Bay Area Roundtable (BART)

Scaling for the Internet series, meeting 7

Development Tools for Web Applications

Enterprise Java Beans: A Java Server Component Architecture
Bob Pasker, Chief Architect/Founder, WebLogic, Inc., rbp@weblogic.com

Up until this year, Java was, for the most part, a client-side programming tool for spicing up web pages, and building thin-client products. With the advent of EJB, server-side Java moves into the mainstream. This talk presents the EJB component architecture, and describes how developers can build robust, scalable server systems in Java in a platform-, database-, and application server-independent fashion.

Biography: Bob Pasker is a chief architect and founder of WebLogic. Pasker has been designing and developing networking, communications, transaction processing, and database products and applications for 20 years. He managed the development of numerous award-winning technologies and leads the development for WebLogic Tengah. Pasker has also worked at Sun Microsystems, Ingres, and Digital Equipment Corporation. He holds a BA from San Francisco State University and an MA from Brown University.

webMethods (ppt)
Charles Allen, Vice President, Business Development, webMethods, Inc., charles@webmethods.com

Biography: Mr. Allen is a co-founder of webMethods, Inc. After working as an independent software consultant, he joined Cambridge Technology Group in 1992. He subsequently transferred to Open Environment Corporation as a founding member in early 1993, taking on senior-level responsibility for business development activities throughout North America, Europe, Japan and the Asia/Pacific region. In October 1996, Borland Inc. completed its acquisition of Open Environment, at which time Mr. Allen joined webMethods. Mr. Allen has presented extensively on Web and distributed systems technology at events such as Comdex, Comdex Canada, DCI Internet Expo, and the CommerceNet/ITAA Conference. He is a co-author of "Presenting XML", edited by Tim Bray, one of the co-developers of XML. Mr. Allen was educated at Princeton and Yale.

Coordinator: Tony Wasserman, Software Methods & Tools, tonyw@methods-tools.com

Directions to the meeting are available.

Upcoming Meeting:

Friday, September 11, 1998
Topic: Scaling for the Internet Series, meeting 8: Configuration Management Over the Internet
Speakers: Michael L. Van De Vanter, The Forest Project, Sun Microsystems Labs.
                     Steve Reynolds, Director of Product Management, StarBase

The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its corporate sponsors:

Sustaining:

The Boeing Company * Boeing North American, Inc. * Microsoft Corporation
Northrop Grumman Corporation * Raytheon Company * Sun Microsystems Laboratories * TRW

Supporting:

Beckman Coulter * FileNet Corporation * Printronix, Inc.

Continuus Software Corporation * Hewlett Packard

For further information on BART or IRUS, contact
        Debra Brodbeck at (949) 824-2260; brodbeck@ics.uci.edu