emerging Technologies Development   John Feller IBM jStart Emerging Technologies Development