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General Meeting
Location: Auditorium
Date: Monday, May 6
Topic 1: Building J2EE Compliant Commercial Software
Jason Uppal and Franz Ho

We will share their experience of building J2EE compliant commercial software from conceptto fully deployable application in just 8 months with 2 developers. This application will be launched at Projectworld Conference in Toronto on April 10, 2002.

This was a fixed cost project. We will share our experience what worked and what could have been better as well as technical discussion.

Topics to be discussed will include:
Business Analysis - steps through which the concept was born.
Architecture - in detail presentation about the role of the architect in general and in J2EE environment, deliverables and reasons why you would want to do this..
Navigation - html navigation , html tool that is build with delphi and looks and feels like delphi and it is free.
EJB and EJB Patterns - in depth conversation on java beans, session, ejb, also in depth review of EJB patterns. And why we choose one?
JSP - HTML + Beans == JSP, future trends with tag libraries and brief conversation of struts.
Components - we will have brief discussion how a very impossible task was managed through freeware/purchased components.

Topic 2: Citrix as an Alternative to N-Tier
Rob Weisberg and Richard Bongard, Insite Computer Group
http://www.scius.com

The focus of the discussion will be: "The use of Citrix Technology as an alternative to the cost, time, and complexity of creating three-tiered applications." We will include some basic information about Citrix technology generally, and we will cover how Citrix delivers applications to the web with full functionality. We will also address security, cost of ownership, maintaining service levels and other related issues, as well as taking questions from the audience.

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