Southern Ohio Software Symposium

August 4 - 6, 2006



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Location

Sheraton Cincinnati North Hotel
11320 Chester Road
Cincinnati, OH 45246
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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

Java/Ruby Integration with JRuby and ReST
By Bruce Tate

You can have rapid web development with Rails without losing access to your critical Java code. With the explosion of the Ruby programming language, more developers will need a strategy for letting Java and Ruby interoperate. This session explores two strategies: JRuby and Rails-based web services.

What's New in Spring 2
By Bruce Tate

In this session, we'll review the new features of Spring 2.0. If you've been using Spring 1.x, you'll want to hear about the improvements.

Creating, Telling, and Tracking User Stories
By David Hussman

The participants of this session will become agile customers and product owners, using personas to create stories for a sample product development.

Hibernate by Example
By Eitan Suez

This talk covers the core of the Hibernate Object/Relational Mapping framework by example; that is: in a hands-on manner.

Introduction to Tapestry 4
By Howard Lewis Ship

An introduction to the Apache Tapestry web application framework, which will explain the concepts and features of the framework with some simple applications. We'll discsuss Tapestry forms, request cycle, component object model. The use of several important components, including BeanForm and Table will be highlighted, along with meta-programming using the Trails framework.

The Enterprise Service Bus: Do We Really Need It?
By Mark Richards

There has been a significant amount of buzz in the community and industry about the definition and role of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), particularly within the area of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). In this product-agnostic high energy session we will take a step back and consider whether we really need an ESB. Through real-world application and architecture scenarios we will see where an ESB would be helpful and where it would be overkill. We will take a look under the hood and find out just what an ESB is really doing, and take a quick look at JBI (JSR-208) and see the impact it has on the ESB worls. Then, using product-agnostic coding examples we will learn what an Enterprise Service Bus is supposed to do, then answer the question about whether the ESB is just a bunch of hype or if we really need it.

Foundations of Ajax
By Nathaniel Schutta

Seemingly overnight, Ajax has gone from an obscure acronym to, well, having conferences devoted to it. People are often surprised when they learn that Ajax isn't really anything new - so if it's yesterday's technology, why all the hype? This talk will examine the course of events that led up to the current love affair with richer client applications. We'll talk examine the technologies that power an Ajax application and discuss how to work with them - and then we'll examine a number of frameworks that will do much of the heavy lifting for us!

Testing with Selenium
By Neal Ford

This session describes the use and workings of Selenium, the open source web user interface testing tool.

The Productive Programmer
By Neal Ford

This session shows you how to become a more productive programmer every day by using tools that you didn't know you already had.

Testing Strategies for Web Applications
By Ramnivas Laddad

Ever wondered if you can automate testing of your web application, but couldn't produce a satisfactory solution? If so, this is the session for you! Attend this session to understand the alternatives you have for unit and functional testing of web applications.

Real World Web Services
By Scott Davis

In this talk, we'll survey the web services exposed by leading websites (Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay) and discuss how they are driving the AJAX revolution. You'll see examples of RESTful, SOAP, and JSON web services, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each.

What's New in Rails 1.1?
By Stuart Halloway

Rails 1.1 is a major new release, with features in every area. We'll cover the most powerful new features, showing the strenghts of Rails and of Ruby itself. You' see not only how to use the new features, but implementation details that you can use to add your own new features.

Spring Security with ACEGI
By Stuart Halloway

Spring offers developers a simpler, more robust method for configuring applications. These benefits extend to security through the ACEGI framework. ACEGI makes the otherwise daunting task of securing your application logical and straightforward. More importantly, through its support for single sign-on provision through Yale's CAS system and its ability to provide instance-level authorization, Spring extends the common security model of most J2EE apps beyond what they are traditionally capable of.

Pragmatic XML Services
By Ted Neward

There's a lot of talk about web services, and most of it falls into one of two categories: lots of low-level talk about vendor-specific tools and extensions, or lots of high-level talk that never shows you a line of code. XML services aren't that hard, and in this talk, we'll see how, why and when to do one.

Groovy for Java Programmers
By Venkat Subramaniam

Object-oriented scripting languages, or agile dynamic languages, as some like to call those, are gaining programmers' attention. Groovy bring this excitement to
the Java platform with its ability to generate byte code. You can use Groovy instead of Java for some parts of your application. By learning it, you can switch between the languages where you consider fit.

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