Intranet Application Development for the Enterprise

by Peter Fischer

Minneapolis - September 10-12, 1997
Washington, DC - October 20-22, 1997
Dallas - December 2-4, 1997

What's Happening

The intranet concept is driven by organizations that want to exploit inexpensive web technology (web browsers and web servers) for in-house applications. Initially, internal web use focuses on corporate information dissemination applications such as on-line documents, company newsletters, or near-time financial information. By leveraging the application development capabilities of the new Internet tools and technology, the intranet also means a new dynamic client/server application development platform for corporate applications.

The intranet offers many advantages over tradition, client/server application development platforms including truly open standards ease-of-use, simplicity, and lower costs. Web technology uses open standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, CGI and Java, and thus does not lock organizations into proprietary technology with limitations and significant cost. Heterogeneous database connectivity is available as well using open API standards such as JDBC. Moreover, Web technology is naturally multi-platform.

About This Seminar

It’s no secret that many corporations are now using the Web as a valuable corporate resource. There is , however, a concurrent rise of internal web sites, servers, and applications that exist behind the corporate firewalls. These private web sites are known as "intranets," and are quickly becoming the largest growth area for client/server applications development. This seminar will show you how the best of the emerging Internet technology also works well for corporate application development. You will learn the basic concepts behind the intranet movement, intranet enabling technologies such as CGI, NSAPI, ISAPI, ActiveX and Java, as well as available intranet development tools that you buy today and in the near future. This course is indispensable for anyone seeking to exploit the emerging intranet development technologies for a strategic corporate client/server application development.

What You Will Learn

• How to use the intranet as a new application development platform
• How to leverage the architecture of the intranet for the enterprise
• Details of enabling technologies such as HTML, CGI, NSAPI, ISAPI, ActiveX, and Java, that make intranet application development possible.
• How to use 2-tier, 3-tier, 4-tier, and n-tier client/server architectures for the intranet
• How to map enabling technologies to intranet architectures
• How intranet development tools and vendors, could be the right fit for your intranet strategy
• How to turn your existing corporate databases into Web-aware databases ready for the intranet
• How to evaluate, test, and select intranet development tools that are right for your organization
• The future of the intranet development platform, and how it’s becoming a part of the overall information technology strategy for most of the Fortune 100 companies

Who Should Attend

This seminar is indispensable for:

• Web Literate IS Professionals who are looking to expand their client/server development efforts to the intranet.
• Technically-Oriented IS Manager will find that this course provides the technical detail they need to look at how the intranet fits into the corporate application development strategy.
• Developers will find that this course provides a detailed look at the enabling technologies, architectures, and available intranet development tools.
• Web-Masters will find that this course expands on their We maintenance skill, providing a detailed understanding of how to deploy client/server applications to internal Web sites.
• Attendees should have a basic working knowledge of Web technology, and a desire to move quickly into the technical capabilities of intranet technology.

What Makes This Seminar Unique

Unlike "overview" seminars, this session will go to the level of detail required for IS professionals to understand this technology, and use the information to make strategic decisions. Numerous in-class examples will guide the student to a complete understanding of the Intranet. You will leave the course with a practical, not theoretical, understanding of the Intranet and Internet development technology. Actual tool demonstrations will illustrate the principles discussed in class.

Seminar Outline

1. Introduction to the Intranet
2. Rise of the Intranet
   1. Hype vs. Reality
   2. State of the Technology
3. Intranet Application Types
   1. "Informational"
   2. Database
   3. Real-time, near-time & calibration applications
   4. Remote access applications
4. Intranet as a Platform
   1. Issues with existing client/server development technology
   2. Web browsers: The common application Interface
   3. Application development and the intranet
      1. Heterogeneous client support
      2. Standard client/server interface, infrastructure and middleware solutions
      3. Solving the support dilemma
   4. Downsides in performance and stability
5. Intranet-Based Collaboration Software
6. Architectures of the Intranet
   1. Web Client and Web Server
   2. Database Server
   3. Application Server
   4. Intranet architecture
7. Middleware and Intranet Development
8. Enabling Technologies
   1. HTTP, HTML & CGI
   2. NSAPI, ISAPI
   3. Java & ActiveX
   4. Distributed objects & emerging technologies (IIOP)
9. HTTP
   1. How TCP/IP works
   2. How HTTP works
   3. HTTP character sets
   4. HTTP as a common middleware solution
10. HTML
    1. History of HTML
    2. SGML
    3. Netscape extensions
    4. Microsoft extensions
    5. HTML authoring demo
11. CGI and FastCGI
    1. Understanding the CGI specification
       1. Extending HTTP
       2. Environment variables
       3. CGI command line
       4. Data input/data output
    2. CGI programming languages
    3. Database access
       1. Composing an interface
       2. Database gateways
       3. Database API's
    4. CGI development tools
    5. Future of CGI
    6. CGI Demo
12. API's
    1. NSAPI
    2. ISAPI
    3. Capabilities, performance, openness
13. Java
    1. Hot Java architecture, applets, programming Java, Java tools, Java virtual machine, JDBC
    2. Java API's
    3. Java Demo
14. ActiveX
    1. ActiveX architecture
    2. The Active Platform
    3. Component object model
    4. Distribute Component Object Model
    5. Programming ActiveX
    6. ActiveX tools
    7. ActiveX Demo
15. Mapping Enabling Technology to an Architecture
    1. 2,3,4 and n-tier
    2. Using what works
    3. Case Studies
16. Understanding Intranet Development Tools
    1. First through Fourth Generation
    2. Moving from traditional client/server development
17. Web Aware Databases
18. How Intranet tools work
19. Tool Demos
20. Case Study and Review
21. Selecting Intranet Development Tools
    1. Selecting enabling technology
    2. Selecting the development tool
    3. Pilot testing
22. The Future of the Intranet Development Platform

About Your Instructor

Peter Fischer is a Senior Consultant at International Systems Group, a consulting and research firm that specializes in the architecture, design and development of complex distributed applications. With over 10 years experience in developing distributed systems, he is a recognized authority on implementing distributed object systems using DCOM and CORBA technologies.

Meeting Site and Hotel Information

Minneapolis, September 10-12, 1997
Marriott City Center
(612) 349-4000

Washington, DC, October 20-22, 1997
Crystal City Marriott
(703) 413-5500

Dallas, December 2-4, 1997
Arlington Hilton
(817) 640-3322

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