Learn how innovative companies are building and deploying Internet applications for strategic advantage. The Internet has changed the application development computing model in a positive and fundamental way. Innovations in tools and technologies are moving at an incredible pace. With new products arriving on the market every day you must understand which components are the keys to your organization’s Internet application development success. Support for interactive intelligent browser-based clients, efficient relational database access, Java, ActiveX and alternatives, Internet development model criteria, Internet access and enabling tools/technologies are just a few of the issues explored. This track addresses these issues by reviewing the three Ts for successfully developing in this environment: tools, technology and best of breed techniques.
Steve Rabin, Chief Technologist
American Software
Tuesday, 1:30-2:45 p.m.
Building Internet solutions while enabling existing applications to share/access the Internet is changing the application development computing model in a positive and fundamental way. The opportunities presented by the Internet must be carefully considered before this new distributed computing model is deployed. Efficient relational database access, browser and non-browser based alternatives, Java/ActiveX components, push pull architectures and the evolving Intranet development model are the issues this session explores. Key infrastructure and performance issues are also discussed with an emphasis on the secrets that successful Internet adopters have utilized. Finally, with new tools and technologies arriving on the market every day, this session looks at which facilities and components are the keys to an organization’s Internet application and deployment development success.
Kim Wesselman, Director of Web Marketing
Informix Software
Tuesday, 3:00 p.m.
Intranets utilizing database technology can boost corporate revenues by offering the most cost-effective way of delivering company information, as well as significantly increasing organizational efficiency. The Web has changed everything, and existing flat-file databases may be insufficient to meet the new demands of this dynamic Internet-driven environment. Ms. Wesselman explores the challenges imposed by corporate intranets, and presents case studies illustrating how major corporations have successfully deployed innovative solutions to empower their organizations.
Chuck Harper, Managing Director
Info Architects, Inc.
Wednesday, 8:30 a.m.
Jeff Simmon, Director, Internet
Products Division
Powersoft Corporation
Wednesday, 9:30 a.m.
Steve Miller
Internet Marketing Consultant
Wednesday, 2:00 p.m.
Mr. Miller discusses emerging standards for 3D virtual world creation on the Internet and private TCP/IP networks. He provides an overview of leading application types for virtual worlds. The production process, technology requirements and value derived from creating a virtual world as an addition to traditional 2D Web sites are defined.
Gerry Fish, Senior Technical Sales
Representative
Forté Software
Thursday, 8:30 a.m.
Building Internet/web client/server systems to access your core business systems presents developers with a number of challenges. The speaker compares different application models used by Internet application developers today and presents a best-in-class solution for leveraging the many benefits of Internet/web clients by tying them directly into your business systems infrastructure.
Ken North, Consultant and Software Developer
Resource Group, Inc.
Thursday, 1:30 p.m.
Developers can write Java programs that are applets invoked by a Web browser or applications executed directly by the operating system. Although Java programmers can access SQL databases by using proprietary interfaces this session focuses on Java programs that use multi-database APIs (ODBC and JDBC). The speaker explains ODBC and JDBC concepts and Java classes that provide objects to simplify SQL database programming. He also explains SQL query creation and results processing.
Yogesh Gupta, Senior Vice President, Product
Strategy
Computer Associates International, Inc.
Thursday, 2:30 p.m.
The Internet is creating new opportunities for organizations in a number of different areas ranging from marketing and customer service to business-to-business and consumer transactions. The requirements that this places on the applications and the database that supports it are different from the traditional client/server computing in many ways. This session covers the various DBMS requirements and the possible alternatives for Internet computing.