As SOA rapidly becomes the standard for enterprise architectures, the need for robust technologies for data access and data integration has become more critical then ever before. Due to the vital role that data plays both in business and systems operations, database architectures, information specialists, data integration experts, and anyone responsible for data persistence in an organization are increasingly being called upon to contribute to their organization’s SOA initiatives — whether or not this was intended at the onset. In this presentation, we will review the technologies, best practices, and patterns that are shaping the way we utilize enterprise data.

John Goodson is the executive leader of DataDirect Technologies. He is responsible for daily operations, business development, product direction and long-term corporate strategy.

John brings significant technical and business leadership to the company. Joining DataDirect in 1992 as an engineer, he has since held positions of increasing responsibility in research and development, technical support and marketing. John is a well known and respected industry luminary and data connectivity expert. For more than 10 years, he has worked closely with Sun and Microsoft on the development and evolution of database connectivity standards including J2EE, JDBC, .NET, ODBC and ADO. John has been involved with the ANSI H2 Committee, which is responsible for building the SQL standard and the SQL Access Group, which has been responsible for building call level interfaces into relational databases. He is now actively involved in Java standards committees, including the JDBC Expert Group and Java Rowsets. This active leadership has helped his team develop the most technically advanced data connectivity technologies.

John holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Virginia Tech.

jMaki has evolved from giving developers the ability to sprinkle AJAX into their web apps easily to be a full AJAX framework. jMaki has evolved once again with the jMaki Webtop which lets you quickly create mashups using jMaki widgets that can interact with each other. The jMaki Webtop is based on a container widget that lets you drag and drop your favorite widgets and easily map them to your services or have them work together without having to write an web pages. The jMaki Webtop also has a management service for configuring deploy widgets and mapping those widgets to your services. Also included is the ability to manage users and share a jMaki Webtop with everyone.

Arun Gupta is a technology evangelist for Web Services and "Web 2.0" Apps at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases. He is a prolific blogger with numerous useful tips at http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta.

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with "real-time"? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business?

This session will clarify the definition of real-time in the context of Web 2.0 and what impact new emerging real-time Web 2.0 technologies will have on your enterprise over the next coming years.

Jonas Jacobi is co-founder and chief executive officer of Kaazing Corporation. A native of Sweden, Jonas has worked in the software industry for more than 15 years with a mission to simplify application development. Prior to founding Kaazing, he worked for Oracle for eight years as a Java EE evangelist and product manager responsible for the product management of JavaServer Faces, Oracle ADF Faces and Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client in the Oracle JDeveloper team. As co-founder and CEO of Kaazing, Jonas sets the company's business and product strategy and oversees all aspects of Kaazing's operations and mission to become the world-wide leader in real-time software. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress).

AJAX isn’t just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce, and IT departments all around the world just like yours are feeling the pressure to make every back-office, call center, trading blotter, inventory management and systems performance application look and feel like iGoogle or MyESPN.com. Simply slapping on a few AJAX widgets will make these applications look cooler, but what about business logic, data integration and replicating the business processes?

Join Coach Wei, CTO and founder of Nexaweb, and Bob Buffone, Nexaweb’s Chief Architect, for a candid, fast-paced discussion anchored by real-world customer examples demonstrating how you can use AJAX and RIA technology to truly take your business applications to the next level!


Coach Wei is Chairman and CTO of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a champion for open source and open standard, Coach is the author of open source word processor AJAXWord, a committer at Apache XAP project and a member of OpenAJAX Alliance steering committee, etc. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has many publications on various technical journals. Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains “Enterprise Web 2.0†blog at http://www.coachwei.com.

Bob Buffone, chief architect at Nexaweb Technologies, is responsible for platform and tool technology at Nexaweb, a provider of the Nexaweb Platform enabling enterprise class rich Internet applications (RIAs). He is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project, which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating AJAX applications. Before Nexaweb, Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in user interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.

You’ve heard about Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups, you’ve seen the press, now you can see the real thing; announcing “Outsiderâ€, version 3 of our highly acclaimed DreamFace Open Source Ajax Framework for building Web 2.0 Enterprise Mashups. Come see how to build personalized and shareable Web 2.0 Mashups by combining internal company data with public data from the web. Be part of the excitement by joining our DreamFace Developer Challenge. Stop by our booth or visit www.datawidget.com.

Olivier Poupeney has spent over 15 years using, developing, creating and designing user interfaces. Olivier is currently co-founder and CEO of DreamFace Interactive where he designed and developed the DreamFace Open Source Framework for Web 2.0 Enterprise Applications. Before creating DreamFace Interactive, he co-founded Ecensity Corp. In 2001. In his role as CTO, he directed all aspects of research and development until the acquisition of Ecensity in December 2006. From 1997 to 1999, Olivier was Field Application Engineering Manager at Silverstream in France. Previously he was a pre-sales engineer at Synon France in 1996 which he joined after having begun his professional career as an instructor and consultant at Powersoft/Sybase France.

Social computing is no longer a casual activity: corporations are increasingly leveraging wikis and blogs to enhance collaboration inside and outside the firewall. Next-generation social computing demands spontaneous and responsive collaboration. Are AJAX technologies up to the task? This presentation explores the challenges, practices, and futures for AJAX collaboration techniques. Beginning with a review of existing open source AJAX technologies, covering deployment infrastructure, application development, and supporting libraries, we will continue with several examples of what is possible today. This session will give you an understanding of where social computing can go and what AJAX technologies will take it there.

Stephen Maryka, Chief Technical Officer at ICEsoft Technologies, leads the development of all AJAX-based technologies at ICEsoft. He is responsible for ICEfaces product development, and all AJAX-related R&D. Prior to joining ICEsoft in 2004, Stephen was co-founder of AudeSi Technologies where he served as VP Technology and led Java product development for Internet appliances. After Wind River's acquisition of AudeSi, Stephen served as a Principal Technologist for Wind River, working on embedded Java, device management and high availability technologies. Stephen has been involved with Java technologies since 1997 when he engaged with Nortel Networks as the chief software architect for the world's first commercial embedded Java telephone. Stephen earned his BSc in mathematics and computer science from the University of Victoria in 1984.

Session Description: Jeff Haynie will introduce the audience to Appcelerator’s open-source RIA platform. Attendees will learn how Appcelerator has been able to help developers create AJAX-based RIAs in less than 1/3 of the time, with up to 90 percent less code, and with no Javascript or third-party toolkits. Key takeaways from the session will include:

Haynie will also discuss the current technology options for rapid RIA development and how developers can leverage pre-built AJAX widgets, Web Expression Language, and other open standards-based languages to create RIAs with more functionality and less code.

Appcelerator is a 100% open-source RIA platform built entirely around open standards.

Jeff Haynie is co-founder and CEO of Appcelerator. He started Appcelerator to provide a true open-source solution to enterprise RIA and SOA-based services development, after growing frustrated by the limited options and complexity in other solutions through his own development work. Prior to starting Appcelerator, Jeff served as co-founder and CTO of Vocalocity and CTO of eHatchery, an extension of Bill Gross’ ideaLab. Jeff is an expert software developer and entrepreneur. He has been active in standards development, as well as a contributor to open-source projects, including early work on JBoss. For more on Jeff Haynie, visit his blog at http://blog.jeffhaynie.us.