MidAtlantic Midrange is proud to offer the next in our continuing education seminars, bringing you the best education and educators available in the iSeries world, and to do so at User Group Rates.

RPG Application Modernization
With Don Denoncourt

Approaches to Application Modernization - Don Denoncourt explains how to rejuvenate your development strategies so your application provides the five basic qualities of a modern application:

1. Maintainable and testable code
2. Modular and component-based
3. Provides a rich user interface
4. Use of the Model-View-Controller design pattern
5. Responsive to new business requirements

DB Modernization: First Steps to App Modernization - Even before modernizing legacy RPG and web-enabling your applications, the first step to application modernization is to renovate your database. Files developed 20-30 years ago have no referential integrity, MDY dates, and 6-char file and field names, typically with 2-char common prefixes.) Polishing your RPG will add little benefit while your database remains rusty. In this presentation, Don will convince you why you should modernize your database and explain the steps to renovate your tables.

Prepping RPG for Web Access with Java, PHP, or .NET - This presentation will cover how to develop a reusable RPG API optimized Web access. Don will introduce a set of standards to follow and then detail (and demo) the steps to making your RPG accessible to the web. Don will cover why it is vital to enable global error handling and show how to code error handling routines. He will show how your RPG API should cleanly return information with entry list parameters or SQL result sets. He will finish this presentation by explaining how to write wrappers for existing RPG that is otherwise difficult to refactor to Web RPG API standards.

Beyond RPG: Confessions of a Polyglot AS400 Developer - Don Denoncourt, who has developed extensively with RPG, C++, Java, Groovy, and PHP, will discuss what he feels is wrong with RPG and then talk about what we can do to correct it. Don will then elaborate on what's right with RPG and how can we begin to leverage the wealth of RPG code and coders. Don will also discuss alternative language options for developing a Web front-end to your RPG. The languages that will be covered include Java, PHP, Ruby, and Groovy. Don will also discuss application frameworks including Java Server Faces, Spring, Hibernate, Zend's PHP Framework, Ruby on Rails, and Grails.

RAD Web Development with Open Source Tools - Undecided about what technology to use for Web development? Discover the Grails open-source framework that provides rapid application development for Web applications. This presentation will show you to generate a maintenance application for legacy IBM i files in 5 minutes. You will see how Grails is built on top of the best-of-breed Java frameworks. The presentation describes how to program Grails with the intuitive JVM language called Groovy. You will also see how to use Eclipse, WDSc, or RDi SOA as your IDE. Finally, the seminar also describes how to deploy Grails to any Web application server (such as WebSphere or Tomcat) on your favorite platform.

Don Denoncourt is the author of Java Application Strategies for the AS/400 and iSeries and AS/400:Java at Work (MC Press). Don's third book, Linux Web Hosting, was written as a college textbook for IBM's Partners In Education. Don has authored over a hundred articles on Java, Linux, and Web technologies for a variety of magazines including Midrange Computing, iSeriesNews, and WebSpherePro. He is also the Java Subject Matter Expert for Common. Don has taught over 1,000 hours of Java seminars to AS/400 and iSeries programmers in various cities across the country.

These seminars start at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM and will be held on:

January 20 - Holiday Inn, Ft. Washington, PA (Philadelphia)

The course fee is $295 for non-user group members and $260 for user group members. This fee offering is a special arrangement between Washington Area Midrange Users Group and MidAtlantic Midrange. Members of other AS/400 User groups may also apply under the user group rate.

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