Application development today is achieved through the use of numerous tools from software vendors, open source communities and homegrown tools. Getting these tools to work together is an integration problem that has never been solved. Each vendor and open source project creates his or her own API standards and many hours of effort are required to create even the most straightforward of integrations.
At JAX India 2007, Eddy Pauwels will talk about how these integrations are often the most fragile part of the application development infrastructure stack and when they fail they introduce serious productivity reductions. The reason these integrations are so fragile is that it requires every publisher of tools in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) arena to keep track of dozens of other publisher's product versions and API standards. With new versions of ALM software products being released every week, this is a daunting challenge. What is needed is a common integration and interoperability framework so that software publishers need only worry about integrating to one point, the integration framework, and to one standard, a web services oriented one. This session will describe in detail how the Eclipse ALF project is solving that problem.
Eddy Pauwels is a Eclipse ALF Evangelist.
Eddy is Director of Product Marketing for Serena. Eddy has been in the software business for over 15 years. During his career he worked for companies like Trinzic Corp., Platinum Technology and Computer Associates which provided him with a broad background in IT, ranging from Application Lifecycle Management (Development, Modeling, Change and Process Management, Requirements Management) to Information Management (Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing). Eddy holds a masters degree in computer science from the University of Brussels and lectures on the topic of Application and Product Life Cycle Management regularly.
What is JAX India 2007?
Produced by SDA India Magazine and sda-india.com, JAX India 2007 is modeled on the lines as the hugely successful JAX series of conferences and events produced annually by the S&S Media group, across Europe and South East Asia. This year, the world-class conference comes to Bangalore, to provide the highly skilled Indian audience a chance to meet and interact with the most renowned speakers from the US, Europe, and rest of the world.
JAX India 2007 offers attendees a three-fold conference experience: participants, exhibitors and sponsors are presented with the opportunity to profit from the unique melding of the conferences JAX India 2007, Enterprise Architecture India 2007 and Eclipse Forum India 2007. Need more reasons?
- Strong selection of industry experts from North America, Europe, Asia Pacific
- Over 60 sessions, including focused full day/half day power workshop
- Content guaranteed to provide you fresh impetus at work
- Real-world business advice from Enterprise IT decision makers
- Unique opportunity to attend three conferences (JAX, Eclipse Forum, Enterprise Architecture) for the price of one
- Gather first-hand information about new vendor products and services at the joint expo
Important Dates
- Power Workshop Dates: May 28, 2007
- Main Conference Dates: May 29, 30, 31, 2007
Whether you are a decision maker evaluating the use of these technologies, an IT business looking for partners and networking opportunities, or a working professional looking to stay on the cutting-edge of technology, this is one conference you don't want to miss.
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