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All this new technology is great, but who can afford to leave their existing code and database, and completely re-implement it with the latest tools and techniques? That is why IBM continues to provide product enhancements and tool integration to extend and re-energize existing information assets for the networked environment. Whether data exists in VSAM files, relational databases, or hierarchical database, and whether business logic is in COBOL, PL/I, or another language, IBM provides a path by which to re-use that data and logic in new application development.
By implementing IBM's Network Computing Framework, developers are able to build clients that access business services and logic regardless of operating environment or hardware architecture. Learn how to build a new class of client, called thin clients, based on Internet technologies such as HTML, HTTP, and Java. These clients can be easily deployed using a Web Server, yet still connect the user to a wide variety of information. Sessions demonstrate how to use IBM's tools to build interfaces to information, from static text and graphics to forms-based applications to fully transactional applications.
One of today’s hottest topics is building applications using distributed components. Learn how IBM is using distributed object and component technologies to build the next generation of application servers for enterprise-wide deployment. Based on industry standards, such as Object Management Group’s (OMG) Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Java, IBM’s distributed object technologies can be used to provide a complete application infrastructure or can be mixed and matched with traditional middleware.
Face it — traditional operating system-based clients still make up much of the effort in application development today. Whether it is OS/2, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/NT, or one of the UNIX operating systems, users still have fully functional desktops. See the latest features of IBM’s tools for producing client applications that fully exploit the power of desktop operating systems. With IBM’s tools, organizations can build highly functional application clients, and still maintain cross-platform compatibility to avoid API lock-in.
Be ready to move into the future using traditional, proven middleware solutions. Whether you use transactions systems like CICS or IMS, message queuing systems such as MQSeries, or the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), find out how IBM allows you to extend your existing information assets and skills into the networked computing world. Learn the latest techniques and features for integrating these traditional approaches with new technologies like the Internet and World Wide Web, and distributed object systems.
Learn about the tools and techniques that are necessary for the successful design and management of networked computing applications. Topics such as user interface design, team development management and application management are addressed. Hear how IBM provides users with complete development solutions. It is not only important to learn how to build applications, but organizations must be able to manage the design of these applications. These sessions provide the necessary tools to make this happen.
Some applications are better implemented using a document-based approach. Lotus Notes has been the leading groupware document application server since it invented that market in 1987. Learn about how Lotus has done it again by transforming their award-winning groupware server into a ground-breaking Web server called Lotus Domino. Also, learn about IBM’s and Lotus’ Web application solutions for electronic commerce from publishing product catalogs, to secure payment over the Web, to secure information delivery.