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Preview – WebSphere Technical Conference in Hamburg

A new IBM WebSphere Technical Conference will be organized (19-23 October 2009 in Hamburg). This conference has earned the reputation for delivering deep technical content targeted at architects, developers, integrators, business analysts, and administrators by offering lectures and hands-on labs that focus on the best practices and practical skills required to run the IT infrastructure in today’s enterprises.

A list of hot topics for this year’s conference:

Cloud Computing – Cloud is an emerging style of Information Technology infrastructure designed for rapid delivery of computing resources. Learn about IBM’s approach to Cloud, with initiatives in providing support for both public and private clouds.

Business Process Management – IBM BPM Suite can improve collaboration between people and transform business processes that are critical to success. Learn about IBM’s mature and growing portfolio of BPM products and solutions.

ILOG – The acquisition of ILOG has greatly supplemented the capabilities of the IBM Business Process Management Suite. It brings a best in breed Business Rules Management System (BRMS) and Optimization tools to the IBM product line.

Business Event Processing – If our processes can become more predictive, agile and collaborative, your business can increase our business productivity. Discover how IBM WebSphere Business Events provides reduced costs by uncovering actionable situations in real time.

WebSphere Application Server v7 – Announced in September 2008. V7 has added support for the latest standards and programming models, and contains key improvements in the areas of systems management, installation, and security. In order to balance your desire for less frequent releases while still making available the latest standards to our customers who need them, IBM has introduced Feature Packs. With Feature Packs, customers can selectively take advantage of new standards and features while maintaining a more stable internal release cycle. Feature Packs available for V7 include:a) Feature Pack for Service Component Architecture and b) Feature Pack for Web 2.0.

WebSphere sMash – This runtime and development environment supports some of today’s hottest dynamic scripting languages – PHP and Groovy – and provides an agile web application development environment that has a small footprint, is easy to modify and is fast to re-start.

If you have  questions about this conference, please feel free to contact us.

For more information or enrollment, click here

Success story Implementing the first WebSphere DataPower XB60 in Belgium

Optis is very proud to announce that five colleagues are currently implementing and configuring a  WebSphere DataPower XB60 here in Belgium!

The IBM® WebSphere® DataPower B2B Appliance XB60 is IBM’s unique B2B appliance, delivering secure trading partner data integration tracking, routing and security functions in a network device, cutting operational costs and improving performance. The XB60 is a non-disruptive technology that allows organizations to extend their existing B2B implementations and internal integration infrastructure, thus delivering rapid return on investment and reduced total cost of ownership.

IBM® WebSphere® DataPower B2B Appliance XB60 helps empower you to:

• Provide unparalleled performance for B2B transactions
• Reduce IT costs with simplified deployment, configuration, and maintenance
• Connect quickly to your trading partners
• Support B2B governance in the DMZ
• Combine B2B gateway, transformation, and SOA connectivity functions in a single device
• Enhance XML-level protection and Web service access control
• Accelerate XML and Web services processing and expedite SOA deployments
• Eliminate overhead and disruption to existing IT infrastructure

If you want more information about this product, please send an email to info@optis.be

Introducing WebSphere CloudBurst

Data center cost is comprised of three main components: hardware, physical costs (such as power and cooling), and administrative management. Among the three, the administrative and management cost component accounts for a significant portion of the overall ongoing cost. As such, removing manual processes, errors, and repetition is a great way to reduce and control IT costs.

The new IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, along with IBM WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition, provides deployment and management functions to deploy WebSphere Application Server environments in a fast and repeatable manner, significantly reducing the administrative and management requirements typically associated with these activities. Additionally, by leveraging virtualization and cloud computing principles, WebSphere CloudBurst provides the capability to efficiently use a shared resource pool — a private cloud — to reduce infrastructure costs.

This article provides an introduction to WebSphere CloudBurst and WebSphere Application Server Hypervisor Edition and discusses how these new offerings bring the significant advantages of private cloud computing to WebSphere enterprise environments.

For more information about the WebSphere Cloudburst appliance, please send an email to info@optis.be

WebSphere Portal – Tips, tricks, and traps

Tips, tricks and traps you can use in every WebSphere Portal project …

Click here (IBM ID & password needed)

New IBM Support Portal User Interface

A new way of online support is introduced by IBM. A pdf document can be downloaded, containing an overview about the new features of the support portal.

Download here

WebSphere Application Server for Developers for free

Download WebSphere Application Server for Developers, a no-charge offering that satisfies the need for a no-cost WebSphere Application Server development runtime for projects that don’t warrant the expense of a priced and supported runtime on the developer desktop. Reduce testing effort and develop with confidence using a runtime environment that is identical to the production runtime environment your applications will eventually run on.

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Web 2.0 portlet and portal programming

This article shows you how to exploit the benefits of the Web 2.0 tooling support in IBM® Rational® Application Developer V7.5 for portlet and portal applications running on IBM® WebSphere® Portal V6.1. In a typical portlet application, each request to the server causes a complete refresh of the browser page, which leads to page flickering and performance gaps. Web 2.0 technology enables you to create more dynamic and responsive applications with a superior user experience. The technology aims to turn Web browsers into semi-rich clients by projecting user interface logic for page rendering, navigation, aggregation, and cross-portlet interaction into user’s browsers.

The Web 2.0 tooling support provided with Rational Application Developer aids and expedites the process of creating such dynamic and responsive portlet and portal applications. Tooling support has been provided so that you can:

• Design portlets that interact using Client-Side Click-to-Action, which is a new event paradigm introduced in WebSphere Portal V6.1 for cooperation between portlets.
• Insert Person Menu and the capability to extend the Person Menu.
• Use an Ajax proxy for portlet applications.
• Use a client-side programming model to retrieve portlet preferences efficiently, performing portlet state changes on the client side.

More information, click here

IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance

Do you want to install WAS with just one click on a button?

A new appliance has been annouced on the IBM Business Partner Quarterly Get Together.

IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance is a new hardware appliance that provides access to WebSphere virtual images and patterns for easily, quickly and repeatedly creating application environments that can be securely deployed and managed in a private cloud.

More information, click here or send an email to info@optis.be

IBM Business Process Management Journal

Interessed in BPM?

Interessed in the letest set of IBM WebSphere BPM products?

Interessed in SOA?

Then…

IBM Business Process Management Journal will keep you informed

RedBooks – WebSphere Application Server V7.0

Three books you have to read:

• Security Guide
• Administration and Configuration Guide
• Default Messaging Provider Administration Guide