What's New

November 8, 2005

Announced the dates for Colorado Software Summit 2006: October 22 - 27 at Keystone Resort, Colorado.

Announced the completion of the Conference Proceedings CD-ROM, to be mailed to all attendees on November 9.

Added new books to our Book Recommendations page, to include books referenced in the presentations by speakers at the 2005 conference.

October 24, 2005

Updated the biography for Bruce Snyder.

October 12, 2005

Updated the detailed daily schedule for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and a schedule cross-referenced by speaker name. We added room assignments for each presentation, otherwise the schedule as originally posted is unchanged.

October 10, 2005

Added the detailed daily schedule for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and a schedule cross-referenced by speaker name.

Updated the biography for Tom Bender, who has joined start-up Tendril Networks.

October 4, 2005

Added new books to our Book Recommendations page, to include books referenced in the presentations by speakers at the 2005 conference.

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Stephen Stelting, Sun Microsystems, Inc.: "Exception Handling for J2EE Systems" and "Unit and Integration Testing: Techniques and Technologies for J2EE Applications"


• Andre Tost, IBM Software Group: "How To Develop Applications for Business Integration – Pulling J2EE, SOA and Web Services Together" and "Web Services Coding Tips & Tricks"


• Matthew Wakeling, FlyMine Group, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, England: "Advanced Techniques for Object Warehousing" and "Improving Performance in Object Warehousing"

September 23, 2005

Updated the biography for Paul Fremantle, who is a co-founder of WSO2 Inc.

Updated the biography for Neil Graham, who has accepted a new job within IBM Toronto Lab.

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Donald Smith, Oracle Corporation: "Caging the Tiger – The Impact of J2SE 5.0 on Java Persistence" and "Mapping Java Objects to XML and Relational Databases"


• Bruce Snyder, Jailey Solutions: "Best Practices with Apache Geronimo" and "A Peek Under the Hood of Apache Geronimo"

September 9, 2005

Added a new speaker, Roberto Chinnici, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Roberto's topics are: "Ease of Development Features in Java EE 5" and "What's New in Java EE 5 and Beyond?".

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Mark Reinhold, Sun Microsystems, Inc.: "The Rest of Tiger" and "Tiger's Children"


• Simon Roberts: "Security Foundations of Java" and "Principles of Distributed Architecture"

August 19, 2005

Added a new Conference Schedule page.

Updated the biography for Simon Phipps, to reflect his new appointment as the Chief Open Source Office for Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Opstvedt, Hermod, Den norske Bank, Norway: "Secure Web Services – How to Do It, and at What Cost" and "Model Driven Architecture (MDA) – A New Paradigm in Software Development"


• Rajagopal, Hari, Galileo International: "Introduction to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)" and "Best Practices for Developing Components for Shared Services"

August 17, 2005

Updated the topic title of Tom Bender's presentations, from "Mule – A Detailed Look at an Enterprise ESB Container" to "Mule - A Detailed Look at an Enterprise Service Bus." Also updated the link to the Mule ESB Container page (http://mule.codehaus.org).

August 15, 2005

Updated the biography of Michael Keith.

Updated the company name and email address of Hermod Opstvedt.

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Moskowitz, David, Productivity Solutions, Inc.: "Web-ifying Legacy Applications: Welcome to the 21st Century" and "Choices, Choices, Choices: Fat vs. Thin Clients"


• Nadalin, Anthony, IBM Austin: "Securing Web Services" and "Federated Identity Management, the Real Story"

July 26, 2005

Updated the description of Bruce Snyder's "Apache Geronimo for Developers" topic.

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Laffra, Chris, IBM Ottawa Labs, Canada: "Visualization and Performance Monitoring of Eclipse" and "The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP): Using Eclipse for Developing Stand-alone Applications"


• Landers, Dave, BEA Systems Inc.: "Annotated Java: Annotations in J2SE 5.0" and "Generic Java: Generics in J2SE 5.0"

 

July 15, 2005

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Hatzidakis, Denise, Perficient, Inc.: "Web Services... Where Do You Start – SOAP, WSDL and UDDI" and "Web Services Integration – It’s All About Standards"


• Johnsson, Dan, Omegapoint AB, Sweden: "Technical System Structure: Technology or Enterprise?" and "An Evaluation of Web Services: What are they good for? What not?"


• Keith, Michael, Oracle Corporation: "Standards-Based Persistence through Web Services" and "Evolution of the EJB Entity"

 

June 21, 2005

Added these keynote speakers and topics

• Soyring, John, Vice President, Solutions and Software, IBM Corporation: "Conference Opening Keynote Presentation"


• Phipps, Simon, Chief Technology Evangelist, Sun Microsystems, Inc.: "Keynote, Thursday Morning"

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Graham, Neil, XML Parser Development, IBM Toronto Lab: "Digging into the Web with a Tiger: Lower-level Data Manipulation with J2SE 5.0 – Part 1" and "Digging into the Web with a Tiger: Lower-level Data Manipulation with J2SE 5.0 – Part 2"


• Haggar, Peter, IBM RTP: "Mobile Web Services: A Case Study" and "Using Data Compression to Improve Application Server Performance"

 

June 17, 2005

Updated Matt Raible's page

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Frijters, Jeroen, Sumatra Software b.v., The Netherlands: "An Introduction to .NET for the J2EE Programmer" and "Interoperating with .NET – Beyond Web Services"


• Giangarra, Paul, IBM Software Group Federal: "Grid Computing, SOA, and Autonomic Computing" and "Practical Experiences with SOA"

June 8, 2005

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Eckel, Bruce, MindView, Inc.: "Understanding Threads and the New java.util.concurrent Library" and "Issues that Bruce currently finds interesting and thinks that you will too"


• Fremantle, Paul, IBM Hursley Labs, UK: "Using Web Services to Access Legacy C/C++ Code from Java" and "Programming Models for Service Oriented Architecture"

May 29, 2005

Corrected link URLS on the presentations posted on May 23.

May 23, 2005

Added these presentations (in PDF format except where noted) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Soyring, John, IBM Corporation: "Conference Opening Keynote Presentation"


• Phipps, Simon, Sun Microsystems, Inc.: "Keynote: Trends and Futures for Open Solutions"


• Bray, Tim, Sun Microsystems, Inc.: "Is the Web Still the Place?" (an HTML presentation)


• Cowlishaw, Mike, IBM Hursley Labs, UK: "Using the Java 5.0 BigDecimal Class"


• Debrunner, Dan, IBM Data Management Division, San Francisco: "Internals of Derby – An Open Source Pure Java Relational Database Engine"


• Dudney, Bill, Object Systems Group: "Introduction to JSF (JavaServer Faces)" and "Building JSF WebApplications"

April 29, 2005

Posted the majority of the Colorado Software Summit 2005 Agenda, in two formats: sorted by Speaker Name and sorted by Topic Title. A description of each topic and a brief biography of each speaker can be found by following the links to either of these two tables.

Removed the Call for Papers page.

March 13, 2005

Added these presentations (in PDF format) from Colorado Software Summit 2004:

• Gary Ashley, Jr., 3rd Millennium Visions, Inc.: "Struts Roadmap" and "Building Your Own Open Source Development Environment"


• Noel Bergman, DevTech, Inc.: "JNDI and LDAP Part 1" and "JNDI and LDAP Part 2"

February 27 , 2005

Added the Call for Papers for the 2005 conference agenda.

January 23 , 2005

Updated the "How to Register" page for the 2005 conference