Greater Atlanta Software Symposium

October 21 - 23, 2005



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Location

WHotel Atlanta Perimeter
111 Perimeter Center West
Atlanta, GA 30346
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Session Highlights

Don't miss your chance to attend more than forty education and solutions sessions:

  • Seating is Limited
  • In-depth Discussions
  • Peer Exchange
  • Access to Speakers
  • Expert Panel Discussions
  • Hands-on Code Examples
  • Best Practices
  • Birds of a Feather Session
  • Insight on Cutting-Edge Tools
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Featured Sessions

Creating Polished Swing Applications
By Ben Galbraith

Too often, Swing applications are slow, ugly, and hard-to-maintain. It turns out that it doesn't have to be this way. Swing can be used to create highly-responsive, beautiful applications that are very maintainable. If this isn't consistent with your own experience, don't feel bad; its not very obvious how to make Swing sing.

Ruby on Rails
By Dave Thomas

The Ruby on Rails framework has exploded onto the scene over the last few months. Propelled by some genuine benefits, and fueled by a whole lot of controversy, Rails seems here to stay. So, is it a Java killer? (No.) Is it a great way to develop certain classes of web application? (Yes.) Does it really deliver the 10-fold increase in developer productivity that some have claimed? (It depends...)


Naked Objects Applied
By Eitan Suez

Join Eitan in this hands-on session on Naked Objects. This session uses the "learning by doing" approach to learning an API or framework. Naked Objects is a powerful tool that can give you a significant advantage in the development of business systems. It gives you the ability to prototype a software application so quickly that it can be performed during information gathering phases of a project. It gives you the power to codevelop the core business model of your application with a non-developer business expert at your side. No prerequisite knowledge of Naked Objects is required.

Advanced Spring: What's New and What You Might Not..
By Keith Donald

Spring 1.2 is out--Spring 1.3 is right on the horizon. As a broad, user-driven project with a large community, the newest releases offer a wealth of new features to be taken advantage of. This session focuses on demonstrating the most important, and how you can start leveraging them in your projects immediately.

Migrating from Struts to JSF
By Kito Mann

As JavaServer Faces (JSF), the new standard Java web application framework, grows in popularity, development teams are beginning to evaluate different strategies for migrating from Struts to JSF.

Struts Shale: Struts 2.0?
By Kito Mann

With the growing popularity of new Java web frameworks, such as JavaServer Faces, Tapestry, and WebWork, Struts 1.x has lost its competitive edge in the web framework landscape. Recently, Craig McClanahan, the founder of Struts, initiated Struts Shale, a proposed next-generation framework built on top of JavaServer Faces.

Project Economics: Selecting and Prioritizing High..
By Mike Cohn

Almost all of us have worked on too many projects that have failed because of economic reasons rather than technical reasons. Just as the technical team is required to estimate the effort that will go into a project, a marketing or product management team should estimate the benefits of doing the project. Benefits can come in the form of additional sales, increased customer retention, increased operating efficiencies, and so on.

Salvaging Struggling Projects: Digging for Gold In..
By Mike Cohn

Projects struggle for many reasons—overly aggressive deadlines, unproven technologies, scope creep, team dynamics, communication problems, and inter-team coordination are just some of the reasons. If not given attention, these problems can ultimately cause a project to fail entirely. However, if you act early and in the right way, most struggling projects can be turned around.

Pragmatic Extreme Programming
By Neal Ford

This session talks about how to actually get XP done in the real world (and what to tell your boss).

SOA: Next Wave of Enterprise Development or Return..
By Neal Ford

Is Service Oriented Architecture the next wave of distributed computing or just the same old crap in a shiny new package? This session provides an overview of what most people agree is the definition of SOA. I talk about SOA, ESB, CORBA, your MOM, and a bunch of other acronyms.

Performance Monitoring in J2EE Applications
By Ramnivas Laddad

J2EE has become the main new platform for enterprise application deployment. Good performance is an important business requirement. Supporting this requirement needs application profiling during the development phases and performance monitoring after application deployment. Come to this session to understand challenges and choices in monitoring J2EE applications.

Programming Java Concurrency
By Stuart Halloway

Java has always provided a model for concurrency and threads. With Java 1.5, this model received a major facelift. Learn how to use the new concurrency utilities to build responsive, scalable, and correct concurrent applications.

Java Platform Security and JAAS
By Stuart Halloway

The Java platform is built from the ground up with security in mind. This talk will introduce the security features of the J2SE, building quickly from the basic classes to realistic examples.

Good, Bad and Ugly of Java Generics
By Venkat Subramaniam

Java introduced Generics in the 1.5 version (Java 5). What are the capabilities of Generics?
How do you use it? Are there some gotchas in using it? In this example driven presentation,
we will start at the basics of generics and look at its capabilities. We will then look at some
of the under the hood details on generics implementation. We will then delve into the details of
some of the changes to Java libraries to accommodate generics. Finally we will take a look at
some restrictions and pitfalls that we need to be familiar with when it comes to practical and
prudent use of generics.

Programming with Mock objects
By Venkat Subramaniam

You are convinced that Test Driven Development is good for you and your project. You realize the benefits it has to offer. What's holding you back? All the code and components that your code so heavily depends on is most likely making you wonder if TDD is really for you. We will start out by looking at dependency and dependency inversion. Then we will discuss how mock objects can help separate our code from its dependencies.

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